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[Ezteq]

yeah I've got mine next week, and on the uni discussion board everyone is blathering on and on about og I'm going to fail which has a domino effect and then people who were feeling confident start posting 'omfg I'm going to fail too!!' and before you know it there'll be mass suicide of middle aged library assistants all over the world.

Anyway I just posted this there and thought it may come in useful for some of you guys who are also doing exams...

...am I the only one that's thinking 2hrs of exam is sooo much better than 2 months of painstaking report writing? At least you get in there, do it and bam it is done!

Amber's good things about exams:​

1) There's none of those night-time wakings up and running the the nearest pen and paper to jot down yet another thing to add to the 'already 3 million words over the limit' assignment, you sit and do it and it's done.

2) in addition once it's done it's done, you cannot spend an extra week or two (when you had actually been planning on just relaxing, eating chocolate and watching desperate housewives) 'fiddling' and worrying about should this go there, should that go there...should that even be in there?? and editing to the point of madness.

3) Everyone is in the same boat, no matter how prepped we are we all think we don't know enough.

4) This is not Sparta!! i.e. they don't pick out the weaklings and throw them off a cliff. Everyone wants you to succeed, there is no one out there in a dark basement (possibly with maps and things on the walls) devising plans on how to make you fail and going "Muwahaha their downfall will come swiftly my dear!!" while stroking a disgruntled looking white cat.

5) The examiners expect exam answers to be a bit ropey, if you sat down and created a perfectly worded, highly polished answer you'd either be a robot or investigated for cheating. This is the one time you can do an assignment and not have to worry about using the dictionary, perfect punctuation and using words that you only ever hear on literary programming late at night.


I hope these help, frankly I am beyond worry I'll do my best and sleep well that night knowing I tried. No one expects more than that so go out there, do your best and then forget about it!


Amber D'Angeles: Morale officer starship Aber.

If anyone else has any sagely advice please feel free to add

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Back at school I'd been pressured into taking the History higher. I did not really want to do it and stopped going halfway through the year. The school still insisted I did the exam. I did well in all my other subjects, but didn't even bother studying for this.

So I went into the exam and wrote about Rasputin building an army of Mickey Mouse robots to take over Russia in 1917 and walked out of the exam about 15 minutes after the start, to the sound of the invigilators trying not to laugh too loudly as they read the exam paper.

 

[Ezteq]

lmao man! Rar rar Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen...he was one crazy cat!

 

[ileks]

Just finished my first year uni exams about 30 mins ago I reckon number 4 on your list should be deleted Whoever designed my Analysis (maths exam) obviously hated us

A good thing about exams - When you finally finish them, it's the summer and you can doss around for about 3 months

 

[Garaen]

Biggest piece of advice I can give regarding exams is when the exam starts is spend at least 5 - 15 minutes (depending on exam length) just planning the structure before you start writing. There's no point writing 10 pages of pure shite when you could write 3 pages of concise points answering the question in a more articulate manner.

After every exam I've had (and i've had a bucket load) there's always people asking "how many pages did you write" as if that was a signifier of how well you did.

 

[Ezteq]

Biggest piece of advice I can give regarding exams is when the exam starts is spend at least 5 - 15 minutes (depending on exam length) just planning the structure before you start writing. There's no point writing 10 pages of pure shite when you could write 3 pages of concise points answering the question in a more articulate manner.

After every exam I've had (and i've had a bucket load) there's always people asking "how many pages did you write" as if that was a signifier of how well you did.

lol yes and to add something, do you really think the exam marker is going to look kindly upon you if you give them hundreds of pages to read atop the hundreds of pages other people do? They will hate you, and hate you with a passion!

 

[Garaen]

The markers get a fraction of the time you spend in the exam to mark them, something like 10 minutes per paper, so make sure you're concise - i look at it like jabbing in boxing, make sure you keep jabbing "good points/arguments".