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| Thread ID: 39946 | 2003-11-22 21:50:00 | Off Topic: Exams... | MrBeef (342) | Press F1 |
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| 193903 | 2003-11-22 21:50:00 | Just wondering how many of you are still at school, doing NCEA exams? they're a killer - especially English But I'm not one to complain only one more exam on monday and thats economics. |
MrBeef (342) | ||
| 193904 | 2003-11-22 22:13:00 | Not at school, but out of interest, what sort of questions do they ask in these exams ? Crunn |
Crunn (1068) | ||
| 193905 | 2003-11-22 22:44:00 | yeah, i'm doing them What level are you? I'm 5th form - so level one - but i do lvl 2 maths. Science i thought was good, I done one health one for PE - that was a waste of time - all common sense. English.... god i hate english... 4 essasys - that sucked, and the 1.6 - unfamilar texts - that was bloody hard (well i thout it was :p) Then i had maths - that was pretty sweet, and accounting on thursday - which was mean, we had been expecting far worse - but it was good. I only got one left - Economics tomorow. How'd you find them? |
fergie (424) | ||
| 193906 | 2003-11-22 23:57:00 | yeah im doing 3rd form exams, not that there important or anything, just english, maths and science(im expecting to get not achieved on science) häzz |
hazza (2704) | ||
| 193907 | 2003-11-22 23:59:00 | hey fergie I take the same level 1 subjects as you except I take maths level 1 science was easy, maths was ok english was ok as well but the 4 essays were a killer, accounting was a evil but I thing I did ok, I don't know about eco though | Jacob4165 (199) | ||
| 193908 | 2003-11-23 00:25:00 | In accounting, we've been doing really hard tests all yeah, and the stuff we do in class has been way more advanced and complex than that in the tests. Like are pratice exams we done a few weeks ago - no one passed them all - even the super brainy ppl. So I (and most other ppl from that class) found it good. One Q about the Science one - in the astronomy test - there was a Q about maori planets - were you supposed to answer them in English, (eg, neptune, pluto etc) or Moari? Just that theres a great debate going on between a few of us |
fergie (424) | ||
| 193909 | 2003-11-23 00:31:00 | >Not at school, but out of interest, what sort of questions do they ask in these exams ? weel, as we do NCEA - i'd say it'd be different to what most of you guys/gals are used to in skool C. With NCEA - we do some things during the year - for english - we do a speech, creative writing (writing a short story) research, and static image (draing a poster about something - then writing about techniques you used etc) and all this marks go towards are final grade. In the exams for english - we had to write 4 essays - one on formal writing - about a given topic, one about a novel we read during teh year in class (me it was The whale Rider) - and we have to chosse what to write about - they had one about a "main idea' one about a character ect. The other two have the same topics to right about - one essay is about a movie, and the last one about 2 short stories/poems. and the last one in english was unfamilar texts - like reading comprehension. As I haven't done skool C - i can't really compare between NCEA and SC |
fergie (424) | ||
| 193910 | 2003-11-23 01:15:00 | Oh, yes, indeed... exams. I've got two left, Chemistry tomorrow, and Geography the day after. Now, I must admit, NZQA should up the ante (something like that). I sat NCEA Level 1 Maths and History last year, and they were both quite easy (except I failed the essay for history - I never wrote more than one page throughout the entire year for essays in an exam situation {if we had a week or so to write them I wrote much better, and around about three pages}). I'm doing SFC (transitional) Maths this year, and I got a lovely mark of 54% in the end of year exam - being ranked 18th out of the 120 odd students sitting SFC Maths at my school (highest mark was eighty-something percent). Believe it or not, I foud the SFEE Maths exam easier than the SFC one. Further more to my point, all the NCEA Level 1 exams I've sat so far have been quite easy. Science: only sat one paper, and had to wait 15 minutes til the 45 minute mark was up so I could leave. English: sat all five papers, they were quite easy (even though I only finished with one minute to spare). I was glad I watched a doco about GE a few days beforehand though. :D Physics: only sat three papers (I think), but I got out in two hours. It was quite straightforward and easy. Accounting: easier than expected, and I got out after 2.5 hours. And I'm only sitting two papers for Chemistry, and Geography in the practice exam was so short everyone finished within two hours (damned school didn't let us go til the three hours was up though). If you're wondering why I'm not sitting all papers for Chemistry, Physics, and Science, it's because I'm doing Physical Science - a combination of all three. |
agent (30) | ||
| 193911 | 2003-11-23 01:20:00 | Thanks for letting me know. My school English days were back in the mists of time and they were in the UK - 'O' levels' However, they seem to follow the same lines. Have not finished doing exams though, just done a paper in Occupational Medicne - keeps the brain from going soggy !! Crunn |
Crunn (1068) | ||
| 193912 | 2003-11-23 02:06:00 | "a combination of all three"? There are only two kinds of science: physics and stamp collecting --- [i]Ernest Rutherford[/b] |
Graham L (2) | ||
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