^^^ These are the words that I hear from every human being over my age. They speak of exams, and how 'really not that hard' they are, how they're 'sure you'll do fine'.
Try doing an exam then.
Most of the people who tell me these things whenever the bothersome subject of GCSEs crops up are over 50, and can probably no better remember what it was like to take an exam than how it felt to not be middle-aged. They speak from a lofty position, one of the 'been there done that' mentality, and it does nothing to calm my nerves. Yes, okay, so when you did your exams, they seemed fine, but that was when humans were still writing on slates. I passed my mother's level of maths in Year 9, and she did a degree in it or something.
And then there are the teachers.
'This subject is the most important!'
'You simply must do this subject for A-levels!'
'Who cares about having a life, you have to revise for this subject!'
Some teachers really can go too far when it comes to 'encouragement', or as I like to call it: 'Alt-Subject Discouragement'. You'd think that teacher training days would be full of pitched battles between the English and Maths departments, flaming arrows and dictionaries flying through the air.
And some teachers enforce the most ludicrous revision timetables, setting three rather large pieces of work a week, and 'who cares if you have other subjects to study for, this is definitely the most totally important all-encompassing subject to ever need revising for ever!'
-.-
You see why I'll be glad when it's all over.
But that is two months and 15 exams away.
For now I'll just have to revise.
Bugger.
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