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Angel Fish
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posted May 30, 2001 03:03 AM
  
which will dissapoint many of you:I'm supposed to be gathering primary and secondary sources for a timed dual essay this afternoon. (Just when you think you've taken the last exam of your life...you decide to do MORE postgrad, ha ha ha) And I'm not
I'm here.
hehehe. *is pleased to see that the utter lack of dedication to life altering exams has not changed over the course of 12 years.* ------------------
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Skatie
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posted May 30, 2001 07:47 AM
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that a Bruncher would shirk work/school to post to the board.I need to go lie down. ------------------
Sweetie, fetch Mommy's bazooka.
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nebulous menace
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posted May 30, 2001 11:46 AM
You ARE a wicked thing, indeed.IP: Logged |
Kyree
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posted May 30, 2001 12:15 PM
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Nevah Altavaris Entitar
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posted May 30, 2001 02:33 PM
Uh... Yeah... Right... actually, I'm supposed to be writing the great American novel... But this seems to help humanity in so many more ways...IP: Logged |
babylonia
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posted May 30, 2001 11:29 PM
I'm supposed to be saving the world from the dastardly evil that is Microsoft, however I felt the best way I could accomplish this goal was to post to the board from a Linux machine.------------------
"Is there NOWHERE on this board SAFE from this CONSTANT talk of SHAVEN FLAPS AND SCROTES?"
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Angel Fish
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posted June 01, 2001 03:05 AM
Just thought I'd come back and point out what an utterly LAME exam it was - noone supervised it, we could take anything we wanted into it, although it was held in a library, so there wasn't much point, and we talked all the way through it.Gah!
This is not how I remember exams, they're s'posed to be held in freezing gymnasiums and invigilated by evil maths teachers in squeaky shoes (and in some cases carrying big wooden rulers to slap on the desks/students at random moments). Out of interest...has anyone had to take an exam post-university/college/high school/whatever stage of education you reached? Logic tests or personality assessments for a job, etc?
And - who still gets the unnerving feeling every summer that they should be revising.....? ------------------
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Kailet
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posted June 01, 2001 03:57 AM
I have an unnerving feeling that I should be revising.Wait. I should be revising. Damn. You knew the lame joke was coming, don't deny it. ------------------
Well, Ozzy was part of the band that more or less singlehandedly invented metal. But *nobody's* more metal than O-Town.
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IsMaryann_WantsToBeGinger
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posted June 01, 2001 04:01 AM
When I went to school in Florence to study Italian, I had to take a test at the end of the term. I hadn't taken a test in 6 years or so, since graduating college. I found it difficult to get into the groove of studying though my note taking skills were still sharp. But nothing prepared me for the shock of sitting down to take that test.I had always been a superb test taker, effortless memory, yadda yadda yadda. But when I took that Italian test I experienced for the first time what others had tried to explain to me but I failed to grasp. Complete and utter blanking. I just stared at the test in front of me and literally could not recognize a single thing on it. I just looked at the teacher, shrugged, told her (in ITALIAN mind you) that I couldn't remember anything at all, and I just started laughing since there was just nothing else to do. I did actually write things in blank spaces, but it was a complete guessing game. I never went back to find out my grade-- if I had even MADE a grade. I really wasn't upset though, since the big end of term party was at our flat and was a huge hit (all the teachers came), and I did learn to speak Italian pretty decently (mainly cause of the Italian ex-boyfriend who spoke no English that I met in Florence. At least I got SOMETHING good out of that horrificly damaging relationship). I just could not, for the life of me, remember how to take a test. It's like a totally practiced SKILL that you don't even realize you had until it crumbles into dust and blows away... Bizarre. IP: Logged |
Angel Fish
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posted June 01, 2001 04:29 AM
For me the wierd bit was the effort it took - to have to sit down and write, solidly, for three hours doesn't half make your hand hurt. I can't remember ever having an exam as long as that before....I can't have written for that long without a break in well over seven or eight years, if not longer.------------------
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Treasure
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posted June 02, 2001 05:08 AM
Just before the bunch of losers formerly known as my last proper employers made me redundant, we had to re-apply for our jobs. Part of it was aptitude testing, & so I had to spend 2hrs doing various pointless exams in prioritising workloads & literacy & numeracy.Pointless? Evidently. I came TOP, yes that's right first, out of the 30 or so people who had to take the tests & the b********s still made me redundant! Not a happy bunny. And I got writer's cramp, coz I don't normally write, I just type everything. IP: Logged |
Angel Fish
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posted June 04, 2001 06:31 AM
That really, really sucks.That's all I have to say. ------------------
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DramaShrink
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posted June 04, 2001 07:42 AM
Before I could even apply to graduate school, I had to take the GRE General. I studied for a month. On the day of, I was terribly scared. I was taking it on the computer, where you can't skip a question and go back later. Then I saw my score, and I cheered up. I don't remember the exact numbers, but they got me into the Psy.D program that I wanted  ------------------
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