The Exam Situation

No one likes examinations. I mean no one. Whether it’s oral, written or physical exams, you are being tested, of course you won’t like it. Okay, maybe there are some people out there who like being tested but I can safely say I’m not one of those people. I dislike exams too.

But somehow, I do sometimes enjoy the exam situation. I’m talking about written exams. I’m sure everyone has gone through a written exam at least once right? What I mean by the exam situation is when the exam is going on. Everyone would be so quiet and it would just be you and your mind speaking. Have you ever stop and think about it? You can hear your mind very loudly.

I don’t know what it is with me and my mind but I would always find myself having a conversation in my head. With who exactly? I myself am not sure. It’s a conversation with myself I guess? And whenever I’m in the exam halls and I’m stuck on a question or just got bored or sleepy, my mind would start to wander. Yes, I will admit I daydream a lot during exams. Because it’s so quiet! And it’s always the most random stuff that comes into my head.

Sometimes I would daydream that everyone is so focused, what if there was someone reading minds right now? Usually it would become a fantasy where the group that I’m currently obsessed with (could be either real or fiction, eg.UP10TION or Espada) is facing their exams and they could telepathically talk with each other and they end up discussing the answers until the responsible one in their team tells them to shut up and not cheat. Weird right? During that time I would smile and snicker to myself.

Yeah, I can imagine if there was a fancam of me during exams it would look like I’m a psycho because I would be looking everywhere and suddenly smile to myself or even giggle and laugh. Either they think I’m a psycho or I’m cheating. Hmm, I wonder what is the examiners’ point of view on students facing exams. Have they seen someone enjoying themselves answering the tests? Have they seen someone crying? That would be interesting.

What was the point of this post again… Ah right, me enjoying the exam situation. Yeah, I seem to enjoy it sometimes because it’s just so quiet but you’re surrounded by people. It gives me time to watch people and think about what they’re thinking.

There was this one time, a lecturer came in the hall and stopped by at my friend and they talked a little bit so I was watching them. I looked over to my right and saw this guy who had his back straight and was also looking at the lecturer. He was really staring and wasn’t even holding his pencil. I looked around and everyone was bent over their papers and busy writing except for this guy. And then I realized I was doing the exact same thing he was. I was staring at him. When I realized this somehow it seemed funny to me. Imagine if there was an overhead camera and you could see that there’s this one guy sitting straight looking at the lecturer and a girl staring at the guy and giggling because she realized they’re both daydreaming.

Of course, I would only enjoy the exam situation if I could answer the questions. When I can, that is when I would start to daydream and observe people. When I can’t, I would think hard about it, and then daydream when I’m totally lost. Or think of acceptable wrong answers, so I won’t leave it blank.

Just remembered another thing, usually there’s a song playing in my head. If it’s a good song then I would enjoy it but when it keeps playing I would tell myself to stop it and play another song. Sometimes it works but other times I would just be stuck with that one song. It’s even worse when there’s a favorite high note or ad-lib in the song because when it gets to that part I would want to sing it so I would try to do so as quietly as I can which would result in weird noises that would probably make the examiners think I’m in pain or just being crazy.

So yeah, in short, I don’t like exams, but when I’m confident in answering them, I can enjoy the situation and observe people, daydream, think of fanfics and stuffs. Am I being weird again? Never mind I’m always being weird anyway.