Your exam routine

Pet

We all have our strange habits when it comes around to exam times. What are yours? I know for a fact that around this time of year, I turn into a complete and utter psychotic loon.

My typical exam day usually goes something like this:

-get up at half 6
-panic
-breakfast
-panic
-snap at family, friends etc.
-wash, dress, etc
-panic
-karaoke verite to Avril Lavigne's Complicated (don't ask, this a personal exam superstition)
-cram like never before on the bus in, while drinking litres of green tea
-snap and roar like a maniac at anyone who tries to console me, or even look at me
-panic once I arrive at venue
-try breathing exercises, decide panicking is more productive
-upon finishing final exam, make beeline for nearest pub and get horrifically drunk (and I don't even drink regularly)
-start fight with anyone i consider to be an "overachiever" (usually sporty types who are good-looking and well-liked)
-make tit of myself
-repeat nightly for next week
-get fired from job for being hungover and unproductive
-call boss a stupid ****, thereby losing a good and much-needed reference

Time Magazine

I subsconsciously put everything off to the last day. Dunno why. I just always do. Except for Schols, really. But end of years, oh yeah.

Edit: hehe, I look to this guy for inspiration:

Boston

- copious masturbation and/or Sex.

cuckoo

• panic
• panic a bit more
• wonder why i'm so tired and sleepy
• realise i'm so tired is because i wake up on average once a night due to the 'naked in exam', 'exam paper in strange language', 'every pen i touch refuses to work', 'show up at wrong place for exam', or 'can't remember my own name, let alone any equations' dream
• eat lots of jaffa cakes
• harbour very violent thoughts towards anyone that announces, "sure, you'll be fine"

Maybe i should try Liouville's approach.

Awayindahils

panic, strees, panic and stress for my friends who arn't worried or stressed.

get no sleep the night before.
wear baggy clothes.
drink lots of ribena
chocolate
more ribena
have a panic attack mid exam
recover
more ridena

having managed to alienate all my friends and my long suffering family for more than a wekk before hand due to me stressing.

Barry Aldwell

Turn up for most of your classes/lectures during the year, but don't actually do a tap

When everyone else is studying, just think "Ah sure I'll study when it's closer to the exams"

In the week before the exams, think "Sure I'll look over the notes the night before, I'll be fine"

Spend night before exam either watching an incredibly gory film or doing something fitness related. Under no circumstances do any study.

Spend time before exam thinking "Ah well, it's too late now"

Walk into exam no longer caring

If it's the Leaving cert, still manage to get 470 points, and spend the next year pondering just how many points you could have gotten if you actually had cared.

(Awayindahils stressing at exam time really has to be seen to be believed, btw)

Awayindahils

Barry Aldwell wrote:

(Awayindahils stressing at exam time really has to be seen to be believed, btw)

hey im no where near last year yet..well hopefully won't be anywhere near last year

ah that was a fun bag of nerves thing i had going on. actually hit the exam supervisor/envigilator by accident during the history exam.

wheresthebeef

Pet wrote:

We all have our strange habits when it comes around to exam times. What are yours? I know for a fact that around this time of year, I turn into a complete and utter psychotic loon.

My typical exam day usually goes something like this:

-get up at half 6
-panic
-breakfast
-panic
-snap at family, friends etc.
-wash, dress, etc
-panic
-karaoke verite to Avril Lavigne's Complicated (don't ask, this a personal exam superstition)
-cram like never before on the bus in, while drinking litres of green tea
-snap and roar like a maniac at anyone who tries to console me, or even look at me
-panic once I arrive at venue
-try breathing exercises, decide panicking is more productive
-upon finishing final exam, make beeline for nearest pub and get horrifically drunk (and I don't even drink regularly)
-start fight with anyone i consider to be an "overachiever" (usually sporty types who are good-looking and well-liked)
-make tit of myself
-repeat nightly for next week
-get fired from job for being hungover and unproductive
-call boss a stupid ****, thereby losing a good and much-needed reference

not meaning to be pedantic, but with all that green tea and alcohol, would you like to pencil yourself in for some toilet time? might be an idea!!!

Barry Aldwell wrote:

Turn up for most of your classes/lectures during the year, but don't actually do a tap

When everyone else is studying, just think "Ah sure I'll study when it's closer to the exams"

In the week before the exams, think "Sure I'll look over the notes the night before, I'll be fine"

Spend night before exam either watching an incredibly gory film or doing something fitness related. Under no circumstances do any study.

Spend time before exam thinking "Ah well, it's too late now"

Walk into exam no longer caring

If it's the Leaving cert, still manage to get 470 points, and spend the next year pondering just how many points you could have gotten if you actually had cared.

That is my life you've just described.

Bartronilic

-Get up at 12
-Do nothing all day
-At about 9 o clock at night i panic
-Too tired to do anything so i make a few study timetables and print off all notes and exam papers

wheresthebeef

Bartronilic wrote:

-Get up at 12
-Do nothing all day
-At about 9 o clock at night i panic
-Too tired to do anything so i make a few study timetables and print off all notes and exam papers

printing stuff is an excellent way of making it feel like you did loads of work.
even better, put it all in a really nice folder and organise it all, spend hours designing a cover for the folder, and then never look inside it.

shay_562

- Sleep lots the night before, exhausted from a day of actual studying.
- Get up ridiculously early the morning of (like, 4-5AM) to look over everything one last time (I swear, it works much better than cramming it weeks beforehand)
- Obsessively check and recheck the bus timetable the night before and all morning because I'm worried I'll have looked at the wrong day/direction/route and miss it, leaving me stranded out here.
- Sleep some more on the bus on the way in (I'd cram then too, but I still get carsick. Bah)
- Sit outside exam hall with book open waiting for doors to open, too twitchy to read, praying some of it gets absorbed psychically.

panic, strees, panic and stress for my friends who arn't worried or stressed.

Karmically speaking, you're doing enough for all three of us right now.

hey im no where near last year yet

...then I truly shudder to think what last year must have been like.

Crash

Smoke.




thats pretty much it.

PHB

I make a study plan and stick to it, it's fairly simple

It's what most people do too, but I guess somehow it's cooler these days to say you don't study.

Tar.Aldarion

Ha, cooler - not twelve.
When some people say it they mean it.

Pet

I would like to be a studier. I admire people who study. They have discipline, dedication and a work ethic that I lack and may never possess. They are the people who will be successful, truly successful in life.

Not studying doesn't make me cool, it makes me a failure, or at least someone who just scrapes a pass rather than actually doing well.

I know I'm an idiot for not studying. I try. It doesn't come easy to me, it's like pulling teeth.

That's my study-related moan for the day.

Now, back to trying to do this ****ing Hill reaction lab writeup. Joyous times.

cuckoo

Ditto me on what Pet said.

shay_562

Like the two above, it has nothing to do with being 'cooler'. I used to be a studier, with colour-coded plans and everything, and I have every confidence that I'll be like that again in years to come when, you know, the exams actually matter. But it's 1st year BESS; however hard studying is normally, studying for exams that you know you can pass without hard work and that there's no tangible reward for doing well in is damn near impossible.

Hermione*

My sis had a study routine going where she could get about ten hours or more actual study done in a day - if I had a fraction of her discipline, I'd be sorted. She had her place in Oxford provisionally granted two months before her exams. I'm beginning to question what type job I'll get next year, since my chances of still being in college are shrinking.

The only constants in my routine are stress, panic and nausea ... everything thing else varies depending upon how screwed I am :rolleyes:

DrIndy

Exams.........??? ..... What are those things again?

I don't start panicking until i'm in the exam and I realise I don't know anything!