Post Exam Blues
Not sure if this is the right forum for this.
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
I'm scared that will happen after my A-levels, but I do have plans on what I will do after my A-levels so I am hoping that it won't be too bad
What I usually do before exams is make a huge list of what I really want to do after exams e.g. read certain books, video games, movies, travelling to different palces, cinema etc. Then after exams I have options and stuff I want to do 
Original post by Chronoscope
What I usually do before exams is make a huge list of what I really want to do after exams e.g. read certain books, video games, movies, travelling to different palces, cinema etc. Then after exams I have options and stuff I want to do
yeah I think that would be great too. I think of studying like being in jail. all you can think of is the freedom when you get out and all the things you could be doing. but when you have the freedom it's not as good as you thought! 😂
Original post by shinytoy
Not sure if this is the right forum for this.
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
omg totally get what u mean after y11 gcses i was so in a daze for a good 3 weeks like there was no order in my life i hadn’t been used to such a ‘no structure’ time it felt weird. but once i had settled in it was so good - im hopefully it’s the same for everyone bc a good break after such a long time of pressure is such a nice feeling and v well deserved!
Reply 6
Original post by shinytoy
Not sure if this is the right forum for this.
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
I usually just veg out for a week
Reply 7
Original post by shinytoy
Not sure if this is the right forum for this.
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
So picture this. You're cramming madly for some exams, for weeks or months. Maybe you have your uni finals. Maybe you're a post grad and finally after years of work turn in your final thesis. Maybe you're a regular student and just finished your year end exams or GCSE.
After the exams are all over, I feel the post exam blues. I have a load of free time I don't know what to do with. I sometimes have lack of direction (if they are uni finals or A levels or major career exams and you dont know what to do next).
There is also the crash after all the late nights and intense study. The feeling of "now what?" All the adrenaline is gone.
Even when I would go clubbing for post exam party, I would feel it afterwards
Do you get post exam blues?
What do you do to beat the post exam blues? I am thinking to book a holiday after my next exams. I don't have the motivation to plan anything right away after, so I will book it all before the exam
I sort of get this, to avoid this when I did my a levels last year, everytime I was revising and didn't want to, I made a list in my notes app of things I'd rather be doing instead of revising. Which helped remind me whenever I felt useless after my exams that there were things past me would've found fulfilling!
Reply 8
Regarding post exam blues, I tended to find that I wasn't so much bothered by the 'come down' or the sudden cessation of work so much, as the subsequent worry/anxiety of how i did in the exams themselves. In those intervening weeks between finals and results your mind can play havoc as you play out the exams again and again in your head, hoping to convince yourself at best that you're in line for a first, or at worst, that you couldn't have done it any better. In reality of course, and being one's own worse critic you end up lying in bed at night fretting futily on how you shouldn't have missed that important detail from your last essay, or restructured it all a lot better. It's all in vain of course as once your pens are down and the invigilator has collected the exam papers, it's basically all in the lap of the Gods!
So my answer to the OPs original question would be to take a short break immediately after the exams, then to try and get back into some meaningful work soon after to help focus your mind on more diverting activity.
So my answer to the OPs original question would be to take a short break immediately after the exams, then to try and get back into some meaningful work soon after to help focus your mind on more diverting activity.
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