What are your worst nightmares regarding exams?

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  1. im so fresh's Avatar
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    What are your worst nightmares regarding exams?
    One of my worst nightmares would be to have a 9 AM exam and wake up at 11:30 AM. I wouldn't know what to do in that situation lol.

    Or waking up and forgetting you have an exam in an hour... .
    May this never happen.
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    Not wearing trousers for a 2.5 hour English exam :/
  3. chickenonsteroids's Avatar
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    All my pens run out

    The paper is on everything I haven't revised

    It's in Arabic

    I wake up too late and miss it

    I answer too many questions or the wrong ones
  4. brightbulb's Avatar
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    My pens running out - that's why I tend to have a pencil case with about 10 black pens in :L
  5. J10's Avatar
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    If my graphical calculator were to run out of juice at the start of an exam...

    This almost happened yesterday in S1, thankfully there was enough to last the entire exam
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    I relive my nightmares every time I am in the exam hall.

    One of the invigilators has what looks like a post-traumatic stress twitch, where she constantly but very gently shakes her head. She has a habit of standing near me when I'm writing; I look up and see her shaking her head, judging me and my answers!

    She's a lovely lady, but it's so bloody unnerving.

    In year 10 I thought she was trying to correct an answer on my Maths GCSE paper. I got only got a B in it, so maybe she was?
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    Pooing myself.
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    Re: What are your worst nightmares regarding exams?
    (Original post by JollyGreenAtheist)
    I relive my nightmares every time I am in the exam hall.

    One of the invigilators has what looks like a post-traumatic stress twitch, where she constantly but very gently shakes her head. She has a habit of standing near me when I'm writing; I look up and see her shaking her head, judging me and my answers!

    She's a lovely lady, but it's so bloody unnerving.

    In year 10 I thought she was trying to correct an answer on my Maths GCSE paper. I got only got a B in it, so maybe she was?
    not fair!
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    being raped
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    pen exploding in my face
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    Fainting during it. I have a phobia of blood/needles/disease and in a year 10 geography paper there was a question about world development and disease fainted in the middle of exam hall- hence I take exams in a smaller room but still worried about it :/
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    Failing, surely?
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    Getting a boner.
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    Re: What are your worst nightmares regarding exams?
    Going to the exam hall and finding I haven't been entered for the exam/entered for the wrong subject. Or think the exam is in the afternoon, show up at the school and it was actually in the morning. Or think I have my revision under control and all well thought out and planned ahead, and then I realise I've forgotten about an exam and it's like the next day and I haven't revised for it at all.

    These are recurring ones
  15. isp's Avatar
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    Missing out on my victory **** during the morning
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    A motorbike shooting out the exam paper and smacking me in the face, causing me to have a violent nosebleed.
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    Opening the paper, and despite having revised the whole course, thinking "what?"
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    Opening the paper, and despite having revised the whole course, thinking "what?"
    This.

    Nothing worse than looking at a question and having absolutely no idea what to write.
  19. jwf13's Avatar
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    Sneezing in a Spanish listening exam causing me and the whole year fail the paper, and the fire alarm going off in the middle of a paper.
  20. VickyDoodle's Avatar
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    Re: What are your worst nightmares regarding exams?
    Going in to results day and finding out I failed everything, but got an A in Iron Man.

    (My friend actually had this dream. xD)
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