Some scholar are through with finals week already . extolment to you ! Others are in the midst of one test after another , and a few are looking forward ( heh ) to finals next week . I could give you advice on how to get through it , but no one takes advice about these thing severely . Either you have what it takes to get through it , or you just scarce survive it . Here ’s how finals week usually become .
Looking Ahead to Finals Week
Yeah , you want to study . You experience it . I know it . It ’s terrible .
You need a scheme . The flowchart entitledHow Should You Study for Finals?may assistance , but from personal experience , I honestly doubt it .
The Day Before the Exam
You ’ve put off studying . Or perhaps you did n’t , but you are convinced thatyou do n’t know anythingabout the field of study you ’ll be tested on tomorrow . That ’s okay , you may chock up all night .
Time Set Aside to Study
The prison term in which you should be studying is the clock time that other things tend to take over your brain . This Proto-Indo European chart come fromDoghouse Diaries .
Andprocrastination takes over . There ’s nothing like a looming deadline to make you desire to do something -anything- besides what you are supposed to be doing .
The Night Before
You ca n’t cerebrate about the single discipline before you . You are too focused on the consuming task ahead and the scariness of the word " final examination . " Andsome way to make it all go away .
About 2AM , you consort into a bulwark . Your mind refuse to absorb the contents of the form . It ’s full of other stuff . Stuff that have no sense .
Unless you ’re one of those people who really rack up their stride when the press is on . I ’ve always said , " If it were n’t for the last minute , I ’d never get anything done . " Then your allnighter will front like this timelinefrom Jorge Cham at Ph.D. Comics .
Then again , if you ’re NOT one of those phratry who forge well under pressure sensation , you may find oneself your body succumbs before you ’ve barely started cramming .
The tough is when you decidethe good thing would be a little cat sleep , and then you catch some Z’s through the Nox . This happens to more student than you ’d think .
Exam Day
It ’s normally very quiet during the test . The sounds you hearshould reassure you that you are n’t the only one who is completely unprepared .
You encounter interrogative that you do n’t recall from the lectures , the text , the assigned reading , or the survey guide . Where does this stuff amount from ?
The faculty evidently gets a real boot out of designing exam this agency .
If you are n’t sure you you mark well on the test , there ’s no hurt in adding a little something just to see if it work .
However , you should also assume that your professor surfs the ' net as much as anyone else . Cite your sources ! See more mirthful exams atCollege Humor .
Then Comes the Day
Sooner or by and by , your trial will be over . Keep focusing on that glorious mean solar day . And good luck .
