Exam Anxiety

seamus

Where's it gone??

Every exam I've done up until this year has been a nervous one. JC, LC, first year. I'd have that ugly stomach feeling the night before, that morning. But this year (2nd year) it's gone. Night before, no panic, that morning, ah it's all good. The only bit of fear I get is sitting at the desk just before they hand out the papers, worrying that something might come up that I don't know, or that the paper will be totally different than what I'd practiced. I've gone to maybe 20 lectures (in total) all year, so I have fecked up 2 exams already, but I'm still not worried.

So what's the story? Has this happened to anyone else or am I just a lucky git?

GoneShootin

i found that also

as you pass thru college years, maturity starts to settle in. or at least, is should

i was a bag o nerves for the LC. Now in having final exams for my diploma, and im not in the least bit worried.

azezil

yeah same here, couldn't give a toss.

Two lecturers pulled me aside today to as me if i intended handing up the latest assignments, both which were due in about 3 days ago... i said i would so now i have to have them done by the end of the day oh and i still have my 15 page site to do for monday which i havent done, an exam next week in os, and a 2000 word essay on god knows what for next thursday and i couldn't care less.

lecturer called me the "phantom menace", i rearly turn up for class n still am the only one capable of holding a decent conversation on the current topic (in multimedia only )

beserker

I'm doing electronics in cit and tbh i'd love to know what ye're taking cause personally i'm fecking freaking out over my exams:) I missed a fair few lecs and there is way too much to catch up on over the next week or so:(

GoneShootin

well if u missed out on lectures then of course your gona find it tough. but panic will get u noplace. in fact panic and worry will set you back, whereas instead you could be concentrating on the KEY questions of the paper, the dead certs, and pass em.

that said i did electronics as part of Industrial Computing in Waterford IT and CHRIST ALMIGHTY it was tough !!

NutJob

No your not its normal the exams i get worried abou i do ok in if im not worried i should be

-- A Zen riddle of exams

photty

i was at dcu and those guys never give you a break. I found that exams became a constant presence/menace. I developed a cramming technique which used group and individual study.
We used to get together and just do past papers then swap all the answers with each other. Then for the final week before a major exam we would just cram like mad with the accumulated papers n solutions. It worked well and you would appreciate the time off more because you didnt have the worry in the back of yer mind. Just try you're best and accept whatever happens.

phaxx

Although I'm not yet in college, I'm very relaxed when it comes to exams - if I know it, I know it, if I don't, ah well what can you do. Not a whole lot of point getting paniced about it. That's not to say I don't care, though!

Thorbar

Generally don't get too exciting about exams, mainly I try to attend all me lectures/tutorials/labs and after that a small bit of study before the exams and I'm able to do fine in them. Also in UL we've already got 50% of the exams out of the way at spring so the summer ones don't really bother you as much.

OLDYELLAR

well i totally freaked last week , i wasnt even going to sit the exam only for the guy outside kept telling me to go in , they all had the papers open an everything when i went in , and then i was that wired up that i couldnt write for the 1st half hour , i totally lost it , and now this week knowing that i already failed 2 , i dont seem to give a sh*t , i dont know why that is .?

pauldeehan

Yeah, this last year I found I really was dulled to it all. I was told at one point that I was getting thrown out of a subject and it didn't affect me one bit (I got back in by the way).

I think it's due to worrying so much over the years that my nerves have just shorted out and ceased to function.