My exams are over!!!!
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My exams are over!!!!
all my exams are over - at last!
First one (ancient Greek) was easiest, cause it was some lines from Homer's Odyssey . I know I have made a few mistakes, one vocab and maybe one construction mistake, but that's all I think.
Second was maths and I was pleasantly surprised with how 'easy' the exam was. It was actually very difficult, but I found I could answer most of the questions anyway, so for me it was 'easy'. maths was analytical geometry with linear algebra (spheres, vectors and so on), analysis (e functions, natural logarithms etc.) and statistics (e.g. can you sue the company or not with this data?). All that stuff was in the exams too.
Physics though.... my last one... that exam was just insane! The most difficult exam I've ever sat, only me and one other guy were sitting it (some others were sitting an easier physics paper) and he didn't look at all happy when he handed in his paper. Now all I can do is hope that the marking isn't too hard, cause the exam was so damn hard...
I had to know everything... but what came up in the exam was just relativistic madness ( ), some De Broglie material waves (work out the wavelength in two different ways to prove De Broglie is correct, bla...), light (quant vs. wave, polarisation of light, diffraction grates etc.), Braun’s tubes, some other particle accelerators and so on (again, use the crazy relativistic formula). But I didn't know that was going to come up so I had to learn loads of other complicated rubbish I didn't actually need...
But right now I'm just glad that it's all over!
First one (ancient Greek) was easiest, cause it was some lines from Homer's Odyssey . I know I have made a few mistakes, one vocab and maybe one construction mistake, but that's all I think.
Second was maths and I was pleasantly surprised with how 'easy' the exam was. It was actually very difficult, but I found I could answer most of the questions anyway, so for me it was 'easy'. maths was analytical geometry with linear algebra (spheres, vectors and so on), analysis (e functions, natural logarithms etc.) and statistics (e.g. can you sue the company or not with this data?). All that stuff was in the exams too.
Physics though.... my last one... that exam was just insane! The most difficult exam I've ever sat, only me and one other guy were sitting it (some others were sitting an easier physics paper) and he didn't look at all happy when he handed in his paper. Now all I can do is hope that the marking isn't too hard, cause the exam was so damn hard...
I had to know everything... but what came up in the exam was just relativistic madness ( ), some De Broglie material waves (work out the wavelength in two different ways to prove De Broglie is correct, bla...), light (quant vs. wave, polarisation of light, diffraction grates etc.), Braun’s tubes, some other particle accelerators and so on (again, use the crazy relativistic formula). But I didn't know that was going to come up so I had to learn loads of other complicated rubbish I didn't actually need...
But right now I'm just glad that it's all over!
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Re: My exams are over!!!!
Congratulations.Emma_85 wrote:all my exams are over - at last!
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As a physics major(was I?), I see the physics exam was really crazy. It sounds like it was for college students. You need to excercise on those kinds of problems until the problems and the solutions actually sink in in your hands, not only in your brain. Relativity and Quantum theory stuffs are so remote from the everyday intuition. And the classical physics is working so well in the normal situation and you got so deeply used to it. And the modern physics deals with situations which you have few chances to experience and build an intuition for. And the exams tend to require specified training for such kind of problems.Emma_85 wrote: Physics though.... my last one... that exam was just insane!
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Anyway, Congratulations it's over!
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glad you agree that the exam was very difficult - if you'd laughed and said it sounded easy I think I would have gone mad...mingshey wrote:As a physics major(was I?), I see the physics exam was really crazy. It sounds like it was for college students. You need to excercise on those kinds of problems until the problems and the solutions actually sink in in your hands, not only in your brain. Relativity and Quantum theory stuffs are so remote from the everyday intuition. And the classical physics is working so well in the normal situation and you got so deeply used to it. And the modern physics deals with situations which you have few chances to experience and build an intuition for. And the exams tend to require specified training for such kind of problems.Emma_85 wrote: Physics though.... my last one... that exam was just insane!
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Anyway, Congratulations it's over!
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Physics exams are supposed to be difficult, M. Sometimes they put down ridiculously hard questions, just to see if anyone gets them.Emma_85 wrote:glad you agree that the exam was very difficult - if you'd laughed and said it sounded easy I think I would have gone mad...
