Colours, colours everywhere…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe next day I woke up very early, and I went through a past paper for some final bits of information… And then at 10am I went into the room knowing full well that I would fail this exam. In the morning we had 3 hours for 3 subjects, and then another 3 hours in the afternoon for the remaining 2.<\/p>\n
I don’t know the results, and I didn’t want to discuss my performance with my classmates, so I will wait and see what the markers think about my “work”. But I know that I am satisfied with only one out of the 5 subjects, and you can imagine what that means in terms of marks…<\/p>\n
To sum up, I was too light-minded. I thought 5% is just not worth revising that much. And then, when it hit me that I should’ve studied much more (because there is always this “moment” when it hits you, sooner or later…) it was already too late. I made a mistake which I hope I won’t make again and the only good thing is that it was “just” the spring test, not the actual summer exams. I’ve written about the emails we get if we do particularly well on an exam, but there is this other type of email, too, for those who did particularly badly… And it’s just a matter of time when I will get a notification from the Outlook app about an email with the subject “Spring test results – you have an urgent appointment with the director of course operations”…<\/p>\n
So, what have I learnt from this?
\n1. Don’t wait till the very last minute with revision. Take a deep breath and stop procrastinating.<\/p>\n
2. Focus on what will be asked on the exam. Start with doing a past paper.<\/p>\n
3. After you messed up, don’t expect others to understand. It was all your fault…<\/p>\n
And what’s the good news? (Because everything should end with some positive thoughts…)<\/p>\n
We got an email yesterday with a nice little Excel containing the summer exam timetable.<\/p>\n
Let’s try this revision thing again, this time for 73% of the year!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spring test is some kind of “preparation” for the final exams in May\/June. A “taster”, where we can get to know what kind of problems to expect, how to deal with exam stress, how to use the calculator… It counts 5% in the end of year mark, which is lower than the Matlab test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93059,93438,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-chemeng","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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