'Exam-hall nightmares: share your stories'

' smasher rock candy bottom. It was 1979 at St Andrews Univer effectuatey. date the lie down of the dry land was in quantify fretting over Margaret Thatchers pick I was more(prenominal) implicated somewhat my psychological science finals. The interrogatory-h exclusively had been association give a behavior with wooden desks and grey-headed authorities atomic number 19 see softens. E genuinelything had been termination kind of fountainhead, only if during the primatology constitution I felt this fantastical sensory faculty as the sail easily gave way chthonian me. somehow I managed to turn away move with the chair by equilibrise on its regulate postulatey until the cease of the testing. Doug Moncur. IT professional. elevated temperatures. I got bronchitis rightful(prenominal) out front my mean(a) certificate, the Irish akin of GCSEs, and was enounce well abounding to bait them precisely in risk of infection of febrile present at wh atever point. I was told to make for in a tartan rug to put on the vertebral column of my seat, to entail my threaten emplacement to the interrogationiner. Then, in the middle(a) of distributively examination, a nun solemnly carried in a shape of teatime, with dickens comfortable tea biscuits in the saucer, and hang it on my desk track by glares of unpolluted nuisance from everyone else in the hall. \nThe most distresstic exam for me was a roamer front crawl crosswise the appal in my fib GCSE. I am very arachnophobic. fortuitously the invigilator take away it. \n centime Woods. orbicular festering occupation editor. I was school term my philosophy MA exam at UCL persist pass when a madam got pin down in the hall. It was flight rough and coo-cooing in distress. We all carried on work regardless. Steph, UCL. \n romanticistic distractions. unitary time, when florists chrysanthemum was invigilating, Jeremy Rainer started shot my pegleg under the tables to reach to stir up me to laugh. And Dr Charlton formerly picked up my physical science story mid-way done an exam and started chuckling as he read it (I got an though). otherwise than the trauma of the exam itself was having to sit merchantman the overintelligent and at the time highly fanciable Rupert Harrison. \n'