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Physics is my weakest science, and to help myself I am taking a Physics class - not honors, not AP, just a good old ordinary high school class. And the teacher is good and used to having physics-challenged students. Our final exam was one of the most fun exams ever - the teacher had written an adventure story (staring you, the test-taker), and while dealing with an incompetent (fictional) sidekick, you had to solve physics problems to accomplish your mission. The physics was not paticularly hard - just the type of problems we had been doing in class. And I got my score back today - 93%.
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Emma_85 wrote:all my exams are over - at last!
- Hi Emma,
my Congratulations for you, too ! "Now I am back on stage" and I really hope, that physics will not turn out too bad for you !
But hey, is it really all over by now, do not some oral examination still lie ahead ?
greetings from Munich,
Peter
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Yes, some oral examinations still... argh. Only geography though, no idea if I'll do well in it, but I don't really care...
.... and some uni interviews next week too... also got to do some work for the abizeitung
So still some things keeping me busy.
Yeah, you have internet again and are in Munich! How's life in Munich?
.... and some uni interviews next week too... also got to do some work for the abizeitung
So still some things keeping me busy.
Yeah, you have internet again and are in Munich! How's life in Munich?
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Emma_85 wrote:Yes, some oral examinations still... argh. Only geography though, no idea if I'll do well in it, but I don't really care...
- So this subject will not have much influence on your leaving certificate, I suppose ?
Yes in the meantime I settle down in Munich and for me where I come from the "Palatine province" this town is really a new dimension!
A lot of museums there but I will spare them for rainy day´s because the surrounding area from Munich is too beautifull not to go there on sunny day´s. Within an hour you will be at the alps ! Last week we had lot of snow so I used this opportunity for cross-country skiing. It was so nice to do this where all the forest around you is in winter covering and from time to time, when the wind blow some of the snow from the spruce fir´s nearby, the falling snow then is glittering like diamond dust when passing the shafts of light which fall´s through the trees! Winter can really be nice in Bavaria.
The week before - when there was very little snow my first trip out of Munich was a "pilgrimage" to the monastery of Andechs, not for prayer this time, but for the beer they brew there ! And I can tell you, it is worth to walk a thousand miles for that beer, believe me Emma !
So my day´s will not be boring at the moment!
And good luck for your uni interviews !
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Now what are you going to do with all your free time?
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Glad to hear you like the beer there and the alps . Hehehe, must be fun to be able to go on long walks without us all holding you up and complaining all the time . While I was in London I missed the snow they had here ...copain wrote:Emma_85 wrote:Yes, some oral examinations still... argh. Only geography though, no idea if I'll do well in it, but I don't really care...
- So this subject will not have much influence on your leaving certificate, I suppose ?
Yes in the meantime I settle down in Munich and for me where I come from the "Palatine province" this town is really a new dimension!
A lot of museums there but I will spare them for rainy day´s because the surrounding area from Munich is too beautifull not to go there on sunny day´s. Within an hour you will be at the alps ! Last week we had lot of snow so I used this opportunity for cross-country skiing. It was so nice to do this where all the forest around you is in winter covering and from time to time, when the wind blow some of the snow from the spruce fir´s nearby, the falling snow then is glittering like diamond dust when passing the shafts of light which fall´s through the trees! Winter can really be nice in Bavaria.
The week before - when there was very little snow my first trip out of Munich was a "pilgrimage" to the monastery of Andechs, not for prayer this time, but for the beer they brew there ! And I can tell you, it is worth to walk a thousand miles for that beer, believe me Emma !
So my day´s will not be boring at the moment!
And good luck for your uni interviews !
And as non of the unis really care what marks I get in the oral exam... I won't bother to learn for it.
free time? hehehe, well last week was busy with interviews, next week I've got to finish of our school leaving magazine to get it ready to send off to the press... and then I'll be busy packing my things and selling old stuff I no longer want... and then I'll panic because I won't have had any time to learn Italian, but I'll move to Italy anyway... so - not that much free time actually .CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Now what are you going to do with all your free time?