DEALING WITH MY EXAM STRESS

In light of my first official university exam being over, I want to confirm that it was absolutely as stressful as I thought it would be, and I did almost cry every hour until the exam took place. Realistically it was as awful as I imagined, 6 questions on public affairs isn't my ideal situation, however I did get through it.

Politics is clearly not my strongest subject, as before I started at Essex the most I could tell you about parliament is where it was. However after 7 weeks of knowledge, I can proudly say I know slightly more than that. I feel like it's the most In touch I've been with the British government in my whole life.

The problem for me was revising. I know how to revise and I think I know how to prepare for an exam. But on the knowledge that an exam is worth 1/6 of your year 1 pass rate it suddenly puts a large amount of pressure on you. I know I wasn't the only one feeling this pressure either.

Our journalism WhatsApp group was going crazy, one lad was even trying to sell his notes. We all arranged a group study 4 hours before the test, and that's what we did. We cram revised for hours until it was time to take it. I was teaching another girl about the passage of a bill whilst Morgan was catching up on her parties note.

Exam being over and the stress finally being lifted, it was almost laughable about how crazy we all got. It was ridiculous. We were all bricking it when in reality it was a 6 question paper worth 100 marks. Exam submitted and pressure relieved, we all bailed out of that room feeling pretty stupid, for letting ourselves get in such a state.

Honestly, I was definitely too stress, and I did not need to freak out as much as I did. As soon as it was over I knew I'd absolutely over reacted to the whole situation. Will I be the same next time, definitely. Will I learn not to stress out, nope. It's all just apart of university life.