Mechanics. I understood it before, but just some of the problems that we were doing to do with projectile motion took me a while to figure out the answer. I think I know it better than everyone else in my class now.

I had that moment last year in physics doing nuclear physics. Was the best feeling. And then i conveniantly forgot about it before exams

We only touch on nuclear physics this year, I think we might go more into it next year though. I reckon I'll keep doing physics, it's actually pretty fun (but maybe that's just cause I have the awesomest teacher in the whole school).

I'm really rusty on Mechanics. Acoustics and Electronics was my strong point. All those fulcrums and levers seemed kind of superfluous when you could just blow shit up anyway.

Nuclear physics had some good points, but my teacher for it taught the whole class in chinese because there were only three white people in the class and they "didn't matter". What a cunt.

My teacher is possibly the coolest person in the school, great to talk to about anything and I'm good mates with her son, but as a teacher she barely did any teaching.

Reminds me of one of my religion teachers.

I don't think we get to do Acoustics and Electronics this year :( we only do the really basic things. That's soo stupid about the Nuclear Physics thing! Dumbest reason ever.

My Physics teacher just manages to make his teaching really fun. He's so good at explaining everything, and we write quite a few notes, but it doesn't feel like we really do any work.

How did your exams go by the way Benjo?

WFMB: finished a big clump of assesment

His reasoning was that we were going to fail anyway so there was no point. #-o of course we'll fail if you teach the course in another language. I couldn't learn Physics in German, let alone Chinese. But we worked hard through the textbook and tutoring and passed :lol:

Electronics and Acoustics are (IMO) the two most rewarding branches of physics. It's so easy to demonstrate the theories you're talking about in a classroom and you can get really elaborate without needing a particle collider or a degree in Architecture.

Electronics theory can be incredibly dense, but when you get it all together and build an amplifier or something it's awesome.

Ugh my religion teacher is the worst. If you don't agree with what she thinks, then you must be a bad person and you're going to hell. She's so preachy.

WFMB: Our science teacher was covering for our maths teacher, and, even though he wasnt a trained maths teacher he managed to explain the workings a lot better than our usual teacher.

I think Physics in English can be confusing enough :lol:

That sounds pretty awesome, I love doing experiments and all that practical work. I reckon I can understand things better when I can see what I'm trying to figure out.

I find this with my Physics teacher :lol: since what we're doing has quite a bit of Maths and rearranging formulas and all that it's actually helping me to understand Maths better!

I love our religion teachers. Both know that not all kids are interested in their subject, so they don't make it a compulsory subject. We have four days a year (plus a camp in year 12) which is dedicated to beliefs and values course. That's it, no forcing of people to accept their beliefs. Plus, one of them is my running coach, and the other one is my form teacher and a part-time stand up comedian.


Well, English and History was fine. Japanese speaking went ok. Then i got violated physically by Maths and Japanese, which i'm sure i failed jap, and then media went ok (but I'm pretty much guaranteed an A in that).

WFMB: My mate's fb status. "Until today, I did not know that an exam paper could physically morph into a fist, and then go on to rape my anus. "

Edited by benjo: 10/6/2011 03:49:56 PM

That's the problem with Physics though, you can't really SEE what you're talking about. Electrons, protons, etc. Still probably the best subject you can do if the teacher's good.

Well, stuff like Mechanics he shows us all these youtube clips for, explaining different things (lots of Mythbusters too :lol: ) . Even if it's just drawn diagrams it's good for me.



You do speaking in your exams :O ?!
Maths in Australia is really really hard apparently. My friend who moved back there had to get a tutor, but she still can't catch up so now she's dropped down to the level below because she was only getting about 55% .

All second language subjects require you to dow a written and oral exam for Years 11 & 12.

I don't really know anything about the Australian format for exams, so do you have the written and oral as separate exams?
Over here we get all our marks for speaking assesments for languages throughout the year internally.

Cash for marks :-k

When I did german you had two oral and for internal written tests before the end of year exams where you did an oral and written exam with an external examiner which was weighted 40-60 for your end of year mark.

Wow, no pressure for those externals.
We have all of the speaking and half of the writing assessed internally, so then in the external exam we do a small writing section, along with listening and reading exams. But then we work off credits, not percentages or overall marks.

You did German?

Is it true that Die Bart Die in German is "The Bart, The"?

Sort of. Because Die Bart Die would be a noun, they'd read it as english and leave it as is. If you were to take it as being in German, 'die' is the female nominative 'the', so you'd be calling Bart a girl.

My speaking exam this semester was based on the question "drinking coffee in the town square is a normal activity in France; what is the equivalent in Australia? Is drinking coffee a normal pastime?"

My answer then included the Snowy Hydro Scheme, Nazi Germany and the phrase "meat pies, beer and TimTams".

#-o

It's have to be Der Bart Der IIRC?

Ja. Das ist korrekt. But I think a little would be lost in translation :lol: "The Bart The" doesn't have the same connotations.

Ich mochten eine trikot, bitte.

Auf English bitte, die anderen konnen sie nicht verstehen.
[size=1]In english please, the others can't understand you[/size]
Wir darf nicht Joffa verboten sie.
[size=1]we don't want Joffa to ban you[/size]
Oder mich :lol:
[size=1]or me[/size]

I thought about that the other day: if KiwiChick and I were chatting in French, is that against forums regulations, or is it okay because it's not an "ethnic" language?

I don't think there are any 'ethnic' clubs that are french. German is a no-no because of Heidelberg United :lol: