A bipolar day

Good evening fellow readers, I hope you all have had a great and fulfilled day, mine has been kind of filled with mixed feelings and that's exactly what I'm going to write about today, so grab some popcorn because I'm about to make you stare at that screen for some minutes. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT MY SPONSORS BEFORE WE CONTINUE;

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Back to my story, I hope you've done the necessary. My today has started yesterday, that might sound funny and impossible but when I tell you that all my hope of how today was going to be depended on yesterday. I had just concluded my today's examination when it prompted to me that I should write about today, it has been a long day if I'm not going to deceive myself.

I am not a great student when it comes to academics, I actually love anything practical and my country doesn't really prioritize that for us. I was meant to have an exam today and as at yesterday, I had not started reading for the paper, it was a CBT exam and I was not even ready at all, my heart raced as yesterday began to close up, I didn't have any idea of where to start my reading from. I had a textbook of 345 pages to complete, a PDF file of 125 slides to read and moreso, our test questions to practice. These load of work really made me tired and I started reading from around 2pm yesterday till 6pm, when it was evening, I was already having serious headache and I needed rest, so I left the library and headed to my room so as to get some rest.

As soon as I reached my room, I met my roommate and some other students checking some past questions and I decided to join them before I slept off. To be honest, all what I've been reading about 4hrs couldn't work out for me as I could not answer those questions at a glance. I was so frustrated and angry at myself but my roommate kept hammering that I needed to answer those past questions because my school repeats it's questions yearly, I was reluctant to do it and told him to wake me up when he was about to sleep. It was around 12am when he woke me up that I decided not to read again, I just collected the past questions and went back to the reading room, I answered all the 140 questions with the help of my textbook and didn't read anything else after even though I answered those questions about three times consistently. All my hopes were in those questions and I knew within myself that if those questions didn't come out, I was done for. My success was all dependent on those questions and I risked it all.

I went back to sleep around 4am, that was actually risky too because I had to leave for my exam center latest by 7am, I almost slept off again but my roommate came to my rescue yet again and woke me up, we left for our centers together and we got there about 15minutes into the exam, as soon as we entered the Exam hall, we went to locate our seat numbers and waited for the instructor to tell us to start. My heart began to race knowing that I didn't prepare adequately for the exam, so I had to put myself together because it was too late to start regretting.

Invigilator: The time is 8:15am!!! And your username is your matric number and the password... 456...

START!!!

(he shouted on top of his voice)

I inputted my details and started the question, I first checked the number of questions and the time allocated, we were meant to answer 140 questions in 60minutes. This made me even more scared but it came to my mind that time had started running, I started, and the questions were exactly the same as the past questions my roommate gave me, I looked at his side and saw the smile on his face, we were definitely tearing the paper. I selected my answers with joy and kept picking them with the mouse like I was the one that set the questions, I was too happy to even notice that I had finished the 140 questions in less than 30 minutes. I pressed next and it asked if I wanted to submit, I was surprised but I went through the questions again for the last time and did some last time check, after that, I still had more than 20 minutes left, this was really surprising as others kept wondering how I finished so early.

I was so restless for the last 20 minutes of the exam. Indeed " the idle hand is the devil's workshop". I had submitted my exam long ago and I was getting bored, so I minimised the browser for the exam and started checking the computer for games, stupid me, right?.. I know, but I didn't think of it that way.

The alarm in the hall blared so loud and the people in charge of the CCTV camera came directly to my seat and stood me up, I was confused and kept shouting that I was done and I already submitted but they insisted that I followed them to the control room, they kept questioning me and the more questions they asked even made me more confused, they were asking if I knew about programming and if I had gotten access to the server where the answers were... I was even more confused because I know nothing about programming but they seemed threatened and I kept looking and telling them my lame and stupid reason 😂. They ran series of checks on the system that I used for the exam, I was delayed for several hours after the exam time had elapsed, they ran checks on their main server and on all the computers they suspected that I had tampered with and saw nothing, even at that, I was still asked to pay a fine of #5,000 for inconveniences, I even wanted to ask if they accept BCH, but I kept quiet so that I won't make things worse as I knew crypto currency wasn't even really legal here, so I made the transfer and apologized about the confusion I had caused and left the exam center around 8pm after everyone had left. I was so happy to be released because they could have disqualified me from writing the exam but I guess my innocent face played the trick or maybe God favoured me, he definitely did and I must be really grateful. It has been a really long day, from good to bad but we move😊...

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