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[chess]

Hmm. I'm not depressed for once. Mildly annoyed about how nasty the first question was on the English paper (they're not allowed to make them complicated (i.e. specific in any way) surely, cos we just have to dump our notes onto the page and having a targetted question makes it difficult!), and vaguely worried but rather amused about how I got out of having extra time in Chemistry (honestly, *how* many times have I told them that extra time in science papers will make me destroy the desk and gnaw through all my pens?) - I hid the sheet that said 'I have extra time, don't take my paper' inside my paper and denied all knowledge of extra time to the invigilator who tried to take it, who thankfully was just a random invigilator rather than an actual teacher.

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[nephrozym.livejournal.com]

if you have extra time, you're forced to stay for the whole allotted time? is that something the exam board has declared, or just a school thing? i don't think i've ever had to do that.

[pling.livejournal.com]

For all my exams at school I had to stay for the full time (though I never had extra time - but those who had extra time did have to stay for that too). But for university ones I could leave after the first half hour.

[chess]

Officially, you're allowed to leave after the first half hour - officially meaning 'according to the actual rules set down by the exam board'. Our school, and I think most schools, insist everyone stay the whole time. This kinda makes sense when you don't have extra time 'cos it means everyone leaves together, but I don't know why you're not really allowed to leave without completing your 'extra time'. To stop people requesting it when they don't need it, perhaps?

[safirerings.livejournal.com]

Just wait until you get a job, then you can go out and deal with stupid people all day... for money!

[chess]

I plan for it to be a *long* time before I let someone inflict an actual job on me... and I'm hoping it'll be a job in a university, which I'm hoping won't be *quite* as bad as most jobs (although Pling's experiences don't particularly encourage me...)