Exam refreshments

Scrappychimow

Are we allowed eat maltesers and drink chocolate milk during exams?

Mark200

Yes, but do it quietly so you don't annoy everyone around you trying to concentrate.

amacachi

Popcorn all the way.

red herring

Whats the best thing to have in an exam?? I only ever bring water..

ideas?

OneOfThem Stumbled

red herring wrote: »

Whats the best thing to have in an exam?? I only ever bring water..

ideas?

Incredibly powerful laxatives.

Or alternatively, some fruit (as long as it isn't an orange due to the time it would take to peel)... soft drink... energy drink for the hard-core (preferably towards the end of an exam, not beginning!).

FloatingVoter

red herring wrote: »

Whats the best thing to have in an exam?? I only ever bring water..

ideas?

...cogging notes :rolleyes:

PurpleFistMixer

I only bring water too. Food would just distract me.

gearoidof

I wonder if anyone has ever brought a can in...

ApeXaviour

gearoidof wrote: »

I wonder if anyone has ever brought a can in...

Friend of mine brought in a bottle of buckfast stealthily hidden in a 750ml Pepsi bottle.

Finals, last paper, started drinking 30mins before he finished.

dazmetron

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Friend of mine brought in a bottle of buckfast stealthily hidden in a 750ml Pepsi bottle.

Finals, last paper, started drinking 30mins before he finished.

I have a feeling I know who your "Friend" is!

In terms of bringing in food, officially it is not allowed (clean desk policy) however, you will be allowed bring in a bar of chocolate or piece of fruit as long as you can eat it without disturbing anyone else. Last year I had to stop somebody who tried to bring in a plastic bag containing 2 sandwiches, about 5 pieces of fruit and 3 bars as well as 2 drinks. He couldn't understand why he couldn't bring in this much. As far as I remember it was only a 2 hour exam as well.

tehjimmeh

Dunno why anyone would bring food into an exam. 3 hours isn't exactly a massive amount of time to go without food, and personally I'd be concentrating far too much to even think about food.

I used to bring bottles of water into exams, but I found I would never actually drink any.

Scrappychimow

tehjimmeh wrote: »

Dunno why anyone would bring food into an exam. .

Its about relaxation ,savoring life's little indulgences.

AndrewJD

I dunno, if you eat breakfast at 7 (or earlier for some people), by the time 12.30 rolls around you could be fair starving.

bythewoods

I brought in Glucose Barley sweets last year. They're fairly sick like, but I've always associated them with exams... keepin' those sugar levels up, aye.

ApeXaviour

dazmetron wrote: »

I have a feeling I know who your "Friend" is!

Not sure why friend is in quotation marks. Anyway it's certainly possible, he's been around college longer than I have (I'm coming on 9 years) and he posts here now and then.

FloatingVoter

..well, its not me...didn't do finals last year. However the vodka and orange was a pleasure. Point being, once you're not disturbing the other people, who cares ?

aine-maire

Soft mints and water

theowen

AndrewJD wrote: »

I dunno, if you eat breakfast at 7 (or earlier for some people), by the time 12.30 rolls around you could be fair starving.

That's when lunch comes in handy...

The Walsho

I usually just ring up Dominos half way through the exam.

kingQuez

I worked at a lot of exams while I was a postgrad. A drink and small bit of food like a bar or packet of jellies was usually allowed if you really wanted (if you left it on the floor -- clean desk policy), although we did have water to give to students if they requested it. I don't know what the rules are now or how they're enforced.

Id advise against drinking things you dont normally drink; students using redbull or a couple of cans of coke during an exam always seemed the most frantic and disorganized in the venue. Similarly, dont bring a large bottle of water; if your nervous you'll end up drinking so much that you need to keep visiting the bathroom, which just wastes your time. What you eat/drink during an exam will not give you an edge over your classmates.

Do yourself a favor and:

- go to bed the night before the exam at a reasonable time, even if you cant sleep just relax till you doze off. ive seen way too many students show up to exams that are ready to just fall asleep when they sit down.

- get up and eat something the morning of the exam (even if its only a few bananas). while you probably dont need to eat during the exam, if you're there for three hours you dont want hunger distracting you.

- arrive at the venue in time, but not so early that you'll be hanging about getting nervous and listening to all your mates drone on about their revision (or worse, they'll start asking you questions about yours)

Good luck -