h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am very proud, and I'm anticipating good results for my english SATS that I did yesterday . Today is the maths SATS, which I'm not so enthusiastic about. Still, gotta be confident

I got -another- article soon to be approved - about Ed Hunter, which is Iron Maiden's PC game. Oh yeah, today and last thursday I had two Games Workshop articles approved...I can just churn these out, it's just a matter of waiting

you seem to be quite good at writing and from what i can see you enjoy it a great deal as well ....
i do not envy you with the SAT's...i remember these types of tests and must say i never liked them at all
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Yeah, they stink a bit. There's a fair amount of pressure. But once you're doing the test and concentrating on it, it's not that boring.
One thing I've noticed is that the way you get marks, if you miss a few questions then your final mark will plummet. This caught me out a fair deal with the 'mocks' (we didn't actually do any mocks, but...). You can speed through the easy questions and miss some hard ones, and then it's "s-t! I just got a Level 4!"

Guide entries...after I had my third rejection, I got the idea of what an article needs to be accepted. So if there's something I think the official guide needs, then I just write and submit it.
When I was new to the sub-editing, there were about 1200 articles waiting to be subedited. In a month or so, it's dropped to 500. Some articles are waiting just 1 1/2 weeks before they get looked at. Wow. How we've progressed...

it sounds to me as if all of you are doing a great job at viewing and either rejecting or accepting the articles i am sure the researchers are quite grateful to you all...kudos
AA

I hope they appreciate the effort we put in. Admittadly, I don't put in much - I don't need to. It's not really hard work. I just need motivation to get up and work on them - you get some really dull stuff which you -have- to accept because it's factual and stuff. I wish I could reject stuff on account of how boring it is.

Actually, I got two entries of mine that gor subbed about two HM bands: Saxon and Slayer. And if you read them, you'll find them pretty dull (cos I did).

this reminds me of a teacher i had once while still in school. i never liked things like science or history due to the fact that it was all taught in such a boring way....nothing but facts and figures. this was until one year when i was lucky enough to be in a history class with a fantastic teacher. it did not matter what the subject was it was always interesting. he had a way of bringing the past to life and make you want to dig deeper and learn more...
after spending an entire school year in his class i found that it is not the subject that is boring it is the way that it is told...if someone has the right attitude about it they can make anything interesting....you just have to be able to find a way to make the subject relate to the person who is learning it
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Which is what I am hoping I can apply to when I start GCSE German coursework next year. So far, I only know five people in my class doing German next year, and almost all the German teachers (bar one) are buttmunches. I hope I can persevere with this frame of mind - sit with my friends until I settle into the school year, and try not to stab the teacher

The start of Year 9...for about half the term at least I felt manky and bored and "this really does suck". Now, it's like an extension of Year 8, just one big game

i do hope that the foreign language classes you attend are better than the ones we had. after 4 years we could not speak the language any better than when we started the course...yes, we could congigate (sp?) the words and do all the proper sentence structure with them but when it came to actually speaking the language in a useful way well, that was another story in itself
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The trouble is, I know a fair amount of French and German, but not enough to actually talk to someone. Like, there are tons of German guys joining the site now, but I could only form about one sentance out of 100 in German for them. Unless they want to know about my eyes and what mein geheschaften are called

Overall I am much better at the written work...because I have textbook and excercise book to help me