I’m sure you’re well aware that exam season started a while back. Plurk doesn’t lie. People couldn’t get them out their heads. Well, thankfully, now they can. Or, well, I can at least. Some people have to carry on and do some more. Haha. Losers.
Many people doing their A2s rely on the results of this exam to propel themselves into university come September/October time. While some people aren’t going this year, it’s still a fairly big deal to them. I mean, people have come to only expect the best from them. I know NSB do. So how did mine go? Will they propel me into uni? Right now, I’m thinking not, but we’ll see…
Maths (Mechanics M1) – Friday 22nd May 
My first exam, so it was a novelty at this stage. Ehh, it was okay, I suppose. I mean, it’s one of the three exams in Maths I really needed to ace to make getting my B somewhat easier, and I think I scored a B on it. Okay, not exactly an acing, but still, I’m fairly happy with that.
General Studies AM / Computing PM – Thursday 4th June 
Yeah, I know. Fun times. 
General Studies was surprisingly easy. There were two exams – Culture, Arts… Something and something else, and a Technology and Science paper. Both have essay components, which I hate. But seeing as the two questions I had to do involved writing about blogging and Facebook respectively, I really didn’t give a monkeys. It was – dare I say it – fun to do. More fun to see the grade I got for it, too. 
Then Computing in the afternoon. At the time, I felt it was the subject which was going to dictate whether or not I got into uni, as I was a borderline C at it in AS, and I needed to keep it up to get the grade needed. I feel the revision really paid off. Either that or it asked questions which were pretty easy. CPT5 was harder than CPT4, but yeah, that’s because CPT5 questions always go on for ages about some bike-sharing scheme.
Geography (Global Challenge) AM / Maths (C1 & C2) PM – Friday 5th June 
Eww. I actually hated this day. It was full of nasty sort of make-or-break exams and, unfortunately, I think I broke.
The Geography one I went in thinking I really had no hope in getting the C I needed, but came out surprisingly optimistic. The weather question I’d crammed and it was fairly nice, a good globalisation question with use of the Mattel case study and a fairly answered question on the impact of settlements on the land. I can’t really remember how I answered, but I know it was better than what I was thinking at about 8:58 that morning.
But the C1 happened. For those who don’t know, if A-Level Maths could be compared to learning to drive, C1 would be learning how the indicators worked. Ironically, too, this exam could’ve gone one way or another. Unfortunately, it liked the look of Shit Creek so much, it went there before I could give it a paddle. C2 was okay but, well, not exactly the acing I would’ve liked. Especially my failure of factorising skills. ARGH.
Maths (C3) AM / Geography (Res. Global Futures) – Thursday 11th June 
Whey. A day which was actually quite good. Maths, C3, which is the second hardest Maths exam we have to do, was stupidly easy. I mean, okay, there were a couple of trig questions which got me stumped, but the questions I answered I’m fairly certain I got right. Well, we’ll see. 
Then was Geography. The coursework I did ages ago on the Olympic Games was half of this exam, and I got a high B-ish in that. That meant the pressure was kind of off this exam. But it’s one where there’s a finite number of questions they could ask, and the question I did in the exam (which was how some hazards have more than one cause) I’d done in revision and got a B in that, too. Awesome.
General Studies AM / Maths (C4) PM – Monday 15th June 
The General Studies exam was the one with the pre-release about terrorism and surveillance. You know, the really boring fat book of nothing that nobody read? Yeah. Turns out even if I had read it prior to the night before, I still wouldn’t have done any better. With General Studies, nobody can know something about all the subjects (hence why it’s ‘General’) and this exam was that. I mean, "Society, Politics and the Economy"? Who do you think I am? Timi?
But then we had C4. Ahh, C4. It had an intense little cramming session right at the end, and despite having a mare factorising in C1 and C2, I think I might have just saved my rear with this exam. Now results day has a slight possible chance of being a good day. Thank god for that.
Geography (Synoptic Issues Analysis) – Wednesday 17th June 
Ahh, the final exam. It just had to be the one I miserably failed in January, didn’t it. Okay, so I don’t really need to tell you all about this exam, as I’ve sort of already done that, but I might as well tell you how it went.
The Galapagos one in January had five of six questions spread equally over the paper. This one had three. It had a "What’s the problem?" "What can we do?" and a "How would doing this be good?" sort of split, which is essentially the backbone of all the exams. I just wasn’t expecting twenty marks riding on the fact I needed to know fieldwork techniques. Since when? Argh. Well, we’ll see.
Thank god that’s over. Now, a nice anxious wait until results day. Hooray. (By the way Bournemouth University, I love you long time. <3)
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