LSM1401 Exam

Didn't prepare much for this one, was quite shocked when i reached school, all the fellas had already ransacked the ivle forum for questions, checked this and answered that, and did a whole lot of other stuff that i simply just went "huh? did that happen? what's going on?"

about 70-80 of us were then crammed into the lobby that we were told to wait outside LS Lab 1 and 2.. making a hell lot of noise. impossible to get any last-minute revision inside

it wasn't necessary. the paper was a 20-pages, 60 mcqs paper... first question... stumped. ah this is an open book test right? ok.. flipped through the notes.. found some reference that somehow referred to the question.. made some judgements.. narrowed it down to two options.. "ok.. is it this one or that one??" darken oval. move on.

second question... stumped. what the freak is it talking about? grr..

most of the questions that were to come later had elongated question formats that forced you to digest information, OR rows and rows of DNA/RNA bases. Somehow into the first 15 minutes the seh sensation came back... i think question 8. Ok, took breathers between questions, relax, calm down. I'm going too fast. Or the questions are too taxing.

Somehow along the way i survived the initial massacre and proceeded to fight back, i think there was a stretch of questions along qns 20-25 that were quite straightforward and my answers were quite definite. but by that time i had skipped 3, 4 questions in a row - that kinda thing - cos some questions were linked. BIG patches of unanswered segments lay in the Optical Answer Sheet.

ok... reached page 18, qn 53. some voice: "you have 15 minutes left..." oh SHIT!! panic status activated: amazingly, the next 8 questions or so were relatively easier than the beginning.. so quickly scanned what the hell they were trying to talk about... but then let instinct rule the day... i.e. anyhow circle... anyhow circled the parts i missed out earlier, with any random answer.. argh. seriously began to think that i will screw this exam...

Finished the remaining 8 qns in record time.. adrenaline gives your brain a boost like nitro in Need For Speed... everything went blurry and the only thing i knew was me frantically trying to cross out options.. and trying to rectify if there were any mistakes that shouldn't be made...

"...time's up!" was it agony, to have the time to rectify one more question taken away, or was it relief, to have put the whole thing behind me?