5:32pm Monday 28th December 2009
The GCSE mocks arrived at Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School - the last weeks of term before the Christmas break. All exams were compacted into one and half weeks to get us ready for what they say is one of the most important exams of our lives as it is the 'make or break 'for the world outside. The atmosphere is running high as everyone is either worried or extremely confident about what results they will get. From my experience the worrying is almost pointless because the exams you think you will fail in, always seem to surprise you the most. Now we have to anxiously wait untill we come back to school in the January term and find out our results!
Any type of exam gets to people. Even though the Mocks were not the real thing, the atmosphere felt as though we were in July and about to actually sit our GCSEs. Everyone copes with worry in different ways: some just panic, some hide it and become giddy while others don’t start worrying till after they have sat the exam. Exams are very unpredicatable things, even where you know the answers, under stress you forget and then you panic and you begin to see your heart pounding from your chest.
But everyone - no matter who you are - ends up with a headache; it pains to do it, and you need at least one pack of aspirin for each test. I think exams should be banned and we should all be assessed through coursework and practical built work. Think how many trees we'd save that would otherwise have become exam papers!
To those of you about to sit exams this January, good luck and brace those headaches!
By Spence Quinn (Age 16)
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