Seven down, three to go

Oh I can smell it. I can smell the freedom. Just three more Leaving Cert exams and I’m a free man, ready to go abuse my body in celebration of finally freeing myself of the burden that’s been on my shoulders for the past two years.

Had Irish Paper Two today, which I expected to be my worst so far. I was probably right. It was all very, meh. I was prepared for some aspects and managed to get a few decent points down on the page. For others there was some serious ‘grade A’ fertiliser coming out of my pen and onto those pages. Still, a page of manure is better than a blank page.

I’ve never seen so many people leave an exam so early. Honestly, people leaving after half an hour. Even if you know nothing about the poems/prose, make something up! I was pretty tired towards the end of my exam and wanted to skip a poetry question as I hadn’t studied that particular poem in any detail. But I had plenty of time, so grabbed a wine gum, had a sip of water and ploughed on, getting a good page and three-quarters out of something I was going to skip. If it’s utter tripe, then so be it, but I’m bound to pick up some marks. I left early in the end, but was among the last 20 people left in the hall, and I had completed all questions in a timely manner. The Irish exam papers have way too much time allocated to them, which is particularly frustrating because in History I have a limit 35 minutes to write an essay of minimum three pages (then do this three times = sore hand). What’s the story there SEC?

Anyway, French and History tomorrow. French is usually an okay exam, it’s just the Aural that can be tricky. I was an A student in French for my Junior Cert, and while I doubt I’d get an A in the LC, I expect to do decently. My oral exam (exactly two months ago) went quite well, so I’m off to a good start.

History is a daunting prospect. Last night I joked I had to go learn an entire language in the course of an hour for my Irish exam. Well tonight I have to go and learn the history of the world and practice writing about it at a ridiculously fast rate. The only way (realistically) with history is to gamble and study certain topics/essays and hope they get asked, so tonight I’ll be narrowing down those topics and reading/learning/writing essays in the hope that I’ll get lucky tomorrow. So far I’ve been lucky enough with these exams, particularly Geography (see two posts ago or today’s Irish Times for my say on that ), so let’s hope it continues.

Au revoir mes amis. And always remember : Pamplemousse.

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