Weeks before the exam, I studied every night for at least 2 hours every day. The last exam I had was about 4 years ago and that was when I graduated in 2008. This was nerve wrecking, I said to myself.
Then the D-day came. My exam was at 9:30am. I woke up at 6.00am, in the hope to add in some more studies in. Took the bus and arrived at University 8:00 am. Obviously, I was the only one there. Other students started arriving at 9.00am and not long after that, we were called into the exam room.
The time given was 3 hours and to answer 3 questions. Before the exam, I thought....3 hours, THAT IS A LONG TIME, really long. But I was wrong. In fact, 3 hours was not enough!
The challenge I had with my exam was not the level of difficulty or something that I could not answer but it was more of...' how do I write this down in English, in academic writing style?' That was my struggle. Although I use English everyday, it just never strike to me how hard it would be to handwrite an essay. For the past years, we have been relying on technology to do homework and essays. We are now use to the easy way of typing things up and when it comes to time like this, we realise we have not had any practice at all.
In the end, I wrote about 7 pages long of essays answering 3 questions. Fingers cross for me to pass this exam!
Have you experience anything like that? For anyone who is a multi lingual, share your thoughts :)
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