To reduce the worrying and nail biting a little, I have come up with a few ways to help you in surviving exams.
1) Go to the bathroom immediately before every exam
This is very important as it greatly decreases the chances of you needing to use the conveniences during an exam, when all of your time should be spent working on getting as close to full marks as possible; needing to pee is very distracting and actually going to do so wastes valuable time.
If you know that you have an exam at 11.45, go to the loo at 11.35ish, for example. If you absolutely have to go, run to the water closet and back but you may have to forfeit hand washing, I'm sorry.
Weird talk over... Promise it won't happen again.
2) Wear comfortable clothes
If you were in the fortunate position of being allowed to wear your own clothing during your exam weeks then it is very important that you adhere to this point.
Shoes with any form of heel are a big no-no, if you are (like me) someone that likes to sit on your feet then imagine how uncomfortable you would be if you were basically sitting on blocks of wood. Optimum footwear would be Uggs or Converse.
Best form of legwear is leggings because you don't necessarily have to look majorly slobby wearing these (like you would in trackies) and they are comfortable and allow you to move around, plus jeans can be uncomfortable and have itchy labels.
Side note- don't wear puffy coats that make massive amounts of noise whenever you move your arms and distract and annoy the person sitting behind you (sorry Lucy).
3) Arrive on time
There is nothing worse than going into an exam already stressed out and frazzled about other things, this is induced greatly by arriving to an exam a tiny bit late and making everyone else in the exam hall wait for you. Teachers will be less than impressed with you and you may receive some judgemental and exasperated looks when you finally enter. This will not put you in your happy place, which is where you need to be for exams. Plus then all your friends are completely entitled to blame you if they don't do as well as they would like in the exam that you held them up in.
The obvious way of ensuring that you aren't knackered prior to sitting an exam is by getting a good night's sleep the night before, however, I know how hard this can be when you know that you have a greatly nerve-racking 2 and a half hour history exam the next day (or something similar), but there are other ways of staying awake.
What you eat can help (less Dairy Milk, more spinach), drink loads of water, Starbucks in the morning can help, have snacks and eat 3 whole meals. Good? Semi-health lecture over.
5) Water
Even though this will inevitably make you need to go to the bathroom, water is a good thing to have with you during exams if you drink it sporadically in small volumes. Try to have water bottles that make the least noise when you open and drink out of them (*cough* Lucy) and be careful not to spill any on your paper!
6) Actually Revise...
It's nice going into an exam knowing that you will be able to give reasonable answers to every question that you will be asked. This is not a feeling commonly experienced by yours truly but I've heard it's great. Suss out how you learn things best (notes, reading, mind-maps, whatever) and really drill the facts.
I hope you appreciate how teachers' Powerpoint that picture is.
There is no way that your exam experience will be fun, easy and carefree because they're not meant to be, but hopefully following the above guidelines will help to ease the experience a tiny bit.
If the above are no help and you fail every exam you can always try this one:
I find cakes and other baked goods work best especially if you are a talented baker but I know that money also works.
Good luck if you are receiving any results these coming weeks!
M x
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