As you may know, GYZero is going for all Insatiability completions submitted by us will be good, awesomesauce or have an odd quirk that is not very likely to be done otherwise.

This is a quirky task, I'll let you judge the good-ness yourselves.


Monday 14th January, 13:17
A group of rather annoyed 15-16 year olds sit down to yet another mock exam that has cut their lunch break in half. This time, English. Reading. Paper 2. A small group of us had just come from a particulary difficult physics lesson (one where we covered nuclear fission in a single lesson, curse exam deadlines) we were feeling both drained, bored and very tired. Not good.

So, roughly an hour and a half later, I've finished (with a rather good letter from an old woman to a newspaper) and as I'm right near the invigilators (why do they stand there, gah) and I cant mess around with pens, or doodle on my spare sheet of paper, so I was stuck what to do. I started to suffer from nodding exam syndrome. Then, I got to thinking about a good task for the weekend (Yes, I revised the task list more than the English) and this task came to mind. I still had a good 20-odd minutes left to hand, so I started trying to look at the clock, and look back a minute later, writing the results on my hand. Then I decided to investigate various other ways of doing it.

Method one: Counting
The first method of getting it right was counting. This seemed to work quite well, except I'm a terrible time keeper, so I got a few 13's. (the scoring system was +/- Number, - for before the minute, + for after, Number for the seconds)

Scores
-6
+13
-4
0 (hurray!)
-3
-13
+5

Overall, I think this is a good method, it would've been better had I been a better at keeping time.

Method two: Tapping
This method was like counting, but without the numbers! Again, I needed to have better timekeeping skills.

Scores
-1
-2
-5
0
+2
-1
0

Two zero's speak for themselves, this is a better method for me than counting.

Method three: Guessing
No method here, just looking away and looking back after (hopefully) one minute.

Scores
-20 (I had an attack of nodding exam syndrome, and looked up thinking I'd missed it)
-8
+3
-5
+5
+4
-3

Nope, this method is best reserved for those not falling asleep.

So, all in all, I'm a terrible timekeeper. But if I'm counting I can just about do it. And If I wasn't falling asleep, I would have probably done better.
Alpologies for the few praxis photo's, it's hard to sumggle a camera into an English exam.