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La Buhardilla, our school magazine, is a means for both pupils and teachers to publish some of our thoughts, worries, suggestions, etc. It can also be a means to exercise and share our abilities and knowledge. This is the reason why this time we have thought that it could be a good idea to publish some pieces of work by you, pupils, in English. I happen to have asked 1º Bachillerato C for a paragraph on their feelings on the fact that so many exams pile up at the end of every term. I Think it is interesting to include some of those paragraphs here. It is not so easy to prevent exams from storing up right before the holidays, but it is worth while thinking about it from time to time.

When we were on the last days of the second term, we had a lot of exams (one or more per subject) and it was very frustrating, specially if you had not prepared them some weeks before. I usually prepare the most difficult exams some days (or even weeks) before because I get nervous if I think that there is no time to study everything and can say that I passed all the exams, except one of maths, but finally I passed every subject with good marks. They were horrible weeks, but later there came the one week period of rest and enjoyment, Easter, although soon I (and everybody else) will have to open the books and start to study hard again. Only one more time and after the last effort we will enjoy three wonderful months of rest in the summer (Laura del Campo).

Some weeks ago, before the holidays, I had a lot of exams. In this situation I felt so stressed, and when I finished them my feelings were very strange because I had a special mixture of emotions. I was depressed for my low marks in the exams, but at the same time I felt relaxed because I knew that I had finished all my exams and because the holidays were very near. Now I am only thinking about continuing studying to have better marks and pass the course (Unai Estepa Ibañez).

When I have so many exams, like in the end of the last term, I feel depressed, sad and anxious because I don’t have enough time to study and have a break. Besides that, when I have lots of exams I feel very nervous and angry. When you have so many exams, you don’t have time to prepare all of them. I think that if we had exams less often, I mean one or two a week instead of one or two a day, we could prepare them better and we would get better marks (Almudena Santoja).

In March I had many exams and I felt really overwhelmed, exhausted and nervous. The second term was very short and I studied very much to pass the exams. My family, my friends and my teachers told me that I had to study more and they made me feel more nervous. I can concentrate better at home, but during the exams I can’t do it and I make stupid mistakes. These mistakes make my marks go down (Javier Vallejo Álvaro).

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La Buhardilla, revista digital del IES María Guerrero http://centros5.pntic.mec.es/ies.maria.guerrero/revista