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Exam Banter
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Fellow young Feverites! 37 days till the NCEA exams start! Like last year I thought it would be good to make a thread to stress out on.

I personally have 8 externals at Lvl 1:

History
English
Maths
Chemistry
Human Biology
Physics
Japanese
Economics
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8! What sort of things are they doing to you out in the Hutt?!?!?
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Fook, 40 days til my first exam

 
Physic Chem Bio Eng and Stats.. Been doing a lil study during hol but i guess the hard yards start on monday

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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Scottishbhoy wrote:

Fook, 40 days til my first exam


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Physic Chem Bio Eng and Stats.. Been doing a lil study during hol but i guess the hard yards start on monday
Any Scholarship?
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
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Maths and English.
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Scottishbhoy wrote:

Fook, 40 days til my first exam


 

Physic Chem Bio Eng and Stats.. Been doing a lil study during hol but i guess the hard yards start on monday
Any Scholarship?
 
 
nuh not for me.
 
What year ar eyou in? Considering not doing Electricity in Physics

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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Make sure you all study hard, you'll regret it down the line if your cock up your exams now. ForteanTimes2009-10-09 19:57:46

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Scottishbhoy wrote:
Scottishbhoy wrote:

Fook, 40 days til my first exam


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Physic Chem Bio Eng and Stats.. Been doing a lil study during hol but i guess the hard yards start on monday
Any Scholarship?
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nuh not for me.

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What year ar eyou in? Considering not doing Electricity in Physics
Y12. What methods of studying will you guys use and also are they effective?
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Two weeks for my uni exams and I am packing myself. Need about 85% in all of them.

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Yeah good question WPF.
 
 
I'm just reading questions reading questions. If I get a question wrong I reread the passgae and redo the questions. Il then redo that the next day and the next day to ensure I know it. Well I hope it works. I did limited study for mocks and did average.. really average
 
 
FT, thanks for the advice.. But NCEA is pretty straight forward ,you don't actually need Level 3 for Uni. Nuts.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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d-diddy wrote:

Two weeks for my uni exams and I am packing myself. Need about 85% in all of them.

 
 
 
What are you studying?
 
Next year i;m taking the year off to do whatever, then in 2011 off to otago i think for FYHS

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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i have 3 exams and am not worried at all NCEA is a joke, I've got to get 4 credits until i have U/E and i have already passed. Anyone else in a similar situation.
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clark007e wrote:
i have 3 exams and am not worried at all NCEA is a joke, I've got to get 4 credits until i have U/E and i have already passed. Anyone else in a similar situation.
 
 
Not sure, i'll have to check but have all the credits avail to me so far.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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Had my Level 1 Science mock exam 2nd to last day of school term. Studied every night for about 3 1/2 weeks. I found it very easy but no one else did so I am rather worried now. Have got all the maths credits available to me at the moment, 2 for social studies and am on the way to 2 in French and 2 in English.
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I�m doing FYHS this year. Loving it but it�s a lot of work. I took a year off as well, although that year I should have been doing year 13

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d-diddy wrote:

I�m doing FYHS this year. Loving it but it�s a lot of work. I took a year off as well, although that year I should have been doing year 13

 
 
Ohhh  very nice, Did you say you live in CHCH? what school did you go to?

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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Yeah I live in Belfast but went to (don�t laugh) Rangiora high

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeah I live in Belfast but went to (don�t laugh) Rangiora high

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d-diddy wrote:

Yeah I live in Belfast but went to (don�t laugh) Rangiora high

 
 
GOON :D
 
haha, no worries mate. so you didn't do year 13? Did i understand that correct?

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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whitby fever wrote:
Had my Level 1 Science mock exam 2nd to last day of school term. Studied every night for about 3 1/2 weeks. I found it very easy but no one else did so I am rather worried now. Have got all the maths credits available to me at the moment, 2 for social studies and am on the way to 2 in French and 2 in English.

Overstudied! At least you wont have to do much study for the real one.
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Not much, but i'll study a bit and then use the 2 days i get off to study really hard.
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Wish I studied harder in level one..
 
How do you guys study?

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I tend to condense my years notes on a subject onto blank pieces of paper, I read them over, let them sink in. After that I just do lots of practice/previous papers.
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I just read my Study guide and then do the activities.
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whitby fever wrote:
I just read my Study guide and then do the activities.


It gets harder next year as you can't use them for many subjects.
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Previous papers are the way to go, I reckon. Getting notes done. Blah blah blah. I've got Level 3 Stats and English, Level 2 Accounting and Spanish and English Scholarship. I do Psych but it is entirely internal, haha, very fun though. Just gradually build up how long/hard you study until just before/during the exams you're peaking. Its just like football, see? No good peaking in the group stage!!
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Have one exam at uni.  Classical Greek History.  Worth 50% of my overall mark for the subject.
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Classical Greek History? What do you intend to do after Uni? As in, to use the dreaded word, a "career".
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El-Kun wrote:
Classical Greek History? What do you intend to do after Uni? As in, to use the dreaded word, a "career".


It may just be a fill in course so he can get enough points, i maybe wrong though
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ah, right.
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Yeah it is a fill-in one.  I'm doing a BA majoring in History and Political Science.  Next year I'll be adding Criminology to my degree (as it starts in the second year) so I'll be heading up to Wellington.

And I have absolutely no idea what I'm wanting to do afterwards.  Rather banking on winning the lottery actually.
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. Should be no problem then!
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loyalgunner wrote:
Yeah it is a fill-in one.  I'm doing a BA majoring in History and Political Science.  Next year I'll be adding Criminology to my degree (as it starts in the second year) so I'll be heading up to Wellington.

And I have absolutely no idea what I'm wanting to do afterwards.  Rather banking on winning the lottery actually.


Political science is it any good was looking at doing it for next year (first year for me at Vic next year)
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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
6 externals. Level 2
Maths
English
History
Eco
Media Studies
Physics..

Anyone want to tutor my physics? I'm considering voiding all papers minus mechanics.
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Sorry mate. Not much of a science boy myself. I could help with History/English! How is media? Gonna take level 3 next year (in the hope that it'll be fun).
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clark007e wrote:
loyalgunner wrote:
Yeah it is a fill-in one.  I'm doing a BA majoring in History and Political Science.  Next year I'll be adding Criminology to my degree (as it starts in the second year) so I'll be heading up to Wellington.

And I have absolutely no idea what I'm wanting to do afterwards.  Rather banking on winning the lottery actually.


Political science is it any good was looking at doing it for next year (first year for me at Vic next year)


Really interesting.  I'm doing World Politics and International Relations papers and they are really good.  No exam for either (I'm sure other Pols papers have exams though) as well which makes it better.
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How is history then?
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El-Kun wrote:
Sorry mate. Not much of a science boy myself. I could help with History/English! How is media? Gonna take level 3 next year (in the hope that it'll be fun).


Haha i'm all good with them no worries, just not a science person really either don't know why I took it!

Media depends on what sort of programme your school runs I think. Ours is pretty much all about movies so it's awesome as long as you don't mind the odd essay.
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Yeah, I took level 2 Bio last year and struggled through it for a year, haha. Alright, hopefully it'll be like yours then.
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