FOR STUDENTS! Do you still read around exam time?

[Sam_Timmins]

Hi I have GCSE exams coming up soon and I tend not to read a fiction book in the lead up to exams. I guess it's because I'm already reading loads of texts books so the xbox makes a nice change when I'm having a break from revision Also I feel like I should be reading a revision guide not a fiction book. I'll find it hard to really get in to a book when I'm busy revising too.. including reading other texts for my english exams. However I can't wait till the day of my last exams so I can pick up a book again and fit as many as I can in during the summer. So to other students and all: would you/do you still read in the lead up and during exams?

[Happily Candied]

I'm not a student right now, but I still have very clear memories from when I was in college a few years ago. Looking back, I can say that I did still read during exam time. I was an English major so I had a huge load of academic reading to do for all of my classes, but I still craved my own book choices during my down time. I found reading my own picks to be relaxing and therapeutic.

[MandiKenendy]

I always stopped reading anything that wasn't on topic during stressful periods at uni because I knew I'd get to into it and not do any revision! I also stop now at work if I've got a lot going on because I can never reel myself in to do actual work if I'm in the middle of a book I love.

[Zepher07]

I like to read short stories or fanfiction during exams to destress. Something simple that doesn't require a lot of investment.

[rekha123]

I DO!!! :'( I get very much interested to read books especially at the exam time coz exam syllabus will make you tire like anything at all!

[amarini]

I think it depends on the person and how fast and well they can memorize and remember things. Myself I always found time to read because it's calming and keeps me from stressing when I finish an exam. Studying is all well and good but if you study too much you'll get stressed and do badly anyway. Don't you think? Besides, I enjoy it too much to stop even for a few days in a row. My advice is to plan some free time.

[yvetteyoungkim]

It all depends. If I were to be studying for a periodic test, studying would not interfere with my reading, but in the case of major tests and finals, yes it does keep me from reading. It's such a pain to be separated from my books but knowing that we will reunite soon motivates me!

[Dyuti18]

I am doing my engineering and we have 4-5 days before each exam. So sometimes I manage to read a book

-- 16 May 2013, 05:51 --

I am doing my engineering and we have 4-5 days before each exam. So sometimes I manage to read a book

[JMK94]

I cannot read around exam time. I have to focus on studying the material and finishing up papers and projects. However, right after exams I start reading again and love it! Over the summer is when I get to read the most.

[khurram4446]

Yes we are still read around the examination to improve my position in Exam, and this reading helps me in Examination and other fields of Life

[meskinka]

I usually don't because 1. I'm too stressed to read other stuff besides what I need to read for my class, and 2. I'm too busy to read any other stuff. Althought, interesting point my creative writing professor told us he would read all the time before exams because it was his way to get his mind out of stuff, mainly distractions. He would read Stephen King.

[_lew14]

Usually around exam time I have far too much on my plate and I am far too stressed to read. Although I wish that I could spend all of my time reading, I can't. When I need to focus on chemistry or calculus, I have to push whatever book I had lasted picked up to the back of my mind. Once I start a good book it is hard for me to put it down, so I try to finish a book before I start cramming for exams, as well as not start a new book until after all of my exams are finished.

[simply_joss]

Usually during exam weeks I spend most of my free time studying but I usually still try to read a book before I got to sleep to get my mind off of all the work. Nonfiction makes me feel like i'm still studying so I try to only read fiction during exams.

[SarahBGoode]

I read a little around my exams, just to break the stress and give my brain a rest from text books and revision. But usually after a day of revising I am too tired to read much anyway. Now that my exams have just finished for the year I am going nuts and reading two books at once

[angelaj]

I try to stay away from books during exam time because once I find a really good book, I find it really difficult to put it down. I do read short stories during exam time to get a break from textbook reading.