So my last two exams were back to back. I should have been smart and gone to bed early, woken up on time, and studied a little before each. If you know me at all, you know this isn’t what happened. Let me just say that playing cards (and winning) is much more fun and interesting than studying.
My Bio exam was okay- not too hard, not too easy. Although I have to say that I was not at all pleased with the fact that the very first question was completely unanswerable. Honestly… who wants their confidence undermined for the entire first section of the test because one multiple choice question decides to mess with their exam-stressed brain? Not me. However, overall, the Bio was a typical (easy) Regents.
After Bio I had a couple hours to eat lunch and study for my German. What really happened: I ate lunch and attempted to review the past year’s collection of vocab, and shortly thereafter abandoned the vocab in favor of my smiley-face cards and my president-playing friends.
German was very easy. I have taken several German Regents in four years… most of them practice tests. All of them are the same. The toughest part for me were the writing tasks, because they require you to actually be able to write German. They also request a grasp of German grammar. All I can do is apologize to whoever corrects my German grammar. Because I had three hours to take the test, I spent a long time on my writing. After all, I wasn’t taking German next year, and I wanted to make sure that if I didn’t do well on the test, it wasn’t because I had rushed myself. I was the last person out of the room, and I missed the buses home (that’s how long I stayed). The upside of this was that Mary graded my multiple choice right in front of me, and I now know that I have an 80 on the test, without her even having graded the writing. Yay!
Finally, my English Portfolio. I recieved a B, a grade which displeases me less than it pleases me, but not by much. I had really hope for an A, and I fell that the reason I didn’t get an A was not fair. How is it fair that I am docked an entire letter grade just because I didn’t reflect on the order of my choices or the deep truths that I learned this year? And before you say anythingn let me note that YES, my parents have informed me that life is not fair. I just choose to igore that fact whenever it conviences me to do so.
Finally, I ended my day by sitting in the shade by the district offices and watching the perfect cumulus clouds float by. They were the most perfectly ideal stereotypical clouds I have ever seen.
