Author Topic: How do you guys stop getting nervous about exams? (Read 3866 times)

RpJk · « **on:** February 10, 2013, 10:37:31 PM »

Listen lads I've been up since 1am because I am absolutely nervous about my Home Ec exam in which I have to cook 2 meals in 2 hours and so I ask you how do you stop getting nervous about it?

kill343gs · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2013, 10:43:18 PM »

make pasta, that takes like ten minutes, then make a hamburger. you win

Kossokei · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2013, 10:54:39 PM »

First meal: Take 4 slices of bread. Put cheese in between slices of bread. Put each of the bread-cheese-bread sandwiches into their own toaster slots. Toast them. While they're toasting, take some tomato soup, pour it into a bowl, throw it in the microwave for 2 minutes. Once you do all that, your toasted cheese sandwiches will be done toasting. Take them out, cut them in half, wait for the tomato soup to finish. To eat, dunk the toasted cheese half-sandwiches in the tomato soup like you dump chips (they're called fries where you come from, I think) in sour cream dip.

That should give you an hour and thirty minutes to make something really fancy.

RpJk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2013, 11:01:35 PM »

I have to make chicken teryaki and prawn tempura.

Kossokei · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2013, 11:14:08 PM »

~~You're screwed.~~

Find time during your classes (if you have any free time) to go over your ingredients, steps, etc. If you feel that you don't need to study anymore then you shouldn't worry.

Philippa · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2013, 01:42:56 AM »

~~Bahahaha.~~

Blindly put in any old crap and hope that, due to the magic of television editing, your meal will be perfect cooked and delicious.

Naryar · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2013, 03:38:36 AM »

Convince yourself you're gonna win this fight : if you start with low morale, it's not even worth fighting.

The ending is irrelevant, just think you're gonna win.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2013, 07:06:17 AM »

@ Thread title: Graduate and you won't ever have to worry about exams again.

Badger · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2013, 08:30:19 AM »

I find that not worrying/caring about the mark that you get helps a great deal.

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2013, 08:41:33 AM »

Cooking is just following directions. Do that and you'll probably get something semi palatable.

Classicus · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2013, 08:56:21 AM »

Most Indian food tastes like boiled cat urine anyway so long as it don't look burnt you should be fine.

Conraaa · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2013, 08:59:53 AM »

Quote from: Classicus on February 11, 2013, 08:56:21 AM

Most Indian food tastes like boiled cat urine anyway so long as it don't look burnt you should be fine.

Aren't they both Japanese dishes?

Classicus · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2013, 09:05:54 AM »

Same difference. Foreign muck is all the same except American/Canadian, Italian and Chinese.

Trovaner · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2013, 09:23:17 AM »

Feeling nervous is pretty normal. How you deal with your anxiety can vary greatly. Confidence can be drawn from a sense of knowing the material through studying/practice. As Naryar said, the ending is irrelevant as long as you made the attempt. You should enter the room thinking that you will do your best and leave knowing that you have done just that.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2013, 09:33:06 AM »

lol, exams are easy dude

ianh05 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2013, 09:52:07 AM »

Can't do much worse then I did in year 7 cooking, I made garlic bread by toasting bread with garlic on it.

Mr. AS · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2013, 01:38:45 PM »

you listen to this

Kossokei · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2013, 02:17:32 PM »

Quote from: Mr. AwesumSauce on February 11, 2013, 01:38:45 PM

you listen to this

gnorw

RpJk · « **Reply #18 on:** February 11, 2013, 03:45:38 PM »

So I did the exam and I thought it went better than I thought. I nearly killed about 10 people by leaving the gas on for 10 minutes then turning the gas cooker on.

Classicus · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2013, 04:44:41 PM »

Maybe if you had killed a few they may have forgot about the exam. Missed a trick there I feel.