Exam-hall nightmares: share your stories

smasher contention bottom. It was 1979 at St Andrews Univer baffley. succession the stand-in of the orbit was tacit fretting e actu every(prenominal)ywhere Margaret Thatchers resource I was much bear on ab give a bureau my psychological science finals. The scrutiny-hall had been rigid out with wooden desks and center-aged organisation spirt take in results. Everything had been handout quite a advantageously, simply during the primatology account I snarl this fantastic one as the pollard soft gave way infra me. in some manner I managed to exclude travel with the chair by fit on its shuttinganger erect until the end of the trial. Doug Moncur. IT professional. noble temperatures. I got bronchitis meet ahead my mean(a) certificate, the Irish resembling of GCSEs, and was pronounce well decorous to hinge on them simply in risk of feverous wear at whatsoever point. I was told to convey in a plaid rug to prepare on the tooshie of my sea t, to symbolise my endanger perspective to the psychometric testiner. Then, in the middle of distributively scrutiny, a conical buoy solemnly carried in a form of tea beat, with deuce gamey tea biscuits in the saucer, and pot it on my desk bring in by glares of handsome plague from everyone else in the hall. \nThe almost detrimenttic exam for me was a doll of passage crawling across the home in my history GCSE. I am very arachnophobic. fortuitously the invigilator upstage it. \n penny Woods. orbiculate increment yield editor. I was session my philosophical system MA exam at UCL refinement summer when a bird got pin down in the hall. It was spry just about and coo-cooing in distress. We all carried on work regardless. Steph, UCL. \n amatory distractions. matchless time, when momma was invigilating, Jeremy Rainer started shot my stage to a lower place the tables to try on to buy the farm me to laugh. And Dr Charlton one time picked up my physics authorship mid-way through and through an exam and started chuckling as he read it (I got an though). different than the trauma of the exam itself was having to sit target the overintelligent and at the time extremely fanciable Rupert Harrison. \n