My Report: First Trimestre 2010 (September - November)

French: 9,60/20. 
Teacher: Mme Carre
Comments: 'Altogether Insufficient! But Tim does many things right in Expression Ecrites! He must not negligate the grammer and spelling. Don't hesitate to ask questions!'  
Class average: 10,54/20 (ouch thats bad!). 
Highest Score in Class: 16,13/20.
Lowest Score in Class: 6,47/20 (would REALLY hate to be him!).
Personal opinion: French is for me a pointless, illogical and needlessly complicated language. Whoever invented this language should be shot in the head (along with the guy that made Ping-Pong). Unfortunately, me already being English doesn't help matters one bit, and its a miracle if I get more than half the score in a Grammer Test. Not really one of my high points is it?

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History: 18/20.
Teacher: Mme Carre
Comments: 'Excellent work! Very good understanding. Please continue!
Class average: 11,74/20 (not a good year for my Class...).
Highest Score in Class: 18/20 (me, of course).
Lowest Score in Class: 6,50/20 (OUCH!) 
Personal Opinion: Well its History isn't it? You'd hardly expect me to get less than 15/20 (hope the day doesn't come). This is a lesson were if you learn everything, you're garaunteed to get outstanding results. NO. INTELLIGENCE. REQUIRED. 


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English: 19,73/20
Teacher: M. Onno
Comments: 'Excellent mastery of his original Language'
Class average: 12,72/20 (another lukewarm Result). 
Highest Score in Class: 19,73 (again me)
Lowest Score in Class: 8,54 (I really hope this isn't the same guy!)
Personal opinion: I'm English/British. What do you expect? Its hardly even considered an effort for me!


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German: 15,50/20
Teacher: Mme Etore
Comments: 'A little drop at the end of this Trimestre. The work will win quality if Timothy is less reserved'
Class average: 16,19/20 (everyone was more or less good).
Highest Score in Class: 19,25/20 (no doubt one of the kids that redoubled last Year and already had more extensive knowledge than us)
Lowest Score in Class: 14,33/20.
Personal Opinion: I did have a bad Test at the end, and the better Tests after that one didn't count in this Trimestre so it lowered my score quite a notch. Really tough subject because there are already people in the Class that know more German than you, its a real dogfight to get to the Top I can tell you.

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Maths: 8,86/20.
Teacher: Mme Gandon-Desbois
Comments: 'Insufficient Results despite a 'constant' attention in Class. You must try to participate more and not be discouraged'.
Class average: 9,89/20 (aka piss poor).
Highest Score in Class: 15,29 (This is a guy that is crap in everything else but good in Maths...for some reason)
Lowest Score in Class: 4,14/20 (if they're still alive after seeing this result I'd be shocked).
Personal opinion: Maths has never been one of my strong points. I can't even bloody work a calculator, let alone write down calculations on a piece of paper! I admit that there was a point mid-way through the Trimestre when I just kind of 'gave up' on Maths. Lately it has picked though, I've had a string of 15-16s/20 so I can assure you that already my Results are getting better.


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S.V.T: 13,75/20.
Teacher: Mme Gandon-Desbois.
Comments: 'GOOD TRIMESTRE!' 
Class average: 12,14/20.
Highest Score in Class: 17/20.
Lowest Score in Class: 9,50/20.
Personal opinion: S.V.T has always been a lukewarm subject for me, and I can't really pinpoint why. My Tests are generally less polished than that of my other lessons and it just doesn't really interest me...I'll continue to try hard though.


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Science: 16,20/20 (my highest score yet!)
Teacher: M. Begoc.
Comments: 'Very good Trimestre. Timothy does very serious work indeed. Continue.'
Class average: 12,27/20 (again, lukewarm).
Highest Score in Class: 19,30/20 (I struggle to believe this, I must find out who this person is so that I may smite him/her).
Lowest Score in Class: 6,15/20 (piss poor).
Personal opinion: Science is probably the lesson that I bring out my 'A' game more than any other. History and Technology are all easy, but its in Science that I am truly proud of. Overcoming Science Tests are like slaying a Dragon in my mind.


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Technology: 17,50/20.
Teacher: M. Bastide (yes, you heard the name right, Bastide)
Comments: 'Very good Trimestre, serious work'.
Class average: 15,16/20 (no surprises there Technology is easy for everyone).
Highest Score in Class: 18,50/20 (If the Teacher didn't take away all those -1 points for presentation I would have beaten that!).
Lowest Score in Class: 10/20.
Personal opinion: Technology = Easy. What more can I say?


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Art: 15,88/20.
Teacher: M. Riallin.
Comments: 'Excellent Trimestre, the work is serious. You must continue. Felicitations!'
Class average: 12,40/20.
Highest Score in Class: 15,88/20 (me).
Lowest Score in Class: 9,63/20.
Personal opinion: I'm good in Art. Not because I'm good at drawing (the hight of my drawing capabilities are stick-men!) but because I come up with quite a few ingenious ideas (not that I'm boasting of course...). 


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Music: 16,76/20.
Teacher: Mme Jouet
Comments: 'Excellent Trimestre, Felicitations!'
Class average: 13,86/20
Highest Score in Class: 17,50/20 (ooh, so close!)
Lowest Score in Class: 7,84/20.
Personal Opinion: Music is alot like History. Learn it off by heart and you're garanteed to get a great Result. So many of these lessons require so little thought or effort, well, apart from the next one....


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Sport: 12/20.
Teacher: M. Dany
Comments: 'Altogether correct'.
Class average: 13,24/20.
Highest Score in Class: 17/20.
Lowest Score in Class: 11/20 (WHAT, NOT ME???)
Personal opinion: I am not a sport-y guy. I'm the kind of shy kid that spends all day in Bed slobbing out and playing video-games, reading Books, surfing the Internet and just doing all round geeky things!    


