the impossible

I can happily say that for my birthday, I get to see the words "English Comptency: Met" on my TEE results. Well, I do know that I am competent in the English language, but thanks to evil teachers, scaling down, and a stupid 50% requirement, it didn't seem too good.

Now I am perfectly happy with my 55% for the exam, but not very happy with that in comparison to the school mark and scaling. Now, the teachers have been stressing that they will go hard on us- give us impossible questions, crappy obscure texts, negligible spoon feeding of information -in an attempt to get our marks scaled up insanely for the TEE. Now, this goes in favour for almost everyone. I've noticed a few people getting scaled up by 10%, from 81% to 91% (not that they needed it). I get average for class work- good in orals, average to bad in essays. And I get shit for exams. This all equates to a score around 50%. Now if my exam marks for literature are always around 50% or below, how the hell am I going to get scaled up? Stupid teachers, this kind of "Let's make things impossible so that students get impossibly high scaling ups" thinking does not work for people who really need the scaling up. Think of those who are right on the cut off line for the English Comptency requirements. Imagine how they would feel if they got scaled down.

My actual score... nice and averagely high. I'm not going to say any numbers, except its above 90. Good enough for commerce at Curtin. And not bad considering I was playing Gunbound, Halo, and Fallout Tactics during the TEE, and Guildwars the week before.