The Patterns
As mentioned on the main page, we noticed a definite pattern. It was
christened the 'Standard Reading', funnily enough, and was first pointed out when
someone said that all the results were the same.
WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS: Well, it always starts on a 0, 'cos we never had french on a monday (and never will- we're doing German for GCSE and are ready for any 'Jetzt's that appear).
Then on tuesday there is a middle value, with a peak on wednesday. It drops on Thursday, and then rises on Friday, though not often higher than the Tuesday value. See the graph below.
The Freaks
You now how it goes- for every rule there's an exception, and the Maintenant has loads. The ones we bothered to classify are:
The SOWMI Standing for start Of Week Maintenant Inversion (don't laugh- we're young). Basically, the start of the week goes mad and as such tuesday's value is larger than Wednesday's.
The MWMI The Mid-Week Maintenant Inversion. Thursday is higher than wednesday.
The EOWMI The End Of Week Maintenant Inversion. Guess what? The end of week figures go wrong and Friday is lower than Thursday.
UC Utter Chaos. Everythings wrong. Several theories abound as to what the teacher was up to during these weeks, but it probably involved mind-altering products :-) (Don't kill us sir. This was your idea!). Likely causes are supply teachers (more of them later) or changes in lesson timetables 'cos of holidays and the like.