Done Last Exams

Let me walk you through today…

First Aid/CPR at 10am. SO HOT. we had maybe 3-4 breaks including lunch. Maybe two 15 minute breaks, and one 1 hour lunch break. Maybe it was three 15 minute breaks, i don’t remember. But got through the first 8 hours of training realizing I had no notes to study for my Children’s Lit course coz I left 80% of my notes at my future house… dangs… I shake my fist at the one who might be laugh at this.

Anyways, finish about half an hour early. So I go to the library to do last minute cramming of memorizing authors and main characters… which actually ended up failing at. I forgot one author’s last name and another main characters name. Hopefully I just lose part marks for that… common english! part marks please!

The children’s lit exam actually requires a lot of strategy:
Part A Question 1 => choose 5 out of the 8 passages and state full author and title + character  who spoke it and who else was involved
Question 2 => Out of the 5 passages picked in Question 1, Pick 3 to elaborate on any themes, important developments that occurred from this passage, etc. You cannot use any of these books for Parts B or C

Part B
Pick two out of the five short answer questions to answer. You cannot use any of these books for Part C.
It basically made you compare 2 books that had a similar theme to it. I chose comparing the use of clothes in Cinderella and Peter Rabbit, and comparing the values that were in Treasure Island and the Story of the Treasure Seekers.

Part C
Pick 1 out of the 5 essay questions.
I chose to talk about how authors use death in children’s books and why they do it. I used Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, White Jade Tiger, and Briar Rose.

So you basically couldn’t reuse books that were used elsewhere in the exam. Which means you had to go over the whole exam first and pick and choose the right combination of books that would be the best fit for each question and give you the highest mark. Of course because I didn’t read every book, my choices were limited. Parts A and B had set books while Part C was choose any 3 books of your choice to compare. I enjoyed strategizing… mostly because it worked and I actually finished my exam this time. I couldn’t finish my mid-terms coz I just wasn’t used to the style. I didn’t expect much out of this exam. I went in pretty hopeless, but came out pretty hopeful. All I can do now is hope that the exam mark doesn’t make me hopeless again.

Overall I am pretty satisfied with the exam. It went ok. I could’ve done better, but I did my best and it all worked out. Yays. =)