How to Sit an Exam

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Pens down please, it's exam season! Whether you're taking your very first GCSE, or doing your tenth Advanced Legal Accountancy Module (Higher Tier), exams are daunting and horrible things. But! Tessa went to an absolute exam factory of a school, and Stevie had one absolutely fantastic History teacher, and between them they've got some solid gold advice. Pens up! Turn over your papers! Here we go!

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to nobody Panic. You have five minutes, I'm the invigilator. Do not.
0:17.0	Tip number one.
0:19.0	I'm Stevie Tess is over there. This is nobody panic if you've not listened to us before. We do how-tous, don't we?
0:28.0	Yes. Don't be Tessa? I don't want to say anything. I'm in the exam. I'm sorry, we do how-tous. we will be going for roughly half an hour to 40 minutes.
0:35.4	Your time starts now.
0:38.0	Shosh, turn your paper, turn your paper.
0:40.0	That was my name.
0:41.0	I was wrong.
0:42.0	When you said I had five moments I just got so anxious then.
0:46.2	Yeah no you don't it's fine we've got lots of time and so we're going to
0:52.2	There was the papers all in the big room turning over.
0:54.0	That just makes sense.
0:55.0	We're going to do how to sit in an exam.
0:57.0	I can't remember, my duties or any exams, it's been so long.
1:01.0	I really pushed for this episode and sort of insisted it had to be moved up the schedule because we are striding into GCSE and A-level time.
1:10.4	Yes. And this is obviously for anyone doing any exams at any age but I do think there
1:16.1	is a big portion of the country sitting their first big public exams for the
1:20.3	first time and a big portion who've had any sort of the they've had like a big
1:24.8	bunch of years of practicing taken away from them through COVID and there's all this
1:30.2	sort of stuff happening and even if you hadn't had that exams are still very scary.
1:34.8	They're very scary.
1:36.5	And so it comes from our experience but also Stevie has gone searching for the
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