#Scholarship Exam
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No Longer a Rapscallion
I could make a start in the world and not sit the scholarship exam at the end of grade seven. It wasn’t compulsory. My parents hadn’t sat it. I supposed it would prove I had a brain. I passed the exam easily making no effort to study beforehand. I achieved a 72.4% pass with an excellent mathematics grade yet a mediocre English one. Language skills, other than the ability to launch a verbal volley of expletives, weren’t important in my family. My academic rival, Ronnie, sat with equal success. We gleefully discovered in the newspaper the teacher’s daughter barely passed though.
My parents paid little heed to my achievement. They instead were keen for me to find a proper job to contribute money to the household. Dad had seen jobs at Evans Deakin Shipbuilders and Heavy Engineering advertised in the newspaper. Its workshops were located at Rocklea, Brisbane’s industrial hub, next to the train line we often travelled. So, Mother dragged me there in my Sunday best. We found our way to a cheerless grey office and met a grizzled man wearing a short sleeve collared shirt complemented with a sad taste tie. Mother sat and I stood nervously. I kept my mouth shut least I raised Mother’s ire. The man asked for my scholarship results. He leaned back in his creaky chair and sized me up.
He spoke, ‘Mrs, I am sorry; I cannot in good conscience give your boy a job. He is too bright to sweep the floor in this factory. With a scholarship pass as good as this, he should go to high school. You should be proud of him.’
Unfortunately, Mother only heard the man’s first sentence. Her demeanour was like ice all the way home. She had counted on my prospective wages.
Soon after, my parents made me an offer. They’d feed me whilst I went to high school. However, I’d need to fund my uniforms, text books and anything else from my money. The uniforms were expensive yet compulsory. They comprised of long trousers, school shirts, a tie, a felt hat, socks, leather shoes and a school blazer. No longer was I a ragamuffin in whatever shirt and shorts I grabbed to wear. I was a well dressed young man. To give Mother credit, she’d always ensure my uniform was clean and ironed. Perhaps, she was secretly chuffed in front of our neighbours that her son was going to high school.
I had no idea what people learnt at high school. My older mate, Reggie, couldn’t tell me. He finished primary school then went to work at the Railway. I couldn’t discuss it with Ronnie either. He was being sent to boarding school. My parents knew nothing about it nor did any of my relatives. I was the first of both family lines to go. To begin with, I had an interview with Beenleigh High’s headmaster. Whilst waiting for this, I spoke with another boy. He told me he wanted to become an engineer. I didn’t know anything about engineers. The headmaster asked me into his office. Again, I trembled with nervousness. This man was about to determine my future. He scanned my scholarship results then enquired what job would I like. I simply told him I enjoyed woodwork and technical drawing. He winked and wrote industrial on my enrolment form.
Initially, I felt like a nobody after I had finally grown into a somebody. I sat learning subjects, I had little clue about, taught by different teachers. In my previous grade, I had heard the same lessons for the six years before and wasn’t bothered to do any homework. Now, I didn’t feel very smart. Some of my classmates were though. I kept a low profile. Still, I had a face to save and had invested my precious savings. Thus, I did my homework and studied hard for the seemingly endless exams. Besides, I strove to win at whatever activity I attempted. I wished with my whole soul for my name to be added to the school’s leader board at the end of junior. My peers’ fierce competition drove me harder. I even scaled back my bird enterprise to accommodate my efforts.
Whilst I was acquainting myself with my new lowly status as a sub-junior, the sports house captain elections for the school’s two sports houses occurred. I had been assigned to Lavarack House. When the nominations were announced at school parade, I expected these to be juniors. To my utter surprise, my name was called. More surprisingly still, the students elected me. So, I wasn’t a nobody after all! My reputation on the sports field had preceded me. I was thrust into a position of leadership, a scary proposition for an introverted lad.
