Panic stations…5 months left

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (even though my last one is still on the front page – where’d everyone go?!) and quite a bit has happened since then. Mainly I’ve gone through the dreaded Christmas tests and they went far better than I could have hoped. I haven’t gotten my grades for them yet, but I’m optimistic. The only major hitch was that I completely RUINED my English paper. I made a huge shambles out of it. We had approximately 3 hours to finish our English exam. Naturally, me being an idiot, I assumed this was LOADS of time to get a Hamlet answer done, a poetry question done and an essay. Of course it was the first exam of the Christmas tests and I’d forgotten my watch – what time it was during the exam was anyone’s guess. I finished my essay and I felt I’d spent maybe just over an hour on it. Then I went onto my poetry question. Got crackin’, I had about 2 pages written about Boland and suddenly I hear the bell ringing. I nearly have a heart attack. Turn around to the lad behind me, and pretty much shout “WHAT?! IS IT OVER?!”

Was probably the worst ever start to the exams. But every exam after English went nicely.

I’d done pretty much NOTHING since the Christmas tests (they ended around the 16th). I only got started today and I immediately regretted leaving it this late. There’s so much to learn for German orals that I’ve forgotten, I’ve a tonne of maths to revise, I’ve to get my timing right in English and worst of all, I’ve a relatively imminent (26th of February) HPAT looming and I’ve done far, far less than I thought for it. The realisation there’s not six but FIVE months left is pretty shocking. Five months feels like nothing. In 5 months there’s HPAT, orals, mocks. *inhales* Arra sure it’ll be grand…

Anyway, I’ll try to keep a calm head. Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

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