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∞ graphsucks.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

“ You may start.”

- quickly flips over to the first page –

If in x over y z, x is the mass number, y is the atomic number, and z is the element, then using the graph below, which shows the decay of certain radioisotopes, answer the questions. Please read all information before answering the questions. Yabajahbawoolloomoolloo.. roflolmaowtfbbqchicken&pekingduck..

Jeez, might as well write all that in another language. At least it may be comprehensible to a small percentage of the population. Why are all Science process test questions so long and complicated when it’s giving the simplest of information? It’s so time consuming and takes me 5 minutes to finish reading the question, 2 minutes for it to sink in, another 3 minutes to re-read it as it didn’t make sense the first time round, and then another minute for the information to sink in. And there is 11 minutes gone! RAWRR..

I think I have issues with graphs. They don’t like me much.. =( I still remember last year’s process test ..

- ultimate silence / test conditions –

And then suddenly, the silence is broken by the piercing voice of non other than ..

Betty: OH SHIT!

As I realized that I plotted my graph in pen and I have plotted 2 points wrong, which is perhaps why my graph looked like it was going high and all over the place. So then I quickly snatched the TAPE white-out from Pat’s table and attacked my poor exam paper with it.

Needless to say, I failed that. TT__TT”

My next encounter with graphs came at the time of yearlies. As soon as I saw the grid paper, I gave up and moved onto the next question. But then, being the asian student I am, my hunger-for-good-exam-marks altitude kicks in and my Einstein brain had a sudden brainwave! I distinctively remember how giving a title to my graph and labeling the axis helps, so then that’s what I did. And guess what? I managed to gain 2/3 of the marks for that question. =) I am so smart.. S A M R T ..

Dayum, good times, good times.

So then, last week, as the teacher announced that we were going to have ANOTHER process test, instinctively I panicked like there was no tomorrow. As some people did it in period 5, I was quick to interrogate about the type of questions which were tested.

But all everyone said was “it’s just graphing.”

Oh thankyou. That’s extremely helpful.

And then Vinni and TOM was telling me HOW HARD IT WAS and I got scared lol ><” But then Josh said it wasn’t hard so I was like ehh ..

Then period 8 came in a flash, and this time, I was being EXTRA CAREFUL with my calculations and plotting my graphs in pencil. But then, my bad luck with graphs prevailed and I plotted the raw count rate of the decay instead of the correct count. So there I was, grinning stupidly to myself with 12 minutes to spare, and carelessly flipping through my paper until the phrase “mark the CORRECT COUNT on the y axis” caught my eye.

By then the teacher was telling us “5 minutes left ! “ and I was hardout panicking and near breaking point. ==’’’’’ So then I created world record by rubbing out my whole graph, replotting, and then changed all my other answers which were associated with the graph in 5 minutes.

Phewwwwww .. TT__TT””

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Now I am going to eat food.
Guess what I’m eating for dinner? First prize wins ..

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and we will tell you after the break.

xx.
george.