Six phases of exam study

You are listening to jazz.

• Your first day of exam study rocks.
• Textbooks are amazing – packed with knowledge, facts and insight
• This is going to be a breeze

You are listening to Pop Music.

• Still excited
• Like a kitten with it’s first ball of wool
• Books are brilliant!

You are listening to Heavy Metal

• Now we’re getting somewhere
• Information Rulz
• Throwing the horns at the devil

You are listening to Gangsta Rap

• Disjointed words juxtapose with the rhythm of learning
• You relentlessly chant the mantra of dogma

You are listening to Soul

• Gazing at the pixelated screen
• Bloated with information overload
• Burdened with unfettered access to the information mothership…detached from the world
• Words blur as sleep calls

You are listening to the voices in your head

• You have built a defensive wall of boxes around your desk
• Sudden movements stimulate a hyper-reflexic response
• All that has been read is now forgotten
• Blind panic consumes…