I AM BACK! (11/11/14)

HELLO, MARIAN'S EVERYDAY LIFE!

I have missed blogging so much! I am sorry for the month long hiatus. If you have forgotten why I left, I had final examinations. Yes, one month just for five rounds of exams. It was definitely worth the break though, I focused on dimensions other than my intellect; social, catching up on reading time, catching up on sleep, and getting my chores done.

I will personally write about each exam and what I thought about it in chronological order.

Science - First final! This was the most difficult since we (as in my classmates & I) had to fill in five booklets based on the topics we had studied during the year. The easiest booklet to complete was acids & alkalis since we had a test on it the same week.

Mathematics - Easier than I expected. I was studying the formula for the area & perimeter for the circle (π x diameter, or π x r^2), true bearings, and the difficult topics, but on the test it ended up to be simple questions like, "what is the sum of 768 + 3499?" It felt like I had wasted my time & effort on studying. The exam was easy as pi.

Religious Education - Definitely the easiest out of the five. It was open-book and I had all the notes for it, so I finished without hesitation in less than two hours. But the notes in my book didn't have the answers for the general knowledge questions.

English - In this exam there were two booklets. In one of them, we had to read different passages and complete the questions asked. The second booklet asked us to write a character description from the novels we studied about during the year. I wrote about (Oli)Via Pullman from 'Wonder' since she is my favourite book character ever. 

Social Studies (the final exam!) - This exam had four sections to it, and two of those sections were NZ current events and essay writing about change, cause, and consequence. I wrote about the American Indians and how the settlers took over the land. This exam was about 90% easier than I expected.


Exam preparation -

Preparing for the social studies essay section. Answering the
consequences question.

My 'learning wall' which features the topics
I have studied during the year.

My next post won't be published until the week after the next! That's when another hiatus starts, but don't worry, it's not as lengthy as the last. Just five days. I will be at year eight camp and electrical devices are banned except cameras. I promise to take photos during the week. See you soon!

-M.Y ❤ 

A new Letter to Electra will be published tomorrow on electraandmari.blogspot.com.