It's been a day of hectic mugging. Maybe not so, having played a little bit in the morning. Nevertheless, the majority of the day was spent doing revision. Particularly Chemistry. I had thought that a night should be enough for my geography revision, and I was hoping to really do well for Chemistry. Had high hopes for it, so it was also the subject that I have put in the most amount of efforts, read through at least 5 times. So when night came, and I started recapping geography, during which I panicked, like really. I couldn't finish the entire content, and as it went later into the night, my thoughts gave way obediently to tiredness readily. I could not absorb at all, and turned out I didn't understand a lot of things. Luckily clone was there to give me a peace of mind, that I eventually managed to pull through. Thank clone, thank God!
Today's finally the judgment day. Although examinations begun 2 days ago, and yesterday we had a break, I only considered today to be the one day, that day that really put everything to intense challenge. After a week, it's also been quite sometime since I have to wake up really early, and go to school. Morning ride was fine, and morning sky was beautiful, and the atmosphere peaceful. Having reached the school as early as 630, and being the early hours in the morning, and being the duration of test for the not common paper-geography, the school was rather quiet. Nevertheless, my mind was not able to enjoy the same amount of peace. Geography flooded my mind. Yes, flooded, or to accentuate the extent, it tsunami-ed my mind. It was a period of fear and anticipation. I just wanted to get it over and done with. First question wasa picture which shows some mass movement. coincidentally, that was the chapter I had given out much; and also something which I have talked about when we were entering the examination room. That was how coincidental that was. So we were required to identify what kind of mass movement it was. At first I thought it was mud flow since it looked kind of smooth, then I saw the word rock debris and changed it to rock fall, but after observing the layer I cancelled again and changed it to land slide. Hm. Many dilemma. DRQs were fine, especially after spending almost the entire night studying atmosphere and it actually came out. Only set back was in the last piece of the DRQ about population. The statistics about overall annual and stuffs were making me frustrated. Essays were kind of killer. My first response was to flip when I saw the first essay. Yes, I was kind of stunned. Didn't really know either of the options. So I chose to do human geog first. Instinct got me to choose B but when I did it halfway, I lost track. Looked like I have just been ranting over unnecessary content. So I put that aside first, and proceeded back on with my physical geog. First part was a dumping of whatever I remembered, since I was not exactly sure how to answer it, having missed that out during my revision. Fortunately the second part was well substantiated with some examples. Kind of satisfied, though the exact statistics refused to come out. Then I went back to the last part of the human geog essay. I thought I did well too, until I realise I confused two case studies of Shell in Nigeria and rice company in Ghana. As such, I wrote Ghana for both, and my friend told me the question specifcally asked for one specific example ONLY. Thus, that means it's pretty much of a goner too.
After that went to have brunch with friends and returned to school's library for last minute revision. When I entered the exam hall atmosphere was kind of tensed. And I didn't feel good. 20 MCQs were required of us to complete them all within 30 minutes, and apparently a lot of us didn't manage to do so. I finished though, but with much approximation. Couldn't get much of the exact values, so could only make do with the closest options available. Learnt from previous mistake, I decided to go with the flow. Previously I did section C before B and scored highest for C but insufficient time made me score the lowest for B in the class. But it didn't help much too. I was not confident with all the answers. All are those that I think I know and jsut filling up what I thought is correct, but not confident. In the end, I didn't manage to complete the paper anyway. Bad bad disappointment. I had such high hope for it, but I doubt I'm ever gonna do well. If it ever gets me a pass, I would be more than happy.
Tomorrow's mathematics, and the fear of retaining that struck everyone has struck me too. I'm nervous, and very much scared. Even if everything is in His hands already the thought of having to stay back another year sends chill down my spine every now and then. I must really do well for tomorrow. All the best guys! God bless.