Stomach Rumbling during Exams

justbringit89

anyone else find this in exams , so humiliating having these noises come and then i lose my concentration !!! is dere ne ting like tablets to stop this!!

tuxy

Tablets?
Eat a good breakfast.

justbringit89

tuxy wrote:

Tablets?
Eat a good breakfast.

i do but still rumbling

geminilady

Porridge will stop you from getting hunger pains its full of fibre and will keep you full for longer.

justbringit89

geminilady wrote:

Porridge will stop you from getting hunger pains its full of fibre and will keep you full for longer.

ya i must try this , i hav like 2 slice of toast but doesnt do it for me:(

Nehpets

You call 2 slices of toast a good breakfast?

justbringit89

with a mug of tea and maybe have 4 slices !! i need something 2 keep me going from 8oclock to 1pm until lunch !!

Rozabeez

Bananas and porridge, big bottle of water on your desk. Apparently sometimes your body can't tell the difference whether its hungry or thirsty, so your stomach might rumble when all you need is water.

Peter Collins

One of those big Yops works a treat

justbringit89

Peter Collins wrote:

One of those big Yops works a treat

is that like before your exam or during it , id feel abit stupid having it on my desk but then again less stupid than if my stomach went off!!

Rozabeez

Why would you feel stupid? People aren't going to be looking at what you have on your desk during a LC exam....tbh I think they might be more concentrated on the exam itself for some reason.

fuinneamh

4 slices of bread is not a breakfast, as recommended get used to having a big feed of cereal in the morning. during the exam i'd recommend dry snacks such as raisins or nuts to keep hunger at bay and a big bottle of water. then you shouldn't have much difficulty and they also have the added advantage of being relatively quite although open the packet beforehand.

Haven't a Clue

Nutri-grains are the way forward. Unbelievable how a wee bar like it can cure hunger as good as it does. But yeah, I'm gonna be trying porridge as well. I might have to throw a couple of kilos of sugar in it to make it anyway decent, but it does stop hunger until lunch.

Smellyirishman

Haven't a Clue wrote:

Nutri-grains are the way forward.

No, they are not.

Porridge in the morning. Bring water in with you (pee before the exam!) and have some nuts with you as was suggested.

Anything that peaks sugars quickly is not good for your concentration in an exam, you want to be active at all times.

Mushy

Nothing wrong with the two bowels of weetabix in the morning. All my stomach can handle, plus it gives me like, 15 extra mins in bed cos they fast to eat. The amount of people who dont eat a good breakfast is nuts.

Rozabeez

Walnuts. Walnuts are shaped like brains and therefore feed your brain.

Selphie

Rozabeez wrote:

Walnuts. Walnuts are shaped like brains and therefore feed your brain.

That's great logic

Corruptedmorals

Got them very badly during the mocks...and I eat 3 cereals and toast in the morning, as well as a Nutri Grain right before the exam. Water won't help with them.

My english teacher said to bring chocolate in, they'll allow that? Mm...animal bars..

Selphie

Chocolate for me too. One of those nice big bars of dairy milk

md99

Haven't a Clue wrote:

Nutri-grains are the way forward.

I hate those f**kin bars :mad:

I never get hungry during this year for some reason, I eat a good bit at breakfast/lunch etc but i NEVER seem to be hungry at all, which is weird....

Eat something filling before school, don't eat large amounts and don't eat anything high in fat, and use a bit of variety... you'll probably get sick of having the same thing every morning, and you'll probably just have nothing instead which isnt good... happened me lots of times...

Rozabeez

Selphie wrote:

That's great logic

Haha, yeah I used it for the JC, handful of walnuts, chopped banana and a bit of yoghurt in a bowl, can't go wrong.

capslocked

Dont drink tea/coffee beforehand
Drink 7up - good for the belly
If you smoke - dont smoke too many beforehand
If its really bad bring rennies in with you
Or you could just let it all out - its the leaving nobody else is gonna be paying you attention in the exam - better to let it out than hold it in

justbringit89

capslocked wrote:

Dont drink tea/coffee beforehand
Drink 7up - good for the belly
If you smoke - dont smoke too many beforehand
If its really bad bring rennies in with you
Or you could just let it all out - its the leaving nobody else is gonna be paying you attention in the exam - better to let it out than hold it in

would 7up not cause gas !! i dont wan gas cause there is gonna be like 18 of us in a prefab :mad: :mad:

Selphie

capslocked wrote:

its the leaving nobody else is gonna be paying you attention in the exam - better to let it out than hold it in

I beg to differ. I noticed every single thing in the mocks, and fumed at people. A girl in my Irish exam fell asleep and was snoring slightly. She's lucky my whole honours class didn't kill her. I know that the Leaving is obviously going to be different, cause people are allowed to leave and stuff, but even the slightest bit of noise - moving chairs, tearing paper, shaking Tipp Ex - drives me mental.
Yep, I know I'm a horrible, pedantic and selfish person, but hey.

