The Sneaky Student

So, today I had a pretty beastly exam; it shouldn’t have been hard, but for some reason, I always get a really bad memory-block whenever I take exams, especially for dates and specific events in a given time frame. I course, today’s exam was a French history paper too, so on top of all that, my answers had to be written in french. Double-Whammy.

I mate of mine had the same exam, and had done as little work towards this module as I had, so we agreed to revise yesterday for it. Sadly, we both got up at around lunchtime and did nothing but play FIFA and go to the gym until around 10pm. Having done no work during the day, it was clear we were in for the long haul, and went to the shop to grab some redbull and sweeties for an immense double-team combo of caffeine and sugar. We managed to revise the whole subject in about 5 hours (1-7:30, broken up with FIFA and an occasional power-nap [crucial])

Anyway, the paper was as expected, and I felt like I knew a fair bit about each of the questions I was writing on, but I just didn’t get any real content into the answers. It’s a good thing this module is only worth 3 credits, but I still need to pass it. We shall see.

What we both agreed on, was that cramming seems to work pretty well for most people, but not immediately before the exam. Instead, it should be done a day or two before, leaving your brain a proper night’s sleep to organize the information in your brain.

Now, I have a nice break until Friday 29th, the last exam (but I do need to do an essay by the end of the week as well, on a wholly unrelated topic).