I just think our school piles far too much pressure on us and that they're not very encouraging to get the results we and they want - they kind of just tell you to do it. I to be honest didn't know where to start with revision, and that didn't help matters. I'm just going to try my best, and at the end of the day, I have my friends, family and my health on my side. Teachers can say want they want; I'll be honest. I've been under a lot of personal and emotional stress, I'll work my socks off from now on, I know I bodged it up but I needed the shock of low grades to kickstart me out of feeling sorry for myself. Now I know what to learn, how to improve etc. and it feels good. I actually walked out of my Geography exam, the only person to stay the full 1hr 45 mins, beaming for the first time in weeks. I'd answered every question, scribbled all over the page and messed up mapwork, but I felt somehow proud of myself that I'd sat there and checked painstakingly, adding bits in I'd been too tired and nervous to do (though unfortunately adding measurements and giving references was too strenuous within 2 minutes and I only got half of them down, but it probably gained me another mark). There were bits I hadn't even been taught before in detail on the page, as the syllabus for my Year 8 and 9 classes was entirely different to the other classes and I had the same teacher in Year 7. However, somehow I know that I'm forming my character and that I hate being a gibbering wreck over exams. I'm a human being - I can make several mistakes. What's honourable is how you dust yourself off afterwards and how you try to avoid them in the future. And with that I'm off to do RS revision!