What if I told you… you are allowed internet access during your exam?
As the title asks… what would you say? Well, believe it or not this may very well become a reality, at least according to OCR exam board chief Mark Dawe based on his comments on a BBC Radio 4 programme – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32531820. He argued that when students are taught in the classroom, students automatically resort to […]
SATs… GCSEs… do they really matter?
The age old question of whether these ‘earlier’ examinations really do have an influence on the outcome is one I’m still not sure I have an answer to. I’ll always own up and admit that as things stand right now, with me having finished my second year of University that I safely hold the opinion […]
As promised… how I approached my exams
So as promised in my last blog post, I said I’d talk about a few techniques I used both last year (during my first year) and this year to tackle my exams. Past Papers – This one seems a bit obvious, but I find that past papers give a great indication of how much you’re […]
It’s over… finally!
I finished exams last Friday… HOORAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It honestly seemed like a month that would genuinely never end and unfortunately as a result of how hectic my schedule has been I was forced into putting revision over writing my magnificent blog posts 😛 But don’t worry, I’ll make sure I make up for last month and […]
What the future holds…
Hey guys, So this blog post is going to cover what my future (and resultingly the future of this blog) will hold. After I finish exams (will be done by 1st June), I won’t be getting a summer holiday as I will be doing a year in industry and working as a web developer at […]
Side effects of stress
I admittedly suffer badly from stress & anxiety. My friends always tell me that they always try to stay away from me when they notice I’m angry & under pressure (which tends to happen a lot when deadlines are lurking). However, It’s not something I like to hear. I laugh and smile about it and […]
Flippin’ heck that went fast!
Well, who would’ve guessed it? The second semester exam period is almost among us and it seems like yesterday I just walked out of the exam hall for my last exam of the first semester. People say time flies when you’re having fun – make of that what you will, in student terms. On another […]
From the drawing of stick men to the inside of a single core processor to space invaders?
The main aim of this blog post is to give you guys – the readers – a little bit of insight of what my second year has consisted of so far. I started off my second semester learning about use case diagrams as part of a software engineering module. I think it’s safe to say […]
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