Okay, I know the following isn’t Maple related at all. If all you’re going to do is flame me about it, then don’t read it. I just needed somewhere to pour out my feelings since I’m feeling angry with myself, and I don’t use a diary.

I feel really bad. Seriously. Today was the first day of school after three weeks of holidays, and I ask you, what sane school has a maths test second period on the first day of term four? Really. Anyway, I got to school early, crammed, the usual (I DID study over the holidays). Then I went in to the test after an hour and fifteen minutes of Japanese, in which I was stressing out lots.

For all those not doing tests similar to this kind of test, our layout is basically:
Section A: Notes and calculator free, short answer
Section B: Notes and calculator allowed, multiple choice
Section C: Notes and Calculator allowed, application questions

After dumping my stuff on the floor, I began the test. The first thing I looked at was the mark total. It was out of about 60, which is really bad because even if I don’t lose that many marks, it’ll still take a huge chunk out of my mark…you know the deal. More marks is better.

And I couldn’t do the first question. Yeah, the first, the easiest. Not a good sign. I proceeded through section A with a couple of hiccups, nothing major. Until I got to the last question. Worth six freaking marks. And I couldn’t do it at all. Which means that I lost 6/23 marks right on the spot. Foosh, wham, bam, baibai marks. Not counting the mistakes I’d probably made on the other questions.

Section B was okay, except for the fact that I guessed about three questions. Which gave me a total of about 7/10. Not too bad, I guess. Let’s see when I get my mark back.

But section C…oh man. This was a killer. I honestly hate logarithms and exponentials now, I really do. The last question (comprised of four mini questions) was worth ten marks. Yeah, you heard right. A whopping TEN marks. And guess what? I couldn’t do it. Trust. The equation was something I’d never seen before in my whole LIFE, although my friend told me we’d done something similar to it before. I mulled over it for at least ten minutes, staring at the blinding whiteness of the maths sheet. I attempted to do the third mini question, although I’m not sure if I got it right. Knowing me and my luck, I probably didn’t.

So let’s see…10 + 6 = 16. Plus the rest of the questions I know I got wrong there somewhere = 20+. 20/60. That’s a whole freaking third. Which means that I only got about 66 percent right. If I’m lucky and I didn’t lose any more marks than I calculated. I’ve never done this badly in a test before, except for when I didn’t study and thought I could ace the test. Boy, was I wrong. >.< Anyway, I really hoped I could do well in this test and keep my B – A+ average that I attained in first semester. Obviously not.

All I can say is good luck to Des and ILC who are taking the test tomorrow. Ciao.