HPAT Results & Maths Pre!

It's Wednesday and thank God for that! Meaning for me, only one more day of school! (Yup, I've got Friday off!)

HPAT Score

I got 141. Yeah I'll admit I wasn't too pleased with that!  I was hoping for a minimum of 150. But I guess that's just how the cookie crumbles! I guess there's always next year! 

Maths Pre

Today was so intense! I had to do a paper one in the morning, one hour break, and then paper two. 

It sucked that it was so intense, but I'm really happy I did it.
I mean the layout of the leaving cert. is sort of the same; exam, break, exam. So I guess this was a good preparation for it. 

As for the exam itself, I'd like to say that I did well and it went great but I guess we won't know for sure until I get the result. IT's strange because whenever I think I did bad in an exam, I usually succeed in it and visa-verse. SO I'm not sure what that entail for this exam. I'm happy with it. I knew what I was doing for the majority of the question (well at least I think I knew what I was doing), only two part C's gave me a slight mind-fuck. 

In regard to paper two. WHAT THE BLOODY FRUIT was that! The first question of section A, could not do it at all! IT was suppose to be simple probability but I was just like - WHAT?

I also ended up spending like >15mins drawing a scatter plot diagram, having another 1 full question and a half of section B to be completed. 

At that point I didn't believe I would have enough time to complete paper two. Low and behold, my teacher announced that we had 20 minutes remaining, just as I started the last question.

Whether I was on an adrenaline rush and felt fantastic or whether I was just trying to put something down for the last five parts of the last question, I don't know. All I know is that I managed to finish the exam with five minutes remaining.I felt at the time, that the trigonometry questions were a breeze. 

I'll have a good laugh to myself if I get all the trigonometry questions wrong after thinking it was a breeze. 

Special thanks to our maths teacher, Nolan, who supplied the class with delicious lollipops as we approached the end of the exam. 

As for tonight, if I attempt to look at a maths book, I may just trow up. 

Brain is melting. Need to smooth it out with a little bit of 'The Big Band Theory', which is actually about to start. Gotta go!  

#Also received CAO letter today for my statement of course choices and stuff. But that's another post!

HPAT Part 2: Where are my results?

According to the Hpat website, the results were due towards the end of April. I don't mean to act all crazy and suspicious but what is going on there?

Kinda makes you thinks if the results didn't match up to the standard bell curve?
If the standard deviation is too big, what will they do to adjust the curve?

Anyway that's just my little hypothesis on what's going on in there.

According to my friend, they have just postponed the results until Monday because of the orals. IF that is true, cheers HPAT people, I guess I could imagine some people going into depression over it and just not even trying in their orals then.

But even so, I hear the HPAT is going to be axed out within the next year or so. & even if you don't get the result you wanted, you can always try again? Why not? You've got nothing to lose! If a career in medicine is really what you want then you'll stop at nothing!