Bah
Well that could have gone better. Granted it could have gone a lot worse but my concentration wasn't aided by my internal organs throwing a party to which I was pointedly not invited. *glares at abdomen* Yes I am talking to you!
Anyway. Best question was definitely the one about Deir el-Bahri and Medinet Habu, it was all I could do to stick to the time limit. Then there was aspects of kingship represented in temples at Abydos. It was ok but there didn't seem to be enough to talk about - you can only say that Seti was showing off his connection with Osiris so many times. And then evidence for temples (ignoring the buildings themselves). *groans* It was probably a bad choice but by this stage of the exam my internal organs were letting off party poppers and doing the can-can so I was more than a little distracted. I eeked what I knew out to two sides of A4 which is fairly respectable I suppose seeing as I only ever write three and a half pages at most in these kind of exams. At least I can console myself with the fact that doing more revision probably wouldn't have helped, as always its my exam technique/choice of questions that lets me down and it always will. Why they never think to give us our old exam papers back with feedback on it so we can actually improve I'll never know. Or maybe I just need to ask. I don't know.
I've eaten cookies to take the taste of the painkillers away and now need to go food shopping cos we have none. When we get back I need to do some serious work on my bloody essay on Ay's lovely tomb at Amarna. It just never ends, does it?
Anyway. Best question was definitely the one about Deir el-Bahri and Medinet Habu, it was all I could do to stick to the time limit. Then there was aspects of kingship represented in temples at Abydos. It was ok but there didn't seem to be enough to talk about - you can only say that Seti was showing off his connection with Osiris so many times. And then evidence for temples (ignoring the buildings themselves). *groans* It was probably a bad choice but by this stage of the exam my internal organs were letting off party poppers and doing the can-can so I was more than a little distracted. I eeked what I knew out to two sides of A4 which is fairly respectable I suppose seeing as I only ever write three and a half pages at most in these kind of exams. At least I can console myself with the fact that doing more revision probably wouldn't have helped, as always its my exam technique/choice of questions that lets me down and it always will. Why they never think to give us our old exam papers back with feedback on it so we can actually improve I'll never know. Or maybe I just need to ask. I don't know.
I've eaten cookies to take the taste of the painkillers away and now need to go food shopping cos we have none. When we get back I need to do some serious work on my bloody essay on Ay's lovely tomb at Amarna. It just never ends, does it?