This Tuesday the exam particaipants is 1 grade of Norewgian upper secondery school was anounced. At my school only thirty or so students in 11th grade were announced as such, and they where my entire class. Seeing how we are the Pre-IB (a course which prepare the students to take IB, an international school system that is more challenging then the Norwegian) we were not surprised to be picked (even though the participants are picked totally random). Although most of us were not surprised, we'd rather have the opportunity to skip this exam and just participate in the oral examinations this summer. The traditions are that we are given all the information that is relevant for the exam, except the preparation sheet, on this day. We were told that we should be as focused on our selves as possible because they wanted us to do our very best at the exam and be as well prepared as we can be, and they said they would do everything they could to help us. However, today, our preparation day (exams tomorrow :s) we were first given a room on the floor above the office. This room had no computers, but that's okay because there were some practical information we had to go through first. But then we were thrown out of this room because someone had lessons there. We got another room, and this room had a few computers, but not enough for the whole class. Just minutes after we had gone through the sheet and asked question as to what this meant we should prepare for, we were thrown out again! The head of teaching at our school had reserved two computer rooms and made all the arrangements for us so that we may work as efficiently as possible, somehow this arrangement had gone by unnoticed by the teachers, and we were thrown about as ping pong balls. We have exams tomorrow and the outcome will account for half our grade in English. I for one, believe that we should be prioritized, and given a room where we could study and prepare us self for our upcoming exam. Our English teacher had a class this morning with her other English class and she chose to teach this lesion and then come and help us with our preparations. Though she didn't know much, seeing how our year (90) we are the first students in the new curriculum that are given the written exams. Wouldn't you prioritize the class, who has an upcoming exam? Even the head of teaching at our school wasn't given adequate information. Many would agree that not even the ministry, who composed this new curriculum, know quite what they are doing. I've grown used to be shuffled aside to make room for others, but when it is my and my fellow students' examination on the line, I'm not about to be shuffled aside for the good or convince of others. Before the exam I expect the school and the other classes who don’t have an upcoming exam to make room and back of! We should be helped and guided as much as possible and receive the goodwill of everyone else. And they could to be treated as ping pong balls in stead! I just needed to get some of the rage, frustration, and annoyance out of my system so that I may rest at ease before the examination tomorrow, which it seems everyone else, has forgotten all about.
Absolvo amitto, amplus brevis: Semper mea.
