What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?

We have a famous invigilator at our school. He's known as "ten seconds", as well as "twenty seconds", "thirty seconds" "two minutes"...you get the picture. Everyone just bursts out laughing when he announces there's "ten seconds remaining" in some weird accent. I'm sitting there like "Oh gee, thanks Mister! I can now write an entire paragraph in that ten seconds".

Reply 581

Costalo

16

Realising there's a massive spider on my lap in an AS exam, jumping out of my chair, frantically trying to flip it off my leg with my pen. Almost screaming like a girl. Then casually sitting back down, pretending like nothing happened..

(edited 12 years ago)

****ing hay fever!

The generic looking at my exam questions and none of them ringing the tiniest bell in my memory of having been topics I'd even glanced at.

Reply 584

Ras17

10

Original post by aad1l

asking for extra paper in an exam and then forgetting to write what question i did on that piece of paper so after getting my marks finding out i havent been marked for it :/

Nooo! I think I did that too! :frown:

My sociology paper. I needed extra paper but I can't remember writing the question number! FFS. They were tied together and my name/ID was on both so God willing it's been marked. If it hasn't then it could cost me a whole grade and this is A level.

Reply 585

Cicerao

14

Original post by scireamortente

Having a increasingly runny nose with no tissue, and struggling with the questions at the same time. Cramming loads and realising that it's not in the paper, realised you should have crammed harder. Missing out an entire question on a paper, only to find out at the last minute and see they were easy and you could've answered it, and it was taken away from you at that second.

I love this, so true - not, "should have started revising earlier," "should have revised more topics over the year" but..."should have crammed harder." :biggrin:

Reply 586

plushiemagic

5

During a French listening exam when I moved my table slightly towards me and it started collapsing! I was so lucky thar it collapsed during the example and not the actual questions.. Oh and also in last years sociology paper when I ran out of time on the essay questions and had to write half essays in bulletpoints. Nevertheless I somehow got an a* but I don't think it will be the same for this years exam

Reply 587

Cicerao

14

Original post by -aimz

The hour or so before my AS Biology exam last year, I had applied some cream to my neck/chest but for some reason I had a reaction to it and I could feel my throat swelling up! I was panicking so much so I thought "Might as well just do the exam if I'm going to die from an allergic reaction soon".

A true TSR member.

Reply 588

CF25

1

Original post by Mad Cat Lady

Went in for two exams in an attempt to get a scholarship. Coughing fit, all the way through the entire of both exams, literally non-stop, even when they gave me water. Pissed off everyone in the room AND I didn't get the scholarship. And the cough had gone by the next day!

This reminds me of my English exam, some **** at the front of the hall kept on coughing every 30 seconds. Pissed me off so much and everyone else as every time he would cough everybody looked up begging to tell him to shut the hell up.

Reply 589

Ysondrae

Original post by Mad Cat Lady

Went in for two exams in an attempt to get a scholarship. Coughing fit, all the way through the entire of both exams, literally non-stop, even when they gave me water. Pissed off everyone in the room AND I didn't get the scholarship. And the cough had gone by the next day!

This basically happened to me in my mock exams last year :colondollar:

I wasn't very well, and had a bad coughing fit in the middle of the maths exam. Out of panic, I hastily drank some water from my water bottle and choked because I was coughing at the same time, so I had to ask (sorry, gasp) to be escorted to the bathrooms.

