I don't get how people can be playing video games the day before the exam

Don't really see how you can tell people to man up when you constantly make threads seeking approval? Seems hypocritical

I subscribe ti this view but I still end up cramming the day before. It feels mostly pointless but it stops me from feeling guilty.

Feel guilty about what? I don't get that, you're not obliged to revise

I play games before my exams, I prefer to go into an exam relaxed rather than stressed out because I've revised that much, it works for me

can i get reps for no reason?

If you don't know it by now you'll never know it. Might as well relax rather than stress yourself and bore yourself to tears

I never feel like I have done enough work for exams, like ever. The fact I very rarely score top marks that is probably true.

Don't agree with this. You can learn stuff that can earn you some marks on the day before, or even on the day of the exam. Speaking from experience.

If you've been doing your work properly you won't need to, plus I think the advantage from not being stressed massively cancels out any one or two marks you pick up (and **** up the rest of the paper due to anxiety)

Compared to who? The only one putting pressure on yourself is you

I do do my work properly. I just know that I can utilise each day leading up to the exam, including the day before the exam and a scan of the notes on the day of the exam. It doesn't stress me out, or cause me any anxiety, it is what it is, the day before the exam, and it's only logical to read over stuff so that it remains fresh.

Well duh, I want to have a chance of having a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself and allows me to not spend all my life with financial anxiety.

Plus there is all the social conditioning etc

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Not really. Id argue it's more logical to chill in order to not be stressed and do well. But I guess different people work differently


And you don't need top marks in order to do that. Am I the only person that doesn't give a **** about exams?! Seriously I don't get what all the fuss is about. Will anyone die if you fail? Will the nukes fire? Will the fire nation attack? No. So stop panicking

Not really. Id argue it's more logical to chill in order to not be stressed and do well. But I guess different people work differently

And you don't need top marks in order to do that. Am I the only person that doesn't give a **** about exams?! Seriously I don't get what all the fuss is about. Will anyone die if you fail? Will the nukes fire? Will the fire nation attack? No. So stop panicking

My family have always been big on academia and learning stuff, so for us exams are quite important. If I know I can do well, I will revise - because I think it would be a shame to miss out on some prestige/higher education because I've not put in the work.
However, I do find it difficult to motivate myself on a baking hot morning stuck in my room for three hours only to go into school and do yet more exams. Plus with subjects like languages, I'm hardly going to be able to learn a language to GCSE level in a day, so if I haven't revised enough already there's no point cramming ^^;

I'm not suggesting go mental and cram as if your life depends on it, but just take a measured approach on that day as well as the other days you've been revising.