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| Edit1: Added graph showing how I felt within the first half hour (or less) after an exam Edit2: I haven't gotten my results back. |
Ah! I just walked out of the testing center. I turned in all my scratch paper and didn't even think twice about nicking the No. 2 pencils. I'm feeling great. I just totally nailed that exam. "Hello, Career? Where's your ladder? I'm coming up."
Six seconds later: Panic!
"Hmm...Did I exit the exam correctly? What if it didn't save my answers? Oh my! Stupid. Stupid."
My legs start to weaken. Must. Reach. Car.
"I should've stuck with C. Should it have been I, II, III AND IV? Did I move the line?"
I just sit in my car for the next three minutes trying to convince myself that my answer choices were the best ones, and that the computer also saved all my answers. Rational left brain kicks in.
"Naaah! I had to move that line. It was following the wrong sketch line, Silly. I made the right decision. And it was definitely B. Choice C wouldn't even make sense to a five year old. And IV? Hah! That was definitely NOT true. So obvious."
Then I go check the Internet to see if I had to do something special to exit the exam. Search "magic hidden save button" and "exam exiting procedure" and "did the computer just eat my exam?" (Pop quiz: Which search string did I really use on Google? Answer: Of course, C. Wait, nope, it's B. Yes?) It turns out, the computer saves all my answers every minute or so. Hooray for autosave!
OK, I'm awesome again. Well, maybe 86% awesome.
I never realized how many traffic lights were on my route home. At each red light, I think about more questions. More items I think I got wrong, or maybe I actually got right but mis-clicked the incorrect answer. It snowballs until I come to the conclusion that I have just definitely failed that exam. 48% max. Wait, Washington DC IS the capital of the US. At least, I know for sure that's correct. Oh, blurgh, that was just the sample question!
"Sh%t! Aaaargh! Rehabilitation! No! It WAS Sitte! F%ck! I should have put 5. OHMYGOD! Noooooo!"
Time elapsed after leaving the testing center: 18 minutes. Real life roller coasters don't even go on for this long. Most definitely counting this experience as self-inflicted torture, which when I look back, I've gone through every time I finished a major exam.
Almost.
I am 110% sure I killed it during the AP Calculus exam: x equals negative b plus/minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a, bitch!