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Us year 12s get a little crazy this time of the year with a little number I like to call the HSC. Yes, it makes us all lose sight of reality for a little while as we bury our heads, rather hurried futile efforts, to get a good result for the exams that are worth 50% of our final mark. For example, I started to have a shower with my underwear still on. Not on purpose, obviously. Let’s just pause as you rock yourself to sleep with that image kids.

I had hoped to get some sleep last night so I would not be tired for today, but I only managed 6 1/5 hours to awake at 5, yes 5 AM! How crazy. Anyway, the stress really set in at school as I went through several waves of nausea. The whole thing was running behind schedule by almost an hour, which meant that it was well into lunchtime before we were released at the end of the exam, which was particularly painful due to the fact that my stomach was bone dry thanks to nerves.

Sitting in the exam, despite the strange faces and the rather vague man who seemed to be running the whole she-bang, it just felt like any other exam. There I was with my questions, and I had two hours to answer them. I was kind of hoping to ‘break a booklet’ (for those not in the know, a booklet is 8 generously spaced lined paper for answers), but alas, I did not, but I did use 7 pages for one question. I remember thinking “I got nervous about this?

The exam itself wasn’t too troubling, if you knew your stuff. Nothing really threw me, and it only asked for “at least ONE related text”, so I rather cleverly stuffed another in for good measure. Writing speeches in place of the essays are usually not good for me, but I think I did pretty well in this one. Knock on wood.

My creative task was a bit stretched. I had two images I wanted to work in… the dust dancing in front of the bulb of a projector, and a piano, and I did both.

Well, next exam is english paper 2 on wednesday. That’s much harder as it relies on a lot more knowledge. I’ll study hard tommorow.

Okay, back to an almost normal eating routine now.