...so please would none of you get annoyed if I don't move often and if I don't move will you please not claim the win.
My last one is on Wensday and there is a list of people i'm to play then so look out for a game.
Well see you all on Thursday.
David (needing to do something more usefull than play chess all day, STUDY)
Originally posted by Luckerm, it's thursday-isn't it the end of the week already??? anyway, mine started to day as well, and i had english-argh! and i've got history tomorrow-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
My exams are in the end of next week!
Harri😲
G
why can't there be a scared smilie?...
I always quite liked exams. I felt that a lot of people said they didn't only because that is what you're supposed to say, rather than having any real deep seated fear of exams. You can only go and do your best. They're not so bad. The chance to test yourself against the paper, against what the examiner has deviously conjured, a chance to pit your wits against a series of increasingly difficult questions, culminating in the climax that is the final question, included only for the benefit of the one or two geniuses that are in your class (I could never do 'the final question', but I had fun trying and failing miserably). The adrenaline courses through your veins as you wait outside the exam hall - but you're in control - nonchalantly glancing around at your fellow examinees who probably arrived two whole hours before kickoff as they bite their nails anxiously looking through their hastily scribbled revision notes made the night before, whilst all the while you lean against a pillar in a quiet corner trying to recall the name of that pulsating tune you heard recently and thinking how fit Miss Thomas, the assistant inviligator is. Upon entering the hall, a pause, the others flit around desperately trying to find their seat, as if it were some giant game of musical chairs and the music might stop at any time, but you take a moment to inhale the air and feel comfortable with the surroundings that will be your home for the next three Maths filled hours. "The exam starts NOW" announces Mr. Jones, the dour old head inviligator, leering at you, and only you it seems, as he tries, and fails, to look intimidating. The sound of papers being snatched at, the ruffling of pages, followed quickly by the muffling of groans as those who know nothing try and come to terms with the length and difficulty of the paper. After several seconds of leaning back in your chair you casually flip out a hand to check out the sheer triviality of question one, and as if someone was pouring sunshine into a cup you are gradually filled with comfort at knowing you can do most of the questions. Next to you is Boz, your only friend (and only then by means of default since all you share is having been shunned as freaks and loners), with his sweaty hands he rocks his table with one leg shorter back and forth, his internal deliberations etched upon his face as he comtemplates whether or not to put his hand up to ask for assistance. On completion of question one you realise you may even be enjoying this, the Woody Allen quote "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me" comes to mind as you glance around the room, before settling down to tackle question two.
Erm. Quite. Couple of points: I was never very popular in school, and saying you like exams is likely to result in getting thumped 😞 And secondly, my English teacher always said my sentences were too long too 😀
Good luck to those who have exams at the moment/in the the near future 🙂
T1000
Originally posted by geniusit says end of next week.
erm, it's thursday-isn't it the end of the week already??? anyway, mine started to day as well, and i had english-argh! and i've got history tomorrow-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
G
why can't there be a scared smilie?...
Go to school at half 8 alan and ill see u there.🙂
8:30? no way! i'm there at 8:50-NO EARLIER! my exam doesn't start till 10 past. neway-i don't mind physics or computing and i'm actually looking forward to maths (!!!) but it's history and english that really get me (english prelims was 2 papers-a close reading (1hr) and two essays (1hr30mins) and history is just 1 1hr 20 paper in which i've got to write 2 essays)...
G
Originally posted by T1000Oh, I don't mind them either. Depending on the exam (read "calculus" 😉), I am usually a final-question-answerer too. It is the enforced studying that bothers me. Takes too much time from useful pursuits (i.e. that which Acolyte puts in the P&P forum.)
I always quite liked exams.
T1000
PS A good way to pretend you are studying is to sit there anagramming your notes in your head. That way you come up with things like "the Houses of Parliament"--->"loonies far up the Thames" or "Isaac Newton"--->"WO! Act insane!"
Originally posted by geniusalan BE WARNED your exam starts at 9 not 10 past 9. be earlier.
8:30? no way! i'm there at 8:50-NO EARLIER! my exam doesn't start till 10 past. neway-i don't mind physics or computing and i'm actually looking forward to maths (!!!) but it's history and english that really get me (english prelims was 2 papers-a close reading (1hr) and two essays (1hr30mins) and history is just 1 1hr 20 paper in which i've got to write 2 essays)...
G
David
Originally posted by T1000OK, some fair points, but you're definatly speaking form the point of view of someone who actually had some confidence he'd pass, more like your worried are whether you'll get an A or A*, not whether you'll get a C or an F. I enjoy quizzes but exams!!? That's like the difference between enjoying boxing and enjoying fighting for your skin on the street. I guess you could enjoy the latter if you knew you were going to come out on top. Personally I can't sleep the night before and I feel physically ill on the way to the exam.
I always quite liked exams. I felt that a lot of people said they didn't only because that is what you're supposed to say, rather than having any real deep seated fear of exams. You can only go and do your best. They're not so bad. The chance to test yourself against the paper, against what the examiner has deviously conjured, a chance to pit your wits agai ...[text shortened]... g too 😀
Good luck to those who have exams at the moment/in the the near future 🙂
T1000
Those late night revisions & scanning of last minute notes was all that got me through Uni, so if that's what works for you - do it.
nb. I was very nervous in on eof my 1st year exams at Uni - I hadn't revised it because I didn't necessarily need to pass it to go through to year 2. As I said above, exams make me feel ill at the best of times, so this one was playing havok with me. We were let in & as I sat down my guts rumbled and I involuntarily broke wind... it was a stinker. I glanced around to see people - first one desk radius from me, then 2, then 3 - looking around with disgust on their faces. And there was me, at the epicenter, now as calm as you like. As a dog marks teratory with urine, I had claimed this hall as mine. :} That, plus the fact that I had just lowered a third of the halls ability to think and the looks on peoples faces were majorly humerous, immediatly made me relax (fortunatly for those around me, not TOO much). I sat back and di the exam with an air of not caring - I passed. Just.