An Exam

Today we had the Progress Test. A test which is given to all 5 years worth of medics and so, almost quite obviously, being 1st years, we are "allowed" to fail. Someone mentioned the average for 1st years last year was 15%, which is quite shit. In all honesty. I know for certain, out of 120 questions, i managed to answer at least 3 right. Which, when i find my calculator, i will work out to be..2.5%. But i think i educatedly guessed a few more..so perhaps 15% will be in the correct region.

It lasted 2 hours 30 mins and by the time i'd finished, 10 minutes before the end, the hall had about 5% of people left in it. Someone left after perhaps only 45 minutes. No matter how much of a genious you are, you can not score highly in a test that long after 45 minutes. I wonder what was going through his mind..i though i'd at least try, make an attempt sort of thing. Use it as a learning experience. So i read all the questions, thought about them using the [very limited] knowledge that i possess and ticked the box closest to the answer which i thought it might be. It was multiple choice, after all.

We were in the smaller of the two exam halls at the main exam taking site. I saw the bigger one and it scarred the shit out of me. Made my heart race. So i took a picture. It was very, very big. It looked like it could seat at least 500 people. I was glad of being in the smaller of the two for the first test. I'm in the bigger one for Wednesdays Semester Test.

After my meditation i'm feeling quite calmly confident about it. But i don't want it to branch into cockyness, or false reassurance. Tonight, however, after coming home, Li and i did some "jamming." We sound quite good as a pair, my voice, however, needs much working on. It got a bit awful towards the end. Maybe i should have been revising, but i decided to give my brain a break. I have the whole of tomorrow, which i will spend most comfortably in the library.

Hg is back. She partook in some of our jamming session. And then several other people came in as they could "hear my from down the hall." Rather embarrasing.