Exams - and it's the real ones this time

So, the time has come. I remember back in September thinking that May was ages away. But it's right around the corner

12th May. That is when it all starts. Thousands of Year 11's all over the country, preparing themselves for what will probably be one of the worst months of their life so far. It seems like the only positive said to this is that I wont be the only one going through it. I won't be alone.

But I will. When I'm shut in that exam hall, with a 2 hour 15 minute English exam beckoning my every last ounce of strength, I will be alone. There will be no teachers to tell me how to start, and no friends to convince me to carry on. I will be in my own bubble, locking out the rest of the world to concentrate on an essay about the last time I felt scared.

They say that school years are the best years of your life. Well, I don't know what school my parents went to, but they definitely aren't. It just feels like it is exam, after exam, after exam. And it never ends. If I thought GCSE's were bad, I guess I should just wait until A-Level. And the exams will just keep coming if I continue on to university.

I don't think I would be quite so stressed about exams if it wasn't for the fact I have 22. 22 EXAMS! How do they expect me to revise for all of them, and still have what they describe as a good balance. They moan at us when we do too much revision, and they moan at us if we don't do enough. We just can't win. And of those 22 exams, 9 are SCIENCE! 9 hours of science, thankfully not in one go, but how do they expect to remember 3 years worth of content, for biology, chemistry and physics. That's 3 textbooks worth that all have at least 300 pages.

Sorry about my rant, but if you don't hear from me for a while, then it is probably because I am drowning under a pile of books, or maybe even drowning in my own tears.

Exams

So, I have reached Year 11, and it feels just like yesterday that it was my first day in Year 7, but I have reached the year where one big thing happens. Exams. Over the next week, I will be completing my mocks, but these aren't just any mocks. These will be sent with my applications to other sixth forms and colleges, if I wish to leave my current school.
Once we have finished these exams, they will be marked, and we are having a mock results assembly, to show us what it will be like when we get our real GCSE results in the summer.
I can safely say I am dreading getting my results, both on 28th November, and even more the results I will receive in August
I know it is good that we can practise, but it seems I spend all my time either revising, or doing graphics coursework
They say your school years are the best years of your life. I think I can safely say they are also the most stressful.