I then needed to prove I was the sports star everybody thought I was. I undertook to win the year’s cross country race. I had been running from trouble for years! I had grown into a tall lad too. I trained surreptitiously after dark and ran up to six kilometres a night. Somehow, I could keep pace without tiring. In later life, I’d learn I had a slow heart rate, good for a long distance runner. Sure enough, no other lads kept pace in that race with me. I won that year and the next to inscribe my name in the school’s record book. I was unbeatable in the mile races on the school’s sports days too. The same happened with the high jump, which I really wanted to win. My long legs ensured I cleared those bars effortlessly. I was everybody’s sports star! The following year, the students re-elected me as captain and elected me a school prefect too. I had earnt respect and learnt this meant more than to win.
In junior year, the school chose me to role play Captain Logan alongside eight other students as convicts and four as soldiers in Beenleigh’s Centennial celebration to commemorate the State of Queensland’s first century in 1959. I felt honoured! This event was important to the community and reflected the struggles of local families, including mine, to build new lives in a foreign country. I was given a replica Belltop Shako hat, a blue military style blazer with tails, white trousers and long black boots to wear. The best part of my attire was the musket. It was empty though! I stood proudly on a whale boat whilst the ‘convicts’ rowed it up the Logan River. A flotilla of small ships followed us and we all set anchor at Logan River Bridge. Quite a spectacle!
As busy as these years were, I loved them. I earnt my name on the school’s leader board and achieved six ‘A’s, two ‘B’s and a ‘C’ in English in my junior exams. My teachers thought I should go on to senior at Salisbury High School. I knew my luck was up however. I realised my sport star days were finished too. I accepted my fate without complaint.
Despite my family’s poverty and Mother’s dire foresight into my future, I had grown from a scruffy, unwanted boy into a self assured, polite young man.
#no longer a rapscallion#rapscallion#scholarship exam#Evans Deakin#industrial studies#leader board#everybody's sports star#Beenleigh High School#Beenleigh Centennial
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few bully doodals
#cce#bully scholarship edition#bully game#bully cce#canis canem edit#bully#zoe taylor#lola lombardi#jimmy hopkins#gary smith#pete kowalski#edgar munsen#mandy wiles#my exams are DOONNE#im convinced your guys' good lucks worked. thank yew so much#ill do requests soon#art#sorry i havent been active lately#i have been grinding in minecraft like a pro
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That feeling when no one in the fandom ships Gord with either a canon female characters or female ocs and I feel proud that I am the first to do this (and perhaps I am the first who ship a canon character with two ocs at once) 😎
#the reason why I ship Mary and Gord is because I associate her with myself 🤭#and of course I can’t help but ship him with a male character that’s why Oliver/Gord exists#I hope I can tell more about Mary/Gord and Gord/Oliver relationship#I’m just busy cause exams and certification#oc x canon#bully oc#mary brown#oliver bonville#gord vendome#bully preps#preppies#preps#bully scholarship edition#bully game#bully cce#bully rockstar#bully canis canem edit#canis canem edit#bully se#bullworth academy
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#ao3#ao3 attack#ao3 down#it’s hour 24#i woke up#went to check#still gone#:(#i was gonna read from a ship/fandom i don’t usually read from too#but no#maybe this’ll force me to study for my physics and chem exams#and finish my scholarship essay#and make progress on my wips#but for now i’m just feeling withdrawals#if ao3 is gone for good idk what i’ll do#i will not be returning to WATTPAD tho#idk how to live like this
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I'm honestly fully ready to just call my bank and tell them to do a chargeback but i'm giving the college bureaucracy a chance first. But as i said. I don't care who does it and how i get it, those €80 are gonna be back in my bank account by the end of october or so help me
