Posted by alexandra_k on January 20, 2014, at 20:31:05
In reply to Re: got test date, posted by alexandra_k on January 16, 2014, at 15:36:52
around 3/4 of the way through... took a day longer to finish year 4 than I thought... things are going much slower now.
taking a lot more mental effort to do the calculations accurately. if i don't pay careful enough attention i make too many mistakes and can take... more than an hour to master some of them.
elapsed time got me for ages. you know... it is twenty minutes to three in the afternoon now and so and so does such and such for twenty two hours and thirty two minutes. what time is it now??? In digital format. With a colon. Or it is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
aaaargh!!!!!
i mean... i can do it. but that sh*t is HARD. wah!
i'm going through paper like nobodies business... but only using a calculator for figuring the mean in statistics (there can be, like, 28 three digit numbers).
i am learning my times tables! still make stupid little errors... but guess the thing to do is to check everything twice. and there is more than one way to do things... which means you can mix things up when you check... so that is good.
i am fairly amazed at what i can do now! i can do stuff with fractions! and decimals! and i can multiply with crazy numbers of zeros! and identify nonogons and convert into decilitres and i'm even starting to enjoy division! and i can remember 8x8 and 7x7 and most recently 8x7 - so that is pretty good for me, too... getting there, i am... even though i still think 2x8 is 18 half the time... because of the 8... for some reason...
i am feeling pretty drained with it. but, lets see...
Jan 9 - 2 hours 28 minutes.
Jan 10 - 4 hours 41 minutes.
Jan 11 - 5 hours 12 minutes.
Jan 12 - 7 hours.
Jan 13 - 5 hours 47 minutes.
Jan 14 - 7 hours 42 minutes.
Jan 15 - 7 hours 45 minutes.
Jan 16 - 7 hours 51 minutes.
Jan 17 - 2 hours 25 minutes.
Jan 18 - 8 hours 59 minutes.
Jan 19 - 9 hours 33 minutes.
Jan 20 - 7 hours 33 minutes.
Jan 21 - 3 hours 44 minutes. Thus far.Which makes 80 hours and 41 minutes of practice. 25,525 problems attempted.
so... i guess i'm allowed to be feeling a little drained with it. i really want to jump ahead to next year for the fun stuff... like geometry... but i won't let myself until i've finished all the grindy f*ck*ng multiplication and division calculations... and stuff does build and presuppose stuff that went before... and what is great about now is that everything i try... i KNOW i can do it. figure it out on the basis of what went before / their explanation of how i f*ck*d it up.
one day and a half before my test... they better let me do math for science. they f*ck*ng well better.
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