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  1. Scribblet's Avatar
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by Bella Occhi)
    Oh also the inviligator tried to make us start our English AS exam without one of the texts that we *had* to have. We kicked up a fuss and argued and she got really annoyed ("Oh, I'll get it in a minute, you can't possibly need it right at the start of the exam... Oh, you do? Well, surely you can manage just for a few minutes while I go and get it, don't make such a big thing about it") but we got our English teacher along and proved her wrong :awesome:
    That happened to me as well for my GCSE. We ended up starting half an hour late. First the invigilator didn't even know we had a second exam that morning and then she was like 'but why would you need a book. When I did my O levels...'

    Someone told her to ring our English teacher and ask her instead and eventually it got sorted out. :\
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    GCSE mock - not knowing ANYTHING as id just been moved up a set, sat there for the hour and a half counting roof tiles while my old head of year was looking for a foundation paper for me to do... thank god it wasnt the real thing!

    GCSE geography - being till drunk/ really bad hangover looming i couldnt decided wether i wanted to throw up or sleep... i had to do the exam though

    GCSE art second day - being taken out an hour early for "disrupting other" luckily they didnt tell any of the invigulators or anything

    A level sociology - the invigulators having ago at us all because we spoke, and our mate was still finihing her exam - our mate was sat there laughing at everything as she didnt really want the extra time anyway!
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    my clothes fell off
  4. Abassk's Avatar
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    In AS i was so scared i wet my pants and as I got up i let one big one off. I had to move school due to safety reasons
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    60 minute GCSE French Writing paper, whiteboard at the front with all of the timings written down - thought all was going well until I finished the first of 2 questions, each worth 50%, when I realised I had been looking at the times for extra time candidates. Had to do the second essay question in 5 minutes.
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    Not really something I did, but a pigeon got into one of my GCSE exams. That was interesting... It's safe to say the 'silence' rule went out the window :rolleyes:
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    I fell asleep for a few minutes in my GCSE exam (can't remember which one) until someone loudly coughed and woke me up. When I looked at my paper I realised I was in the middle of writing an answer and it slowly became illegible. XD

    Oh and my tummy always rumble during exams, even if I've eaten. It makes it hard to concentrate because I become aware that the people around me could hear it.
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    In my GCSE exams we had this hugly fat invigilator who sat on a chair... and it broke

    200 students laughing their heads off at him. Poor guy.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by asphyxia)
    I finished my maths exam and then realised my calculator said 3 x 3 = 12
    Got asphyxiated.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by Ceecee)
    Opening the english lit AS paper to find a poem that I swear to god i'd never seen in my life. I was cringing as I was writing the essay..soo bad. Also stomach rumbling very loudly..spent half my french exam clenching my tummy muscles to try and get it to shut up.
    dont suppose that was last years one... wilfred own poetry?
    my teacher told us it would never come up.
    brilliant.
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    Hurricane Hits England.
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    The awkward moment when a girl in the exam hall lets off a loud sneeze that sounds exactly like an orgasm.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by ChaiTea)
    I had to sit next to a guy with horrendous body odour once. Being forced to breathe in someone's toxic armpit fumes for two hours when you're trying to concentrate on a science exam is not fun.
    Why are you being racist to South Asian people? :holmes:
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    - When you walk into an exam and someone from outside the hall shouts at the top of their voice that you have a nipple piercing (which is a lie).
    - Having some slacker sitting on your right who does not even bother to open the paper, but spends the whole two hours staring at you and tapping the table.
    - Having the class geek on your left writing at the speed of light and furiously flicking through the paper like there's no tomorrow, whilst you have no clue what to write.
    - Having the person behind you drop their maths set on the floor and have the contents scatter around the floor.
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    When like 5 people began to laugh ridiculously loud during a biology exam because they said stoma looked like vaginas.
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    Missed a question at the back which was worth about 50%, I ended up getting about 43% which was a D for a GCSE Eng Lang mock.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    In my s1 paper, suddenly the examination officer says pens down.
    I mentally had sht my self and had a heart attack simultaneously .

    /we had 30 mins left >
    Last edited by the_prodigy; 24-05-2011 at 23:07.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    Waking up.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    Pulling an all-nighter before a 9am exam, because I couldn't sleep - so I revised all night. Had to take 2 litres of Tesco 'Kick' energy drink into the exam with me to keep me awake. Didn't work, and I ended up spending 1.5 of 2 hours on one question that was worth 20 marks out of 100. Until I finished that question and looked at the time, I thought the exam was going amazingly well . Worst exam ever...
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by viksta1000)
    Doing an English literature paper in the morning and answering all the questions, and finding out after that I only had to choose 1 out of 4 questions to answer

    Doing an English Language paper in the afternoon and choosing 1 of the 2 questions to answer, and finding out after that I had to answer the entire paper :eek:


    That day was a maaaare
    Did that in my law exam yesterday :/ "Choose two of the five questions" and I just did all of them really badly Dick.
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