Headmaster Brockert
February 15, 2017 8:25 PM
RATS by Headmaster Brockert
Before the seventh years graduated and some of them said goodbye to academia forever, there was one final major test, RATS. For a good many of them, it would determine a good deal about their futures, from what jobs they could get to what schools they could get into. So while it was the last test of their Sonora careers, it was certainly one of the most important.With the exception of Roland Ashburn, the CATS examiners had stayed around for RATS. Luckily, David Weatherby had. For such a difficult and important test, it was best to have an examiner as fair as he. Not to mention that for the female students, he was pleasant to look at. With his lean figure, bright green eyes and salt and pepper hair, he was obviously genetically gifted.
Not bad looking herself was Aurora Septentrion, who had long blonde hair, attractive features and a warm and friendly attitude that would hopefully put students at ease. Not that she was one to be messed with as she took her job very seriously.
Then there was Nanette Langdon who not pleasant in any way. She was a dour, joyless woman and she certainly looked the part, with her cold eyes, sharp features, tight bun and a seemingly permanent grumpy expression.
The theoretical exams were to take place in the morning, just like with the CATS exams that the fifth years had just gone through. "There will be no cheating." Ms. Langdon greeted the assembled seventh years. "Anyone caught cheating will be removed and automatically fail the exams. " Her voice implied that any such student would be caught, for their were anti-cheating spells in place. "Sit quietly if you finish early so you do not disturb others."
Practical exams would take place that afternoon. Much like with CATS, students' names would be called and they would be required to do their tasks. Once they were finished, they could leave.
OOC-Just like with CATS, you are free to write for any of the examiners.
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Clark Dill
February 22, 2017 10:30 AM
Anticipating victory by Clark Dill
When Clark sat down to his first RATS exam, he had already completed his Herbology CATS the previous week when the fifth years were taking their tests. As he thought that one might have possibly been the hardest one he was going to be taking this year, if only because he'd taken it after only a single year of formal classes in the subject, he felt pretty good going into his higher level exams.Clark probably would have skipped Herbology entirely, but he'd heard Chaslyn was taking it, so if the examiners had to proctor it anyway, he figured there was no harm in giving it a go himself, since he was thinking he was going into interdisciplinary science as his college major, and having another science CATS to in his transcript might get him out of Herbology 101 next year. He hadn't had a formal independent study on the subject, the way he had with Astronomy, but he'd done periodic study of the science behind Herbology, both the muggle and magical versions of it, over his past seven years, and Professor X had been very accommodating in providing extra help, and Clark had John's notes from last year (which had needed extensive translation help, but that actually proved a boon to helping him remember that material as this naturally led to discussion and deeper research with John) so he hadn't gone in totally unprepared. Still, there had been large swaths of plants covered on the examination that he had never even heard of. If he pulled an A he'd be happy.
He at least had all the prerequisites for his RATS, including Astronomy. His independent study for that had been thorough and augmented over the summer by lessons with his dad who had graduate degrees in the both magical Astronomy and muggle astrophysics. If anything, he thought Astronomy was going to be his easiest test this week.
First though, he needed to get through the ones Sonora actually taught. He expected no trouble from Charms or Potions. He had a little trouble with putting some of the more advanced forms of transfiguration into practice but he felt solid on the various theories involved. Oliver would probably get a more solid O than he did, but he still thought he could squeak in on the low end of that score. Creatures and Defense had the same problem: they both covered a lot of discrete material that didn't build on itself, which meant bits of it were easier to forget. Clark's memory was decent though, so he thought the worst he might do was Es. The other problem they both had was that he didn't find them as intriguing as some of the other classes' material, so these were the subjects that lost study time when he was trying to bolster his herbology knowledge base.
He opened his first exam booklet and read the first question. He smiled. He had this. His quill began writing.
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