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May 16, 2006 6:04:22 GMT 9.5
Post by himiko on May 16, 2006 6:04:22 GMT 9.5
Ah, I have also heard of craptacular. Excellent word. I swear quite a lot, especially around exam time.
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May 16, 2006 15:34:17 GMT 9.5
Post by EnglishWanabe on May 16, 2006 15:34:17 GMT 9.5
quote "fuck that was a craptacular exam"
fuck exams SIX weeks to go *bites nails*
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May 17, 2006 3:18:46 GMT 9.5
Post by himiko on May 17, 2006 3:18:46 GMT 9.5
Ahem. "Bugger! Exam 1 day to go!"
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May 17, 2006 5:22:34 GMT 9.5
Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on May 17, 2006 5:22:34 GMT 9.5
BEHOLD!! My new shiny!! Looook at my new siggy image *cuddles it* ;D
Thanks to Anne for the in-progress concrit!
Yay for horny Miranda!
Also, Phoebs, I played around with your siggy image and got most of the grain out of it. You want to see it? Unfortunately, the only way to get grain out is to blur, and that works well everywhere but hair. So I can show it to you if you want to see it, and you can decide how you like it better.
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May 17, 2006 22:19:14 GMT 9.5
Post by EnglishWanabe on May 17, 2006 22:19:14 GMT 9.5
THANK YOU lovey dovey i have now changed it to the one you gave me ;D exams *sings * exammmmmmmms oh where art thou exammmmmmms *stops sining* exams suck how on earth do they asses ur intelligence? please someone i'd love to know! *glares for anyone to dare raise their hand*
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May 17, 2006 23:16:41 GMT 9.5
Post by Incapability on May 17, 2006 23:16:41 GMT 9.5
I suppose exams have only been invented to make people stress-resistant at a young age and sort out the hopeless cases at an early stage. cruel world.
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May 18, 2006 11:24:40 GMT 9.5
Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on May 18, 2006 11:24:40 GMT 9.5
They assess how well you cram and then regurgitate information. That is all.
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May 18, 2006 22:18:10 GMT 9.5
Post by EnglishWanabe on May 18, 2006 22:18:10 GMT 9.5
i dont think one should have to suffer exams at all full stop...ppl dont have them in the real world....and as for cramming things into our head how is say chemical equations or quadratics going to aid me in anyway out in the real world? i'll have forgotten it by monday
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May 19, 2006 2:02:30 GMT 9.5
Post by himiko on May 19, 2006 2:02:30 GMT 9.5
Case In Point: I have forgotten all of my GCSE Science stuff. I forgot it the day after the exam.
Mind you, that's not saying very much for me- I can't even remember stuff I've said 5 minutes ago half the time. I forgot my age the other day! I am the most absent minded person in the world.
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May 19, 2006 5:44:00 GMT 9.5
Post by Incapability on May 19, 2006 5:44:00 GMT 9.5
don't blame yourself. I'v been thinking hard more than once when people asked me for my birhtday.
and I, too heard that especially in the US exams are very much about reproducing. here, the teachers are way more evil. they want us to THINK! bah! not good. we wrote a german exam about "Traumnovelle" (was turned into a film called Eyes Wide Shut), and we had to compare the main character with a main character from another book, incuding the historical background of that time. but that's not half as bad as interpreting a poem or a short story (a German short story being something different from an English short story. we had quite a hard time getting that into our heads.)
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May 20, 2006 1:20:53 GMT 9.5
Post by EnglishWanabe on May 20, 2006 1:20:53 GMT 9.5
ewwwww if u ask me most of the stuff we al learn at skl is useless i mean think of the shock most of us are going to get when we're 'released' inot society, at skl ( i dont know if its like this everywhere) but the work is so boring, usless and unchallenging, none of it sets us up for life...i mean as much as i love english i highly doubt that for my profession (whatever it may be) i will have to wrie pages and pages of analytical gobeldi goop!
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May 20, 2006 2:53:05 GMT 9.5
Post by Incapability on May 20, 2006 2:53:05 GMT 9.5
analysing stuff teaches us to see behind the fassade of things and get meanings you possibly don't find when first reading something. it teaches you to be critical.
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May 20, 2006 3:59:15 GMT 9.5
Post by EnglishWanabe on May 20, 2006 3:59:15 GMT 9.5
it also teaches us to look so deep into things that we loose the origional meaning of the text and instead siffer out things that have no relation what so ever to the story....next we'll be analysing Row Row Row Your Boat and interporating such themes as the journey of life, illusion and imagery *pft* its all a big wank off...dont get me wrong i love doing it but there comes a point where the whole meaning of the text is forgotten or has become insignificant and we're talking complete nonsense, that bares no relation to what the authour initially intended on communicating. Yes i agree there are texts that are rich with metaphor, themes, messages and so on but only to an extent. if you honestly asked come authours what they were trying to amplify when writing litrature i doubt you'd get many opinions as deep as what some ppl have established. well thats certainly true for my english class.
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May 20, 2006 4:49:01 GMT 9.5
Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on May 20, 2006 4:49:01 GMT 9.5
I think it depends on what you want to go into. I've got a creative brain, I didn't take maths in year 12, I forget everything I learned in year 10 and 11, I failed maths every year before that. I suck at logic. But not at writing. Writing is what I want to do, and it's what I'm studying. I take English at uni, I take cultural studies and media studies and related courses. If you go to uni, I guratntee you will have to write long papers even more than now. But even after that, it depends what you want to do. Analysing a text makes you more aware of how it was crafted in the first place. Learning about the meanings contained in something help you understand the kinds of messages and meanings contained within something, as well as how people make meanings and what they can take away from certain types of writing, film making, etc. Things like cultural studies help one to understand people, society, the way we make sense of ourselves and the way we culturally read things. They teach me how meaning is made, they help me to use that understanding when I put things into words. For a writer, there is no better education. I know your ambition is to script writing, Phoebe. I think you're probably benefiting from your education more than you think
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May 20, 2006 5:03:19 GMT 9.5
Post by Incapability on May 20, 2006 5:03:19 GMT 9.5
I suppose what phoebe wa referring to was this trerrible sickness called over-analysing, which is very popular with teachers and would-be-star-pupils. "They're standing on a cold floor, that means their relationship has gone cold." you can get into over-analysing very easily, and I'm quite sure that not even the most creative author in the world had all the things in mind the critics have interpreted later when he actually wrote his stuff. it's of course great if greatthings can be interpreted into a piece of work, because that means it's alive and deep, but not all those possibilities were intended from the very beginning.
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