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

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  1. DrumChops's Avatar
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    GCSE Japanese writing exam last month, I had to write a letter to a fictitious Japanese pen-pal. But then I had an utter mind-blank on Japanese boy names to write to, and couldn't even at least recall the name of my actual real-life Japanese penfriend!! Urgh. Ended up using a Japanese surname - Yamamoto, which is basically the Japanese equivalent of the British "Smith". So the start of the letter was basically the equivalent of saying "Dear Smith, how are you?". Utterly ridiculous, I really should get more sleep in the night before an exam.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    Freezing during an exam and feeling my future slip away
    Last edited by STFU; 23-07-2012 at 02:32.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    being LATE TO AN EXAM
    AND BEING OUT OF BREATH
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    Sitting my A levels maths while pregnant. Had horrendous morning sickness and had to get a doctors letter to explain that I would need to have access to a loo at very short notice. Was hospitalised due to severe dehydration later that day. Somehow managed to get an A though.......
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    not being able to get my pencil case open and so an invigilator has to cut it open :L
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    it was in an english exam. the farts started coming and i had to obviously hold them in then after a bit i had a really bad stomach cramp. it was so painful plus the english exams are really long.
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    Completely blanked out on a question that was worth 30 percent..... what was worse was it was something that i remembered immediately after the exam.
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    Invigilator stood behind me resting on the back wall, I leant back and accidentally head-butted him in the crotch. Bad enough already, but he squeaked so everyone turned round (so much for always face the front!) Awkward!

    Once got my foot caught in the folded netting of the football posts (In the sports hall) spent 10 mins trying to get free, eventually forgot about it, until I tried walk off at the end of the exam! ouch!
    Last edited by phil3; 28-07-2012 at 20:47. Reason: I can't spell
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by pseudonymegg)
    not being able to get my pencil case open and so an invigilator has to cut it open :L
    lol
    for what exam
    and what did he cut it with>?
  10. wwelol's Avatar
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    (Original post by rickydentistry)
    Completely blanked out on a question that was worth 30 percent..... what was worse was it was something that i remembered immediately after the exam.
    ****ing hate that
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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    (Original post by wwelol)
    lol
    for what exam
    and what did he cut it with>?
    hahaah a maths exam... after having a whole discussion with all invigilators he shouted across the entire hall "do you mind if we cut it?" so he cut it in half with some scissors lol i was laughing so much
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    And also; having 5 AS exams in one week

    I died.
    Try having 14 AS exams in 10 days... I had a minimum of one every day and a clash between my S1 paper and my Classical Civilisation paper... Now THAT was fun =_=

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    Fainting in my maths exam!


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    Getting an 8 mark question in a Geography exam about escarpments and not having a clue what they are.
    My friend also got a nose bleed halfway through his English exam- he wasted about 8 minutes of time and couldn't concentrate for the rest
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    A -level maths s1
    Opening the paper and thinking WTF :// & then having to make up my own formulas predictably I failed that exam


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    Realising there was another essay question hiding on the back page of the booklet, 10 minutes before the end of the exam. Thankfully it was only a mock GCSE *phew*
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    Scanning through an entire A Level Chemistry paper only to realise I didn't know how to answer anything confidently whilst the genius of the class sat next to me writing at lightning speed :L


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    Wrote an entire essay (approx. 6 paragraphs) and went completely off topic by paragraph 2 Had to re-do the whole thing in 15 minutes, but I managed


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    Re: What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you in an exam?
    Dropping a metal ruler and hearing the tuts echo across the hall.
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    I have several bad encounters... Decide which ones worst!!

    I fell asleep in my physics exam... Which obviously didn't end well...

    I dropped my water bottle in an English exam which managed to roll all the way from my seat at the frot of the aisle to about 8 seats behind me... The invigaltor had to go and get it for me haha

    There was a spider next to my table on the wall and it was massive! It scared the life out of me and I had to ask an invigaltor to get rid of it as It began crawling on my work :O

    Oh and something funny just to brighten everything up - we were in a 2hour exam then we heard this *beep *beep noise which went on for about ten minutes- we all thought it was a phone and we were all like what an idiot, the invigialtors then spent ages trying to find the culprit bag but the *beep was coming from outside... It was a crane machine reversing outside ... Hahaha (school under reconstruction)

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    Last edited by TheLightBulb; 17-08-2012 at 17:39.
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