Exams

Three practical exams have just passed. Compared to what is to come, these exams were strangely relaxing. The long waiting hours allowed us the time to calm our wild minds and to let frustration overtake fear. This ended in a great finale today with a prawn being our test subject in place of the usual fruit. Realising this was largely scary, but the answers required were quite simple, and posed no huge obstacle. It was merely the same, familiar tests taken under different circumstances.

The main skeleton of the examination paper had been simple, requiring only the recalling of knowledge that had long been carved into the walls of our brains. Yet, there were the tiny shreds of flesh that clung on indiscreetly. Many were fooled, from what I have heard. Startled by the presence of such foreign tests subjects, however, I proceeded with much more caution. Maybe that was what this surprise was for -- reduce carelessness due to oversight.

Still, the three exams have passed, and I am satisfied with them. Certainly, it is quite a comfortable start to the three-week rampage of papers. I have never stood such pressure, and I would have to learn to do so in two days. Already, headaches have struck. Can I hold out?