Post Exam Doubts

[s.ay]

Hey guys!
So I finished my one 3/4 (Revs) on Wednesday, and came out feeling fairly content. Now, two days later, I have inevitably looked back over all that I think I wrote, and am expecting a lower study score by the day. I have this idea of the assessors being ridiculously harsh and pulling apart every word. I feel awful, and I can't handle another month of this. By the time December 17th comes around I will be be down to single figures in my mind! Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, how does one best combat this?
Could really use some advice on this one!
Thanks

[Biceps]

I do often get that and i begin reminding myself of errors i made.
Best thing to do is to try to semi-forget everything that has to do with year 12 until the results come.
Occupy your time doing something more productive. Imagine you never did exams.
Your study score will be much higher than you think it would be. Trust me.

[Stick]

Hey guys!
So I finished my one 3/4 (Revs) on Wednesday, and came out feeling fairly content. Now, two days later, I have inevitably looked back over all that I think I wrote, and am expecting a lower study score by the day. I have this idea of the assessors being ridiculously harsh and pulling apart every word. I feel awful, and I can't handle another month of this. By the time December 17th comes around I will be be down to single figures in my mind! Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, how does one best combat this?
Could really use some advice on this one!
Thanks

Yeah, remember when people were telling me off for worrying after the Further exam? I definitely had those feelings as well. I guess I kept telling myself that hard work does not go unrewarded and that I am not a total idiot to stuff up my student number/multiple choice answer sheet. I also gets better with time.

[WonderBunny]

Whenever you start to have doubts about your exam performance, remember this story-
Someone doing a nursing degree came out of an exam and asked a fellow student how she thought she went. The other student said, "Oh, I went so badly, I can already think of at least three mistakes I made." When the results came out, she got 97%! Those three mistakes were the only ones she made.

True Story!

So relax, try to stop thinking about it. You will probably do better than you think.

[pi]

Hey e.claire This is normal, I remember, every day after my english exam I started to doubt myself more and more. I started off with hoping for a 42, then reduced that down to about 35 before moving back up to 38. I ended up with 44.

It's a bit of a roller-coaster, but the best thing to do (and I wish I did this) would be to just be proud that you're finished, proud that you did your best, and leave it all behind you after that

Good luck

[s.ay]

Thanks for all your replies guys! I'm feeling a bit better this afternoon, I think I just need to stop thinking of all the things I could have done and just focus on the thing I did do. Then put it behind me. I'm probably just way too tired haha Thanks again for being so supportive

[brenden]

Yeah I'm the same here e.claire. I walked out of Further Exam 2 thinking "Eff yeah, 43 come at me" (had to get a 43 to match my girlfriend's score last year) and despite not looking at any solutions I've been steadily dropping marks in my head. I've gone from thinking maybe 56/60 marks to thinking maybe 48/60 marks at a maximum. For Psych, they swung us a terribly easy exam so I walked out thinking "sweet, gonna be harder for them to differentiate the top students from myself" (wasn't well prepared) and now I'm thinking "shit... I wasn't prepared... it was probably easy because I didn't know what I was doing". English we just won't even discuss.
All that being said I don't really care too much anymore. I should make my first preference in any case but I've sort of reconciled myself with the fact a 90 is a super slim chance. Instead of beating myself up over exams I'm just doing whatever I like. Gonna make my way through all the classic novels etc. (All of Jane Austen's books for $14 at QBD Fountain Gate if anyone's interested. Bargain) -> Just stop focusing on your exam and study for Year 11 exams or find something awesome to do.

[daniel034]

Predict yourself an absolute minimum score and a maximum that way you'll get in between and everyone's happy. Also remember a subject like revolutions isn't like maths where you can go on the interwebs and see every mistake you've made then cry yourself to sleep like me, so you'll likely do better than you think

[WhoTookMyUsername]

When there are no set solutions (English, umat etc.)
The longer I think about it, the worse I think I went.
Quite a few people are like this I think, and it gets to the point were your score will be significantly higher than your fears

[CH3ezEC4KE]

I'm struggling so much with these doubts at the moment, considering I need a 90, and am doing 4 humanities subject with further maths as well, at an average school, it makes it feel even worse lol

[Genericname2365]

I've done this for literally every VCE exam I've done and I ended up doing much better in each of them than I thought I would (out of the ones I have had results back for), so I'm just trying to completely forget about it this time until the 18th next month. I think the first instincts you have coming out of an exam are pretty accurate most of the time.