School Days

 

School Days

Written by VP

Like any other school days, my routine is continuously reenacted; waking up, getting ready and heading to school, then there's the cram class after school. Unfortunately, today, the exam schedule is up. It's next week ?! How come? The last exam felt like it had just ended. 

“I’m soo not ready.” I protested as my classmates also chattered. 

But what can I do other than going along with the preparations. Now I’ve got a week to study, I will make the most of it, unlike last month’s exam. 

6-days before the exam, a friend asked “Have you been reviewing?”

And I answered “Not really, I was so tired yesterday. I’ve got 6 more days, no worries.”

I went home that day feeling the soreness and tiredness in my body. I’ll review after taking a ‘short’ nap. My eyes closed and then it opened again to a 12:30 appearing on my phone. I’ll just sleep today, I’m too tired.

The next day, my teachers were telling the class that they were expecting the class to pass the exams with good scores. Sitting and listening to the teachers, I swallowed a big gulp as guilt and pressure seeped in. That day I went back and decided that it was time to start memorizing. I read the first few pages of the lesson that were supposed to be reviewed. It was going great, I was starting to remember a few answers and questions. 

Then, it hit me that my favorite show is airing today. I guess a few minutes of watching the show will be alright, I still have 4 more days. Then minutes turned into hours, the show ended, but my emotion needed something to compensate for the show’s plot. So I watched a few edits… How did I end up watching other contents?! 

On the next night, I opened the same book, with my memories of last night’s note completely gone. Now I’ve got to review what I read last night. Unfortunately, my game notifications kept loading on my lock screen, who’d want to miss out on game updates? Then another show was airing another episode. Good thing, I was able to resist both. That very night, I finished reviewing one subject with un-confident memories. 

Friday is coming, I guess I should celebrate with the games and shows I missed out on yesterday. Saturday my brain is off, I need a break from studying; a night out will do. 

Suddenly, I panicked. There’s only one day left. What to do?! 

Realizing that time is running out, I opened my books, with the memorized lesson almost completely gone from my head. So I had to review everything. I bet my family members could hear me reciting repetitive sentences throughout the day and night. 

Time ticked and it was finally time to take the exam. I was sure that I read everything, but all the things that I had remembered seemed to be floating around my head aimlessly, yet none was clear enough to make me confident in my answers. I was panicking and contemplating on what, which answer to write. I think it was this answer, but I thought it was longer… no? I guess I should just write something on the top of my head. 

The exams continued and soon, before I knew it, it was over again. 

“How did you do?” a friend asked 

“Pretty bad. I wished I had tried harder and reviewed it beforehand.” I said with guilt. 

I’ll try harder next time! 

Like last month, my results were the same, a little bit above average thanks to my one-day cramped revision. Next month I’ll definitely review it beforehand. 

The exam came again, "Deja vu" was all I could say.

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