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Reply 3640
dewdrop
Tis a day etched in my memory, nasty exams..

Don't you just love the regulations regarding fires, (or at least the ones that we were told related to us) that if there's an alarm we just carry on, it always sounds so heartless when our exam officer tells us. Especially because at my school it would only go off during an exam for a real fire!



well we had a nice lil break for 5 minutes, but was in silence, so i just drew the taj mahal on my table, my artistic skills are about as good as a dog singing ava maria.... and then 5 minutes extra at the end...
This one girl i know had 4 fire alarms in one exam, then they decided to turn the alarm system off...
tctc
noooni you should know by now, i live in a waste land, plagued by barabaric and dastadly attacks, where no man is safe to leave their humble adobe without the fear of presecution. To step through the front door and enter outside is to invite suffering and pain into your life.

Ok maybe its not that bad :smile:

Drama queen :p:

Your schools probably just followed the rules, whereas my school doesnt go by the rules :cool: (only cause its rubbish) we were allowed drinks/food/pencil cases on desks.... most of the teachers were leaving this year so didnt bother watching the exams. We had to sit our exams with the gcse year becuase there are so few of us, and in the geography gcse exam the teacher went around pointing at the wrong answers:eek: A boy in my maths A-level class wrote some formulas on his hand and no one noticed! (although he was stupid and could have rearranged some stuff from the formula book to get the ones he risked his exam for)

sorry tctc my language isnt as poetic as yours:p:
Reply 3642
KAISER_MOLE
For my 2 STEP exams, I was provided with a Cup of Coffee and a Flapjack, can't complain really


i can i dont like coffee :p:

i only ever drank it once, half 8 in the head masters office discussing fractals and differential equations... and the riemann hypothesis. I was like im going to fall asleep, so he made me a cup :biggrin:
Reply 3643
**noooni**
Drama queen :p:

Your schools probably just followed the rules, whereas my school doesnt go by the rules :cool: (only cause its rubbish) we were allowed drinks/food/pencil cases on desks.... most of the teachers were leaving this year so didnt bother watching the exams. We had to sit our exams with the gcse year becuase there are so few of us, and in the geography gcse exam the teacher went around pointing at the wrong answers:eek: A boy in my maths A-level class wrote some formulas on his hand and no one noticed! (although he was stupid and could have rearranged some stuff from the formula book to get the ones he risked his exam for)

sorry tctc my language isnt as poetic as yours:p:


when we do exams in the hall we have like 8 exams going on at once... i had that when i was alone doing mechanics 3, at the back, couldnt see the back... and finished and hour early after rushing so was all scruffy. :frown:
Reply 3644
**noooni**
Drama queen :p:

Your schools probably just followed the rules, whereas my school doesnt go by the rules :cool: (only cause its rubbish) we were allowed drinks/food/pencil cases on desks.... most of the teachers were leaving this year so didnt bother watching the exams.



Come to think of it, Exam practice during our GCSEs was pretty dodgy.... i remember we were inadvertently awarded about 15minutes extra time in our Biology exam because one teacher had decided to plait anothers hair (the latter of whom was male) whilst facing away from the clock..... SHEESH! not complaining tho!
I think we actually had to put our hands up to make them aware we had finished!
Reply 3645
dewdrop
Well done! That will go on to inspire generations of students for years to come, although it interests me as to why it was the Taj Mahal that came to mind in that moment?


