Exam week

So last Tuesday it finally started the first examweek of this school year. As you can probably figure out from the title during this week we do our exams from the courses we've attended in the previous period. Meaning now the courses in our first period.

I'll explain to you what the whole week is about. So as you might know one period lasts 6 weeks and after each period we have an exam week.  We have five priods so we have five exam weeks. One exam week lasts 7 days. During the three first exam weeks we have Saturday as an exam day, so that we can have a whole week off for autumn half term. 

How exam week works is that our courses are in different kind of codes and each code has it's own exam day.

As you can see from this picture we have 8 codes in which you can have courses. Each code has three lessons a week. For example as you can see code two classes are on Monday ,Wednesdau and Thursday. So on exam week the codes and exam days go logically. So code 1 exam will be on the first day of exam week, code 2 on the second thay an so on. But lets say you haven't got any course in code 3 that means you have the day off when that code has it's exam. Code 8 hasn't got an exam day  but the exam will be done on the last lesson so when exam week starts on a Tuesday and you can see that code 8 is on Monday afternoon you will be doing you test during that class.

On exam week you don't have any normal lessons. You come to school at 9am and you can leave at 12pm, but you can stay and do the exam until 2pm . At 9am you will have an revision class except if you've got a language exam or maths. If you have an exam in a language you will have your listening comprehension test from 9 till 10. And in maths the test is in two or three parts and you will do the first part at 9. So you haven't got any regular school on exam week, which is really nice because then you can focus on studying for the exams.

Now you probably want to know when you will get your exams back. So the teacher of you course will put a wilma message and tell you when and where you can collect your exam.

If you don't pass the exam you can redo the test on the next redo day. You have one chance to try to pass your exam and if you redone exam is also failed you will have to attend that course again.  You can also twice during a schoolyear try to get a better grade by redoing an exam. The better grade will be counted.

I think exam weeks are good because you can focus on the exams and you don't need to worry about homework. I'm feeling confident about this exam week hopefully I've passed and possibly got some good grades. =)

The first period is almost over

Fourth week of term was just a normal week of studying and working hard. On tuesday we had our school photos taken. =) We have already had a couple of wordtests in English and in Swedish and also I've needed to do some writing tasks. For all of these we have used our electronic learning environment Fronter, which we use for tests, asignments and sometimes the teacher puts the schedule of the course on the noticeboard in Fronter.

It's the fifth week o this period and I thought that I would tell you a bit more of me and what subjects I study and am interested in. So as you might already know I'm a second year student at Jylla. The second year is said to be the most important year of your high school time. For this year I've chosen to study more physics, chemistry, biology and health education all of these will help me in achieving my dream of being a doctor or a surgeon. I've also chosen to continue to study Russian and advanced Swedish, which is quite obvious because I speak Swedish with my dad and sister. In addition I have to take all of the compulsory courses like history, religion, Finnish, math. As you can see I'm interested in science and foreign languages, hoping to be able to learn more languages than my mum she can speak six different languages and I can speak seven but not all fluently. Oh and almost forgot to tell you that I've got a partner for vanhojentanssit and I'm very excited about that. =)

Week number three

The third week of school was the first normal week for me or almost. Because on Tuesday we had a a fire alarm and we had to evacuate the whole building. Later on that day one of our school's exchange students arrived and I was there to welcome him to the school =). Some of his classmates and I showed him around the school and got to know him a bit better.

  The rest of the week continued as normal :) It has been quite hard getting back to school routine with so much things going on and there has been quite alot of homework too. Only a few weeks left of this period luckily because my schedule for the next period is quite chill. =)

I'll finish off with a quote that one of my idols posted a few days ago and I feel like it is a good reminder to all of us to be ourselves.