So far, I have done the Economics, Religion and English CSSA trials. Overall, I thought that the questions were fairly easy. I still failed because I'm a frigon stupid idiot, but the questions were ordinary. Anyone with half a brain should be able to pass them.
I DID NOT PASS English Paper 1. First of all, my creative writing is shitehouse. I could not make up a story to save my life, even though it was like the easiest creative writing question in the bloody world. Secondly, I couldn't remember any of my notes on Physical Journeys. I forgot all my quotes from the Skrzynecki poems and I couldn't remember specific examples used in my own texts. All I can say is THANK GOD for "the road not taken". Robert Frost is a legend for writing such a short and easy poem to remember.
Economics is my kryptonite, and religion is my strength. They were on my second day (we all do the catholic timetable don't we?). I studied a bit for religion the week before, and read over stuff on monday night, but I decided to go over the 70 pages of notes I had written for economics, as it was the morning exam. But,
I almost had what I would consider to be the biggest breakdown of my life that morning. I have never been that nervous, stressed or panicky about an exam before. I had read through everything and my head wasn't keeping it in. I got into the exam and wanted to die...I had read info on EVERY single question in that paper and I still couldn't answer the questions properly. I was absolutely devastated about it, despite the fact it was a lot easier than I expected. Economics is the subject I try hardest at, and is the subject that I most want to go well in, and my marks have been consistently sliding.
So anywho's, that afternoon was the religion essay and I was so upset about economics that I didn't bother to read over my religion notes. I was ranked 4th in the grade for religion, my rank will probably go down to 30th or something. And my teacher even said that I would get a band 6...how wrong she was... But it's not like it was a hard paper though. Pretty standard in my opinion.
I'm not sure about English Paper 2... I didn't study for it apart from reading over essays and assignments from the year, and I didn't even do that properly because English doesn't count at all towards my assessment, but I didn't find it that difficult. I didn't realise I needed 2 supplementary texts for Module C though!!! And my time management is awful. Despite not knowing what I was talking about, I wrote nearly 7 pages for module a and it took me an hour!! Aaarrgghh, that's when I started to panic. Module B, which is the one I'm best at, only took me 35 minutes and I wrote probably 5 and a bit pages. Module C, which I left last because of the not enough texts issue, was not completed. I wrote nearly 4 pages on it and I didn't really answer the question. I just couldn't be bothered. the room was hot and I felt sleepy... so, yeah, um...the questions were alot easier than I thought for all of english, but paper 2 was especially easy (that's my opinion though, I'm just better at them than I am at bloody "Journeys").
