My Daughter iIs Living In The Library! Can You Remember Taking Exams?

Exams will start in a fortnight at our school. There are students who are busy doing past papers while others are just waiting time. Some really worry and strive hard to get good grades while others do not bother at all. Even at my son's school, exams start in a fortnight. So I have t help my son in his studying. He needs a bit of help

*Raises both hands up*. I will have my exams next week on Friday and yes, I have been camping out in the library most of the time (9am to 11pm). The atmosphere here is so much better for studying rather than staying at home and stuy. Plus, I get to discuss with my friends about all the things that I am unsure of. The only troublesome thing for me to go to the library in the campus is that its 20minutes walk away.

Can I remember ? Oh your just twisting the knife in the open wound :D I am just starting the exams tomorrow and i am SO NOT looking forward to it. I find it most annoying and less stressful, not having the experience of 6 terms of college exams and 1 term of master exams. Well i don't really want excellent grades, i want passing grades - never failed an exam since i started college and the MBA and i don't want to start now. Well for my first exam, i have a nasty teacher that doesn't really like what he is doing (i mean teaching) but i am guessing he needs the money or something, and i have to read a lot of crappy cases that he is suppose to use for 3 questions in the exams - i just finished my 57th page out of about 100 (or more), haven't really counted them all. In the morning i have work up to 12 a.m., and i get home at 13:15 and i hope i get another 3 hours of study (my exam starts at 18:00). Well back to learning now, just wanted to writhe a discussion and respond to this one :D Take care :D

I have always had a special hate for exams, I hate to take them, I hate to wwrite them and I hate to grade them. To me there has got to be a better way to judge how much knoweldge a person has. But I don't know what it is. Good luck to all involved in this.

I remember exams and the stress involved during the preparation. Looking back I don’t know how I got through them! I don’t know what it’s like in other countries but in Australia kids are placed under a great deal of pressure to pass their exams. I think that the teens are told that their whole future depends on these results and I don’t think that does anything but put more pressure on them. There are other options if the exam results are not up to scratch, like technical college courses etc, it does not have to mean life is over. Anyway, I wish your daughter all the very best, I’m sure she will do well; she’s been working very hard by the sound of it. I'll send her good vibes!

Believe me, that is something very common in students nowadays. I have just finished my exams, but I remember that last week I couldn´t quit my eyes from the books without the fear that I was going to fail (fortunately, that didn´t happenned).

hi ellie this brings back memories as I went back to finish the last two years at the U of Cal so I could get my degree. I spent a lot of time reviwing and studying and aced almost all of my finals but the darned latin review which I did not have to take and should not have taken, but I started out on the bus to the U and the bus stopped, everybody off , therewill be another bus for you in five minutes, bomb squad, police, the whole bit, so by the time I get to the U and to take the last damned exam I am fifteen minutes late so get shunted into a room with all the late ones. I am chilled to the bone,,exhausted all ready and just take the test and justhope to pass. I did not paas that damned latin grammar which I did not have to take as I had fufilled the languages requiremnts aqlready. so that bad grade pulled my a plus down to a b minus but i did graduate but nott with honors. I was on the honor roll in the junior college both years.so the morale is do not take a course if it is not mandatory for your degree.