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Your best & worst exam moments!

:woo: 5 days left until the final exams of this summer season! :woo:


What have been your best and worst exam moments this year? :beard:
Had any last minute epiphanies? :moon:
Or maybe you realised that you'd read the question wrong, just as your exam paper was collected? :nooo:

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For myself it was when the exams officer gave me a packet of starbursts to eat whilst doing my exam :drool:, further to that I could hear music from downstairs. Fair to say that exam went really well. Brain was hyped up on sugar and writing to the beat of the music! :lol:
PLEASE DO NOT talk about exams! Wanna forget them till the 13th of August.
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Original post by KittyRe-play
PLEASE DO NOT talk about exams! Wanna forget them till the 13th of August.


Just be lucky you've finished


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Original post by KittyRe-play
PLEASE DO NOT talk about exams! Wanna forget them till the 13th of August.


arent results on the 20th
Worst moment was in my literature exam: We were given a shortened version of the poetry anthology we'd studied- missing loads of poems that people had planned to use! :eek:
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Just as our biology unit 3 finished, it occurred to me I completely misread the first page. Managed to change one of my questions, but didn't have time for the other two :frown:
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Original post by JuliaM1998
arent results on the 20th


GCSE's are 20th.

A levels (and Scottish Highers) have a separate date
I got a 66% on an exam at uni that I did *no* revision for (basically) where I thought I had failed, plus I had finished and written everything I could 30 minutes before the exam actually finished. I finished so early that I drew the most elaborate comic strip on the back of my question sheet that made the invigilators stop and stare. I remember I was bull****ting like crazy and writing facts that didn't even answer the question, but apparently the examiners were high on something when they were grading my work because they thought it deserves a relatively strong 2:1 grade lmao
Original post by JuliaM1998
arent results on the 20th


Awww you people are the GCSE lot haha that's cute...brings back memories. I thought you were on about AS and all.
During maths I thought there was a whole question I couldn't do because I didn't know the formula for the volume of a cone, I got really angry because on previous papers it had given it. I went back towards the end and realised it was given at the bottom of the page, and I managed to get it all done in time :redface: I always start questions before I've read all the way through them
My phone fell out of my blazer pocket and made the loudest bang ever. The whole year group turned around to stare at me and one of the invigilators was walking up my row. Luckily I quickly picked it off the floor before the invigilator reached me and no one dobbed me in :colondollar:
Original post by Neuth
:woo: 6 days left until the final exams of this summer season! :woo:


What have been your best and worst exam moments this year? :beard:
Had any last minute epiphanies? :moon:
Or maybe you realised that you'd read the question wrong, just as your exam paper was collected? :nooo:

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My best was when I opened my English Lit paper and the poem that I really wanted to write about came up ;D
My worst was when I really needed the toilet during my maths exam but didn't want to leave the exam hall - ended up staring at my paper doing nothing for a few minutes before finally asking the invigilator to escort me
worst moment - when you don't have enough time to finish the paper
Best moment - when you are doing comfortably well and relaxing through the exam paper

I missed a few questions nearly on all of my exam papers but they were questions that I would've not got anyway and the ones that I spent more time on were ones that I could do but needed more thought
Needed the toilet so bad for the last twenty minutes of maths that I couldn't actually finish the paper because I couldn't think straight anymore and couldn't write, oops


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My best was my opening my philosophy paper and realising I could answer the questions easily!!
Worst.. realising just before Psychology that the exam paper had been rewritten and none of the predictions would come up
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Original post by It's_Ailie
Needed the toilet so bad for the last twenty minutes of maths that I couldn't actually finish the paper because I couldn't think straight anymore and couldn't write, oops


:lol:

I think there is a good lesson to be learnt there. :wink:
Worst: saying that 113.5% of households saw goldfinches in a Biology exam.

Best: chemistry unit 2 exam- so easy
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Oh God. My first university exam was a complete nightmare. I'd worked so hard for it, doing extra reading, staying in the library until the nearly midnight, knew the maps and diagrams off by heart... then when I opened the paper and read the question I was like "hooolllyyyyy ****" and read it over and over about five times. I was one of only a small handful to choose to answer oceanography (it was either that or do rock cycle- and I hate rocks), and it seemed that this question was punishing me for choosing it. I had revised for rocks a little bit, but that looked like bull**** too (and apparently it was). So I blagged it, thinking through the whole thing, 'Okay, it's time to think of what you'd do if you failed the year...' and OMG my answer was horrific. Yet I came out of it with 75% somehow (meaning I finished the module on 79.5%)!? :lol: :lolwut:

Or there was my FP3 exam (two years ago! :zomg:). Opened it up, thought 'Nope, don't know, go to the next question...' and I did that until I'd been through all the questions. Behind me I could hear the two other people in my year doing further maths crying (I didn't cry- I just got angry). To this day, I don't know how I got a D in that module. But I did (was genuinely expecting a U).

Best one though? Ooh, chemistry C2 and C3 in GCSE. Was trying not to hum through those exams as it was so easy. Got 100% in both of them.
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Original post by AlexParmenter
I always start questions before I've read all the way through them


I do this :redface:
I start the question, then half way through realise I'm missing info, then find it in the info I didn't read :giggle:

Original post by Rainbowhorror01
My best was when I opened my English Lit paper and the poem that I really wanted to write about came up ;D


The same happened with me this year! :awesome:

Original post by web-girl
Best moments are those "light bullb" moments. :smile::awesome::stupido2:


And they make you feel so clever, don't they? Like... "I know this!" :biggrin:
Original post by flibber
Worst: saying that 113.5% of households saw goldfinches in a Biology exam.



Oh dear :console:
See all the goldfinches.
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