Prelim Round-Up and Post-Prelim Ponderings

(Title help supplied by Rhyn :P)


So yes, today i got the biology cut-off score back and as expected i didn't pass.
I wasn't too disheartened tho as it was always gonna be the out come but now that i have all my results back i thought i would share them with you guys.

So here they are :

(Highest to lowest)


French - A 91%
Spanish - A 88%
Modern Studies - A 79%
Music - A 74%
English - A 68%

Media - C 58%

Biology - F 48%
Maths - F 40%


So yeh, quite a tale of two stores there.
One good half the other, bad.

But i know i can improve, maths is easier to improve on than biology but i still know i can pass them both.

But overall the results are good.
5 A's
1 C
2 F's


Not much interesting stuff happened today in school.

Did my maths test, think it went ok.

Didn't have to present in English :)

Only real tale comes from biology.
We were dissecting a sheep's lungs and heart. Or rather, the teacher was.
We still seen everything tho and heard.
He had to cut through it and it made this horrificly crunchy noise.
And with 5 minutes until the bell let school out, the fire alarm went off!

News got to me that whatever set it off came from Alex's lab but we never found out.
It was annoying tho, coz i wanted to see what the lungs felt like (call me weird :P)
So i dashed back to class, put a glove on and had a feel.
Quite horrible to be honest, and really cold!


But today, nothing was getting me down, i was in high spirits since last night and that continued on right through today.
Reason for this?

Well....

JJ got me a gift :D

An iTunes card.

He called it a late Valentine's present, therefore making it the best Valentine's gift i have ever received.
Yes, it even beats the guitar.
Also my first Valentine's gift from a guy, hopefully that will help set the trend :P

But, its not just the fact that its an iTunes card, its the fact that he went out his way to get it for me.
Rhyn also went out of his way and got me one as well, thought i would wait till now so i can say a big, public thank you to both of them.

It's strange talking in third person when i know you will read this, JJ and Rhyn :P
But the gifts you got me have made me so happy.
Yes, you might be saying it's only an iTunes card but as i said it's more than that. Never does the expense or the size of the gift count and this is reflected through these iTunes cards.

The smallest things are just a token of caring, warmth and love and it means so much to me coz you have made my past few days extremely happy. And you always do, with or without gifts, i love you both.


And that goes for everyone here too, everybody's comments and emails matter to me greatly and i love them and i love all you guys, thank you so much for just being here for me. It means a lot.


Love,
Rowan

Results

Well today threw up a....mixed bag, if you will with some interesting results.

Beforehand i predicted myself to get a B or C in English and a B in Media.

Close but not quite.

English was an A.

Media was a B....sort of.


But as i said it is quite interesting.

English first.

They have a strange way of marking the papers. We sat three different ones.
Two essays and one Close Reading.
What they do is take the mark from Close Reading, multiply by 5, divide by 3. (Dunno why)
Theeeeen, add that total to the two marks from the essays.

So, my Close Reading mark was 19/30. Fairly decent.
Multiply by 5 gives me 95 and divide by 3 gives me 31.6

(Hope you're with me so far.)

So then i take my essay marks in which i both got 18/25 and add them to 31.6
So 31.6 add 36 = 67.6

So that's my final percentage 67.6%
B, as i thought.

Someone asks, "Sir, what's the cut off mark for an A?

"Oh it's 68%"


NOOOOOOOOO!

ARE YOU KIDDING!

0.4% away from an A!!!


So, i cheekily asked the teacher if we could just round it up to 68 and he surprsingly said yes as he had done so already on his marking scheme. (He is one of my favourite and easiest teachers to get along with)

Whew, relieved or what?

Very.

But very happy too, i was certainly not expecting an A in English.

So in a happy mood i toddled off to Media to get my result and to meet the teacher who is pretty much the opposite of my English teacher


Media, like English has a strange marking method which involves totalling the two essays and then multiplying them by 1.5
However they come up with that i don't know.

But my first essay got 25/40 and the second, 26/40.

So logically that's 51/80 giving me around 64%. B, no argument.

Fine and dandy.

But not so.

You take 51 and multiply it by 1.5 giving me 57.5%

"Miss, what's the cut off for a B?"

"58%"

"Can we round it up?"

"No"


Wtf.
Why?
She's an English teacher too, she would have rounded it up there so why not in Media?

Coz she was in a bitch of a mood.

As she usually is.

Some days she gets along with the class but most days she doesn't.

So i just said straight to her that i regard it as a B. She says to me that i'm not to and i say back that i'm telling my mum it's a B, so i did.

And my mum agrees.

The stupid system they have to work it out means i got a C.
Without their system i would have had a comfortable B but even with it, the teacher should round it up.

B.


Anyway, i know if there's any complications they can be discussed later.

But now, i reluctantly look to Biology which i assume i will get back tomorrow.

Along with Maths, Biology is one of my worst subjects.

So i don't hold my hopes high for it. If i get a C, great.

But speaking of Maths, we went over the first part today and where i fell down was due to a combination of careless mistakes and generally not knowing what to do.
When they go over the paper and say what you should have done i felt so stupid, i wanted to kick myself.

I'm convinced that on a different day i would have passed that paper.
Only 4 or so more marks would have given me the required pass mark which was 48% and i got 40%
I'm not going to beat myself up too much tho, i know i need to improve and i will.
There is a class test arranged for next week too so we'll see how that goes.

Err lastly, i did get the Ash on my forehead today after some deliberation. I thought it would be easiest and hassle free if i just got it. I don't discuss religion much with my friends although i would be open to, so i would probably have got a few questions from them and perhaps my guidance teacher too who thinks everyone should get it.
So i got it and just wiped it off after the crazy cult gathering had finished :P

J/K

Although it was quite funny. Steven asked me what you say after they give you the Ash.
They say, "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel"

So he thought you replied "Amen" but i said to him that you should reply "No"

Lmao.

I don't even think you need to say anything so i didn't but "No" was on my mind as i went to receive it.

No, i'm not a little rebel kid haha, i think you can tell from my mostly nerdy Prelim results. :P

They played a song during the receival too so we were wondering what it was going to be.
Steven suggested the very heavy "Dead Star" by Muse and i suggested the very anti-religious "Megalomania" also by Muse. Had a little chuckle about that although it turned out to be a Save Haiti song.


Anyway i'll embed Megalomania and if anyone tells me they like the song i will be very surprised :P
Great song in my opinion but not just because of the themes of it.



Cheers guys,
Rowan


P.S Megalomania means to have delusions of great wealth and power and also means to have an obsession with extravagant things or actions.




I'll post the lyrics too :


Paradise comes at a price
that i am not prepared to pay
what were we built for?
could someone tell me please?

The good news is, she can't have babies
and wont accept gifts from me
what are they for?
they'll just grow up, and break the laws you've loved

Take off your disguise
I know that underneath it's me

Useless device, it won't suffice
i want a new game to play
when i am gone
it won't be long, before i disturb you in the dark

Paradise comes at a price
that i am not prepared to pay
what were we built for?
will someone tell me please?

Take off your disguise
I know that underneath it's me


Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh Ooooooooo (random falsetto)

Lol