Following on from my 1973 reports (for which I received several sarcastic comments offline) I bring you my February 1974 school reports… which appear to show little or no improvement…. indeed a worrying lack of concentration. Bear in mind these reports followed up my mock O-Level examinations, the real ones (in July) representing the kick-start I [...]
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10-23-09
January 21st 1974
“Economics -> Hard” / “Geog (Europe World) -> Hard”
The mocks continue to mock me back!
10-20-09
January 14th / 15th / 16th / 17th / 18th (Part I) 1974
• “History -> Hard” / “RE -> ?”
• “Geog (Ord Surv Brit Isles) -> Bloody Hard”
• “Eng Lit -> Easy” / “French -> Hard”
• “Physics -> Hard”
• “TD -> Hard”
The mock O-Levels continue, seemingly relentlessly
Most things seem as if they were ‘hard’.
Geography scored “bloody hard” (“No surprise there” says Mrs EFA70sTRO), whilst Religious Education was noted [...]
10-16-09
January 9th / 10th 1974
• “French -> hard”
• “Eng Lang” -> hard” / “Ad Maths -> ha hard”
Yes, I wrote “ha hard” for Advanced Mathematics.
My lack of seriousness about these exams is somewhat troubling to say the least!
10-15-09
January 8th 1974
“BACK TO SCHOOL – MOCKS BEGIN AFN” / “Eng Lang 2 -> hard!” / “Tim B gave me £2.50 for Heep Live”
For most 16-year-old kids in 1974 the start of their Mock GCSE O-Levels would be an important turning point in their life.
For me THE most important turning point in mine was that – YESSSSSSSSSSSSS! [...]
07-30-09
September 20th 1973
“Found chain” / “Got official o’level certificate”
I think this goes down as an official “good day” for me in 1973.
Not only did I find the elusive identity bracelet, but I also collected the official certificate proving I had already passed my Maths O-Level a year earlier than many of my peers.
In an occurrence that I [...]
07-18-09
September 3rd 1973
“Got ‘ome at 11 – went to School and found GOT ME O-LEVEL!!”
Got off boat, got on train, got off train, got in taxi, got out of taxi, got in train, got out of train, got in taxi and…. home!
Then to my school to evidently found that all my hard(ish) work in my recent examinations [...]
04-22-09
June 13th 1973
“Maths Second Paper 9:00am – Quite hard but easier than mock”
Do I detect a certain cocky confidence here?
This isn’t going to end well, is it?
04-21-09
June 12th 1973
“Masses of Maths done for O-Level tomorrow”
A-ha! – so that’s why I did no revision yesterday then… I planned to do it all – “masses” in fact – today!
This kind of diary entry really doesn’t lend itself very well to commenting upon does it? Even by minutiae standards this is pretty minute. If you can [...]
04-17-09
June 8th 1973
“MATHS O’LEVEL Multiple Choice Morning 9:00am – BLUDY HARD PAPER!! Ward not at work – great!”
Uh-oh… my sure fire cockiness was not evident today, was it?
Looks like there’s a strong possibility I may have botched my chance to be a world renowned mathematician?
That’s what underage drinking does to you kids… listen to your Uncle TRO [...]
04-13-09
June 4th 1973
“‘O’ LEVELS START. Revised in evng and fixed radio so that it is wired up to record player speaker. Sue’s sister sez she’s coming bak”
A-ha…. the answer to the curiosity surrounding my ”saga of two weeks from now begin” comment can now be revealed.
I was referring to the start of my O-Levels, specifically my (being taken early) [...]
11-01-08
January 16th 1973
“2nd Maths Mock o’level – BLOODY hard” / “After two weeks of solid revision, had to do piles of copying up” / “Got Quid for Focus ticket” / “Got Tarkus tape back from Precision”
A diary entry that has made me both remember AND forget things in equal quantities.
Firstly, conveniently forgetting that my Maths mock was [...]
10-31-08
January 15th 1973
“Found out that I’d got 26/60 right in multiple choice. Calculated that this was 48.3 recurring %”
Do you detect a certain element of irony in today’s diary entry regarding the results of my mock Maths O-Level?
Bloody smart-arse
