I finished my last written exam today, now it’s waiting about 7 weeks for the results. I’m so nervous! I have no idea how I did. Sometimes you think you did well, and then you are screwed and sometimes when you think you failed, you actually passed.
This is terrible. Trying to get my mind off the long waiting, not always working…
Right now, I’m not even working and home all day long… alone with my mind… well, for once I’m glad to be an internet and a book addict!
How long did any of you have to waite for results and how did you pass your time?
3-4 months. Most of it pleading before God to get me thru miraculously, regretting why I hadn;t studied a little more, angry at myself for having wasted time, realising the mistakes I had made in my papers, thinking how well i would do if i could retake the exact same exam, what to do next in life, daydreaming, lazing around, watching tv/movies, thinking why I am so hard on myself, waking up from nightmares related to exams and thanking God it was only a dream. Thats pretty much it.
Oh wow, that sounds horrible, FF! But, in the end you did pass, didn't you?
Well, I can relate to realising later what the correct answer should have been of some questions, on my way home, and now at home, it's still in my mind. You know, I had very easy subjects today, no difficult terms you have to learn by heart, no calculating stuff. Perhaps I was too easy and relaxed about these exams! I just read through the modules, searching for anything I found difficult, but there was nothing difficult in it and I figured I would know everything, but at the exams, you had to give different reasons or ways of handling stuff, and then I couldn't remember the rest because I had only read through these ones.
I payed a lot of time preparing, but mostly for the subjects with the difficult terms, like we had to know by heart the complete anatomy and fysiology of the human body, learn the names in Latin of most body parts, know how everything works, I've been working on memorising and keeping that stuff in my head for a long time now! Plus names of medicines from which some are almost similar but belong to different groups, me mixing groups up, or really knowing some stuff well and after a few days, forgetting again!
Wow, and to think I used to be so good at memorisizing lessons! A few years ago I would have passed these exams with 9 or 10 out of 10... Right now, I don't know. I really do feel old... The older you get, the worse you get at learning stuff, guess I'm aging pretty quick!
Yes ofcourse I passed but the anxiety and pressure was always there. I think I have gotten better as ive grown older cos ive gotten more sensible and can focus more. Maybe I should go back to school :D
I waited 4 weeks. I effed up my last exam and thought i’d fail my degree because of it. So whilst the family prepped for graduation, i was writing down 101 excuses why i wasn’t going to graduate that year. But i made it, you will too. It’s natural to sit and think you messed it all up…just let it go haan. Stress the night before if you really have to
lol! Yes, stressing before the actual time comes to truly stress, heehee, hopefully it’s for nothing! It’s hard to let it go. Believe me, I’m trying, but in the end, it’s in the back of your head.
But good for you for still graduating! You can throw away those excuses.
