Students set for exams
activity centre, where they can have something to do and in a safe place.
I wish I had free hours! I’d like to go out on a cruise to Urupukapuka if I had a few hours.
I love healing beautiful people. It’s like you’ve done someone a great service. It’s so rewarding. Stressed teenagers, colourful sticky notes and pages of highlighted notes. It’s exam time again.
New Zealand Qualifications Authority figures show 4880 students across Northland will sit NCEA exams from November 9 to December 2.
This year 2254 are enrolled in Level 1 exams, 1783 in Level 2, 1175 in Level 3 and 122 in Scholarship exams. Two of those students are Whangarei Girls’ High School head girl Mihi Shepherd and deputy head girl Dani Kirby.
The year 13 students both took the same level three subjects this year - English, biology, chemistry, physics and statistics. They are also both sitting scholarship exams; Shepherd in English, biology and chemistry and Kirby in English and biology.
They are feeling reasonably prepared for their exams, which began on November 10 with scholarship English in the morning and biology in the afternoon.
At the time, Kirby said she is quite strong in English and biology so she felt quite prepared for them. ‘‘I’m feeling a bit under prepared for the others because I don’t get them as easily, but overall I’m feeling alright.’’
Shepherd said she likes to put sticky notes of study information all over her wall.
‘‘I find the revision books really good. The best thing for me is doing lots of questions because that’s what you’re going to get in the exam.’’
Kirby said her exam techniques are different for each subject, but in particular she likes to highlight and annotate things that stand out to her before she gets started.
‘‘They leave ‘helpful hints’ in the information in some ways. You’ve got to find what works for you but definitely don’t freak out about them,’’ Kirby said.