Wednesday, 30 April 2008

The Mockery of the Mock Exams

GCSEs
THE PERSON THAT MAKES OCR GCSEs SHOULD HAVE AN ANGRY LETTER WRITTEN TO THEM.
Why?
Observe:
Why use percentages to show results?
Tick the correct answer:
Percentages are more scientfic.
Everyone knows what a percentage is.
There was a difference in results from each table.

Guess which one was correct...

EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT A PERCENTAGE IS! WHAT SORT OF RUBBISH IS THIS? THIS IS NOT A SCIENCE EXAM! THIS IS A NONSENSE EXAM.

After taking a OCR Mock Science Exam, there is alot left to be desired, there's no point even revising, because the questions have no real association to the information in the revision guides or textbooks in class.
Another great fault with this exam board is that the questions- as I have previously stated, are not scientfic at all. I'm sorry but at what authority can one say that 'Everyone knows what a percentage is'? Are these people so ignorant they can't even realise that there are people in the world that can't even read? Oh so they don't know what is meant by 'the cat sat on the mat' (in writing) but they know percentages. What fools!
Also, they ask us questions on things that aren't even in that part of the syllabus; at what point did we learn about 'half lives' and 'plutonium' I know these terms, but that does not mean that I can use it to calculate this, that and the other.
In addition, there are far too many of those A,B,C,D,E or F questions. There are too ambiguious to show any true answer, or true knowledge of the subject at hand. As well as that, these questions are really hypothetical, I mean, it's full of 'he thinks', 'they think', 'suggest' what ever happened to science being about true facts and definitions, isn't it about finding the 'why' about the world? Not 'what it could be'.

Now. The second paper.
HOW IS A COMPREHENSION SCIENCE?
How is a comprehension with questions that do not have the answers in the text, science?
How can the school actually manage to give around 60 girls a text booklet filled with a repeat of the question sheets?
So many questions so little ranting time, I'm going to watch the Apprentice on BBC1.

Sunday, 20 April 2008

Do You Know What Really 'grinds my gears'?

I hate shopping malls. I hate the fact that it's all fake, well in the sence that, those calming fountains and air conditioning isn't to make you feel cool whilst shopping in the summer, it's there because some 'tests' have shown that people spend more money there. The whole thing is engineered to make us spend more, it's everywhere, even the layout of a shop can decide what we're more likely to purchse. Now that really 'grinds my gears' (nicked off Family Guy) . I was in Croydon this week, and because it was the Easter Holidays for some, I saw many teen slags in the shopping mall. Now, I know what your thinking, 'teen slags'? What are these may I ask? Well, these to me, are those girls that are my age, with lots of make up caked on their faces, in 'cool' clothes and hanging around in groups with those large handbags dangling on their elbow, with their hair fried into a straight style; well either that or it's soaking wet looking a bit naff. Anyway, they hang around looking like slappers, yet they still manage to walk into those shops like, Zara and Wallis and go, 'OMG' at something dumb, like a pair of shoes at are £30 and are like stilts... It's like HELLO? THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN CLOTHES AND BLOKES! And what really 'grinds my gears' is the fact that the parents don't really care, they give their children too much money to spend. The sort of clothes in those clothes shops seem to be aimed at those who have the money to spend on clothes that prevent them from doing work, yet they still have more money than those who have to work those dreadful 9- 5 hours. At what point is this right or fair or... even able to make sence?

All in all, what 'grinds my gears' are those posh girls that have more money than sence.

N.B. I'm sure they aren't all like that... or are they?

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Working toward expected standard.

This year school holidays are just... EVERYWHERE, right now, I'm in my first week of it, the second day infact: and I am bored. Well, I've sat in my bedroom with the curtains closed for 2 days now, so what could anyone really expect? However, I've been revising for my exams, and have kept myself busy. Thanks to my little freeview box, I have been listening to brilliant music:
Madonna ft JT and Timberland - 4 Minutes
A good song, but I hate one line: 'We've only got four minutes to save the world'... I'm sorry, is this a song or a theme tune to some rubbish cartoon on at 6am on a Saturday which no body watches?
Kylie Minogue- In your Arms
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GcE5QCMksvI
So 80s , so summer like and just beautiful!
Sam Sparro- Black and Gold
Smooth and addictive! I irritated alot of people singing that, including my mathamatics teacher. " Wickeeee maybe you du nott realise how loud you are."
Kanye West- Flashing Lights
Awesome song, sounds great... shame about the video. It can't be played fully on TV, because of the murder in it... what a shame. What I don't get is how come they can't show someone being hit by a shovel, from a distance (so you don't actually see it) but they can show a woman with such skimpy lingere that when she walks; her bossoms juggle and her butt shakes... THAT IS DISGUSTING. And sexist. Yet they show that part. Click on the link below to see the video, btw, you watch it at your own discression, if you don't like it don't have a go at me or something.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-a--Pc7R8PU&NR=1

Moving off the topic of Music, my school has insisted that everyone does work expirence- when we're too young for most jobs. It is such an obvious way of avoiding having to take my year on activities week, the school's so cheap it couldn't afford it- even though we have to pay for most things anyway. The school that is supposed to be an Eco school, spends hundreds of pounds on paper that is pointlessly used, especially in Science... tut tut tut. How dumb. There's going to be a wormary at my school now aswell. Ha! The girls at my school would scream if they saw any worms! Seriously, the majority are such a stereotype.
Yeah, work expirence; I got this placement with the government, and I'm supposed to phone them to arrange and interview; weeks it has taken me to try and get through, and still nothing. Though now, the husband and wife I am to be working for 'are on holiday' for two weeks. TWO WEEKS. My mother only gets that like once a year... No wonder the government is in such a dodgy state, they keep going on holiday.

DOCTOR WHO IS BACK!!!!!!!!
And as great as ever may I add, it seems that Donner has more depth to her than trivia; and it seems that she is alot like me. Haha, if anyone saw it, the office scene was just jokes... haha "Am I interupting you?" If you have no idea about what I'm writing about, go on youtube.com, search for doctor who partners in crime, and you should hopefully find it. What brilliant writing by Russel T Davies.

Lastly, I would like to add, a cheer for those protesting about the Tibet thing. Though I think you lot should do it in a less violent way, the Olympics aren't about Tibet, they are about unity and sport. Find another way!!