I effed up bad.....

[25thhour]

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Is it possible that the grading rubric for the written portion involved things that nobody was informed about in specific?

Losing that much on multiple choice doesn't seem to be realistic here, so either the grading on the written portion was wtfomg or they ****ed up across the board somewhere.

Either that or its hard-curved and the graders are just tightwads.

It says on our test what each portion is out of.

The multiple choice was only worth 15% of the overall grade of the test.

I believe it was the graders.

[Hazelle]

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EDIT: Ugh sorry for that awful post.


I hope your test gets fixed!! I'm sure it will - if everyone did bad, there's definitely something wrong haha.

[Reincarnate]

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What I mean is do you know what the guidelines/goals were for the written portion? I.e. was it just graded on overall quality or were there specific things you had to mention/talk about?

For instance: "Write an essay on X and its effect on A,B, and C" and you write a fantastic essay all about X and maybe its effect on A and B but practically nothing on C.

Any sort of "checkmark guidelines" that could have slipped past everyone's radar in some way.

[Ksl33zy24]

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I have no idea what the OP said.

[25thhour]

Re: I effed up bad.....

What I mean is do you know what the guidelines/goals were for the written portion? I.e. was it just graded on overall quality or were there specific things you had to mention/talk about?

For instance: "Write an essay on X and its effect on A,B, and C" and you write a fantastic essay all about X and maybe its effect on A and B but practically nothing on C.

Any sort of "checkmark guidelines" that could have slipped past everyone's radar in some way.

We had to compare two passages about love using quotes, Analyze an essay on road maps, and write an essay on something (Cant remember).

[00Razor00]

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ur life is ruined

[Coolboyrulez0]

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ur life is ruined

his life is in ruins because of one test :'<

[A2P]

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ur life is ruined

nerd's gon' be flippin' burgers forever yo

[Evnoir]

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I've heard of bad years with the English provincials, but I've never heard of one this bad.
There has got to be something wrong on their side...

As far as scholarships go, as long as your other marks are high A's, it shouldn't really matter for the external scholarships since they are more centered around the community/extracurricular component rather than the grades component.
Passport to education is also free cash if you've been doing well in school.
You'll also be able to get the Graduation Program Examination Scholarship, assuming you took 3 other provincials/AP exams.
For the internal and provincial ones, well, damn son. It'll be tough, but it's still possible if you write a looooooooong essay on why you deserve it.

Also, what program do you want to get into?
Honestly, a B in English isn't anywhere near as detrimental as you think it is.

Just keep your head high.

[devonin]

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There are things about those tests as simple as "You were given this much space to write this many words" and if you wrote too little you got a horrible mark, and if you wrote outside the provided space, everything you wrote was disregarded and you got a horrible mark.

[Zageron]

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25thhour, as we are both in BC I can be sure of the fact that we have done a similar English 12 final.

I am by no means an A student, and I received a 90 (iirc) on my English final 2 years ago.
If you are as good as you say, they ****ed up. Don't light on this issue unless it is proven that you did poorly, in which case rewrite that test asap! The BC English 12 finals have never been difficult, and my class had a few people who received poor marks due to Government mistakes.

[25thhour]

Re: I effed up bad.....

25thhour, as we are both in BC I can be sure of the fact that we have done a similar English 12 final.

I am by no means an A student, and I received a 90 (iirc) on my English final 2 years ago.
If you are as good as you say, they ****ed up. Don't light on this issue unless it is proven that you did poorly, in which case rewrite that test asap! The BC English 12 finals have never been difficult, and my class had a few people who received poor marks due to Government mistakes.

I am as good as I say. haha.
*Conspiracy alert*
The government knows how smart this Graduating Class is so they are attempting to screw up our futures so we don't overtake all of their jobs.

[wwwJ4mmYcouk]

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One test result won't mess up your future.

Don't let it get you down. You don't need qualifications to do well in life. Don't get me wrong they help but if you are intelligent you'll do well.

[Cavernio]

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In an attempt to make you feel better, if you are no longer able to get any scholarships due to 1 bad mark, seems like the scholarships you were hoping to get were crap anyways. Honestly, 1000$ is what, a month of min wage work?
I mean, if you're not getting a millenium scholarship of 10k...yeah, that sucks, but not the end of the world. Again, the grand scheme of things, if you graduate university and get a 50k a year job, even 10k really isn't that much. If recent graduates live like students until their loans are paid off, they'd get paid off in a year and people wouldn't have these huge debtloads of student loans and mortgages and kids on the way.
If your parents aren't wealthy, the canada student loan program has really low interest rates that don't start calculating until like 6 months after you graduate. Also, my last 2 years of school the National Student Loans center figured my financial need was high enough to actually give me some money as a bursary; ie: I didn't actually have to pay it back. Also, I've known a few people whose enormous students loans have been forgiven, or at least portions of them. Like, if it takes you over 10 years or something to pay them off, they just give up. You can also get interest relief even after you've graduated.
As to getting into the school you want, there's a few things. 1. Schools admit people with overall averages in the 70s-you're obviously over that. 2. The quality of your education depends more on individual professors and individual programs than overall schools; there's always things you really know when you apply. 3. Bigname schools tend to be in expensive cities anyways.

Also, unless you're planning on going into an arts program, they shouldn't care about your english marks anyways. Anything like computer science or engineering or physics or math, they don't care if you can write. I mean, if people with barely passable english are students in those fields (oh, and profs with barely passable english), you *should* have nothing to worry about.