#i didn't even tell youse about the fun i had at the student office#i got there i asked the guy at the counter what's happening with my enrolment process bc it has been on ''process has started'' for a week#and then some. this guy tells me they're testing a bot or whatever that automatically ''starts'' the process when the payment has been#received. so i'm like okay wtf. he goes to check my request manually but i notice he's looking at the one with a page of text#and that's my second request where i explained i want my money back so i go hey hey hey that's actually my refund request#this man goes and asks why i enrolled if i hadn't had all my exam grades marked yet#i look this man in the eye and say ''i wanted to ensure i'd be enrolled on time'' and he goes quiet#because i'm assuming he realised i tried to enrol the very day enrolments opened and here i was two days before they closed in the#student office asking wtf was happening to my enrolment process#so anyway. he goes and tells me i need to cancel my enrolment and enrol again and that he'll forward my refund request but can't#guarantee anything. and i'm like sure fine but now my scholarship page says i don't have to pay anything#so like whatever decision you lot make my bank is gonna know i made a payment i didn't have to make#and that if you refuse to refund me i'm getting a chargeback. so you know.#in any case i did all i could to make sure i was enrolled on time and still had to be on edge bc i had to restart the process two days#before the enrolment period ended. i deserve those €80 and then some
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fuck >:/
#i forgot they FUCKING AVERAGE THE TWO EXAM GRADES#so my barely there d dropped to a damn e (my uni's f grade)#which means..... failed! and!!! wont have enough units with just next semester to keep particular scholarships#so!! i will very much be looking at whether or not i can take courses over the summer (bc my advisor suggested not taking winter)#to ensure i reach the minimum 30 units per school year needed to keep that scholarship money#would have been FINE if the exams werent AVERAGED TOGETHER#but nooooooo#like even if i take max units next semester (19) i wouldnt make the min required (30) bc of 1 damn unit#damn i just checked i completely missed one extra credit opportunity they posted that was due yesterday (equivalent to 3 quizzes)#ugjdhdjdjdjd#im gonna have to either retake this course too or just. fill this gen ed requirement with another one (BECAUSE OF COURSE ITS A GEN ED)#soon as summer enrollment appears im fuckin jumping on that and meeting with my advisor ASAP#amber's shit you can ignore
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Doing the most irresponsible thing and using my scholarship to buy Kinito because if I don't I will explode <3
#I already have like 3 euros on my other credit card I missed the other three#So I yoinked them from my bank account where the scholarship is#I ended up yoinking 60 bucks as of now because 1) the bank steals a useless monthly tax and 2) goddamn groceries#god fuck groceries jesus Christ every time I have to buy groceries is always more than I can spend so I gotta yoink from the scholarship#but meh it's 60 bucks I can refound them in case I lose the scholarship#which I really hope I don't because jesus fuck I need this money goddamn#praying for my life rn actually cuz I have 5 exams and I can't bring myself to study and I'm shitting my pants <3 /neg#Kinito save me.. save me Kinito
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That feeling when your mom finally went into the acceptance stage and is now proud of your efforts.
Yes, it's already happening right now and I am happy yet shocked at the same time
#shin's rambles#It was so... Odd yet new#The feeling of getting a hug and a kiss on the forehead was refreshing#It felt like I finally done it#I fulfilled my dream of making my parents proud#Although they keep telling me to get the rank of valedictorian but yeah#Atleast I'm starting to feel at ease for now#But the pressure of getting into scholarships and entrance exams are still there#Also for context I recently got my report card from 2nd grading#Still got straight A's as I always wanted to have for the sake of the scholarships and GPA requirements#I pray that this still continues until I finish my studies and get to work as a registered nurse soon
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So I have to study for National exams, SATs, and IELTS all at once now
#technically#the only one thats mandatory is the national exams#but being the fucking tryhard I am I have chosen to make things harder for myself#for a chance at getting a scholarship#i should get like... a sanity meter#see how close I am to snapping#“itll be okay” I tell myself as I feel the threads of my patience slowly snaping one by one#vent#I will get though this though if not I'll jump into a river#itll be fine#Ill be fine#I just gotta remember what Im doing this for#and remember who Im going to go through this with
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ushijima wakatoshi is a nepo baby
#SORRY I HAD TO GET THIS ONE OUT#(partially) joking as always y’all know i love him#but come oooooooon . . .#utsui is an alumn#mom’s family is old-school traditional and wealthy#i’m willing to bet she was a former student too#anyways it’s insane that the only way to get is either#study hard for the ridiculously insane entrance exam or a fucking sports scholarship#i have thoughts on these about shirabu but that’s for another time#ushijima wakatoshi#haikyuu#haikyuu!!#sou says stuff
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IM DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL!!
