Last week was our exam week for both History A and History B. Cors exam week is always stressful for me coz I have to study the whole day and night reading and researching.
History A - a week ago, our teacher announced that we'll have a quiz on Thursday. It will be based on that days lecture and it will be an essay. The class starts at 7:45am and ends at 9:15am. The professor started to lecture and I was kinda wondering what time that test will start. It was already 9am and i thought we are not gonna have the exams anymore when she said to prepare a blank sheet of paper. She gave us three choices and 5 MINUTES to write an essay pertaining to the question we chose. DAMN! 5 minutes o_O.
i chose number 2 question : Discuss life in English colonies by the 1760's and 1770's.
do i have time to think...OF COURSE NOT! lolz it takes me at least 2 hours to compose an intro. but with the time pressure, i just abruptly answered and just wrote whatever hahah
Result: Handed today, if you got a CHECK, it means you got perfect score, if you got a DASH, it means your essay is not sufficient, however if you get a CHECK and a PLUS mark, then it means you did better than perfect...(huh, made me think...is there any better than perfect? oh yeah there is PURRRRRRfect like a BIGCAT ahehe)
surprisingly i got a check and a plus mark (im not being cocky hahaha)
History B - essay questions were already given 1 week before the actual test. i originally chose number 1 which is about reconstruction period. then i realized, it is too complicated plus all those extra research and readings ugh!. so i decided to do number 3 which is about western expansion of the Union and how these changes affected Chinese Americans and Mexican Americans politically, socially and economically. Ms. Nava has graded our exams but she did not handed the blue books till the end of the class.
Result: I was kinda nervous, when i got my blue book and i thought i messed it up coz there was a note written on front page that says "RE: Read #3". i didnt know what it meant. did i just misinterpreted the question and all my answers were wrong. damnit! until i got to the last page and found this
(Excellent Work A+ 99, One of the best in class. May I have a copy?) whoa! w00t w00t w00t
Funny thing is, I composed this essay from 12nn to 10pm, I was so hungry and I was craving for QUICKLY's teriyaki chicken...so i hurriedly shut down my pc...which was a STUPID STUPID STUPID thing to do IF YOU DID NOT SAVE YOUR WORK! i almost wanted to cry coz 75% was lost. (whats wrong with the auto save feature? now i turned it on every 3 minutes or should not be using computer at all when doing your exams and projects..paper and pen is much better haha). The beauty of it, if you wrote something and understood, youll be able to rewrite it again...which i did while eating at quickly's but it didnt take me hours or an hour to recover the 75% loss. wohoo!Note: You can prewrite your essay but when you come on the examination, everything should be in yer head. I think what happened was a blessing in disguise, coz rewriting the whole thing is like a practice exam.
oh btw, and Ms. Nava said, with her 15 years of academic teaching at Evergreen Valley College, our class was the first class that got bunches of A's. damn, a lot of smart asses ahaha....if thats the case then im glad that im a part of that class. im not saying im one of them (o_O :D) but at least im sorrounded with smart people and its kinda contagious...first midterms finish (xcept for math) so mi gander for a while...w00t w00t w00t!
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