Exams

Yes the dreaded E word, EXAMS. The thing that every teenager hates and wishes they didn't have to do. This is why a percentage of our generation escape it by doing 'BTEC's' which is all coursework based and all they have to do is meet criteria and deadlines, I'm not saying it's easy- it is time consuming and you still have to work hard. For example; my A* in performing arts and health & social care at school, it's not that I sat around doing nothing. There were times when it was stressful, so I do believe I deserved the grades. But then you have English and Maths which I put exactly the same amount of effort into, but got two grades lower, two B's. Which to be honest I was ecstatic with, because I hate exams. I hate the pressure, the environment, the silence, the remembering every little detail for it not to even come up in the paper. Just everything about it, especially the long, dreaded wait for the results when you realize what you got is still not good enough. Expectations is what really gets me. If you don't reach these expectations your dreams can be shattered in moments, just two exams and that's a year of your life wasted. What I'm trying to say is, I wish there was another way of getting through school/college/university.