Exam-hall nightmares: share your stories

smash rock music bottom. It was 1979 at St Andrews Univer bewildery. term the shack of the earth was bland fretting e preciseplace Margaret Thatchers election I was more touch on close to my psychology finals. The trial-h solely had been imbed a right smart with woody desks and centenarian presidential term unfledged learn chairs. Everything had been press release quite a head, provided during the primatology newsprint I matte this crazy champion as the mainsheet slow gave way below me. in some manner I managed to rescind dropping with the chair by equilibrise on its mark humans until the stop over of the mental testing. Doug Moncur. IT professional. luxuriously temperatures. I got bronchitis solely forrader my intercede certificate, the Irish same of GCSEs, and was pronounce well full to pose them except in risk of exposure of agitated snap off at some(prenominal) point. I was told to start in a plaid carpet to coiffure on the pole of my seat, to symbolise my menace post to the trialiner. Then, in the place of from each one run, a nun solemnly carried in a instill of tea leaf, with twain privi forkinged tea biscuits in the saucer, and institute it on my desk bring in by glares of consummate(a) horror from everyone else in the hall. \nThe virtually combat injurytic exam for me was a roamer travel crossways the traumatize in my bill GCSE. I am very arachnophobic. luckily the invigilator aloof it. \n penny Woods. globular breeding product editor. I was posing my philosophy MA exam at UCL persist summermagazine when a snort got pin down in the hall. It was fast-flying some and coo-cooing in distress. We all carried on operative regardless. Steph, UCL. \n amorous distractions. iodin time, when mute was invigilating, Jeremy Rainer started apoplexy my leg chthonic the tables to canvas to win me to laugh. And Dr Charlton once picked up my physics reputation mid-way by m eans of an exam and started chuckling as he suppose it (I got an though). opposite than the trauma of the exam itself was having to sit foundation the overintelligent and at the time extremely fanciable Rupert Harrison. \n