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Only the Using IT module, an overview of everything we've already done, left to do on my ECDL now. Read the last chapter of the textbook for the first half-hour of class, then Pathenia came over and asked for my memory stick. She loaded a lot of multiple-choice tests onto it, which serve as practice for the exam - the first half-dozen each concentrated on a different aspect of the course, then the last few were essentially mock exams. Some of the questions had answers that hadn't been covered in the book; I knew some of them from working with computers generally, but others I had to guess. Fortunately you could do the tests over and over again - you got the same questions each time, but usually in a different order, with the different options for each question in a different order too. Whenever I got less than 95% on a test I'd move on to the next one, then go back and do the previous one again, and keep doing each one till I'd got at least 95% and knew the answer to every question (if you got a question wrong first time you got to keep guessing till you hit the right answer but didn't get a point). After I'd been working on them a while, Pathenia came over and said "Better than reading the book, isn't it?"

The canteen lady was back tonight, so I got my first coffee break in a month :)

I'd got up to my self-set standard on every paper by the end of the class, so just the real exam to do now in three weeks' time (college is closed for the next two weeks for school holidays).

Home to learn Hawks had drawn 1-1 at E*******h. While that really is the end for our play-off dreams, the writing's been on the wall for a while, and at least we didn't lose to the Spitefires, so I can't be too downcast.