Exam Results

SSSOOOOO..... My marks for the provincial exams are........

You know what? I'm not going to bother posting my marks on the internet, especially my blog. I don't like to show off or let other people see how bad I did on my exam. So I'm just writing to tell people that I got my marks. If I want you to know, I'll tell you when you ask. Let's just say that I'm not happy or disappointed with my marks. I did better in some classes than I thought, but I also thought that I deserved a bit more credit in some other classes. I didn't know that our marks were out until 1:30am this morning. I finished watching this tv series my dad downloaded (it's such a sad ending...) and when I went upstairs I saw that Melissa's screen name was "I PASSED MATH!!" so I started to get excited. I ran downstairs to get my report card for my PEN number and ran back upstairs like a little kid. So yes, I got my marks.

Anyway, my LPI rewrite date is approaching soon. I am sort of nervous, but that's ok I think I am much more prepared than I was last time. Last time, I didn't prepare at all because SOME people told me that it was impossible to prepare for an LPI exam. Well, boy were they wrong! I could have done so much better I knew what they were looking for... Damn those people who told me it was impossible!

LPI Tutor

Ok, the first thing I would have to say about my tutor is that she's so creepy. She reminds me so much of Ms. McGregor; I didn't like her that much, but that's not the only reason why she's creepy. She is SO pale. I now understand why so many people like to tan because it IS honestly creepy to approach someone as pale as my tutor. Not just that, the way that her skin is so pale makes her wrinkles stand out more, including the huge bags under her eyes. All in all, she was a pretty good tutor although all the stuff she taught me I have already learned in grade 8. In contrast, she told me to NOT do everything I had learned in grade 12.

She told me to list the three points of the body paragraph as my thesis. She told me not to use the complicated metaphors to make it sound all deep and stuff because in an academic essay they want it straight to the point and easy to understand. Well that's easy enough for me to do. The fact that LPI markers and College/University Professors are not looking for an interesting essay was the message that I got from my tutor. The tutor said that because LPI markers/professors have to read and mark so many essays, they prefer essays that are easy to read and understand.

So now, I have to throw away all the information I learned from grade 12 and try to bring back all the grade 8 information back. That's easy enough to do. I have faith in myself that I will definitely get a 5 on my LPI essay this time.

Party?? Or Not....

Anyway, my summer's been quite boring actually. On the first weekend, my mom and my brother went camping somewhere on Vancouver Island. I didn't want to go becuz I didn't exactly have fun last year. The adults there (we go camping with my parent's high school buddies) were nice and everything, and some were really funny, but it's just not the same. Sometimes I think I would prefer staying at home than going out. So I had the house all to myself for the whole weekend. I invited Hanson over and we started building this motorcycle papermodel. It's so cool. It's still not done, unfortunately, but we're starting to see the form coming out. Also, my dad came back from Japan on Monday! The family is back together.

Also this summer, I got my right ear pierced. I always wanted to get two more piercings on my left ear. Why two piercings? Well, it's cuz I don't want them to balance out, not because I favour my left year (haha). Why do I want to pierce my left ear? Well, that's because I already pierced my right ear and also because I sorta want both ears pierced even if they're not going to be "balanced". I don't know if my dad knows yet, but he hasn't said anything. I think he's against me piercing my ears because he's always like "why would you want to put holes in your body?" But yes, I'd hate to point it out to him, so let's just have him find out for himself, because it might take longer...

My Theory

Ok. So does anyone want to know my theory and why I was debating with Melissa the night before my Physics exam? If you do, read on.

I find that the BC Education System is screwed up. In grade 12, English is a mandatory class where as Math can be optional. This is just unfair to the people who are better at Math than they are at English. The people who are good in English can avoid Math and go into courses like Literature and History and stuff, therefore, no courses would bring down their GPA (Grade Point Average). For the people who are better in Math and are not doing so well in English - like me - have GPAs that are pulled down because of English.

I'm not saying that one is more important than the other. I understand that we need to learn proper English in order to survive in this world, but Math is also very important. Without Math, who's going to keep track of your pay cheques to see if your employer has paid you the right amount? Who's going to count your change for you when you go buy stuff? Sure, you might rely on credit cards now, but trust me, everything around you revolves around Math. For example, the car your drive. The number of miles it travels before you have to fill up the gas again, the number of km/hr you're driving and how far away you are from the speed limit.

Sure, the stuff we learned this year in Math was pretty useless (Trigonometry Graphs, Trig Proofs, Conics, etc.), like when are we going to use these stuff in real life? But that's the exact same thing I can say about English this year (Post-Modernism, Existentialist, Nihilist, etc.). Even grammar and sentence structures would be more useful than this. When are we going to use this? Sure, we'll understand it, but how does this apply to life? How does this work in the business world?

So therefore, to conclude, I just want to say that Math is just as important as English. If English is going to be a mandatory class for Grade 12's, so should Math. It is unfair to Math people when they have English pulling them down; where as English people are zooming their ways through high school getting averages like 90%. It's not because I'm jealous or anything, but it's only fair. Math people are complaining. English people don't need to complain. People who are good at both won't be bothered. People who are bad at both, well, there's nothing to do about that, so too bad. But I believe that the BC Education system can be fixed.