One down...an umpteen more to go!
26th October 2006. 9: 43 PM. (I've developed the habit of writing down the proper date and time 'cos blogger always gets this WRONG.)
I've just finished my physics O' Level practical exam today. The timing of this is really sick, today is/was(?) the last day of school for the secondary one, two and three kids. Yuck.
The exam was difficult as it required much precision. One involved finding out the focal length of a lens using two very finicky methods (one was measuring the thickness and diameter of the lens using a ruler and two set-squares). The other was about rolling marbles down a rickety ramp (made with two rulers, a wooden block and some Blu-Tack (the name is copyrighted). I think I just as good as botched the (2) whole darn experiments. For the lens thing, I had to keep on adjusting the retort stand and it was--just a little this way...no, more, more...fuck, moved it too much...move it back...shoot, overshot...palms getting sweaty and wrists are sore...damn, just a little more, just a little more...yes, just right, just a bit... I was so slow that I couldn't finish the questions that came with this experiment in the first forty-five minutes. After that, we had to go on to the next experiment--marble on the ramp.
Double F_ _ _.
My reaction time was very slow as I could not see exactly when the marble stopped and all that. I took readings over and over and over again. And still, when I got down to drawing that graph... ...it came out wonky. And even before any actual graph-drawing had taken place, I mucked up my scales (x-axis and y-axis, kids, and both being equally Ee-vill). I tried asking for another piece of graph paper, so the invigilators scurried around asking each other if it was possible to give me another piece...in the end, no one came back with a piece of shitty graph paper (gee, I knew the MOE was stingy, but not that stingy...shades of my skin-flint grandpa). So I had to draw a graph which had a ~squiggly~ border all along its sides.
I took so long that I didn't finish the paper...
...almost. That was close. I was just putting the finishing touches to my design-experiments question when the time was up. And I left another one-mark question out. Typical. I have never finished a science experiment within the given time.
I was shaking all over when we left the room. Jelly on a plate.
I've just finished my physics O' Level practical exam today. The timing of this is really sick, today is/was(?) the last day of school for the secondary one, two and three kids. Yuck.
The exam was difficult as it required much precision. One involved finding out the focal length of a lens using two very finicky methods (one was measuring the thickness and diameter of the lens using a ruler and two set-squares). The other was about rolling marbles down a rickety ramp (made with two rulers, a wooden block and some Blu-Tack (the name is copyrighted). I think I just as good as botched the (2) whole darn experiments. For the lens thing, I had to keep on adjusting the retort stand and it was--just a little this way...no, more, more...fuck, moved it too much...move it back...shoot, overshot...palms getting sweaty and wrists are sore...damn, just a little more, just a little more...yes, just right, just a bit... I was so slow that I couldn't finish the questions that came with this experiment in the first forty-five minutes. After that, we had to go on to the next experiment--marble on the ramp.
Double F_ _ _.
My reaction time was very slow as I could not see exactly when the marble stopped and all that. I took readings over and over and over again. And still, when I got down to drawing that graph... ...it came out wonky. And even before any actual graph-drawing had taken place, I mucked up my scales (x-axis and y-axis, kids, and both being equally Ee-vill). I tried asking for another piece of graph paper, so the invigilators scurried around asking each other if it was possible to give me another piece...in the end, no one came back with a piece of shitty graph paper (gee, I knew the MOE was stingy, but not that stingy...shades of my skin-flint grandpa). So I had to draw a graph which had a ~squiggly~ border all along its sides.
I took so long that I didn't finish the paper...
...almost. That was close. I was just putting the finishing touches to my design-experiments question when the time was up. And I left another one-mark question out. Typical. I have never finished a science experiment within the given time.
I was shaking all over when we left the room. Jelly on a plate.
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