Yes! The first exam, done son! That was cringey I know but I feel great! Mr. Stark, I feel so good! ;P
Okay, I'll stop with the cringeyness now and just tell you about it, because I want to document this somehow, and it's just nice to get the happiness out there anyway.
Okay, no promises on stopping the cringe, but I'll my best. :)
The first exam, computer science.
THE DAY:
I woke at about 5:30 am, but I was still kinda sleepy so I slept for about half an hour then got up at six, but I said a prayer before I got up because I believe in God and I wanted the exam to go well too so it helps me put myself at ease of mind and gives me hope. :)
I did all my usual bathroom morning stuff, got down by like 6:30, got my uniform went back up got changed and my dad offered to make me coffee and a boiled egg, so I said yes and thank you and headed upstairs to get changed into my uniform and brush my hair and do it neatly. I was downstairs for about 6:50 am, and my dad had made coffee in this huge mug, toast and a boiled egg which was kinda yolky just the way I like it! I began to study, but then my dad insisted I come and eat my breakfast before studying and what he said made sense, so I did. I ate the egg and the toast and then took my coffee to my desk and just briefly went over the revision guide, reading things aloud so I hear it and remember, and using the 'test yourself' questions, to surprise surprise test myself.
I wanted to set off to school a little earlier than usual today, because:
A) My computer science teachers were holding a morning revision session
B) Me being me, I lost my exam timetable with my seat numbers on it, so I needed to go to see the head of year, or someone to get an exam timetable.
I got to school at about 8:10 am and went to the head of year's office, she wasn't there, but luckily the exam seats for each student were on the noticeboard on the wall so I saw where I was sat for both my computer science exam, and religious studies (RS) exam.
Then I headed to the classroom where the class was just doing some last minute revision, I saw one kid whipping out a CGP revision guide, another kid getting the mini-condensed revision guide our teachers made us, and I just pulled out the revision cards our teachers made us.
When it got to 8:20 am, the teachers told us to go for a walk or something then meet them for an exam prep session at 8:30 am.
I decided to head down to the canteen, where I saw my best friend so I crept up behind her and scared her. She said told me I was a scary person and I just grinned. We talked for a little and I was telling her about my exam, then the whistle was blown to tell us to get to class so I headed to the exam prep session.
The teachers gave us a little pep talk which was like: "You can do this! Highlight key words and define them! Try and pick up some marks if you can! Don't miss out any questions! Don't be nervous!"
But I was so nervous, I couldn't even sit still properly. I was giggling to myself on the way to school, at school, during the exam prep session, when I woke up and before I went to sleep. I couldn't help but be nervous because it was my first exam, and there was no point in hiding it because it was there, and I'm terrible at hiding emotions.
We made sure we had all the equipment the teachers wished us luck and they sent us into the exam hall. We got given the usual 'exam talk' make sure your phones are switched off, try your best, this is your first exam, make sure you have a black pen, all that, I just wanted to start the exam and at 9:00 am we did.
When I first opened the exam paper I looked at the number of words and panicked, then I actually read the question and realised how easy it was. In the computer science exam, there's always a huge question where you write an essay, and I think I nailed that I evaluated all the situations and everything!
I was so happy coming out of that exam hall I thought I did pretty well. I was so happy in fact I felt like doing this:
But I didn't because that dance solely belongs to Spider-Man and I'd look like I'm insane, people would question my mental stability even more, and my friends would probably disown me as their friend.
So instead, I went up to the other students who sat the same exam and then discussed what we put for the answer and one kid just got so happy when he found he got the first question right, it was funny but I can understand why he'd be so happy about it.
After that, I headed to registration and told my best friend about how I thought I did well on the exam, and another friend came to sit with us and I tested her on RS.
Then we left form early to go to the main office to get me a new exam timetable and this time I was successful! One of my friends forgot her exam timetable so we went down to the noticeboard to see where she was supposed to be sat.
Then we decided to go see the RS teacher just to clarify something we were unsure about how we're supposed to answer a question.
BUT:
I got stopped by my computer science teacher and he asked me how I thought the exam went. I told him I found it pretty easy and we discussed some of the questions, I told him the first one and he was absolutely surprised at how easy it was.
In the meantime, my friends were laughing at how awkward I looked, I apparently looked really nervous and twitchy had a huge smile on my face and couldn't stay still and kept on fiddling with my hair.
After that, we headed to the RS teacher where we didn't get our question cleared up, so we just headed to break.
In my friendship group, I'm the only one taking computer science, so I was just telling them about how my exam went, they didn't have an exam in the morning.
Then in science, we just revised for the upcoming science exam, and at lunch, we all just revised RS. Lunch ended at 12:50 pm but we were allowed to stay in the canteen and study until we got called into the exam hall so that's what we did.
For the RS exam, I think I passed at least. To be honest I'm not too fussed about that exam because we can't even put it on our CV because it's classed as a 'half-GCSE'. I'm aiming for high grades in all my other exams, but for RS I'm okay with just a pass.
It's not that I didn't know the stuff, it's the amount of time we had. I ran out of time. A lot of people did but then again nobody really wanted to do RS as a subject so we're all okay with just a pass.
Once we were dismissed at 2:20 pm, we just stood around in the canteen talked about the exam and the random weird class we get from strangers and weird emails we get. I once got an email where I was apparently called 'Tom' but that's a story for another day.
OVERALL:
First day of exams, went really well, I was like one of those overly happy people in musicals when I was walking home from school, I was almost skipping, my mum was stood in the garden when I came home, and she asked me why I looked so pleased and I just said: 'exams' and she just high-fived me and I got an ice-cream!
My little brother came home from school, I told him about the first question on the computer science exam, and he laughed because even he could answer that and he's only 12.
But positive vibes all around, what a great start to my GCSEs, got biology tomorrow which I will crush!
Thanks for reading! Not really much to say other than I've started out this week great! Let's just hope, I get the good results and that this is a running theme throughout my exams! Gotta go revise biology now! Good luck to anyone sitting that or anything else tomorrow! :)
WARNING:
If you sat these exams or any other GCSE exam today DO NOT share any details about the questions on them or anything, especially not the questions themselves and the answers to them. If you do it could result in the whole country sitting the exam you leaked details out about again. So please don't!
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