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Overall School Life Score (attitude in Class ect...): 20/20 (what can I say, I'm the perfect student...)


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Overall Opinion: 'Very good altogether! Although there are a few difficulties in certain lessons that you must not neglect! Tim proves that he has a great amount of seriousness and effort in his work. Continue!' - Mme Carre, Head Teacher.


'Bravo, Tim! Continue your efforts!' - Mme Philipe, Head Mistress.


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Overall Score: Well, Maths and French (and a few other lukewarm Results) did bring my Score down quite a bit, but my Overall Score of the entire Trimestre is 14,89/20! And to think the Highest Score of the Class was 15,15/20! I WAS SO CLOSE! I bet that if the Teachers were less nitpicky then I'd have topped that! Oh well, 4th place doesn't totally suck.


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Personal Opinion: Well I think 'start of the Year fever' had a few effects on the overall score, I didn't really have alot of time to pull myself back onto my proper feet. I did start to lose hope in Maths and French but Results do seem to be picking up quite nicely now, hopefully I can really bring out my 'A+' game in the 2nd Trimestre (German and Science are a bit dodgy, they could anywhere in a heart beat). But Overall I'm very pleased with the Results.

This Week In School

 
Because of Armistice day and some "other" Christian holiday the School was kind enough to let us off both Today and Yesterday. YAY! So I'm kinda in a 'mini holiday' right now which is pretty neat seen as I've only just come back from another Holiday! As much as they (arguably) overwork us you can't complain about all the Holidays. Good thing too, as Mon-Wed this week was a bit mixed overall. 

German is our first subject on Mondays, and remember that BIG Test last Thursday? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the catastrophe that was *SHUDDERS* 7,5/20 (or 15/40 either way its pretty hirendous)! My class didn't fare too well either...
I made practically EVERY mistake in the book, from spelling mistakes to bad grammer to, well everything! I EVEN GOT THE BLOODY DATE WRONG! The teacher was surprisingly calm with us, and she even gave us a second chance: we're going to have EXACTLY the same Test next week, so all I have to do is learn the corrected Test and I'm guaranteed to get a really good score. So lets just forget THAT travesty as if it never happened...
Next we had a Technology Test, and went spiffingly well (as usual), so no surprises there. The subject matter was boring though, we had to name 3 types of lamp bulbs (i.e LEDS...) and give a justification for each one (ex: LEDS don't take up alot of power but exudes alot less light ect......) so very boring but you just have to learn it and then your guaranteed a good result. After that I got the longly awaited Art Test Result: a good 15,5/20 which I think was the best in the Class! But of course Maths had to ruin it...
Although she hadn't yet corrected all the Tests, she assured us that so far, only THREE out of the NINETEEN people in my Class had a score above 10/20! She then said that she had showed the Tests to the Headmistress and, because the Results had been so atrocious that ANYONE in 4eme with terrible Results in Maths will be, as she put it: "Invited into her office, as well as being offered a place in the Homework class (after school, students who want to can stay behind for another hour doing their homework) and will stay untill they know their Maths off by heart, as the Class clearly doesn't revise enough! Also, because you refuse to work at home...you will now have a short Maths Test every day untill you get your act together!" So, as you can imagine...I was pretty much shitting my pants! We then had to write on a piece of paper why we have had bad bad Maths Results, whether or not we revise for the Tests, our attidude in Class and so on....
So as you can imagine the Maths teacher is cracking down very hard on our Class. I think in general, my Class hasn't exactly been top of the leader board on their Results. In short, I had better get my act together in Maths or I'll be stuck in Homework Class, ARGGHHH! Maths has basically become a living hell now for us!
After lunch, we had an English Test (another 20/20 no doubt), which is still the easiest thing alive.
History was mainly an entire lesson dedicated to preparing you for the big Test on Tuesday. Which was very handy, as the Teacher had said exactly what to learn, how to answer a question properly ect...
French was just doing a stack of French related-exercises and FLE pretty much the same.
So that was Monday, of course I was revising my ass that night as we had the Maths Test (I spent two solid hours alone learning Maths off by heart) and the big History Test.

Tuesday started (of course) with Maths, which simply consisted of us writting down on a piece of paper a Definition. Except she wasn't really that precise on what Definition we had to write (I can't remembeer whether she had asked for a precific definition) so I just wrote down one of (the many) I had leant the previous night. Fingers crossed that I don't get a bad Result. Cos if not...I just hate to think about it!
History was next (two Tests in a row...horay!), and I literary finished it SECONDS before the bell went! I didn't even have time to check if I had made any spelling errors but at least I knew that what I wrote was correct. Phew. No doubt she'll take a few points off for something but I know that I at least did good.
Everything else was fine, except in German we had an unusually sharp leaning curve! We have quite literary gone from learning the basics of the language to writing a full blown conversation that now has to be acted out (in front of the Class may I add) and pronounced correctly! And we weren't even allowed to use 'simple' words, it had to be a proper conversation and be at least 30 phrases long! I decided to write it in French first and then put it all into Google translate (which I have yet to do).


Wednesday was okay, in Sport we are now doing High-jump (so high jump on Wednesdays and bloody Ping-Pong on Thursdays) and was really easy because (obiously) I'm so tall and I barely had to jump (more like step) over the line! When the Teacher put the rope higher though it did get a bit difficult!


Thats Mon-Wed then. Maths is just a living nightmare now and I did make a mess out of the German Test, but overall I suppose it went well...
The end of the first Trimestre is nearly upon me, (two weeks time I think) and so far with the exception of Maths and French I think will be quite a positive report. Or at least it should be, because I've worked my ass off!