Exams, from a student’s point of view…

What are examinations?

Examinations, a twelve lettered word that makes me tremble. I’m always not prepared for it but I have to face every time. It’s my worst nightmare. I have to study every night long to prepare for it. It’s a burden to me. It makes me go dizzy.

Teachers enjoy giving examination. Yes! They enjoyed it. Can you just imagine those witches griming while looking at us, bleeding while taking their tricky exams. They are preparing very hard exams to make us fail.

Examination papers are cursed paper, whoever has will surely die with hemorrhage, or if not will have mental breakdown. Examination is like a road full of suffering and it only goes to one end “failure.”

Examination rooms are like haunted house or house of doom, once you entered it, you will never be the same when you’re out. That is if you can go out alive, without having to loss your blood by nose bleeding. Examination is the most dangerous thing for a student like me.

I still remembered my first semester in college. My professor told me that I was about to fail a certain subject. Gosh that made me very terrified. I was feeling happy go lucky that time when suddenly that news slapped my face. It felt the world turned upside down.

The subject is really hard for me because I took it for granted when I was in high school. I even slept one time in that class and the professor didn’t even bother. I was feeling really dumb.

I hate it. I felt like I’m going to die and suicide is the only choice and it’s the only way out of this misery. Then a friend talked to me and helped me study. It’s still is five days before the final examinations and I still have time to digest all the lessons. I have all the materials I can have like books, internet, calculator and all. All I need is to put myself together and study.

With the helped of a friend, encouragement from my parent, and trust in God I learned our lesson in just five days.

All are just simple. I only need to read and understand the book and then I am able to apply it. It wasn’t so bad. Now the final step is to take the exam.

My heart is rapidly beating as I entered the “room of doom” as I labelled it. The teacher asked if I am ready and I answered yes. I prayed first before the teacher handed me the cursive paper… Then I read the question. To my surprise, they all are just simply to answer.

The questions are just the same in the examples on the book only that the given values are different. I answered 10 problems and 20 multiple choice in less than an hour. And then went out of that cursive room.

Guess what, I got 1.75 (A) in that exam and I’m so proud of it.
Examinations are not so bad after all. Without examination, gosh I could be no one. Examinations are the one making me study hard. Examination are the one measuring how much I’ve learned and how prepared I am.

Examinations are given by teacher not to make me feel dumb but to let me know how much I learned for the semester.

Exams are not bad after all. As long as you study, the exam will just be easy.