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madharris

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So today, I had my biology exam and right as the exam finished, I didn't even check it but I had a realization that I just answered the 7 mark question wrong.
It was like an epiphany because I was just sitting there, and then suddenly in my mind I was like SHIT! and the exam ended.

Has anything similar ever happened to you?
 

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Sitting wondering why I was done the year 10 school cert trial math paper so quickly then to realise at 5 minutes till pens down there was another section..

ah year 10...good times
 

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I didn't have enough lunch before my 3u maths half yearly exam. COuldn't concentrate, and of course screwed the test
 
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i screwed up my actual 4u hsc exam

didn't realise i spent so much time on q3/4 so i didn't have time to even attempt q8 and left out half of q7

looked at the questions later and i could've done 'em

fucking died
 

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i screwed up my actual 4u hsc exam

didn't realise i spent so much time on q3/4 so i didn't have time to even attempt q8 and left out half of q7

looked at the questions later and i could've done 'em

fucking died
lol that sucks! poor u
 

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I screwed up my very first Chemistry assessment. Caught up and was first until Trials.

I screwed up my very first Extension 2 Maths assessment. Caught up and was first at the end of the year.

I screwed up my Half yearly Biology assessment. Caught up and was first at the end of the year.

Moral of the story: We all screw up, and we can all catch up.
 

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Realised that I wrote co-interior angles are equal instead of co-interior angles are supplementary in a plane geometry question in a topic test after handing it in....
That's what happens when you get 5 hours of sleep the night before.... No hope for 4 unit maffs :/
 

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I screwed up my very first Chemistry assessment. Caught up and was first until Trials.

I screwed up my very first Extension 2 Maths assessment. Caught up and was first at the end of the year.

I screwed up my Half yearly Biology assessment. Caught up and was first at the end of the year.

Moral of the story: We all screw up, and we can all catch up.
nice
 

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Thought i screwed up my 2U preliminary final. Felt like absolute crap afterwards finding i got different answers to everyone.

Few weeks later, exams came back, 83/84. Win.

On the note of actually screwing up an assessment, my 3U preliminary half yearly.. Horrible marks.

Being too cocky and confident led to 15+ marks gone due to silly mistakes.
 

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Being too cocky and confident led to 15+ marks gone due to silly mistakes.
Exactly why I messed up my first Extension 2 Mathematics exam.

Previously, all the Extension 1 exams were very easy so I thought "Hmm... I doubt this test will be hard."

So I didn't study much for it.

Which was why I scored so poorly compared to everybody else.
 

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Well I hope I don't mess up. One slip up then I'm slaughtered.
 

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Biology: had dependant and independant variable questions correct, last minute of paper, DRAW ARROW AND SWAPPED IT. UGH.
Business studies: Used wrong year on balance sheet, but with correct method.
 

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Need good stories, such as being nominated a poem in the HSC English paper last year and having never looked at it.
 

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I had to go to the toilet because I was so desperate in the middle of exam... wasted like 10-20minutes T.T.... missed out like 10 marks for my business eaxm!!!!! (This was trials by the way).
 

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I had to go to the toilet because I was so desperate in the middle of exam... wasted like 10-20minutes T.T.... missed out like 10 marks for my business eaxm!!!!! (This was trials by the way).
:jawdrop: 10-20min? ... o_O
 

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