This Week In School: Tests, Tests And More Tests!

Well, it's the end of 'Test' Week, and what a Week its been. 13 Hours of Revision (in three days), some shock surprises, an aching hand and 10 Hours of Tests later and you have this Week. Its been tough, I can tell you:

Monday wasn't a bad Day all things considered, although the German Teacher was STILL absent, so we had to endure yet ANOTHER hour of Permanence. Science was okay, a bit boring but the Teacher was kind to us and shortened our workload for the Epreuves Communes (which already was the size of a mountain). Art was fun, he showed us a movie clip of two men talking to each other on a Telephone (with the sound off) and then told us to imagine what they were saying. Next Week we're going to implement our Dialogues into the clip using some Computer mastery. Some of our imaginary conversations got really inventive (I just on-the-spot created the idea that the man was phoning the police because he had found an alligator in his back yard! Talk about random! Anything goes, I suppose), from flu-vaccines to alien invasions to murders to even world domination! Maths went really well, I got everything right and for the first time I actually enjoyed it! Who would have thunk' it? Which was a surprise, because last Week was just so, so horrible! I suppose even Maths has its days... 
The Afternoon kicked off to a boring edition of Civic Education, followed by a face-palming French and a fun edition from everyone-loves English (I think the English Teacher is just renowned for his greatness in this College now, which is a shame because M. Onno was good too). 

Tuesday was the-calm-before-the-storm day, everyone felt the oncoming blizzard of Testing. A lot of Class-top boffins came into School with bags underneath their eyes, no doubt due to late night Revising (I was still holding revision back at this moment in time, apart from a few hours I had spent on Sunday). Maths was back-to-boring (I still got everything right though), Education Civic was STILL endless drivel (it basically amounted to us writing pages and pages on freedom of rights, liberty, constitutional documents and all that boring stuff) and French was copable this time, we wrote a description about one of our Classmates (face, personality, clothes...) and then had to look up a ton of adjectives in the dictionary (definitions of stuff like 'Pacifistic', basically words which you wouldn't use in real life so a bit pointless) and draw their face. It felt more like Art to be honest. As long as the subject doesn't go back into Grammer territory I should be fine. 
English was again fun on Tuesday (just applying the finishing touches to my 'trip to London' diaporama), German was once again non-existent (I think it has been replaced by Permanence now on our planning boards) and Extra Maths was a big bore until Mme Philippe (our Head) walked into our Class with some SHOCKING news: *TAKES A DEEP BREATH* Well it turns out that all is not well in the College after all, as Mme Philippe has C-A-N-C-E-R. Yes, thats right...our Headmistress has C-A-N-C-E-R! Ouch. Never saw that coming, no wonder she's been a bit on the angry side these past few Weeks. She left our School on Tuesday night, so she could start the 'Treatment' procedure AND she has handed the keys to the School over to Mme Rouxel, my previous English Teacher (the one before M. Onno). I couldn't believe it, and the worst thing was that the French just went back to talking normally as if IT NEVER HAPPENED. Hello? Our Headmistress has just walked in saying she has a serious case of cancer and she's leaving the School due to her treatment, and she's being replaced by a Teacher?! DOESN'T THIS SHOCK YOU IN ANY WAY? YOU'RE JUST GOING TO FORGET ABOUT IT? And to make matters worse, the next Day was the start of Les Epreuves Communes, THE BIGGEST TESTING EVENT EVER APART FROM THE BREVET! AND I HADN'T REVISED FOR ANY OF IT YET! THIS IS ALMOST TOO MUCH TO TAKE IN! Tuesday night was just a blur, I think I snapped at around 7pm and just didn't stop revising til' 12:30! I actually went to sleep with the History book still clutched in my hands (I also remember dreaming about meeting Louis XIV, which was weird...he spoke in a cockney accent)! Talk about pressure, I just has to sort of 'Zone' out and 'Become One' with the lessons. Find my inner Revision 'Zen'. Probably experienced an epiphany as well. And so started my inner collapse into madness...or not.

DAY ONE:                 
      
Wednesday. The 12th. Four Subjects. Four Hours. Four Tests. My legs almost failed me walking into School. It didn't help that the day had gotten off to a bad start when I woke up with literally fithteen minutes to get to School, CRAP! Breakfast was gorged in seconds. I didn't have time to do a quick memory check (you never know, I could have forgotten everything I had learnt), and I just walked into School half-awake, half a complete and total mess. Which, wasn't really necessary, looking back at it. The first Test was History. Remember how I said that the Teacher would choose one subject (out of History and Geography) and that I would only be Tested on one of them so one would turn out to be a complete waste of Revision time? Well it turns out that she GAVE us the OPTION of which subjects I wanted to be tested on! So I only really had to Revise for one subject anyway! Of course I chose History (I would be a fool not to) and would-ya-believe-it? I DIDN'T NEED TO POSSESS ANY KNOWLEDGE PRIOR TO THIS TEST! Seriously, I had EVERYTHING I needed in the Documents that they provided. They didn't ask me ONCE whether I knew a definition/information about the subject. So I wasted SIX HOURS last night revising my ass off for NOTHING?! WTF?! I WAS TRICKED! LIED TO! THEY'VE BEEN TELLING US TO REVISE FOR EVERYTHING WE'VE DONE SO FAR AND THEY JUST ASK US DOCUMENT RELATED QUESTIONS? OHHH I COULD JUST %$£&@!!! AND CIVIC EDUCATION WAS THE SAME! THESE TESTS MADE ME NEARLY SHOOT MYSELF OVER ALL THE STRESS AND THE PRESSURE AND YOU JUST IGNORE ALL THAT? WHAT ABOUT THE MONTH ON THE RENAISSANCE? THE BIT ON VERSAILLES? ALL THOSE STUPID LAWS AND REGULATIONS YOU MADE ME REVISE FOR? SO I REVISED FOR NOTHING!!!! At least it made for easy Testing...Of course I have no idea what the score will be, but I think I did good. S.V.T went well, as you can see below: 
   