#that was my last hs exam ever and i think it went really well!! i might even win a scholarship if its good enough!!#but anyway YAY!!!#AAH!!!
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i hate this fucking university istg. ugh anyway look at the silly panel i'm drawing
#raysidk#sorry#but i worked on an assignment for weeks and got a 72/100#and everyone else is also outraged#and now we're having another issue#and both of those situations happened bc the professors can't explain assignments properly#and we're trying our best and clarifying things and asking questions#but in the end it doesn't help#i fucking hate it here!!!!!!!!!!#seriously though i could have been a normal person. i could have been helping my family and living a life rn#but nooo let's go to university at 16 in the middle of a war in my country with the exam program changing completely#and the scholarship money decreasing rapidly why not!!!! such a good idea ray great fucking job now you're suffering#anyway#narumitsu
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a few bully doodles I did 😎
#bully scholarship edition#bully game#bully cce#bully#cce#jimmy hopkins#gary smith#pete kowalski#pinky gauthier#zoe taylor#edgar munsen#otto tyler#gurney bully#art#dear jimmy hopkins please help me with my exams amen
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oughhhf project week over soon, sheep wants to draw
#unfortunately after this week we have exams so.#suffering#need vacations to fully brainrot over here /hj#actually being honest i need to genuinly start looking into universities ((forced by my parents.#i want to take a year to save money#we arent financially well atm. we are living decently so its not at emergency rn#but definitely hitting rough patch#so im insisting in taking a year to idk open comms. get a job. do something that earns me some money and help my parents pay for stuff#mom says to stop worrying about money and just get a good scholarship but even with a high one we cant afford most of the universities here#the ones with low prices are out of the state and my mom doesnt seem to want me go out of her grasp either#so.#idk im fucking rambling#txt
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guys, trump winning in my country, my grandpa is diagnosed with terminal cancer and i only have a few months left with him, my best friend in the world is in the hospital for his heart problems and it might not get better this time, all in the span of 3 days. and i have 4 exams and a major presentation next week. i think god wants me to curl up and die. what am i doing. i feel like the impending doom was never meant to actually reach me and yet.
#everything is so fucked#i’m gonna die#i hate this i hate this i hate this#guys i can’t do it#if i don’t pass these exams my gpa will drop so low i will lose my scholarship and i will have to drop out and go back to my republican#small town and just die i guess#i’m so fucked#my whole life is here and my whole life is falling apart
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Just came back from the exam, I hope everyone is doing well.
#the exam itself was fine; I finished well in time and the questions were definitely easier than what i was expecting.#i ended up having an argument as soon as i got back to the car though so uh? I don’t know. i’m not really as excited as i was last time.#this did remind me why i wanted to get a scholarship so bad though. cannot wait to get the hell out of here.#i haven’t felt safe in this house for a single second of my life i am. i don’t even know.#i’m so cold. i’m so thirsty. i’m hungry. I’m so tired and so overwhelmed and i . do not know#wow i really wish this family actually felt like family and didn’t make me feel like i was going to get hurt at literally every given moment#two more years and i’ll be out. thank fuck. i hate this hostility. i hate the expressions and the yelling and the violence and i want out#sorry for being such a downer on this lovely monday uh. yeah.#✧.*🌹#vent#<- in case anyone doesn’t want to see whatever the hell this is.
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