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My Feelings About My First GCSE Exam On Monday

Lately, I've been saying a lot on this website: "I've got exams" and if you follow my posts or whatever (which I doubt because I can't think of a reason why people would haha) you're most likely thinking: "When does this girl NOT have exams?"

Well, the whole 11 years of my school education, 12 if you count nursery, has been leading up to these next few weeks where I sit GCSE exams.

The best way to explain GCSE exams, without being confusing is to google it and copy and paste the definition so:

GCSEs: (in the UK except Scotland) a qualification in a specific subject typically taken by school students aged 14–16, at a level below A level.

We have exams on whatever subjects we picked to study 2 years ago now, woah, I just realised how long ago that was, feels like yesterday.

My first exam is computer science. Honestly, I'm cool with that. It's my best subject so what a way to kick off my GCSEs, right? No sarcasm, by the way, it actually is my best subject. I even attended a revision class today, found I couldn't go the shortcut way, so I had to end up walking the long way around, took me 20 minutes but that's a story for another time. I have positive feelings about it.

But how am I feeling about GCSE exams overall? Prepare yourself for the cliche: MIXED EMOTIONS.

NERVOUS

My Feelings About My First GCSE Exam On Monday

I'm nervous no doubt. I've worked so hard all this time at school, and I could just have one bad day, and screw up on an exam and all my hard work would just go down the drain, because it's not as if I know the person marking my exam, I'm just another name to them, another statistic, another reason they're getting paid.

I'm kind of nervous about when the exams are over. I've been used to getting up and going to school for the past 11 years, after my final exam, it means I've left school, and I feel like I'll wake up and just won't know what to do. Knowing me, I'll probably get changed into my uniform, go to school and realise I don't have to be there.

EXCITED

My Feelings About My First GCSE Exam On Monday

I'm excited too, and I know this sounds weird, because they're exams, and you're probably thinking: "What has this kid took, who was ever excited about exams?" But- hear me out.

I'm excited to see what's on those exam papers so I can do it, talk about it with my friends, take the last exam of that whatever subject it is and be like: "Well, I'm done that subject, either forever or until September." And I'm excited to come back to school on the 22nd August and see my results!

In a way, I'm also excited because they say summer after your GCSEs will be the best summer of your life. No stress, you know where you're going in September, you've got no stress because you've done your exams and it's one long summer because we leave in June rather than July like we usually do in England! So summer is like a huge reward!

I CAN'T DO THIS

My Feelings About My First GCSE Exam On Monday

Sometimes I get that feeling. Like I'm just going to walk into the exam hall, forget everything and mess it all up. Or that I'm not as smart as my grades say right now, and that it's just false hope and in the actual exam I'll fail.

I've taken this feeling out on people before, and I've cried because I felt like this.

Dumb, I know, but sometimes, you can't help being dumb.

I'M GONNA SMASH THIS

My Feelings About My First GCSE Exam On Monday

And other days I feel that way. Like I'm going to crush, smash, destroy, hulk smash that exam and nobody and nothing can stop me. I've been over everything. Twice over. There's no reason why I can't get the top grades, positivity is the best medicine to help someone in exams because it just... Makes you feel good, and when you feel good you remember more.

I'm feeling this way right now, and I intend to feel this way throughout this next month!

Thanks for reading! This MyTake was cheesy on a whole new level, I know that, but I've just got a whole load of emotion inside of me which I just feel I need to release. Did that line top the cheese of this MyTake? Who knows? Maybe. But I don't know. I just needed to write about it. So make of it what you will. I can be really sad sometimes. I know. :)

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