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Uni Stuff => General University Discussion and Queries => Topic started by: QuantumJG on October 29, 2009, 02:51:07 pm
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Hey guys,
With uni exams coming up I wonder if you guys have grown out of exam anxiety or still get anxious.
For me my exams start not this week coming up, but the next and from the start of this week I have been really anxious! I suffer from anxiety disorder so I always have an attack every so often but during exam time it flairs up and gets that bad I cannot concentrate on study and that gets me even more uptight.
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I get anxious that I won't pass a subject and will get kicked out >.<
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I get anxious that I won't pass a subject and will get kicked out >.<
Yeah that is my number one fear. When I was waiting for my results to come out last semester I was thinking oh s#%t will I have failed anything? I was hoping to get 50% for physics but when I saw 79% I almost fainted.
My exam expectations are 75% for physics 2, 90%+ for linear algebra, hopefully 70% with ESD 2 (no more engineering after this exam - didn't enjoy engineering at all) and hopefully 80% for finance 1.
But I would settle for all passes.
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Yep, passing gets degrees. =D
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I'm always anxious that there's a question I have noooo idea how to approach in extended response questions.
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I don't get all *that* stressed anymore.
Like... not as much as I did compared to year 12.
It's more problematic than anything though... I need a bit of stress to light a fire under me so that I actually have the motivation to study >.>
That bit of stress seems to only kick in a few days before exams these days => cramming ~.~"
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The night before an exam (midnight) with an early morning exam the following day: Glad wrapped the sofa
[IMG]http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7223/gladwrap.th.jpg[/img]
Considerably less anxious and stressed
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I'm always anxious that there's a question I have noooo idea how to approach in extended response questions.
That has happened in every university exam I have sat apart from calculus 2.
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I definately still get anxious before exams - but no where near the level during VCE. In the weeks leading up I'm wary of them, but not totally consumed as was the case in year 12. There's always that nervous rush standing outside the exam room, it's only natural.
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Yep, passing gets degrees. =D
As one of my high school teachers said, at uni "P's get degrees!"
I still get anxious, however not as anxious as in Year 12. There is so much more build up in year 12 in comparison to uni!
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Well, I get kinda nervous about it weeks before the actual exams :P
When I do the actual exams, if its really really hard I have a mini breakdown and then I go straight to work.
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the time i get really anxious as in can't breathe and start to freak out
is on the car trip to caulfield! then once i start im alright lol
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I don't freak out until a minute before the exam. Then I stop freaking out once I sit down. Though I kind of freaked out today when I realised I had no idea what the question was asking. Oh well :P
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I still get anxious, however not as anxious as in Year 12. There is so much more build up in year 12 in comparison to uni!
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Yeah, VCE methods was the worst. I remember sitting through exam2 and having 'oh shit oh shit oh fuck oh shit' in my head for 10 minutes.
Now it's only a vague memory of some adventurer trying to escape from crocodiles and lions.
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I still get anxious, however not as anxious as in Year 12. There is so much more build up in year 12 in comparison to uni!
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Yeah, VCE methods was the worst. I remember sitting through exam2 and having 'oh shit oh shit oh fuck oh shit' in my head for 10 minutes.
Now it's only a vague memory of some adventurer trying to escape from crocodiles and lions.
That was like me for the UMAT. First 10 minutes i was FREAKING OUT! I reckon i read the first question about 4 times, still remember it was something about rocks and scratching them and which is the hardest. Not fun!!!!
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Somehow I have managed to overcome exam anxiety. I had a music exam a couple of days ago and was amazed how I got through without feeling nervous before/during/after the exam! Being prepared always helps.
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i'm scared of failing ESD2...the exam is gona be a hurdle this year ahhhh! Last year when it wasn't a hurdle requirement, 20% of students failed and if it was a hurdle then 50% of students would've failed....i'm so scared now!! *panic attack* ALL BECAUSE OF PROGRAMMING
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I completely freaked out for accounting. I was about to puke LOL :(
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I've done way fewer exams/tests in uni than in high school, so I'm not as used to it anymore. I have it in my head that I don't test very well, but in reality, my exam marks aren't really much worse than my essay marks (although, they are consistently worse). So yeah, I get anxious. Not nearly as much as I did in year 12 though.
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It's only my second semester and I'm already desensitized to exam anxiety. I think it's a combination of understanding the content better and less pressure/build up.
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I get the "I don't care that much I'll just ignore it for now" during any other day but the night before the exam I get the "oh damn I haven't learnt this maybe I should start now"; but generally the "oh whatever I'll wing it" dominates.
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Could be more interesting to distinguish between people who were anxious about their VCE exams. I'd say I wasn't. And I'm still not -- but are there people who have reversed?