Haven't a Clue

md99 wrote:

I hate those f**kin bars :mad:

I never get hungry during this year for some reason, I eat a good bit at breakfast/lunch etc but i NEVER seem to be hungry at all, which is weird....

Eat something filling before school, don't eat large amounts and don't eat anything high in fat, and use a bit of variety... you'll probably get sick of having the same thing every morning, and you'll probably just have nothing instead which isnt good... happened me lots of times...

I dunno where I'd be without me nutri-grains every day. A hell of a loy hungrier and grumpier anyway. The strawberry ones are especially nice. Helps me out when I've had a sh1t breakfast.

Spank

Selphie wrote:

I beg to differ. I noticed every single thing in the mocks, and fumed at people. A girl in my Irish exam fell asleep and was snoring slightly. She's lucky my whole honours class didn't kill her. I know that the Leaving is obviously going to be different, cause people are allowed to leave and stuff, but even the slightest bit of noise - moving chairs, tearing paper, shaking Tipp Ex - drives me mental.
Yep, I know I'm a horrible, pedantic and selfish person, but hey.

Oh I'm the same way, and all the female teachers LOVED to clip clap around in their 10 inch heels, which must have been made of plastic or something for the sound they made! So distracting!

So wait, you're allowed eat in the exam? chocolate? Usually I'm concentrating on writing so my hunger doesn't bother me.

ZorbaTehZ

As for the tummy rubbling, I get it very bad too in the mornings - but I usually get a yop or banana at break and that sorts it out.
Theres actually a few peeps in the class who get really loud tummy rumbling, and some of the classes in the morning are quite funny.

nedward

Hit yourself a box when your tummy starts to rumble.

It works (sometimes).

Selphie

nedward wrote:

Hit yourself a box when your tummy starts to rumble.

Lol!!!
Can you just imagine. Leaving Cert students everywhere spontaneously punching themselves in the middle of exams.

Peter Collins

justbringit89 wrote:

is that like before your exam or during it , id feel abit stupid having it on my desk but then again less stupid than if my stomach went off!!

I laughed when I read this..

I spent my whole time in secondary school trying not to be noticed, and my whole time in UCD trying to be noticed!!!!!!

Didn't work either time!

shazzyshaz

yip big problem pour moi also but im gonna try the porrige thing and bananaaa!!

sternn

I will take an old banana in with me, plus a litre of water (piss before the exam), a bar of dairy milk chocolate (in cling film so as not to be noisy), cashew nuts and, if i'm really hungry, a second banana!!

Enemy Of Fate

nedward wrote:

Hit yourself a box when your tummy starts to rumble.

It works (sometimes).

Thats exactly what I do!!!And it always seems to work!!Anyways I like to have a fry before an exam....It may not be that healthy, but it fills me up for the day ahead!

Corruptedmorals

Rozabeez wrote:

Haha, yeah I used it for the JC, handful of walnuts, chopped banana and a bit of yoghurt in a bowl, can't go wrong.

Ah here, Roe..the longest JC exam is 2 and a half hours..some of these are 3 hrs 20 and 3hrs...

I can't get past 2 and a half hours without deafening everybody..and it's mortifying...

fonpokno

i eat porridge every mornin and i'm starvin by the time a get to school! mad... yeah i brought chocolate into all my junior cert exams! every time i finished a question i ate some cos im the hungriest person in the world like ever. it works i tell ya! just make sure its all open before the exams start cos otherwise you'll be lynched!

capslocked

Its said that stomach rumbling is a sign of stress as well - so if youre worrying about it its more likely to happen - its not necessarily caused by hunger

originalcupcake

jeez ye all ate loads during ye'r exams...i never have time to even stop to think about eating... lol so much for time management...

but to give my bit of advice:D ..for brek the morn of the exam i usually have porridge, 2 slices of brown toast and a boiled egg. thats keeps me going. i just bring water into the exam then. sorted!! haha oh ya, actually for the jc exams i had a packet of skittles, i just had one now and again to keep up the sugar level. did the job!:)

shazzyshaz

aragh sure whatever works on the day!!!