How Exams Take Over Your Life

Exams take over your life. They control all aspects of your life including your personal, social and family life. How well you do, as well as, how poorly you do will greatly dictate how different people will view you. Also whether you do well, or poorly, you can never win in all aspects of your life because high school is a very cruel place. Teachers are the ones that make up these exams and they have all the power. They can control the lives of all their students with a single sheet of paper. How exams control a student’s life is something everybody should learn about.
To begin, exams are made up strictly to ruin your personal life and regardless of when you hear about them you can never be ready. The teacher will either tell you early about an exam or just a few days in advance and they almost seem to know which way you will hate the most. If they decide to tell you early, then you will be stuck worrying until the exam. Also, you will put off studying until the night before anyways and this particular night you will have 4 hours of homework to do for other classes. Teachers have a way of knowing weeks in advance about when the most homework will be given out and they give the exam the day all the work is due. Teachers may also tell you about your exam just a few days in advance. Although you will have less time to worry about it, you will get seriously stressed out because you will have loads of other schoolwork to do at the time and no time to study. I guarantee that teachers talk to each other and figure out the best times to give students exams so that their personal lives are ruined.
Now, your social live is another area that is affected greatly by the wonderful world of exams. Not only do you have less time to talk to your friends, but your grades may dictate how others look at you. Most people, by high school, know which students are super smart, which students do very poorly, and which students are average performers. No one seems to like a straight A student, and this is a sure fire way to get made fun of. On the other hand, if you totally bomb all of your exams, you will get made fun of for being stupid. I find that the best way to be liked by all your friends is to do average. Although a “C” is technically average, a “B” works perfectly fine as average in school. If you stick with this on your exams you are guaranteed to be fine with the kids around you. No one likes a perfect student, but no one likes a stupid student. Since grades on exams play such a huge role with how friends look at you, exams put a real damper on your social life.
Finally exams can ruin a student’s family life. Parents want their kids to be perfect students and in reality this cannot happen. Most parents will say “do your best and we will be proud of you,” but this really isn’t the truth. If your best is C’s and D’s they won’t truly be proud of you. The only way to really make your family happy with you is to do great on all of your exams and this is extremely hard. Also, you could try and study for a long time, but your parents would get mad because you wouldn’t be spending as much time with them. They want you to do well in school, but they also want you to spend time with them so no matter what you choose you can’t win. Exams in school play such a huge role in student’s lives that they ruin even their family life.
Exams play a role in students lives that is entirely too large. Not only do they affect their personal lives, but their social and family lives as well. The thing that makes this even worse though is you can never win with in all aspects of your life. This is because you need different grades to be successful with all aspects of your life. For example, to make students like you, you can’t do amazing on your exams because no one likes a genius. However, parents want their kids to be geniuses so if you’re doing poorly they won’t be as happy with you. And with your personal life everybody wants to get good grades so if you have to do worse on purpose for people to like you, you’re just going to hate yourself. There is no way to truly win on exams in all aspects of your life. However, which sections of your life you choose to satisfy is completely up to you. No matter what happens though, exams play a huge role in your life.