Things that go clunk in exams...
...those would be my joints then.
My right wrist is not terribly happy today. So I actually used all 15 minutes of rest break - normally I write for an hour, rest 5 minutes, write another hour, rest 5 minutes, then write the last hour of the exam & then leave. This morning I was barely making it to the hour mark and ended up taking a break ten minutes before the end of the paper in a bid to ensure the conclusion to my essay would be legible.
The exam itself could have been a lot worse. The 6 gobbets I wrote on were from: Kandinskii's 'On the Spiritual in Art'; Stanislavskii's 'My Life in Art'; 'Light Fingered Sonya'; a report on the Moscow tailoring trade in the early C20; a report on a visit to the front by two Duma members in March 1917; and Tian-Shanskaia's 'Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia'. I answered an essay question on how theatre reflected social and cultural change in fin de siècle Russia, and now I am just hoping for the best, really! I have no idea how I've done (I've never seen a "model" gobbets answer) but at least it is done now and I shall never have to do it again.
Our invigilator this morning had never invigilated before, or at least not in College. And no one had told her what to do. So she hadn't realised she needed to do things like give us our exam papers... She was very nice though, and helpful about my breaks. And I have discovered what happens if one of us needs the loo: the invigilator has to ring the tutorial office and someone will come across to take the candidate to the toilet... I am sure you can imagine how disruptive that whole palaver is for everyone else in the exam... Oh, and all four of us were finishing at different times... and one girl had an amendment to her paper arrive half way through the exam... really rather distracting... mnyleh...
Jennie came to meet me after my exam. And did not mock my rather special ow-so-stiff-ow post-exam walk. She is now free of materials forever, but she has a structures exam this afternoon. *pats the Jennie* Two exams in a day is so very wrong. I also went and found Helen-the-Theologian to tell her how the exam went, and have communicated with Ellie by text & she agreed it could have been lots worse.
I actually quite fancy a nap now...
My right wrist is not terribly happy today. So I actually used all 15 minutes of rest break - normally I write for an hour, rest 5 minutes, write another hour, rest 5 minutes, then write the last hour of the exam & then leave. This morning I was barely making it to the hour mark and ended up taking a break ten minutes before the end of the paper in a bid to ensure the conclusion to my essay would be legible.
The exam itself could have been a lot worse. The 6 gobbets I wrote on were from: Kandinskii's 'On the Spiritual in Art'; Stanislavskii's 'My Life in Art'; 'Light Fingered Sonya'; a report on the Moscow tailoring trade in the early C20; a report on a visit to the front by two Duma members in March 1917; and Tian-Shanskaia's 'Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia'. I answered an essay question on how theatre reflected social and cultural change in fin de siècle Russia, and now I am just hoping for the best, really! I have no idea how I've done (I've never seen a "model" gobbets answer) but at least it is done now and I shall never have to do it again.
Our invigilator this morning had never invigilated before, or at least not in College. And no one had told her what to do. So she hadn't realised she needed to do things like give us our exam papers... She was very nice though, and helpful about my breaks. And I have discovered what happens if one of us needs the loo: the invigilator has to ring the tutorial office and someone will come across to take the candidate to the toilet... I am sure you can imagine how disruptive that whole palaver is for everyone else in the exam... Oh, and all four of us were finishing at different times... and one girl had an amendment to her paper arrive half way through the exam... really rather distracting... mnyleh...
Jennie came to meet me after my exam. And did not mock my rather special ow-so-stiff-ow post-exam walk. She is now free of materials forever, but she has a structures exam this afternoon. *pats the Jennie* Two exams in a day is so very wrong. I also went and found Helen-the-Theologian to tell her how the exam went, and have communicated with Ellie by text & she agreed it could have been lots worse.
I actually quite fancy a nap now...