FINAL THOUGHTS
One thing I’m not looking forward to is exam postmortems. Oh how I abhor those things. I usually leave exams feeling pleasantly positive about the whole experience, until some straight-A student starts to panic about a question that I didn’t even see.
How come it’s always those students who panic? Perhaps if I panicked I would get straight As. I somehow doubt that.
It is incredibly annoying, though, when you spend an hour comforting a distraught friend after an exam only to learn two weeks later that they got an A1.
Self-absorbed much? Here’s to you, swots of the country: if you do fantastically in an exam then own it, don’t feign a panic attack to make us plebeian B/C students feel better
– Grace from leaving-cert.net
The closer I have got to the LC, the less worried I have become for some reason.
I just want to get it done with now and know what it’s like to have free time again without that nagging feeling of “I should really be studying . . . ”
– boards.ie
I’ve never overdosed on caffeine to this extent before in the entirety of my existence (about four Red Bulls, two cups of tea, a coffee and several bottles of Lucozade Alert in the last few hours) and I’m absolutely wired.
I am not, however, stressed.
I was hoping the caffeine buzz would make me want to go study but, alas, no.
In many respects, stress is good. Panic’s amazing.
All that pressure, tension and utter fear works wonders for last minute cramming.
That awful feeling of “I’m going to die a Leaving Cert-related death unless I stay up all night studying” which I’m currently craving will really get you going, and you’ll learn plenty.
You’ll tie yourself to your desk and abandon sleep until absolutely everything you need to know is firmly lodged in your brain.
Me, I ain’t got it.
– Jennie from leaving-cert.net
I’m really nervous. I can’t eat. But I have to.
I know I do or I can’t study properly. So far I’ve had just fruit today – apple, raisins, grapes, blueberries and blackberries – and I feel sick now. I did not think I’d be this nervous!!!
It’s such a lovely day, and I haven’t done a tack of work in about an hour.
I am trying to convince myself that writing this very blog is practice for English 1 but really and truly I am writing this with disgracefully little syntax.
This blog stems from an idea and exhaustion combined with frustration ensures that is develops little from that.
– Marie from leaving-cert.net
RANDOM ADVICE
Avoid drinking Red Bull (or the likes) JUST before going into an exam.
It’s amazing for the first hour or so, then you will slump over and die.
Well, maybe not die, but you’ll definitely slump.
(I did it last year before one of my papers. Awful, awful idea.)
Glucose barley sweets – little globs of energy. Nyom.
Blueberries. Eat blueberries. I don’t know why, but those magical little berries are just epic before exams. And delicious.
Ladies, bring hair bobbles, clips and so on.
I always ALWAYS leave my hair down, but like, you’ll go crazy during your exams and a bit of hair will actually start to p*** you off so much or something that it’ll be all you’ll notice.
Beforehand, do not ask people what they’ve covered.
Don’t do it.
Especially not the swots who know everything – they’ll make you panic. They really will.
Reward yourself after every exam.
Give yourself something to look forward to – be it chocolate, cigarettes or whatever you’re into yourself.
Cram like crazy right before going in.
Those extra little bits of knowledge can save you.
Read through your paper first, and jot down everything all over it. Even just keywords.
Trust me, halfway through a paper you can forget stuff – stuff that you knew going in.
Bach’s Rescue Remedy – it’s soothing. Berocca – it’s magical.
– boards.ie