Reply 590

rawrr_charlotte

Original post by Miss G

This happened during our mocks. We kept our bags to the side, and my phone was inside. I'd switched it off, but it switches on if there's an alarm set. I forgot to turn off the alarm, so it started ringing. Worst.Five.Minutes.Of.My.Life. At first, I wasn't sure if it was my phone, but then I realized it is as I put two and two together. The teachers took my bag out of the exam. Thankfully, they understood it was an honest mistake. Well, I always make sure my alarm is off now.

the teachers in your school are safe, if that happened to me it would be pointless trying to tell them that it wasn't meant to happen, i'd get my phone confiscated, disqualification from the exam & all other exams cancelled :s-smilie:

coz my school are bun like that ¬_¬

Reply 591

rawrr_charlotte

Original post by HarveyCanis

We have a famous invigilator at our school. He's known as "ten seconds", as well as "twenty seconds", "thirty seconds" "two minutes"...you get the picture. Everyone just bursts out laughing when he announces there's "ten seconds remaining" in some weird accent. I'm sitting there like "Oh gee, thanks Mister! I can now write an entire paragraph in that ten seconds".

aha same ! we have this invigilator with a chinese accent, we call her 'NO TALKING PLEASE' or 'FACE THE FRONT' or 'FIVE MINUTES LEFT' ha when she says it majority of the people in the exam smirk to themselves :P

Reply 592

butterflylights

Oh where to start..

1) The awkwardness of having your grandad as one of the invigilators, who smiles and winks every time you walk in.
2) When your school accidentally muddle up the exam times and you end up sitting in controlled conditions for an hour, and doing GCSE RE an hour later than the rest of the country.
3) Knowing you've failed when you don't know the answer to number one.
4) Suddenly remembering how to work out empirical formula as the invigilator says 'Pens down.'
5) When there's just you and one invigilator chilling in the hall, in amongst 300 seats.
6) When an ant crawls across your paper, you try to shake it off, but it defies gravity and refuses to move, and you're sitting there having a minor spasm.
7) Not knowing why the Sun is stable in your Physics exam.. so instead writing.. 'Because it likes horses.'
8) Not learning the second one of your French Orals, and having no idea what to speak about.. accidentally saying in French 'Yes.. Roger Federer I am.' and your French teacher bursting out laughing on the tape.. (yet not too bad as somehow I managed to get 27/30!)
Looking forward to Results Day.. hahahahah.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 593

butterflylights

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH just remembered this.. not me, but a girl in my GCSE Drama class. We were being observed by the examiner, and her group were on stage performing their piece, just before my group went on. She went off stage to get her guitar for a section, someone had knocked it off the ledge and it had completely snapped in two.. she burst into tears, came back on stage without it, and just had to totally skip that part. Then later on, she went to heavily flop onto the sofa on stage, for some reason it didn't take her weight and she fell right through.. everyone on and offstage burst out laughing.. and then to top it all off, as she went to get into her position as a corpse for the final scene, the lights came up, to reveal her clearly not dead and shuffling into position. God love her.. but so funny!

Reply 594

tom29whu

2

once I looked down at my desk and it said;

"Exam Halls. Where nightmares are realised, and dreams are crushed."

Man. That put a downer on things.

Reply 595

S_123

14

My friend's phone went off in our Y10 mocks. Everyone's jaws dropped - we were all so shocked. Seriously, I have never heard, apart from that one incident, of a phone going off in an exam in my school. It just doesn't happen to us. It was actually gossip for the whole of exam time :p:

Reply 596

Bella Occhi

16

Original post by rawrr_charlotte

the teachers in your school are safe, if that happened to me it would be pointless trying to tell them that it wasn't meant to happen, i'd get my phone confiscated, disqualification from the exam & all other exams cancelled :s-smilie:

coz my school are bun like that ¬_¬

Same here

Reply 597

Miss G

12

Original post by rawrr_charlotte

the teachers in your school are safe, if that happened to me it would be pointless trying to tell them that it wasn't meant to happen, i'd get my phone confiscated, disqualification from the exam & all other exams cancelled :s-smilie:

coz my school are bun like that ¬_¬

Oh wow! I'm glad I don't go to your school then o.O. Neo nazi rules much?

Reply 598

crazygirl2011

Preparing the entire weekend for a chemistry exam only to realize when you've been handed the paper that you're doing math and you've not even brought the proper tools! :eek: