It’s Finals season again. Well, actually it’s finished for
me. Yesterday I had my last exam, though it’s not quite over yet as I have a
take home exam to submit on Wednesday.
Since classes finished, finals and getting ready for finals
is pretty much all my life has revolved around. Every day I’ve either been
working on a final essay, taking an exam, or revising for my next exam. My coffee
addiction has returned in full. About a month back I was only having one or two
cups of coffee a day. Now I’m back up to about three or four cups of coffee a
day! (Safe to say I love coffee!)
For the first time in quite a while I was actually getting
pretty stressed about one of my exams. Usually because of effective revision
and stress managing tactics I manage to stay pretty calm about exams. But this
time I started to worry, mainly I was worrying because I wasn’t sure if I was targeting
my revision at the right parts, and even though I had been to every class I couldn’t
relearn the entire course. Despite the stress I think I still managed to do
pretty well, I know that I did that my best.
I think at the end of the day that is what is truly important
with exams, to do your best. There’s always going to be that part of you
thinking ‘I could have done that’ or ‘I should have learnt that’. But as long
as you tried to revise and you did the best that you could, I think that is
what matters most with exams.
It’s interesting how everyone has their own way of getting
ready for an exam. I know some people like to revise hard right up to the last
moment, that just makes me more stressed and I think if you have attended the
classes and done your revision then there’s nothing that you can learn in the
last couple of hours which you shouldn’t already know.
I’ve found that the way for me to get ready before for an
exam is to de-stress as much as possible. I like to just completely unplug and
put away the books about two hours before my exam so I’m in a calm head space
when I go into the exam hall. This academic year I’ve really got into the habit
of reading a comic before my exam, particularly DC Bombshells. I also like to try and avoid listening to music with
words before an exam so I don’t get random song lyrics stuck in my head for the
duration of the exam. Particularly since about 2012 I listen to I Am The Doctor from the Doctor Who Series 5 soundtrack before I
go into an exam, it always manages to get me motivated.
Everyone seems to have a different reaction to exams and
finals, but for me the most important thing is to just try to stay calm, and do
the best that I can.
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