If you see a question which you can't think of an answer fairly quickly, move onto the next question then go back and try finish any skipped questions, sometimes going back to questions later some info maybe can come back to you
Thanks for the anecdote,
I am just an oldie with T2 for past 20 years. I do have experience of setting exams, invigilating exams, supporting students with various health conditions through their exam seasons, and getting concessions they need to ‘level the playing field’.
Yes, I am aware that things have changed, don't worry
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Diolch yn fawrfalch ei fod wedi mynd yn dda dymuniadau gorau
(translation: glad it went well best wishes)
hopefully google didn't butcher it too much
My family live in Gwynedd. I will not embarrass myself with my poor Welsh language skills @Polska_Gurom . I'm glad to hear your Welsh exams went well. You have a lot on your plate with a new T1 diagnosis, so da iawn ti ! ( well done )
That's very cool! Although I'll have you know there are some differences between north and south welsh, and we southerners think that northern people sound silly, like the scousers of Wales lol
Yes there is lol. I do find it a friendly ribbing of you hwntws folk but we all sing Dafydd Iwan's Yma o Hyd.
Nah it's fine, I don't really care about the off topic rules. Talk about whatever the hell you want in my thread. I always love to discuss this beautiful country
You sound like me (except for Wales or Welsh, I never visited, let alone try to speak or write it), just about all threads I've started on this forum have derailed, sometimes in a ridiculous way, and I usually love it. Here's what I said in a rather wild thread started by me in 2021, and not much has changed since: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/goat-ate-metformin.183796/post-2433288
Humans never change
I doubt we'll understand eachother between Frisian and Welsh, but I agree it's very interesting how Frisian is closer to English than Dutch!
Frisians are more patriotic on their own province than most parts of the Netherlands, but there is no want for independence except tongue in cheek. It's never been independent in its current form, unless you go back to the early middle ages, long before the Netherlands even existed.
I meant english and friesian not welsh lol. But yeah I know because i watched a few youtube videos and it's just a very interesting story and language.I doubt we'll understand eachother between Frisian and Welsh, but I agree it's very interesting how Frisian is closer to English than Dutch!
I'm also surprised that someone on here even knows that Friesland has its own language.
Frisians are more patriotic on their own province than most parts of the Netherlands, but there is no want for independence except tongue in cheek. It's never been independent in its current form, unless you go back to the early middle ages, long before the Netherlands even existed.
I'm just a wannabe though, I grew up in Amsterdam, and although I read and understand Friesian just fine, I've only been known to attempt to speak it when very drunk. Thankfully no one remembers. I just don't have enough active vocabulary for speaking and writing. I'm pretty sure I'd beat 75% of the Friesians in a spelling/grammar test though, this is very much a blue collar province.
In the part of Friesland where I live they speak their own dialect (Bildts), which is very different from formal Frisian, and before I lived in Harlingen where they speak Stadsfries (city Frisian, spoken in Harlingen and Leeuwarden). Which is much closer to Dutch but with its own grammar rules and a lot of different words.
So I haven't really lived anywhere where it was natural to learn to speak Frisian.
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Completely agree. Have multiple friends who have done the same, al having Type 1. They will understand. You can do this!best wishes with your exams.
You should ask for 'access arrangements' if not done so already, eg allowed some jellybabies something to drink or some other fast acting glucose beside you. You should also be allowed your monitoring equipment to check if low. If you monitor with mobile phone that maybe an issue should optimally apply for arrangements with the testing body couple of months in advance. Fingerprick test should be fine.
If you feel going low, your entled to to have a break, which will be supervised that way treating a potential hypo shouldn't interfere with the time.
Best piece of advice is to not panic, if a student is ill special considerations can be made. where alternative grading process can be done if fit within the critera.
Regards study advice, bbc bitsize exam body (eg if you live in scotland would be the SQA) have a lot of past papers online with marking instructions which clearly shows how points are awarded. example of marking ie: maths even if you get the answer wrong you can be given points for working out
Good luck
