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The HSC Marathon: Stride by Stride
kauac:
--- Quote from: Maya24 on October 20, 2018, 11:48:24 am ---Good luck for the rest of your exams!
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Thanks! Hope your preparation for exams is going well. :)
kauac:
Another day, another exam. I think I'll try and debrief each exam either in this journal or in the discussion thread, so I can reflect on this later after all exams have finished.
Biology was this morning. Kinda got used to the two hour exams for English, so 3 hours definitely seemed like a long time! I had plenty of time to do the exam, and had about ~45 min to check over, which was good.
I'll just quote myself from the discussion thread for a record:
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--- Quote ---MC was definitely the hardest part of the exam imo, I definitely took a lot longer to complete them than I normally would in practice exams. Definitely think this was the section where I dropped the most marks.
SA: fairly nice, though I didn't like the question on co-dominance for the fur mammalians. It was difficult to interpret whether the question meant that the natural resistance resulted from the co-dominance (which is what I assumed) or not.
Option - Communication: Brilliant! Generally my strongest area as well, so not surprised. Especially liked part d), where we had to draw the diagrams of correcting myopia. I think I overwrote for part e) though, because I needed another booklet, but I think I addressed the question really well and in-depth, so that's that.
Overall: considering it was the last year of the current syllabus, NESA hasn't managed to do anything drastic for biology, so that's a positive. Just hoping I did enough to achieve the mark I am aiming for, considering my MC game was weak. :)
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On a random note, the supervisors forgot to hand out the question booklet until reading time, oops! (The one with the MC and option questions).
And another: I was so eager to leave that I forgot my bag from the exam room. I started freaking out, and had to run from one side of the school to the other because I thought they would have already locked up, but thankfully, the supervisors were still in there. There wasn't actually anything important in my bag, because I didn't bring my phone or anything, but nevertheless, it was a good feeling being able to retrieve it anyway, haha. ;D
Maths is tomorrow: kinda not worried at this stage. I have all the knowledge and methods, just need to be able to apply that to the questions. - Something that you can't really study for as much, apart from looking at past papers. Really hoping they will nice to us with MC, as I am usually atrocious at it, lucky to get more than 5/10.
But then again, my expectations for maths are lower than that for bio/food tech, so of course I will probably feel that I didn't do as well as I did in bio. :) Keen to finish maths, because that's when the real fun begins. I think I might drop in at school every so often for food tech just to add a bit of variety to my study! I'm in a good mood, hopefully will be that way tomorrow after the exam! (No pressure Katie - just your whole HSC mark for mathematics depending on this one exam, because I am the only 2U student, ahahahaha ;D). Nah should be good - after all, that's why I do 12 units. :)
headsup:
Heyy!!!
Good job with bio!!!!
ATVVVVB with maths and the other exams to follow!!!!!
Not long now ;)
kauac:
--- Quote from: headsup on October 24, 2018, 02:04:47 pm ---Heyy!!!
Good job with bio!!!!
ATVVVVB with maths and the other exams to follow!!!!!
Not long now ;)
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Thanks! Good luck for maths tomorrow too - we'll see whether the maths gods have been kindly to us poor HSC students haha.
Also, is it sad I had to look up that what that acronym means haha? I'm just a kid who doesn't get millennial talk. :)
Joseph41:
--- Quote from: kauac on October 24, 2018, 01:53:52 pm ---And another: I was so eager to leave that I forgot my bag from the exam room. I started freaking out, and had to run from one side of the school to the other because I thought they would have already locked up, but thankfully, the supervisors were still in there. There wasn't actually anything important in my bag, because I didn't bring my phone or anything, but nevertheless, it was a good feeling being able to retrieve it anyway, haha. ;D
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Golly, I know this feeling well haha. Glad it all worked out for you.
Good luck for maths tomorrow!
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