Warm weather and grass being cut outside can only mean one thing – examination time!
The corridors in my department have been littered with ‘Silence GCSE/IB exams’ for 3 weeks now seeing as the oral exams take place in my area of the building. Thankfully the last of this type of exam finished yesterday. I have witnessed students preparing for English, Polish, German, Italian, Arabic, Urdu and Mandarin. A truly international school it seems!
My school exams (a long time ago) seem to have been forgotten in a blur and I can’t really differentiate between my GCSE and ‘A’ level exams – the hall pretty much looked the same for both sessions.
I was fortunate enough to do my degree in a subject that did not contain finals – rather I had a public performance to face. I am not sure what is worse – endless 3 hours exams in a hall or a 35 minute performance that you get one opportunity to get right.
Today my IB student sat her music exam. I don’t teach music anymore, so I have had this pupil on a private basis for 2 years. 2 Years worth of work have culminated in this mornin’s two and a half hour exam. I am not allowed to see the paper until 1130am tomorrow morning….but I have just heard that the exam went ok and that the questions were good. Only July 5th will tell us just how good it was!
