Success and Failure

It is estimated that you will undertake up to 105 tests and exams during you school life!

These include SATs - optional and compulsory - GCSEs, NVQs, GNVQs, modular and vocational A Levels, as well as a whole range of class tests, including CATs, baseline assessments, reading, listening, language and IQ tests.

That’s equal to 1 year out of 7 that you’re in school!

One Headteacher worked out that students are out of lessons for at least 46 weeks in the course of their seven-year secondary careers and spend 150 hours actually sitting exams.

And to make matters worse, after all the stress, anxiety, effort and sleepless nights, when the results come in, the media tell us that exams are getting easier!

Some people find exams easier than others. Here are some examples of real answers given by exam candidates who perhaps didn’t do very well .................?

Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops.

Magnet: Something you

find crawling all over a

dead cat.The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.

To remove dust from the

eye, pull the eye down over

the nose.A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.

The first book of the Bible is

Guinness's in which Adam

and Eve were created from

an apple.Noah's wife was Joan of Ark.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

John Wooden 1910 — 2010

Before anything else, preparation is the key

to success.Alexander Graham Bell 1847 — 1922

Who said this?“ When anyone asks me how can I

describe experience of nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say uneventful. Of course, there have been winter gales and storms and fog and the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea... I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort”

Or maybe you thinkIt’s best not to eventry like Lauren , incase you fail......

The difference between asuccessful person and othersis not a lack of strength, not

a lack of knowledge, butrather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi 1913 — 1970

All of these people failed many times before succeeding Bill Gates:

Gates dropped out of Harvard

Started a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data.

Gates later created the global empire that is Microsoft.

Walt Disney

Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because-

"he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

Stephen Spielberg

Spielberg's was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theatre, Film and Television three times.

He eventually attended school at another location, only to drop out to become a director before finishing.

Thirty-five years after starting his degree, Spielberg returned to school in 2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.

J. K. Rowling

 Before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel.

Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

Experience is the name that everyone

gives to his mistakes.

Oscar Wilde 1854 — 1900