Posted by alexandra_k on January 22, 2014, at 18:50:33
In reply to Re: year 5...., posted by Partlycloudy on January 21, 2014, at 15:47:32
it was okay. it could have been a whole heap worse. the first question was easy. listing how many thousands and tens and ones and you had to put them together for a whole number. then a fairly straightforward multiplication. some stuff i could do, i guess... only... i was a bit flustered and frantic and... something took me back to my school days, i guess... started counting on my fingers all funny again, so getting stuck in the middle... and not being cool and calm, really.
i think i might have got the simplest algebra question. there is something coming up now (that i'm a bit stuck on mastering because i get the odd question and i can't for the life of me see how to answer it...) involving 'guess and check'. so... stuff like... there are 88 hotel rooms and there are 3 more rooms on each floor than there are floors. how many rooms are there? anyway... i think i figured out how much x was worth. but i don't know.
a couple of co-ordinate questions. only percentage ones were really easy. like - a number out of 20. asked which fractions were equivalent to 30% and I think i was cool... because 30% is 30/100 - right? not 3/10 or whatever... there was a train schedule one, too... wellington trains even lmfao...
i think i f*ck*d up a luggage question... lets see... i think the dude had to pay $200 for his 70kg case. because he had to pay $5 for every kg over the limit. and so some chick has a case that is... 45kg. i think it was. or maybe 35. how much does she have to pay??
so... 200/5 = ah. i thnk i f*ck*d it up there. but that is how many units over he was, yeah? maybe i'll scrape some marks for my working scratchings. sigh.
then there were triangles... and i had no f*ck*ng idea. google... i think that the numbers in the corners would have multiplied themselves into the number in the middle. i didn't know that / didn't see that.
i was panicked a bit. and my brain stopped working. people were rustly. my knowledge of times tables etc is fragile... and the test seemed to like 4's and 6's which i'm not particularly good at. and i got embarrassed about counting on my fingers... and then i ended up doing that all wrong, anyway. sigh.
still... i'm hoping... that i did enough to show that i have some of the right ideas of how to go about doing things... and... well, i don't quite know.
i think... i think all of the questions could have been figured out by someone with... a good grip on their times tables. if i had more time... i think i could have done a better job of it. i... i don't know.
i'm pissed off that i didn't manage to solve the luggage question - because i could do that one. if only i wasn't flustered. there was a shape one, too. figure out the value of the shapes and the rows of shapes summed to various numbers... i think i f*ck*d that up and i think i could have done it (though i was assuming they were positive integers).
i don't know how negative numbers play, either. i don't know what happens when you times them or whatever. there was one expression about a slope of a graph... maybe i figured it out. looking at the relationship between x and y... maybe i figured it out. by ruling out the ones that weren't true... being left with the one i didn't quite understand :-/
english... multi guess was alright. do you think 'common people' could be an answer or is that a bit un-pc? there was something about watches... being too expensive for the 'common person' or the 'average person'? i'm not entirely sure... the tone seemed to be to be sort of a little bit colloquial... there was something else that depended on whether x or y country was in the carribean (final destination therefore 'Finally') or not (therefore next).
Then they wanted essays on why we wanted a place. and I... Went spew spew spew the way that I do. Ahaha. They said they cared about spelling etc etc. But I wasn't about to say I wanted to be a bone doctor just in case I spelt Orthopedic wrong though I said I wanted to improve my visual spatial skills because I wasn't sure what was up with visuo spatial. Ahhahaha. Ugh.
Apparently they call people over the next couple days for interviews. No interview: No place. Fingers crossed...
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