Saturday, August 2, 2014

Look back : Edexcel GCE Exams

Man its was a nervous 2 months. I had nearly 16 units stacked up some on repeat. Before the exams began I was all lazy and stuff but after the first day I met my old dudes after a month and I was amazed by their work ethic, it was no longer a matter of just trying to top the exams, it was about topping the competition, pure motivation.
That's the part I love, when people around you motivate you to do things you never though possible, for example I completely cut off all sorts of entertainment and I mean ALL.


  I even missed the NBA Finals, and I'm a diehard NBA fan. No TV, no social media, no Facebook no texting no nothing, papers papers papers, day and night. But one thing I didn't cut out was working out, playing, sweating from running miles maybe. The work ethic was there, sometimes the day before the exam I would play basketball and run few laps. Exercise helps fight depression, and with exams the stress and everything you bet depression was looming.

The thing that really pissed me off was that most of the stuff I learnt I learnt over the net, While everyone was calling each other, teachers, classes and whatnot. Naaa I didn't want none of that I didn't want my parents to spend unnecessary money when I knew I was unlike others and I could get the job done, independently. There was a time when I regretted that decision, a time when I couldn't understand shit out of some chemistry equation or reaction and it would literally shut down my brain.

   Got through the month, I remember thinking it was gonna be one tough battle but honestly it completely flew out the window, maybe I was having fun? Well some exams were shit not because I got a few answers wrong, no, but because I lost to my competition, I couldn't live with that nope. One such night after a horrible showing, I couldn't sleep, literally I was up all night and the next day this huuge pimple appeared on my face, damn. The very next day I went bald on my very long hair. Time for a makeover I decided.

   The funny thing was, after the exams were all done and dusted I struggled to remember any of my pre exam routines, so I created some new ones, ones which included much less hours of TV. See, the more hours a person spends watching TV it's usually a sign he or she is unhappy or well an addict. Same goes for sleeping early at night and late in the morning. I had this habit which I carried for almost 4 years of sleeping around 8.30 but during the exams I  used to sleep at 12.30 sometimes even waking up at 1.30 to study!

  So whenever it was 8.30 I would get veeery drowsy but I broke that habit and continued it. I've pushed it back to 10.30
Yeah well, after the exams I was much happier watching a very awesome World Cup!

Why did I just write an essay? Maybe it's because intelligent people forget often and I fear I would forget all these memories in the near future. So Kudos to that!

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