Exam
Time ©
By
Michael
Casey
Well
its exam time, it’s May 19th 2018, Cup Final Day, Man U v Chelsea,
so I shouldn’t watch that I should be revising. There’s something else
happening today too but for the life of me I cannot remember what. That’s the
trouble with exams you get blockages in your brain, you should have done that
section on this or that but you forgot. But hopefully you can get into Sussex,
it’s pretty down there and you have the beach at Brighton too, nudists and gay
life combined. So when would you actually study, assuming you pass the A Levels
and get in there.
I’m
sure there was one paper I should have looked at but what was it, anyway at
least the Cup Final will be on if I do a bit of revising first. And on it goes,
you hope and pray you revise for the right stuff. Your mother prays that the
examiners miss all your mistakes and promises money to Charity so long as the
Golden Child passes and gets on the Brick Laying course, or Electrical
Engineering course. Or maybe gets into Cambridge to do Maths, whatever it is
whatever Faith any mum has she will be praying for all she is worth. All she
has to do is get you out of bed so you do some actual revising.
Luck
or God does play its part, my niece revised like crazy for Geography and hey
presto on the day of the exam she turned over the page and there before her was
everything she revised the night before. Maybe her grandmother in Heaven had a
word, my mum does control the tea pot in Heaven after all. On the other hand
you can work so hard and answer all the questions but still get a bad grade. So
then you have to live with it.
Though
there is this thing called grade boundaries, these can be changed so that the
amount of As or Bs or Cs are shared out. My daughter tells me for her recent
exam 80+ percent is no longer an A but could become a C, because lots of very
high results were achieved. This seems unfair to me but apparently in the
Sciences this can be the case.
But
back to the chase, you have to be organised at exam time. You have to attach
your exam time table to the fridge with a magnet. You need to make sure you get
up in time to catch the bus to school or college so you don’t miss those exams.
That would be tragic, all the studying then the cat has knocked the exam
timetable off the fridge, so you are still in bed instead of taking the exam.
There
are many study methods, a little bit often and then gradually increase it till
you do more and more. Staying up till 2am before a 9 am exam is probably not a
good idea, as you need to get your sleep and then get up and eat and shower
before travelling to the exam. In films no doubt Hugh Grant would eat and wash
in the shower at the same time while reading from notes glued to the bathroom
wall, I would not recommend it. As a dad with a daughter doing A Levels next
year my job is to provide chocolate and plenty of it, I also have to make sure
she gets up in time for the bus and exams. So if today is your Wedding Day no
matter who you are then think to the Future, one day you will be doing this
too.
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