Exams

Do you know the feeling of studying very hard for an exam but when you were taking it, you realized that the things you studied was not related to the questions or simply was not enough? I really felt that over the past week during my Math 17 and Lingg 1 exams. I never thought that I will be very stressed after taking those exams.

My first exam of the week was the third long exam in Math. Since I realized that I must somehow get a score higher than my previous exam, I devoted my weekend studying for it. I almost answered every exercise in the module. After answering most of it correctly, I was a little bit confident because I really felt that I understood the lessons. Then, I just consulted some of my friends for the things that I did not understood. When the examination day came, I was shocked that the questions given where not given as examples before. Most of them were complicated that you will never thought the answers were very simple. You must study each item to be sure that you were doing the right thing.

That exam is very crucial to the subject because that will tell you if you must drop-out or stay. Dropping the subject will at least give you the opportunity not to get a grade of 5. Also, it is a chance to get higher grades when you take it the next time. As of now, I still don't know my class standing. I will still contact my teacher about it. Even I will got low scores in the past exams, I still think that I can pass the third exam and pursue the subject. Besides, I don't want to take Math 17 twice. That will be very depressing.

Two days after, I took my first long exam in Linguistics. In this exam, my classmates and I had no idea of what will happen since we never had a quiz and that was our first exam. So we asked our teacher how difficult it was and she said that it will be easy. Also, she said that there will be no problem solving. (Yes, there is problem solving in Lingg.) All we need was to study the readings she gave. So we studied it. We memorized terms and tried to understand them since we really didn't have the idea of what will happen. Before the exam started, we discussed some terms and others were cramming to study. Then we took the exam. We really did not expect what she gave. The items were give the definition, comment and essays. It was slightly difficult because most of the things she asked were not in the readings. She got it from the things she discussed verbally. At least I know that I answered it the best that I can.

These two exams really made me stressed that I want to end the week immediately. I really think that after all of these, I will rest and just enjoy my day even for just a day. You really never know what will happen. Just like examinations, you feel that you already have studied well. But when it came, you realized that it was not enough. It is better to be prepared at all times.