Latin GCSE

Just finished my first sat GCSE examination of this year. It was the easier Latin unseen paper and it was amazingly boring. I had jut before it my final module of the Institute of Language French course which was a speaking exam which I did jointly with Jonny Wong about the café bombings during the Algerian War of Independance. My Latin exam was so easy that I had 30 minutes of the 1 hour 15 minute paper free. During that time I didn’t go as mad as I have done in exams before. The worst I got was closing my eyes imagining I was somewhere else and then opening my eyes and expecting to turn up somewhere else and when I tried to speed up time by concentrating on it very hard.

I have decided to keep track of the wasted time in exams so here is the beginning of my table:

Exam

 Length of Exam (minutes) Time wasted (minutes) Percentage of exam wasted
Latin Easy Unseen 75 30 40%
GRAND TOTAL 75 30 40%

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  • THIRTY WHOLE MINUTES!! You truly are a genius, Will. Also, your spelling of "beginning" reeks of manly boldness!
  • that latin paper was a bit of a joke. i finished so much earlier than it ended and sat wondering if i'd missed a page or something.
    i've got two more latin gcses tomorrow.

    good idea keeping track of wasted time. it might give me something to do during that time.
  • J
    ye was that d 1 bout poisoing britannicus or sumthin? i don't go 2 a private skool tho, i did the course in only 2 yrs at my comp so thats prob y i found the papers quite hard.
  • so how did you get on?
  • I never did end up keeping track on that table. In the end I got 9 A*s, an A in Latin and a B in English Lit.
  • ola
    im polish an i gt an A in latin literature - in year 10
  • kiz08
    im doin latin basic lang paper in a few hours - so scared
  • kiz08
    ne1 gt any tips for ne of the latin papers
  • J.L.
    Lol I wasted half an hour building a pen tower. It wasn't a patch on the amazing one I built in the latin mock, but it kept me entertained.
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