Exams!

Cheers Balladeer, I don't think it was that important otherwise I wouldn't have complained about it until now.

Congratulations everybody! Time really has passed quickly, hasn't it? As for my own personal development, I recently accepted an unconditional offer into a post-graduate course to become a careers guidance practitioner. Looking forward to it!

Congratulations Phillips!  You can't be any worse than the careers development people at my old school.  "You're over-stretching yourself!"  No, you'd be over-stretching yourself, you muppet.  Ramble ramble rant rant.

Well done phillips!  

Balladeer wrote:

Congratulations Phillips!  You can't be any worse than the careers development people at my old school.  "You're over-stretching yourself!"  No, you'd be over-stretching yourself, you muppet.  Ramble ramble rant rant.

If it's any consolation balla the careers people at my school are excellent(well, above average at least), they got me into a programming course this week!  

Well done Phillips! Where abouts is your post-grad?

Good work, Phillips! I hope it's something you end up loving.

Had another "exam" over the last two days: a two-day residential "business awareness" course that had such delights as the "business game", in which you make a guess as to what the market is going to do and watch as the random number generator defaecates on you, and a very tedious hour-long opening talk that overran by ten minutes. Better than I make it sound, but boy am I glad it's done. (Also, the second day started at 8 this morning and finished at 1740, which is ridiculous.)

How do you reckon it went?

I don't think it even matters. We're supposed to learn stuff from the course and take it into an online test, but I aced the three practice questions they asked at the end of the second day by using absolutely nothing from the course. Pointless.  

So today I got my GCSE results Pretty pleased with them,too!
one A*, 5 A's, 2 B's and a C!!!
Did I mention I was pleased?

Congratulations! From the reaction, I'm guessing that was better than you were expecting?

Well done that duck!

Balladeer wrote:

Congratulations! :DFrom the reaction, I'm guessing that was better than you were expecting?

Yea, I wasn't expecting to fail anything but I had thought I'd get more B's than A's. Very pleasantly surprised!

Congratulations, NintenDUCK!

There are no jobs, you'll be stuck stacking shelves for the rest of your life.

http://www.myinstants.com/instant/the-price-is-right-losing-horn/

beemoh wrote:

Congratulations, NintenDUCK!

There are no jobs, you'll be stuck stacking shelves for the rest of your life.

The joke's on you because that's what I want to do anyway!

Nice work, Mr. Duck! Hopefully that leads on to the things that you want to do - what is that next step?

Back to school for A levels (french, physics, ict) then uni to study computer science if all goes to plan.

Those are good choices! I did French and Physics (with Maths and General Studies). Good luck to you!

I too will vouch for languages and physics!  Plus, whatever Phillips and Beemoh may say, the computing jobs market seems opportune enough from my corporate perch.

I've always wished I'd done Spanish instead of Physics. I liked the mechanics side of physics but I absolutely loathed waves and light. Also taking the 3 sciences and maths didn't exactly leave me with a lot of variety.

Balladeer wrote:

I too will vouch for languages and physics!  Plus, whatever Phillips and Beemoh may say, the computing jobs market seems opportune enough from my corporate perch.

Yea my careers advisor would agree with you on the computer industry being ripe for the picking. But he has a habit of desuading people from languages because he failed them when he was in school- so the rumours go anyway...

andyman949 wrote:

I've always wished I'd done Spanish instead of Physics. I liked the mechanics side of physics but I absolutely loathed waves and light. Also taking the 3 sciences and maths didn't exactly leave me with a lot of variety.

Why not become a biophysical chemist? It covers all of those!

I've tried the Bio side, I didn't get on too well. Now I study Chemistry and the physics side of that is horrible (though mainly due to the dodgy lecturers).

First of two bloody 'orrible exams today, on the topic of "Actuarial Risk Management". The course is two ring-binders' worth of material, both of which are needed for both papers, but in the exam proper I just bullshat for three hours. Three horrible hours of not really being able to feel my wrist. And there's another one tomorrow morning.  

Balladeer wrote:

Three horrible hours of not really being able to feel my wrist.