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Anyone else got exams coming up soon?

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Clockface · 14/05/2011 09:41

Hello all. I have 2 dc (7 and 8 y o) and I'm sitting my university final exams in June. I was wondering if anyone else is doing the same? And if so, whether we could support each other in the run up?

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Clockface · 19/05/2011 20:22

Oh no stary! Boo for evil exams! At least they're over now.

Have you got the next few days free?

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starystar · 20/05/2011 13:19

thankfully have a couple of days, but will be revising best i can!

hows your exam prep going?

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Clockface · 20/05/2011 19:25

Oh, I do hope your weekend is good and that you can take a bit of time out as well as revising.

I'm okay....kind of! I splurged all my angst all over a very lovely supportive friend today. Nerves are definitely kicking in. My plan for the weekend is to try and chill out a bit! (and do some more Greek translation...)

Hope everyone else is okay!

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MatureUniStudent · 22/05/2011 18:12

Absolute panic has set in. Spent all day (and I do mean all day) watching my son's various sodding hockey matches. And I am too tired from standing about for five hours, in the cold wind, to even attempt to do any revision tonight. Anyone else struggling with family and trying to, for once, put themselves first, to yet again find those plans thwarted? Anyone else envy those 18 year olds that have nothing much to worry about except study and the SU Bar?

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Clockface · 22/05/2011 20:02

Oh you poor thing, Mature. I really understand how you feel. I've gone into panic mode too, even without hours of standing on the edge of sports fields. And yes I do envy all those carefree little 18 y os! Esp. ones with mums who send them pre-exam 'care packages' with home baked cakes in [sigh]. And the ones who do absolutely sod all for 3 years and breeze through the exams on charm and quick wits [grrrrr].

But...I do think that as mature students we probably have some less tangible benefits, like the perspective that comes with being grown up, a bit more balanced sense of who we are etc. For one essay that I wrote, that I did really well in, my tutor said that he could tell it was someone who had lived a bit who had written it (in the best possible way!)

I am getting soooooooo nervous now. I was talking to my mum in the week who told me about an am-dram friend of hers who gets dreadful stage fright, and that's a bit like how I feel atm. I think I'm just going to have to deal with the fact that I am really really nervous!

Mature, is your exam on Tues?

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starystar · 22/05/2011 20:05

Clockface- Greek translation sounds ace! Hope you managed to have a chilled out weekend!

MUS- I completely sympathise! I'm completely exhausted from looking after LO and revising! Having to nap during the day otherwise brain does not work! Power napping is becoming the way forward! We're staying in uni accommodation and it seems that some (by that I mean quite a lot) of students have finished exams in the first week as last night was the first time in a long time since there was lots of shouting/screaming celebrations from (drunken) students and VERY loud music blasting from the other block! Sigh, still another week of exams for me!

Oakmaiden · 22/05/2011 20:27

My first exam tomorrow. I am hoping I will be OK - I have done some really good prep for it, but will I remember it all tomorrow???

I have another exam on Wednesday (which I haven't finsihed the prep for) and 2 essays which I* wanted to hand in on Friday - but it is starting to look unlikely. the final due date is next Tuesday - but we are going on holiday on the Monday - so I may end up finishing the last essay over the weekend and driving back from our holiday just to hand in my essay!!! Luckily we are not going far away....

Am going to TRY to get it done to hand in early though. {Hollow laugh....}

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Clockface · 22/05/2011 21:41

All the best for tomorrow, Oakmaiden! Try to take one day at a time - just get tomorrow's eam over with.

Starystar - oh dear - your accommodation doesn't sound like the easiest place to be! Can you have some proper time out as well as power naps? I did no work today - took it as a proper day off - and I was feeling very restless so I made a caramel and chocolate cake and scrubbed all the floors this afternoon! Grin

Here's a song for us all:

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Oakmaiden · 22/05/2011 23:07

In answer to your earlier question, Clockface - I am doing a degree in Education (2nd Year) so I have small modules in most of the curriculum subjects as well as some larger policy/sociology/child development type modules.

keynesian · 23/05/2011 14:54

Matureunistudent, you're a better mother than I ever was! Hope you're having a good day with the books today and I wish you the best luck for tomorrow.

