Add. Maths
My brain felt like it had just endured several bottles of German schnapps. My neck hurt, my back hurt, my wrist hurt, my eyes could no longer focus properly. I felt like collapsing on the cold concrete and wait for the numbness in my mind to subside, or at least until I got my vision back.
As I walked home, I kept asking myself: "What the fuck happened?"
Having been left to squint at a ridiculously hard test paper in a darkened room for over two hours, I can be fairly certain it was maths. I mean, there were numbers and x's and y's and stuff, but it asked me crazy questions about binomial expansion and kinematics and crap I can't even begin to contemplate.
To say I was overwhelmed would be a bit of an understatement - Binomial expansion seems to need about a tree's worth of paper just to fit it all in and kinematics... I didn't even know such a term existed until last week.
What happened to the Jingo of old who beat 120 people in his year in the KS3 Maths SATs and basically owned everyone in the subject? Ah, those were the days when I was sharp as a knife and algebra would solve itself right in front of my eyes...
But now-a-days, I'm so confused I don't even know whether to differentiate or to integrate anymore. People walk past me, watching me slave over an equation, probably thinking to themselves: "That poor bastard, if only he knew you have to differentiate to find the gradient..."
So it's a fall from grace. I put it down to naivety, lack of revision and overconfidence (being a cocky bastard).
I have made a vow to myself that I'll revise 3 hours every night. Honest. This time I'll actually stick to it instead of procrastinating in front of the computer.
Actually, I haven't even got my results back so we'll wait and see.
24 comments:
Such a familiar feeling...
I have gone one step further than 3 hours a night - once im on study leave, ive vowed not to so much as turn on my computer until my GCSEs are all over. its all or nothing...
Hope your scores come back high :)
Don't you think you need an immediate urgent action rather than wait and see?
Zong will be laughing at you when he reads this blog of yours --- beat ya and ha ha ha.
leo: it's a shame I'm not getting study leave :( I'll probably shut myself off the internet when the time draws near.
hammer: I doubt it... It'll be a miracle if I do well.
anon1: You're right. I need to regroup and focus all my forces on the final push. I will of course be working incredibly hard after that recent humbling.
anon2: I very much doubt he could read, let alone beat me at maths.
Yup. That was one solid test. I think I screwed up the quadratic formula, which is strange since I was fine at it last year. I think that Richard is stealing my brain power - he beat in the last test!
Wow. It's so incredible to see you're only 16 and you are able (well, so I trust) to deal with that complicated, inextricable stuff.
I used to know what language you're speaking when I was your age, but I've forgoten, since I devoted my scarce ammount of braincells to languages.
You'll get through it just fine. =)
Maths...i do miss it abit. I think i can still remember the quadratic formula :P, still i took German instead of Maths. Much more hardcore ^^
It's never as bad as it seems as you walk out of the exam room - at least i like to comfort myself with that. Perhaps it'll work for you too =)
Think positive!
torquer: I bet he's being doing secret revision, whilst pretending to be a total thicko, the crafty bastard!
usual stuff: It is quite complicated (compared to my other subjects) but this is nothing compared to the stuff I'll be doing next year. That's slightly worrying.
quirk: I'd pick Maths over German (or any other foreign language) anyday! Dunno how I scraped an A* from french... divine intervention?
sciurine: I tend to always think the worse - that way I'll be relieved if I do better than expected.
I know why you're confused! I'm 15 this year, and am currently in Year 10. However, at my school you can take your GCSE IT a year early, and I got the chance to do that, so I am doing my Spreadsheet coursework this year (Year 10) and did the Access coursework last year (Year 9).
Hope that's cleared everything up!
Aren't you going to be in Sixth form this year?
Helen
I found Additional Math easier than Elementary Math actually. And I loved Math a lot (actually, I still do, just that I've not attempted another Math question since I finished my 'A' Level); it was my favorite subject in school (no, my favorite subject was not Chinese, contrary to popular opinion), but obviously being my favorite still wasn't enough to keep me at my desk - most of my time was spent in front of my computer, surfing non-academic websites instead of working out math problems.
Anyway, I supposed you should've gotten back your results by now. How did you do?
Firstly, sorry for not commenting for so long!
I used to take all those international maths/science competitions that were endorsed by the queensland unis and always got high distinctions/distinctions. Then as the years rolled by and the more I continued taking them (because of the ego boost of course and my parents didn't mind paying for them, naturally), the worse I did. Hahaha. Maybe I was supposed to exponentially improve with the age, which did not happen. Hahaha. Oh well. As if we need to know diff and antidiff for the rest of our lives.
helen: By next year I meant next academic year. IT is such a waste of time, and wastes so much paper...
maio: I love maths as well because people still respect me for it, even though I'm not as great as I once was.
I haven't go the results back yet. They take ages to mark apparently.
gneake: I'll be doing all the international competitions next year and I know I'll be picked to do them since I still have the reputation... Hopfully by then I'll have improved and won't mess them up.
Oh right! Well then I'm in Year 11 next academic year! Now I understand...
i tried to post this on the relevant post but it wouldnt work probably cos im sum kind of spactard.
omg after all that time i spent arguing with you about aerosmith and now u say u'ved moved on from them! I haven't heard most of those songs cos i never buy albums but i do love the arcade fire and the guillemots atm so i think u shuld 2. im bored so very bored.
helen: so you'll be sitting one GCSE exam this year? Your year don't get cw any more do they (in the other subjects)?
cara: well, aerosmith are still good but I've moved on to smaller (in terms of popularity) but better things!
Guellemots? You sicken me. If you go out with me, I'll pretend to like them ;) I'll even pretend to like U2 as well...
lol... well haven't spoken to kev for bout 2 weeks now and i'm begining to think he's died or sumthin... but i think i wuld need more than that to put up with you again and make it worth my while lol
You're brilliant.
cara: my unbiased advice would be for you to dump him and go out with someone wittier, sexier and more msn-savvy ie. me.
promiseme4: merci beaucoup. Girls tell me that all the time ;)
Well, we get coursework in maths (although that is being scrapped for the current year 9's) English, French, History (I'm doing a new History GCSE, as our school is testing a new one,) and Media. But we don't get it in Science.
Confusion evenually leads to clarity. Give yourself a break Jingo....it'll come back....one day =)
Woops, that should say "eventually" (maybe mine NEVER came back......:0)
helen: harsh that you don't get it in science, it's such an easy way to pick up marks.
kb: I refuse to give myself a break! The thought of being idle pains me... ;)
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