Post-Stats Exam Trauma

Heyz, so I felt really really depressed and upset after my Stats exam that I immediately went straight to the department to apply for special consideration...

I was actually early for the exam, but then the bag queue was sooo long that I only got to the exam venue during the 5 mins reading time (we had 10 mins)... so it was pretty much panicky all the way. Then my biggest mistake was - I started on the tough questions first thinking if I can earn those big marks. What a dumb thing to do! Cause it lowered my confidence and I wanted to give up. We were allowed a 2-sided A4 cheat sheet for this paper, but because I wrote soooo tiny and crammed everything, and it was pretty dsorganised, I spent half the time trying to look for things, and felt frustrated. The exam was 3 hours, but I ran out of time and missed out on 2 whole sections. I saw the clock running and when it was half an hour left - for those 2 sections, I just scribbled a hypothesis accepting everything or saying there's an association and for the conclusion, it was supporting the entire results an hypothesis... Am hoping to get 1 mark for that. But yeah, I definitely knew that entire exam was pretty bad... especially since I only had about 2 days to prepare for it... cause I had this major phonology assignment that was killing me... My classmates said I should be alright - they think I'm like really smart or something and can pull through. But I knew from the moment I stepped out of that room, it was like I fell in quicksand.

Oh well, hope I get to sit the sup. If I sit it, that'd be 16 Dec. So at least I won't need to change my flights for that. The department said that the requirement for sitting the sup would mean you need to have passed your other coursework - that, am not worried about cause I have about 80% plus on my coursework. I'll only know 12 Dec whether I'd be sitting the sup or not. And when I do, I'm definitely going to write up my cheat sheet differently this time and head in extra extra early.

Now it's down to the wire for my next exam on 1 Dec. Working today and Sat and then next week, working 2 days also (on the Tue and Wed) then having the rest of the days off for study. But been waking pretty early at about 9am (Early for me... haha) to try and cram in some study... Usually I get up about 11am... Today my biological waking up clock was really weird cause I woke up and I checked my phone and it was 6am! I was like what - 6am?? So I went back to bed.

Lots of memorising for the next exam... If I can memorise two to three sections per day leading up to it, I'd be prepared for it. And hopefully I'd be able to maintain that D in it!