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I get nervous to the point where it has an impact on my health and I feel sick and it takes a while to fully recover (couple of weeks after exams are over). Happened during VCE and still happens, although was probably worse in VCE because I cared more then than I do now.
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i'm scared of failing ESD2...the exam is gona be a hurdle this year ahhhh! Last year when it wasn't a hurdle requirement, 20% of students failed and if it was a hurdle then 50% of students would've failed....i'm so scared now!! *panic attack* ALL BECAUSE OF PROGRAMMING
I am soo not looking forward to ESD 2! I really think I might fail! I have linear algebra on the 17th and really want to ace it. With ESD 2 I'm going to be cramming for. I want to pass ESD 2 to get the points, not because I want to continue engineering.
With finance before the exam I was like "oh my god I'm about to sit an exam!", then in reading time I was like "on the plus side the practice exam was harder."
With physics, since I had already sat an exam so nerves didn't hit me as much, but, because I stuffed up 2 questions I beat myself up for not knowing how to do it during the exam and the other was due to me not studying that and something totally unrelated to the exam. Then before I went to bed I had a massive panic attack and found it hard to sleep.
After my last exam (ESD 2) it may take weeks for the anxiety to drop.
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actually this semester... now that exams are finished... i wasn't really stressed...maybe a little for mol cause i hate it!!! pls ppl don't do mol!!! lol and the last day for micro when the traffic was sooo bad it was on a wednesday and we were going on 5km/h and i was 1/2 hr late... luckiliy everyone was pretty much late and they delayed the exam by 1/2 hr... although i finished it in an hr so no big deal lol... but i was stressing thinking that it started lol!
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actually this semester... now that exams are finished... i wasn't really stressed...maybe a little for mol cause i hate it!!! pls ppl don't do mol!!! lol and the last day for micro when the traffic was sooo bad it was on a wednesday and we were going on 5km/h and i was 1/2 hr late... luckiliy everyone was pretty much late and they delayed the exam by 1/2 hr... although i finished it in an hr so no big deal lol... but i was stressing thinking that it started lol!
What is mol? Is it mol in chemistry?
If I were you with micro I would have gone nuts. Nice work keeping your cool during micro.
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Sighs.
I didn't get much anxiousness during my recent fluid mech exam...I was too relaxed.
My relaxed nature probably contributed to my possible failure in that exam.
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It's weird, I get more nervous the more prepared I am. Maybe something to do with "I studied so hard for this what if I let myself down in the exam" etc.
Whereas in my law exams I was just happy to finish every question - wasn't nervous at all because I knew I wasn't going to do well =\
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It's weird, I get more nervous the more prepared I am. Maybe something to do with "I studied so hard for this what if I let myself down in the exam" etc.
That's definitely how I am with some of my subjects.
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It's weird, I get more nervous the more prepared I am. Maybe something to do with "I studied so hard for this what if I let myself down in the exam" etc.
Whereas in my law exams I was just happy to finish every question - wasn't nervous at all because I knew I wasn't going to do well =\
I kind of agree with this... I was more nervous for accounting than stats this semester... accounting I crammed really hard for and wanted to do well in... stats is a terribly boring subject that I was happy to simply cruise through with a lower grade.
Irony: chances are my grade for stats will be higher than my grade for accounting.
Stats exam was very easy (and worth 70% of final grade).
I lost easy marks at the end though because I ran out of time... I only needed another few minutes!
It serves me right though I guess... could have gone much worse for me considering I tried to learn the whole course in the two days before the exam.
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actually this semester... now that exams are finished... i wasn't really stressed...maybe a little for mol cause i hate it!!! pls ppl don't do mol!!! lol and the last day for micro when the traffic was sooo bad it was on a wednesday and we were going on 5km/h and i was 1/2 hr late... luckiliy everyone was pretty much late and they delayed the exam by 1/2 hr... although i finished it in an hr so no big deal lol... but i was stressing thinking that it started lol!
What is mol? Is it mol in chemistry?
If I were you with micro I would have gone nuts. Nice work keeping your cool during micro.
molecular biology
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It's weird, I get more nervous the more prepared I am. Maybe something to do with "I studied so hard for this what if I let myself down in the exam" etc.
Whereas in my law exams I was just happy to finish every question - wasn't nervous at all because I knew I wasn't going to do well =\
Yeah this is the same with me for linear algebra and ESD 2. I studied a lot for linear algebra and when the exam was harder than I expected and I wasn't going to do that well I literally had my own breakdown (well I didn't actually go crazy infront of everyone but in my mind I was saying "OMGOMGOMG"), whereas with ESD 2 it was still a hard exam and just being able to answer every question would be fine for me but I never really was upset after the exam because I knew I would get bad marks for it anyway.