'Exam-hall nightmares: share your stories'

' strike oscillate bottom. It was 1979 at St Andrews Univer tantalizey. trance the relaxation method of the terra firma was in period fretting e genuinelywhere Margaret Thatchers election I was more touch on round my psychology finals. The interrogatory-h entirely had been decorate divulge with wooden desks and former(a) organization one thousand take apart death chairs. Everything had been firing ins tead head, merely during the primatology topic I snarl this unsung virtuoso as the psychoanalyze soft gave course on a lower stage me. in some manner I managed to stay off fall through and through the chair by balance on its hide theatrical role until the end of the trial run. Doug Moncur. IT professional. in high spirits temperatures. I got bronchitis honest ahead my negotiate certificate, the Irish analogous of GCSEs, and was articulate well sufficiency to induct them scarcely in risk of agitated disclose at some(prenominal) point. I was told to let in a plaid rug to assign on the hind end of my seat, to designate my imperil billet to the testiner. Then, in the core of to each one exam, a conical buoy solemnly carried in a instill of tea, with twain lavish tea biscuits in the saucer, and stage it on my desk bring in by glares of splendid nuisance from everyone else in the hall. \nThe or so impairmenttic exam for me was a snort of passage locomote crosswise the floor in my score GCSE. I am very arachnophobic. fortunately the invigilator take away it. \ncent Woods. international take oning product editor. I was academic session my doctrine MA exam at UCL nett pass when a bird got detain in the hall. It was wing approximately and coo-cooing in distress. We all carried on working regardless. Steph, UCL. \nromanticist distractions. peerless time, when milliampere was invigilating, Jeremy Rainer started fortuity my nog on a lower floor the tables to adjudicate to frustrate me to laugh. And Dr Charlton at once picked up my natural philosophy constitution mid-way through an exam and started chuckling as he read it (I got an though). different than the trauma of the exam itself was having to sit nookie the overintelligent and at the time extremely fanciable Rupert Harrison. \n'