What is the longest exam you've taken?

ok so for my exam in 2 monday's i get 2 hours 40 minutes. that's roughly 40 minutes to do 6 or 7 questions worth 40 marks and an hour each for 2 30 mark essays. i literally have like no time to spare at all. i can do the essays within 40-50 minutes usually but that's if i have a break in between them. i tried to do them both today within 2 hours but my hands get sore after the first hour lol. i really dunno how im gonna do 2 essays and questions without my wrists snapping....

anyone been in the same boat or how long was your longest?

Same here my longest was 2 and a half for english. D: The thing I did was just roll my wrist whilst I read through my paper to make sure it made sence then I was fine just stretch your fingers so often. :)

I had a 4 hour higher computing exam :'( It was soooo long!
It was in 3 parts, short response questions worth 30 marks then the next section you had to give at least 2 paragraph answers to the questions worth 60 marks then the 3rd part was about whatever optional unit we studied worth 50 marks

I've had a 2 and a half hour English exam but I just took a minute every half an hour so strech my fingers and such, if you don't do that then you'll just end up writing slower. Good luck!

My Psychology AS was 3 hours.

8 hour art exam

Due to clashes, I had 6 hours worth of exams with only like 30 minute breaks in between, but individual exams, 3 hours, class civ AS

3 hours for 3 essay questions for one of my sociology modules last semester

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8 hour art exam

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this lol

well might of been abit less than 8 hours

20 Hour IT exam, wasnt 20 hours straight just 2+a half days of school where it was just IT exam

It was today actually, my Statistics controlled assessment, but I spent the whole 2 hours writing so it didn't really feel like a long exam.

nothing longer than 2 hours i think, which i've had a few times

I think it was my English exam back in June which was 2 and a half hours. :/

4-hour Mental ability analysis lmfao

Longest exam I've taken is 2 hours, which was Business Studies.

Well technically i had a five hour english exam, but we had a break for lunch between the papers.

In one sitting though my longest exams were 2 and a half hours long.

2 and a half hours & i still needed more time lol

3 hour Computing exam. Most of the answers you have to give are at least a paragraph or two long, and there's a lot of them. :(

5 hour english exam.

I just kept writing, stretched my fingers/arms when I needed to. You gotta keep going.

Plus I got a 25 hour Music exam next year :/

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5 hour english exam.

I just kept writing, stretched my fingers/arms when I needed to. You gotta keep going.

Plus I got a 25 hour Music exam next year :/

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What exams are these?! :P

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5 hour english exam.

I just kept writing, stretched my fingers/arms when I needed to. You gotta keep going.

Plus I got a 25 hour Music exam next year :/

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A 25 hour music exam? What does it involve?

20 hour art.

consider yourself lucky

our english exam is 3 hours twenty minutes, expected to write 3 essays at least 5+ pages each and then write on an unseen poem which should be about 2 and a half pages of ********

my classical studies was 7 essays... yes 7 essaays about 3-4 pages each and had to do it in 2 hours 30 minutes

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A 25 hour music exam? What does it involve?

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20 hours of composition, but cos I get 25% extra time it makes it' 25 hours. Basically you've got to write a full length music piece in a specified style with other specifications (eg; only allowed certain instruments, time signature, tempo, key etc.) and you can't just churn those out in 1 hour unfortunately.

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It was today actually, my Statistics controlled assessment, but I spent the whole 2 hours writing so it didn't really feel like a long exam.

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Is it only two hours now for stats coursework? Did you do the full course?

My coursework for stats was 24 ******* pages.

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20 hours of composition, but cos I get 25% extra time it makes it' 25 hours. Basically you've got to write a full length music piece in a specified style with other specifications (eg; only allowed certain instruments, time signature, tempo, key etc.) and you can't just churn those out in 1 hour unfortunately.

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You make it sound far worse than it is lol You can do it in fifteen minute blocks if you like, and the specifications are dependant on the style. For example, I did a Salsa piece which had: Guiro, Egg Shaker, Congas, Bongos, Wood block, Alto and Tenor sax, bass, guitar, piano and double agogo bells.

Was awesome, A* thanks x :P

Time Signature - takes what, 5 seconds to decide?
Key Signature - 15 seconds?
Tempo - 10 seconds?
Then use Sibelius to put all the music on a score

24 pages is nothing! I did 25 pages for my Physics coursework and 108 pages for my Computing coursework. :P

I wouldn't be surprised if this years Computing coursework is in excess of 150 pages, there's so much to do, and so little time to do it in! :(

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Is it only two hours now for stats coursework? Did you do the full course?

My coursework for stats was 24 ******* pages.

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You make it sound far worse than it is lol You can do it in fifteen minute blocks if you like, and the specifications are dependant on the style. For example, I did a Salsa piece which had: Guiro, Egg Shaker, Congas, Bongos, Wood block, Alto and Tenor sax, bass, guitar, piano and double agogo bells.

Was awesome, A* thanks x :P

Time Signature - takes what, 5 seconds to decide?
Key Signature - 15 seconds?
Tempo - 10 seconds?
Then use Sibelius to put all the music on a score

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True. I just hope I don't have to do something like that I just want to do an alternative/rock piece without vocals :P

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True. I just hope I don't have to do something like that I just want to do an alternative/rock piece without vocals :P

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Vocals are the worst parts.

You can pick out of the syllabus can't you?

Our teacher recommended certain topics to us, salsa and irish jig and reel are supposed to be the hardest ones at GCSE level

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Vocals are the worst parts.

You can pick out of the syllabus can't you?

Our teacher recommended certain topics to us, salsa and irish jig and reel are supposed to be the hardest ones at GCSE level

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I think so. I have 1 to 1 lessons cos am epic like that, but my teacher got a recording contract so it's all gone a bit pear-shaped now so I'm going to fail my GCSE, but yeah. I have NO idea how to do any of those though LOL. Basic rock instrumental ftw (H)

1 hour 15 minutes :)

i did my 2 hr 30 today n i prob had enough time but i rushed the end cause i was desperate for a wee and you're not allowed to leave at the last 15 mins so i left the last 17 :@

10 hour art exam.

10 hour art exam and a 3 hour product design exam.

I had two 2hr 30mins exams one after another in Jan.