Year 12 English Exam

Oh my gosh...

 

I do not believe teachers fully prepare you for the feeling that you receive right before your exams.

The nerves are unbelievable, even for those that are prepared.

I mentioned to a friend that "I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if 42,000 voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced"

 

That is literally what it feels like.

 

You've got people everywhere unable to stand still, hugging each other, jumping up and down, frantically reading over some last minute notes. It's crazy.

 

But then you get in, the hall of deathly silence, you sit down, and you wait.

 

Reading time has you freaking out as you struggle to put together some sort of idea in your mind for your essays, but you have to keep calm and think it all out, even if they're not the best topics in the world.

 

And then its a 3 hour struggle of hand cramping to finish every piece.

 

But don't think about it that way.

 

The English exam is a chance for you to show off, especially in Section B, Context.

It's your turn to show off what you know, your ideas, your writing skills. Against my previous doubts, I ended up writing an imaginative piece for Context, when at the start of the year I had worked out I was going to write some newspaper/imaginative/persuasive hybrid, but discovered the topic "Imaginative Landscape" doesn't offer a great deal of arguments compared with say "Encountering Conflict"

And you know why I chose this?

Because I'm good at writing imaginative pieces. I love writing stories, its a great pastime of mine.

 

Do what you're good at and enjoy. It will make your writing so much better if you are enjoying yourself.

 

Now truth be told, I have no idea what I got, I could have flunked out on that imaginative piece. But I enjoyed myself, so for now it doesn't matter. It's done! All I know is I gave it my all, and that's all that matters.

 

Please don't stress your head off about exams, just do your best, work hard, and pleaseeeee enjoy yourself. Maybe you'll get a really interesting question that you have to think about. Don't be discouraged that you may not be able to do it, be intrigued in the fact that it was challenging and you had to go through everything you knew to even get close to one mark.

 

Please..

Enjoy

Don't stress tooo much (but a little is good)

and

SHOW OFF YOUR SKILLS!

 

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(WOOOOOO I NEVER HAVE TO DO ENGLISH AGAINNNNNNN!!!!)