Have you ever missed/been late for an exam?

I finished all my A2 exams yesterday, but I had a dream last night that they'd just started and I had my first one (Chemistry resit) and I woke up and went to it and everything, only to find out it was on the day before, and that I'd missed it! It was so scary.. I woke up and it took me a while to realise that I'd already done the stupid exams!
And yesterday, when I had my final exam, then I went to the train station to get on the 8.19 train for my morning exam, only to find it'd been delayed till 8.42, which would get me to college at 8.57, and I'd be guaranteed to be about 10 minutes late to the exam. So the only thing I could do was get a taxi, which cost me £13! Oh well, it got me there with 15 minutes till the exam started so it was worth it I kept thinking though, what if there were no taxis at the train station??? I'd've been late for the exam!

So has anybody else narrowly missed being late/been late/completly missed an exam?

I finished all my A2 exams yesterday, but I had a dream last night that they'd just started and I had my first one (Chemistry resit) and I woke up and went to it and everything, only to find out it was on the day before, and that I'd missed it! It was so scary.. I woke up and it took me a while to realise that I'd already done the stupid exams!
And yesterday, when I had my final exam, then I went to the train station to get on the 8.19 train for my morning exam, only to find it'd been delayed till 8.42, which would get me to college at 8.57, and I'd be guaranteed to be about 10 minutes late to the exam. So the only thing I could do was get a taxi, which cost me £13! Oh well, it got me there with 15 minutes till the exam started so it was worth it I kept thinking though, what if there were no taxis at the train station??? I'd've been late for the exam!

So has anybody else narrowly missed being late/been late/completly missed an exam?

Never been late for an exam, but have known people at Uni sitting some of the exams I have this past semester to enter 30 minutes late.

The thing is, unless the circumstances are drastic, and you can make your case very quickly to the chief invigilator in the room, you DON'T get the time replaced.

Thats the only difference between school/6th Form and Uni; all to do with taking more responsibility I guess - as at Uni also, no one produces individual exam schedules for each person, you have to look it up, make sure you know how to get to the venue etc.

One of my friend arrived late for a computing module last week due to there been a massive power across half the city of wakefield and nobodies alarm going off. He had proof of the power cut and everything and told the exam board and they said it was not his fault and he could have done no more but would still get an X!

I've purposely missed 4-5 A2 unit exams for physics knowing that I didn't need them to get into university. The university offer didn't include that subject luckily. So i thought, to hell with revising and turning up.

This is a description of my worst nightmare - this happened to me once and I'll never forget it.

"I was just entering the Sports Hall (where I did my exams) to sit my GCSE Calculator paper. I had my calculator with me in my hand, the main invigilator instructed us on everything and told us to write our names/ centre numbers etc then the exam began.

The exam would start at 09:00 and finish at 11:00

I turned the first page to answer a question which was worth 6 marks and it required a calculator. I focused on the paper and went to grab my calculator at the end of the desk. It was gone. I looked down on the floor, right left, back and front. It was nowhere in sight. I put my hand up and asked a nearby invigilator if she could see it anywhere. She said she had notice I did not come in with a calculator and said she could do nothing. She swiftly walked away back to her chair.
It was now 09:10 and I was panicking. I felt so useless. The question involved three digit numbers and it required the use of pi and sin. I hesitantly decided to turn to the next question, which I could probably just about work out in my head. I began to write in my workings out, slowly but surely building out sums which would lead to the answer. I looked at the clock again and felt an intense blast of horror as it said 10:55 - I had 5 minutes to finish the 23 page test.
I began shaking and shivering even though it was pretty stuffy in the hall. The main invigilator said '5 minutes left' as many students had already finished their paper putting their heads on the table and relaxing a little.
Meanwhile, I was scribbling in anything I could to all of the 6 mark questions but now the last 5 minutes were up when all I had managed to do was flick through the first ten pages and scribble the odd working out here and there.
The papers were being handed in and I reluctantly gave my paper to the teacher who starred at me for a moment like a witch.

When I came out of the hall to the playground, everyone was saying how they found it incredibly easy and that they would all have got 100%. I decided to go for a walk until a teacher told me 'you have your English Literature Paper now don't you?' It's 13:10, you better hurry.

Shocked that time could have gone so ridiculously fast, I decided that it had just been a very wierd day and time was going very quickly. I went up to the hall and asked an inviligator who had all the names written down which seat I was in.
'I'm sorry but you are not meant to be here. You have to got to the other hall at the other end of the school'
'But..-'
The teacher simply ordered me out, telling me where to go.
I began to to the other hall, which was about 300 yards away.

Relieved that I had found it and knew this was where I was supposed to be, suddenly, all of the students were leaving the building - the exam was over. It was 1500.

Devastated that I had definitely failed two major exams, I just went home and cried in my room. My mum came and said that she was very angry with me, she said the school had phoned her up to say that I had done absolutely nothing in the Maths exam and had gone to sleep in the exam, in the English exam they said I did not turn up.

We had a large row through the rest of the evening. I told her what had really happened (at least how it seemed) but she said it was nonsense.

The next day, it was Geography and French, I was determined to sit these exams so I arrived two hours early at 07:00 with six pens to make sure nothing else could go wrong. I waited around for two hours, then everyone else had arrived and we all came in to the hall.
The Geography exam had started and I tried to answer the first question straight away. I opened my pen lid and began writing. I wrote one word until my pen ran out. I tried my second pen, it also ran out, the same happened with the other four. I asked a nearby invigilator that all my pens had ran out and they gave me another. The pen they gave me also ran out instantly. I asked them again, they simply said that it was a co-incidence and after them giving me all of the pens they could (which all ran out again) they said they could no longer help. My pencil also suddenly became ledless. Everyone else was writing away and I was left with nothing to do."

That's as far as the dream went - it was HORRIBLE!!! The worst dream you could ever imagine - but thankfully, this did not happen in my real GCSEs and I think I did fairly well

I accidentally slept through one of my uni exams this year. Thought i was going to die It's their own fault for putting them on a saturday!

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That's as far as the dream went - it was HORRIBLE!!! The worst dream you could ever imagine - but thankfully, this did not happen in my real GCSEs and I think I did fairly well