I just handed in the worst exam of my whole entire life

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I am just numbed by how bad it was.

I realise ILX is not my blog.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just a mock but it's for the tutor who doesn't like because he thinks I'm really lazy because I was going through a nasty breakup when he was teaching me, oops.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

if it's just a mock, you should enjoy your weekend.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't like "didn't know anything" bad, it was more like "didn't know anything and was a nine-year-old Romanian child with no arms to write with and English as a third language" bad.

x-post yeah i'll try, i'm really ill though.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck attending an oxford. exams in the first two weeks?

cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Every term :(

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It'll be fine. The exams you think you did terribly at are always fine. It's the ones you think you did well in you have to watch out for.

Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what are they called again - collections? they totally don't even matter in the slightest! happy friday!!!

pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Luckily school means shit

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

not quite true - I was in tears after one of my finals, and true enough, insider information confirmed that it was my worst paper by far (and everyone elses, which made me feel better)

Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Benefit of going to Cambridge = no collections.

Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, that was crap of me. Bad exams hurt, even if they might not matter.

Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

You bunch of ponces

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

When I had my finals, we were given the marks for each paper individually. My worst grade by far was a D, in the prereleased general paper - which everyone else did really well in, because they'd bothered to actually do some research after receiving the questions.

(actually, that's not quite true. We got the mark for the general paper separately; for the rest, we got a mark for each course, but each course only had one paper plus coursework)

caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a 43 on my general finals paper and I thought I'd done pretty well on it at the time. This could be taken as a sign that trusting me on matters of physics is probably a bad idea, unless it's something to do with subatomic particles, galaxies or earthquakes.

RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Vic, if you had insider info couldn't they have got you the exam paper in advance?

(in my finals I got a 2:2 in the one paper I thought I'd got a 1st in. QED)

Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I just talked to the guy, it was a prearranged meeting about something else.

R: So, where you actually in that Collection, Greg?
G: Um, in body if not in spirit, yeah. I've been...
R: Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, wait, 'were', ugh. I regret this thread already.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I always used to come out of exams thinking I'd done the worst job humanly possible and it always turned out alright. You may have done better than you think.

Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

personally i think exams are a waste of time - i've worked for over five years now and created and sold two companies. can't remember the last time i had to do an exam. frankly i can't remember the last time i used anything i learnt at school/college/uni.

L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The only discernable benefit I got from uni was making a couple of extremely close friends.

Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The only place I've used anything I was taught at university has been stupid debates on internet messageboards.

caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)


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