Admittedly I didn't revise much for S.V.T compared to the other subjects but, yeah I'm happy with the Result Overall. 

This was the bit that confused me a little, you had to (with the aide of these Documents below) show how the Alpes were formed. Didn't really understand what was going on:

Its the Diagramme that throws me off, especially the 2nd one that is supposed to have taken place in the Year -100 Ma. I did seem to do something right though!

I was also given the Result of my Last surprise Maths Test (that we had on Tuesday) and it went surprisingly well:

 

 DAY TWO:

After the Underwelming Wednesday, I walked into School on Thursday feeling much more confident. Sure, I was going to fail in French, but English was a sure-fire 20/20 and I had revised all last night for Science. The two Hours of French went O.K, all things considered. They had a few Grammitical exercises that I must have slipped up on, but the rest was us studying an extract from some long-ago French fable. In a perfect world, I imagine getting 10/20 at the MOST, so anything more than that will be a neat surprise. STILL no questions on what we had learnt though, ANOTHER lie the Teachers had forced down our mouths! English was my 'break' Test, insanely easy, even for the French because It was EXACTLY the same Test that we did a few months back with M. Onno! To be honest, I kinda like this mass testing thing now, at least this way don't have to suffer through another two hours of Ping-Pong! 

Science caught me off guard. This was the first to one to actually really Test us on our know-how. I got most of them right, but I think I messed up on a few of the more problematic questions posed: So you shine a coloured light onto an Orange. The orange appears Red. Out of the light filters presented here, which ones do you need to make the Orange appear Red? Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White...and justify your choices. That one really got me. So even though Science was a bit mixed I still think that I did well. The last two hours was me practising for my Maths and attempting to play the flute in Music (playing the flute has become ANOTHER one of my personal hates). I relaxed my Revision on Thursday night, only spending an hour on Maths and two Hours on Technology.

THE FINAL DAY:

 This was the last day of Les Epreuves Communes. It wasn't at all the most stressful period of my life, far from it in fact (last Week was the most stressful period of my life) I have kinda enjoyed this Week! I mean sure I had to do alot of (pointless) Revision but the days just flew by AND we got extra playtime (over an hour more)! Plus I didn't get to do Sport, which was a big plus (next Week I've got the Test in High Jump and Ping-Pong, which is both a blessing and a curse namely because a) It will be the last I see of Ping-Pong but b) What might follow could be WORSE than Ping-Pong! I'm hoping its not Acro-gym). So the day started off with the dreaded Maths Test. Now seen as we corrected the Test only two hours later I can now say that, aside from one BIG question I got most of it right and should be expecting a 10-16/20 score (which is more than what I hoped for!). It wasn't hard, and I expect most of my Class did the same. Technology went well, it just depends on how well I did. A few rough spots here and there but I think that I could have scored highly, we'll have to wait til' next Week to get those Results though. The subjects then returned to normal after a three day halt: what followed (Maths, Civic Ed, Perm, Science and English) was just a bit trivial to be honest. And a bit boring compared to the rest of the Week. 

Well, this is the end of 'Test' Week and thankfully the School has been generous enough to NOT give us any Homework for Monday (YIPPEE!!). I've still got a German Test (if the German Teacher bothers to even show up at the School now), Music and Science Test planned for the upcoming Weeks, so alot of Revision is still cut out for me...*SIGH* They can't just leave me alone for one Week, can they? Another thing that I have rarely referenced on this Blog Post is that MME PHILIPPE IS LEAVING! I suppose compared to Les Epreuves Communes, it all seemed a bit pushed back. And she did announce it before the Bell went, so I had little time to think about it before I was thrust back into another lesson. Now, out of my Overall performance I truly do believe that, I did the BEST I could on the day. Which is what I was aiming for anyway. Now lets just hope that my best was enough because if my Results or crap then 'The Best That I Can Possibly do' means a pile a 11/20's. And that would just CRUSH me. Its weird, I kinda wish more School Weeks were like this: Bizarre, Exhilarating, Fast and not too strenuous! Bring on Les Epreuves Communes No 2!!