How do you feel immediately after an exam is over?

India
December 23, 2006 2:08am CST
For me it is relief unfolded!! I would have been studying for what seems like ages, for the exams. Then from two days before the exams, i would be so tensed up that i would end up visiting the bathroom a dozen times a day!! The overwhelming pressure of performing during the exams would keep my heart racing all the time! So finally, when I am out of the exam hall, all the adrenaline rush is over and a sweeping bliss falls on me, regardless of how i performed!! How do you feel?
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@soneparm (634)
• India
23 Dec 06
i feel very happy.
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23 Dec 06
As far as I am concerned, my sigh of relief starts in the first five minutes when i go through the paper and find out i know enough to pass(hopefully). After the exam there is a sense of elation that is hard to contain. Plus I religiously make it a point to sleep atleast twelve hours after every exam
• India
23 Dec 06
wow! short and simple response!! thank you!
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• India
23 Dec 06
n - n
whther i do well in my xam or not ...i come out frm the examination hall like a free bird wen my last exam is over...after all the stress its the time to enjoy ...so i dont take ne tension about the results ...
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• India
23 Dec 06
yeah! my feelings exactly! thank you!
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• Pakistan
23 Dec 06
yep me too its like freeeee!!!!! we all friends usually go out n party no matter if its bad coz u cant do anything then , then y not chill out
@klystron635 (1519)
• Philippines
23 Dec 06
it actually depends on my performance on the exam. if i did good then i feel confident and relax, otherwise i feel bad and there's a lot of regrets. but i don't take all my exams seriously.
• India
23 Dec 06
great!! thanks for the response!
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@zee579 (434)
• Pakistan
23 Dec 06
Whenever my exams are over, a huge burden is lifted from my shoulders. I have planned so many things that even in excitement sometimes I am not sure where to start. During often I am unable to sleep and kept thinking about exams. Suddenly when exams are over, all those tention is just gone.
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• India
23 Dec 06
true - super relief!! thank you!
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@hamza123 (981)
• Pakistan
23 Dec 06
well it is a sort of relaxation that i am unable to describe.i do not find the words to describe the joy.a sense of happiness takes charge over me.i feel as if the whole world i mine now.i enjoy a lot.
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• India
23 Dec 06
wow! that is a great description!! thank you!
@bogdanel (1208)
• Romania
23 Dec 06
I always after exams have headake.. I feel like I better go to bed and get some sleep and if not, I really must take a pill to loose that headake.. I don't like this but come people tell me that I concentrate too much! Is that true?
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• India
23 Dec 06
i am not sure what causes your headache... but it is really sad to have to carry on a headache after an exam, which itself is such a headache!! thanks for the response!
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
23 Dec 06
I usually feel pretty exhausted after finishing an exam but also feel relieved that it is over finally. Taking a test can be very stressful and tiring at the same time in my opinion. It feels better if you know that you did well on the exam.
• India
23 Dec 06
it sure feels good to know you have done well in an exam! but even if i didnt, i still feel relieved. thank you!
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@harsh1985 (593)
• India
24 Dec 06
its depend on exam!!!..mostly i feel relaxed after exams are over..but after some days this relaxation ended up and tension of result grow up....so before exam and exam tension remains.....but i feel relatively less tension when i appering for my favourite subjects!!!
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@alexiuss (377)
• Romania
23 Dec 06
Well, it depends on the exam :)) If it's not an important one, i don't stress myself too much. But if it's a crucial one, it's a different story. I'm sometimes nervous when i'm in the exam hall, but i always manage to calm myself down. and, when i finish the exam, i get out of the room with a feeling of relief, like "thank God that's over", and i simply hope that i performed well enough.
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• India
23 Dec 06
thank you! i wonder how you calm yourself! i tried breathing deeply and counting slowly till 10.... nothing helps!
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• India
23 Dec 06
it feels like a new life it feels as if we have returned after climbing mount everest our mind works 100 times faster creating thoughts of "what to do next"
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• India
25 Dec 06
ha ha ha!! true indeed!! climbing mount everest - now that is a good simili!! and your mind works faster after the exams that during the exams!! wow! thanks for the respnse!
• India
23 Dec 06
Yeah its definitely a great relief as if a heavy burden has been unloaded from our shoulders. But one thing i would like to mention that they make your days pass with no time. during exams days pass from the month since we are unaware of the outer world during that period.
• India
23 Dec 06
true! the days fly by without us noticing and soon it is over before we realise!! thanks!
@adnan007 (1083)
• India
24 Dec 06
First of all,giving exam is a very horrible thing to do cos before that we have to prepare 4 it which takes us so much time that we get exhausted,cant sleep ,cant do anything only study and after it oh!what a release as if releasing from a jail or something.I have experienced it a lot of times and so do u.
@angadp (199)
• India
23 Dec 06
I don't like feel studying in the exams days. Truly speaking, I just enjoy the exam days and when the exams are over I feel like studying. I dont like studying under tenion.
• India
23 Dec 06
wow! that's something new! you must be among the happier lot during the exams! i wish i could remain tension free like you! thank you!
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• United States
25 Dec 06
Hmm don't remember what exactly it feels like....because almost more than 4 years since i appeared one....i should try to give one soon to get the feel of:)
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• India
25 Dec 06
yeah ok!! i pray you get another exam soon!! get back those nostalgic feelings! thanks for the reply!
• India
23 Dec 06
As my personal experience, when im out of the exam hall first of all i forget everything i studied for the exam.If some one asks anything i put a blank face. And most of the times im happy if i end the exam successfully. One more fact is that more the tension i feel before the exam that much better im goping write the exam.If iam cool before the exam that indicates im not going to do well in the exam.Happiness and discussion are the common things found after the exam. If my exams are over with that exam the its much happy else again the same tension and hardwork for the next exam.
• India
23 Dec 06
very true!! thank you!
• India
23 Dec 06
After exams I can't come out of that mental stress for at least two days and always thinking that Oh! my studies are remaining and I have to study yet even though exams are over!
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• India
23 Dec 06
oh my God! after the exams you still feel like studying!! that's new to me!! thanks for the response!
@thediesel (287)
• Philippines
23 Dec 06
It really depends on how I've prepared for an exam. If I studied and reviewed my lesson before an exam, I feel confident during the exam and I feel more confident after before I know that I will pass that exam. If I had no preparation for an exam, I will feel tensed during the exam and after the exam, I will be just glad that it's over regardless of my performance.
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• India
23 Dec 06
yes! true! knowing that i have performed well increases my happiness after the exam!! thank you!
• United States
23 Dec 06
Exams have always been like one day batting for me. But lke everyone, once the exams are over i would very releived.
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• India
23 Dec 06
ha ha ha! one day batting - that's a great term to describe your preparation for the exams! thank you!
• India
23 Dec 06
Relieved, immensely relieved!! I feel like time starts to crawl two days before the exam starts, but just as you feel you should study a few chapters once again, time suddenly flies!! But once the exams are over, I feel such relief.
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• India
23 Dec 06
correct! your description of how time moves during exam preparation is very true. i also feel similarly! thank you!
@apostrofy (661)
• Romania
23 Dec 06
at first it's like, thank god it's over i did it. then ... oh my gosh i could have done better, why didn't i put in just a little more effort? oh hell, i'll try and study more for the next exam/season. then i go to sleep; after i wake up it all seems better.
• India
23 Dec 06
exactly!! every time i make a resolution to put in more effort the next time, and every time i forget about the resolution the very next day!! thank you!