The world in a grain of sand

Exams can be very stressful, explaining the feelings that people go though at ‘exam time’ can be difficult, but I will try throughout this essay to apply and describe those feelings at exam time.

Exams are stressful to the people that sit them and to the parents of the ‘kids’ that make them study and work hard. The first time I sat my exams, was no different. Stressful. On the day on my very first standard grade exam, English, it was more exciting than stressful, the excitement came from deep down but the exams were supposed to be stressful. Although nobody expressed it, people were nervous.

After the first exam, people ‘thought it was hard’ but again deep down they were only trying to be ‘tough’ to there peers.

Although I seem to do the same, my feelings towards the exam system, had changed, when I got the results though. My results were not as I had expected, in fact they were better than I had expected. The ‘aftermath’ of the results was the interesting...