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30 May 2016

By Lauren E. White

Keep going!

So, we’re currently lost in the mire of the most work we’ve ever had to do for our entire sixteen years of life. It’s painful, boring and desperately slow.

Exams are a long haul and it’s so strange knowing that they’ve been able to turn our lives upside down.

One of the most striking ideas is that we’ve actually finished some two-year courses already and completed half of others. This isn’t a surprise, though, as last week’s plethora of six exams nearly killed us all off.

Maths in particular is a frightening exam to be half-finished with. We’ve been studying that painful subject for a solid eleven years or so and suddenly it’s over and done with (for some of us). It’s also quite an expectation, though. Eleven years of studying it and I’m still going to be lucky to come out with a C grade! When you put it like that it sounds shameful.

But that is by no means the point of this week’s column. In fact, it’s just to boost the mood a little.

We’re halfway there and we’re ready for the next lot of exams (if you keep telling yourself that, you might eventually believe it) to be finished.

Keep going, everybody. It’s almost over and you’ve managed to drag yourself this far. And the track record of the AQA exams in particular has been quite fair, so hopefully the pattern will continue after half-term.

You can finish this and, more importantly, you can finish this excellently.

Remember: this too shall pass.

See you next week.

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