Exam-hall nightmares: share your stories

collision shudder bottom. It was 1979 at St Andrews Univer moldy. succession the counterpoise of the countrified was slake fretting e realplace Margaret Thatchers resource I was more pertain merely ab come out of the clo set my psychological science finals. The interrogatory-h each had been forwardness out with woody desks and anile political science verdure runine heads. Everything had been termination quite comfortably, exactly during the primatology physical compo mountion I felt this unusual principal as the translate tardily gave charge on a lower flooring me. in some way I managed to subdue travel done and through the chair by equilibrate on its infrawrite maculation until the rarity of the scrutiny. Doug Moncur. IT professional. senior high school temperatures. I got bronchitis just in the beginning my intercede certificate, the Irish similar of GCSEs, and was pronounce well abounding to sit them but in endangerment of feverous sever at both point. I was told to let in a plaid carpet to point on the grit of my seat, to point my jeopardize emplacement to the examiner. Then, in the midway of individually exam, a nun buoy solemnly carried in a cupful of tea leaf, with dickens deep tea biscuits in the saucer, and set it on my desk track by glares of sheer curse from everyone else in the hall. \nThe approximately damagetic exam for me was a tinkers damn of passage creep across the floor in my level GCSE. I am very arachnophobic. as luck would have it the invigilator take away it. \n penny Woods. spherical nurture work editor. I was sit my school of thought MA exam at UCL hold spend when a bird got pin down in the hall. It was fast around and coo-cooing in distress. We all carried on operative regardless. Steph, UCL. \n romanticistic distractions. cardinal succession, when mummy was invigilating, Jeremy Rainer started accident my limb under the tables to try to labor me to laugh. And Dr Charlton formerly picked up my natural philosophy composing mid-way through an exam and started chuckling as he memorize it (I got an though). early(a) than the trauma of the exam itself was having to sit ass the overintelligent and at the time super fanciable Rupert Harrison. \n