I was reading arabic (translated of course :smile:) books the night before, it was too hot and i couldnt sleep. I had no sleep before the exam.. and aladdin rules.
I couldn't think of anything worth sneaking into my exams. They seemed to involve more working out (maths) or blagging (R.S/English) than remembering.
Reply 3647
i can never remember anything in maths, whats needed is in the formulae booklet, and then you just spend a page proving a formula that you could of just "remembered" oh well it wastes time :smile:
Reply 3648
The thing I find hardest to remember is my seat number! I have no short term memory at all. Saying that tho, I mustnt have a long term one either as I wrote the wrong candidate number on half of my papers. Thats erm, pretty worrying! :redface:
Ruthie_J
The thing I find hardest to remember is my seat number! I have no short term memory at all. Saying that tho, I mustnt have a long term one either as I wrote the wrong candidate number on half of my papers. Thats erm, pretty worrying! :redface:

We have little cards on our tables with your name, candidate number and centre number.:p:
Reply 3650
dewdrop
Indeed he does, as does the Taj Mahal, which is the most beautiful tomb i've ever seen..


personally i prefer Kafus... just cause yeh :p: but the taj is the most beutiful Mughal (??) architecture ever.
oh and im sure thats chineese emperour (was it the first Qin one??) if its every properly excavated with its legendary "mercury rivers" is quite an pretty picture.
**noooni**
We have little cards on our tables with your name, candidate number and centre number.:p:


We have to carry ours around with us, avoid losing them and take them into the exams!

Hmm, that should be 'had to'. I'm not quite dealing with this whole 'I never have to go back to school' deal.
Reply 3652
**noooni**
We have little cards on our tables with your name, candidate number and centre number.:p:


sexual, i envy your school... we just have unsighty graffiti on every table e.g.
" mat + chaz + kev + saz + dave wer ere 2k6" which i responed "2k6 ---> 2 x 1000 x 6 =12,000, we are not in that year, therefore you "wer not ere "then, i think you mean 2k + 6 which = 2006"
Reply 3653
**noooni**
We have little cards on our tables with your name, candidate number and centre number.:p:


Ahh see we did at High School and I got used to the luxury!! At college theres so many of us that we get herded around so you're in a different seat for every exam! Hence loads of confuzzlement!! I resorted to writing them all down on my hand before the exam. Probably good that I do all arts subjects, otherwise they'd have thought i was attempting to sneak formulae in or something
tctc
sexual, i envy your school... we just have unsighty graffiti on every table e.g.
" mat + chaz + kev + saz + dave wer ere 2k6" which i responed "2k6 ---> 2 x 1000 x 6 =12,000, we are not in that year, therefore you "wer not ere "then, i think you mean 2k + 6 which = 2006"

haha
To them you would have been the 'gay' one for writing that:wink:
Reply 3655
dewdrop
Yeah i think its Mugal, I just meant that of all of the tombs I have seen thus far, it takes the biscuit by a long shot..quite a morbid topic really, and of course I have yet to see the pyramids of Egypt which will without a doubt be awe inspiring.


indeed they are, i personally havnt seen the taj first hand that may sway my opinion...
I would love to have seen the masoleum of maussollos, but noo i cant.
Nah discussing necropolisis is awesome.. :smile:
Reply 3656
tctc
sexual, i envy your school... we just have unsighty graffiti on every table e.g.
" mat + chaz + kev + saz + dave wer ere 2k6" which i responed "2k6 ---> 2 x 1000 x 6 =12,000, we are not in that year, therefore you "wer not ere "then, i think you mean 2k + 6 which = 2006"


I hope you wrote that either before or after the exam started :p:
Reply 3657
**noooni**
haha
To them you would have been the 'gay' one for writing that:wink:


yes i couldnt help my self...
however when i was doing my gcses i came across "i love *insert full name here*) with an arrow and ****** written by it :p:
all my friends thought i wrote it... however i dont put :suith: instead of a dot for an i
Reply 3658
Ruthie_J
I hope you wrote that either before or after the exam started :p:


probably half way through when i get bored :smile:
Reply 3659
tctc
sexual, i envy your school... we just have unsighty graffiti on every table e.g.
" mat + chaz + kev + saz + dave wer ere 2k6" which i responed "2k6 ---> 2 x 1000 x 6 =12,000, we are not in that year, therefore you "wer not ere "then, i think you mean 2k + 6 which = 2006"

I hope you wrote "where k=1000"!

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