Last time I posted was about a week before my first exam. Now two of them are over. First was Social Sciences on 4th March. I had completed studting it jus a day before the exam, which is not usual for me. I usually get it over a few days before. My bus came at 5:55 am that day. I reached school by 7. I didn't revise much in the bus. Just some important points. Its because if I revise in the morning I become tense, take a lot of stress remembering things I may have forgotten. We had to enter the examnination room (just a classroom, but specific seats for students and a seating plan) at 7:30. There were about 18-22 students in the room. For 15 minutes we did nothing but fillin in our deatils on the answer sheets and just sat there. At 7:45 we were given the question papers, but only to read. I ticked the questions whose answers I thought I knew with a pencil. Then at 8 am, we started answering. I tried to do it as fast as I could. I wrote for about two hours without pausing, even to check the time. Then at 10 I checked the time. Looking at the time scares me as it gives an impression that it won't be enough. And time is never enough. But Alhamdulillah most of the answers were over, only a few of the big ones were remaining. I completed the paper by 10:30. Overall it wasn't very difficult. Alhamdulillah I never had much of a problem with Social Sciences, partly becuase its like a collection of short stories, partly because most of what we are studying in it is what we have been studying for years and partly becuase if I have a basic answer I can easily expand it to a large good looking one without loss in quality. The only problem was a question in which a an image was given, we had to recognise the crop in the image and had to answer a few questions about it. I image was the worst I had ever seen. But I just wrote it as tea, for no apparent reason and it was correct. I know that becuase the same image (but recognisable) was in the geography textbook. That was the Social exam.
Next was Mathematics, the best thing about it was it was on the 14th. A 10-day gap. There were 15 chapters in total. I had completed 5 or 6 earlier. 9 or 10 were remaining. I did about 1 to 1+ chapter a day. But this time too I had to study till almost the last moment. I have a problem with geometry. I don't like it much because its.........................weird. Algebra is much more entertaining. In geometry figure look different if seen from different angles, different sides, different directions. I did the longest and toughest chapter on the 13th, Tuesday: Triangles. The name of the chapter is much easier than the chapter. There were mostly theorems or proofs in it(only those, I think). I hate the proofs. If you know something is true, why the hell prove it? Its true anyway. Well, there are 5 or 6 large exercises in the chapter. I didn't do any. I only practiced the theorems properly. Alhamdulillah that was all that was needed. Like before my bus came at the same time. This time I looked at all the formulae as well as at the theorems. It took longer than usual. I reached school at the same time. Everything was the same. I didn't take much tension. Tension makes me feel like something is banging in my head, usually on the right side and makes me hear my heartbeat. I hate both of those. I felt the maths paper to be way easier than the social. There were four types of question; 1, 2, 3 and 6 marks' questions. A few of the 3-marks' questions seemed confusing and tough. I didn't see much team work on this exam. There was a bit during the social exam, but didn't seem at this time. My paper was over by 10:45.
So these were the first two exams, which Alhamdulillah went well. Three and a half exams are remaining. 3.5 because I have english, arabic, science and the a 20-marks science's multiple choice paper. Inshallah they will go well too.