Hope everybody's revision is going well despite DC, noisy neighbor's and real life intruding! I've only got one exam left now which is on Thursday. This mornings maths exam was infuriating - I just couldn't work fast enough to finish all the questions - maybe those with older/slower brains should get extra time! This afternoon I'm helping youngest with his revision for his AS business tomorrow and having the evening free from study.

starystar · 24/05/2011 12:06

Clockface, the chocolate and caramel cake sounds delicious. I may have to see if I can find a recipe for it once I finish exams :)

Just had Another this morning, glad to say out of 4 exams so far it actually seemed to go well :) final one on Thursday now. Think I'm going to sleep for the rest of theday now!... Baby pending...

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Clockface · 24/05/2011 18:27

Well done Starystar! the end is in sight! Grin

Mature, how did you get on?

I'm doing okay - less than two weeks now! Shock I'm doing some good revision sessions with friends which is helping me to feel confident that I do know quite a lot really! More Greek tonight...Confused

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MatureUniStudent · 25/05/2011 10:55

YIPPEEE I'VE FINISHED MY EXAM!! OMG I thought I was going to throw up, I was so nervous. And the exam tables are so narrow. We had no reading time which shocked me and I found that I finished because I had to, as they said to stop. My teenager gave me the wonderful advice of writing out the essays (I had three) before hand to time myself. Also she showed me how to do an essay plan - she saved my life as time was so tight. The problem questions were extremely difficult as I was thrown by having to flip through our statute book for each bit. But that is it! Over. Articles of ECHR to learn this summer and then roll on the autumn term!

How has everyone else done? Were you as nervous as me? I had nightmares for two nights about the exam. Also, has anyone ever done an exam and thought yes, I couldn't have done that any better? As I am scared I am being a big "cock sure". As I could answer the questions.

MatureUniStudent · 25/05/2011 10:56

oopps bit not big!

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Clockface · 25/05/2011 19:22

Hooray Mature! Wine for you! Grin

That must be a great feeling! Bask in it!

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Oakmaiden · 25/05/2011 20:51

Hooray for clockface :)

And good luck tomorrow Starystar!

I finished my last exam today - hip hip hooray for me too!

Just 2 more essays to write. Before Monday.... ack...

Oakmaiden · 25/05/2011 20:51

I meant hooray for Mature... um, but you can keep the hooray anyway, clock.

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Clockface · 26/05/2011 11:24

I need a few hoorays today...am exhausted! and contemplating getting out today and giving my knackered brain a rest. So much to learn...sigh....

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Oakmaiden · 26/05/2011 13:17

Well, hooray for you too, Clock. I think we sometimes need a hooray just for the effort we put in... even if we haven't finished yet.

Speaking of not finished yet - really struggling with my essays. Have written a grand total of 250 words today. My friend has just phoned and asked me to meet her up the pub before picking the children up from school. I think I will, I am feeling so :(

starystar · 27/05/2011 11:06

Thanks all!!! I am finished and home now!!!!! :D Such a relief!!!!

Mature- you are not alone!! I was shaking like a leaf for every exam. never found exams so nerve-wracking. Yes, i know how you feel regarding essay exams, there's never enough time to make up an essay with enough detail during the exam, so i find i have to go into exams armed with as many essays as possible so you can extract info as and when you need it and know you have learnt enough :)

horraaayyy clockface and horrrayyyy oakmaiden. (apologies for slightly delayed horays)

Good luck with exams and essays! Keep going, you can do it! :)

MatureUniStudent · 27/05/2011 16:03

Clock and Oak - keep going!!!! You can do it, we did, you can, carry the Mumsnet Torch and do those exams!

Today I did nothing and watched Jeremy Kyle. Bliss! My brain has reverted to the usual mush and it feels good...

Oakmaiden · 27/05/2011 23:44

My essay writing was slightly delayed today by the need to pick up the several thousand hama beads my children spread over the floor and sort them back into their boxes (they don't belong to me, but to Brownies, so I couldn't just dump them in together). It took HOURS.

:(

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Clockface · 28/05/2011 15:46

Oh no, what a pain, Oakmaiden!

I have given myself a day off today - been into town, had a really good bit of 'me time.' It's sooooo good to do that! So looking forward to the exams being over!

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Oakmaiden · 28/05/2011 20:15

In fairness - sometimes ANYTHING is better than actually getting on with writing a blinking essay. It is all going sooo slowly....

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Clockface · 28/05/2011 20:21

Ikwym, Oakmaiden! I've had a kind of love-hate relationship with a lot of the essays I have written! Some of my best were the ones that I did really quickly, without getting bogged down.

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