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All year the exams loom over you.
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Your teachers won't shut up about how important they are.
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Your parents just want you to do well.
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You feel like these exams are going to decide your whole future.
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Like if you do well they’re the KEY TO YOUR DREAMS.
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And if you don’t do well you’re condemned to a life of drudgery and broken ambitions.
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Needless to say, you’re a little freaked out.
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The exams get closer, and you freak out some more.
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Soon they're only a month away and you start to go in all guns blazing on the study front.
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At least, that's the plan.
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Exams get closer and your anxiety levels get higher.
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Soon all your time is taken up by studying.
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Unless of course you're having a meltdown.
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Tensions escalate in your house as everyone tries to tip toe around you and your stressed out head.
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BUT THEY’RE NOT TIP TOEING QUIETLY ENOUGH YOU CAN HEAR THEIR TOES TOUCHING THE FLOOR WHY DOESN’T EVERYONE JUST LEAVE YOU ALONE.
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With varying levels of success.
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You compare notes with your friends and realise you remember totally different things.
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WHAT IF YOU’VE BEEN STUDYING THE WRONG THINGS THE WHOLE TIME?!?!?!??!!!
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The day before exams begin you’re basically 12% caffeine and 88% nerves.
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Good luck getting ANY sleep that night.
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Like, you need sleep, but you also need to cram as much information into your brain as possible.
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When the morning of your exam arrives, you feel strangely calm.
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There's nothing more you can do now, after all.
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Then you see the exam questions and you feel a huge sense of relief.
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HELLO DREAMS HERE YOU COME.
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Then people start leaving and you've barely even started. You feel a stab of panic.
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You realise they've either ACED it or totally FAILED but it doesn't matter because you've still got time.
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Adrenaline courses through you and you power on.
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Your hand feels like it’s going to drop off but STILL you keep going.
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Then the supervisor announces there’s 15 minutes left and your heart just about bursts from your chest.
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YOU’VE GOT SO MANY MORE THINGS TO WRITE.
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ARRAGHARGHAGRAHGRARHRHAAHRGAHRAH.
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You hear “pens down” but you just need to finish this one sentence.
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The exam is officially over and all you’ve got left is to analyse and re-analyse your answers in your head.
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You ask your friends how they did and they had totally different answers to you.
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But you’ve got another exam to do.
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You repeat steps 12-46.
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Until your last exam is finally over.
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Well, almost. You still have to wait for your results.
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When they arrive you're kinda afraid to see them.
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But YOU TOTALLY DID GREAT!
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And even if you didn’t, it’s going to be OK.
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Because exams do NOT decide your future.
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Only you can do that.
