Reflections of Exams

Walt: Write a reflection about how you felt before/after your exams.

Before the exam, I felt pretty good before all of my exams. I wasn't as confident as I thought I was. When I was at home, I only studied for a little while, but at the same time, I was kind of nervous because of the exams. My fear of not studying so much for our exams was to think positive and to overcome myself from thinking nervous.

During the exam, I started to feel alright with the questions being asked. I was nervous at first, the questions we needed to answer, I was prepared for all of them. During our exams, I showed my RISE values. After our exams, I felt like I wrote enough for our exam. I also know that I did enough to get at least a merit or an excellence. 

My time in Social Studies have been fun and I enjoyed each and every one of our classes together. My favourite highlight was everything, so I didn't have anything in particular. Everything amazed me and I found things really interesting.

My First Exam Experience

Walt: Write a explanation about your first exam experience that you've had in College. 

Explain about what happened before the exams and during the exams. 

Before the exam, I felt pretty confident in passing my exam, but once I went into the classroom, my heart started beating faster than before and I didn’t know if I’ll pass or fail my Social Studies exams. These were the feelings that I had inside me before we had to take our seats and set our exams.

My 3 tips that I used before my exams started was that I prepared myself at home before coming to school so I could get that extra boost, after sleeping for awhile, I got lots of knowledge because I have had my rest. During the exams, I ate a little bit of food so I don’t end up getting hungry.

Throughout the exam, I showed the RISE values by listening to the instructions given to us by the teacher that was supervising us and also making sure to give my exam a 100% effort so that I could pass it. But to also make my parents proud about my exams and that I would get good marks on all my subjects that we have had.

These are my 3 tips that I’ve used to keep myself calm before starting my exams, I breathed in and out to keep my heart rate down and made sure to keep myself hydrated every time by drinking lots of water. But I also had to think a lot, then I had to think of the main ideas that I’ve learnt and summarise them inside my head. So I knew what I was going to be writing next.

After the exam, I felt really happy and relieved because I said to myself “I’ve finally finished the exam?” and I stretched out because my arms were starting to get really tired. My confidence started building up because I was brave enough to get through my exam without getting stressed, but also proud because I felt as if I’ve put enough effort into all my exams and I’ll probably get a good mark for it.

After school, I went back home and told my mum everything about the exams that I’ve just finished completing and she was really happy to hear how well the exams went for me. After awhile, I went onto my Chromebook and started talking to my friends on my social media, but none of my friends were online, so I went on YouTube and started watching Buzz-feed Unsolved.

In my next exam, I would change by getting a longer rest and making sure that i’m eating enough food and drinking lots of water. But also that I don’t say to myself “I’m gonna fail?” because I just have to belief that I will pass all my exams and that I’ll get good marks when it comes to my report.