tests have an amazing sapping ability

compared to the O level and A level exams when we had to spend a whole 3 hours in the exam hall, sitting for a 1 hour test that has only 2 questions shouldn't be very tiring.

but it is.

it's not so much the duration but the amount of concentration required. for one whole hour, your mind is centred on the question and how to solve it. in the O levels, most of us practised the 10 year series so much we were practically solving the problems by heart. there was some thought process of course but even if you did not really understand, you could still solve questions step by step.

but with all the assumptions we have to consider, the conditions we need to put it, the different concepts we coudl use, an hour of tests can feel like 3 hours can't it? i guess it's the thinking that makes us so tired

which is why i'm blogging when normally i should be studying.. just so tired..=)