Exams

As you could probably tell from my last blog post I went on a bit of a rant at the end so I'm going to share all my feelings 

This is a rant . 

Read at own risk . 

So exams are pure stress yet when students try to explain their stress to teachers or parents we are told 'it's not that stressful'. Well then let me put it into perspective. 

Before my GCSE's. We have a leaving ceremony on the Friday before our first exam (which was on Monday) our teachers said and I quote "the words you write on Monday will dictate your future life " . Is that stressful? Being told at 16 that whatever you write in those papers will control your course of life? In a short answer .  Yes. But that's not all. Not only are you remembering stuff from 5 years ago but on the week before our exam we were learning stuff FOR THE EXAM THAT WE HAD NOT BEEN TAUGHT CAUSE SO MUCH GOES INTO THIS PAPER THAT THERE IS NO TIME TO TEACH ALL OF IT! Ever heard of trigonometry? SAHCOHTOA ? Neither did till 1 week before my exam. GCSE's are relying on 5 years of knowledge . Do you remember what you were doing 5 years ago? No? Well students have to. Not only that but then after GCSE's you have 2 years to prepare FOR ALL NEW EXAMS. 

A LEVELS. 

Now a levels are not like GCSE's no. Whatever you wrote in English GCSE that got an A would probably get a D/C . You have 2 years to learn 3/4 completely new subjects ! Then have to write about it.

And not to mention that whatever you get as a grade depends on how the examiner is feeling and how quickly they want to get through your paper. An examiner will roughly spend 5 mins max on a paper that someone has spent average 2 hours on. And that 5 mins depends on where you are in the stack and if they are in a good mood. So 2hours could all go  to waste! 

Not only that but teenagers have to deal with the fact that they may never see their friends again after exams! A level students are still figuring out university and student loans while they do their exams . 

So if you don't think exams are not stressful . Then you try them.  If you want to do all my 8 2h30min exams . Be . My . Guest

Never tell a student that exams are not stressful