Do you ever fall asleep during your exams?

@Bellapop (1279)
July 4, 2010 9:37am CST
This is not out of doing it on purpose or deliberatley going to sleep in the exam, rather, sometimes when the weather's too hot, or you happen to not feel wel, and you just feel sleepy, then you end up falling asleep accidently, has this happened to a lot of people?
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• Philippines
4 Jul 10
I already fell asleep during exams! :D Always. One time, I fell asleep ,too, while taking the UPCAT! It is an entrance exam for UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES!
@Bellapop (1279)
4 Jul 10
aghhh! Oh no, I feel bad for you, although if you had already finished the paper it wouldn't be so bad. It's worse when you need to be doing the exam paper and your mind has gone blank. Hope you did ok in your papers :)
• Philippines
4 Jul 10
I felt bad too. But now, It's okay. :D I was in the middle part of the test! But it's still okay.. because It was science. And I don't like it. :))))
@Bellapop (1279)
4 Jul 10
Yeah, science is interesting but too complicated to remember everything, especially in the exam... too much hard work for the brain... :)
• Philippines
4 Jul 10
i cannot feel sleepy during exams, and falling asleep is far too impossible even if i dont have an answer. my mind is just busy figuring out how to answer the question or how to obtain the answer (haha. you know what i mean)
@Bellapop (1279)
4 Jul 10
Yeah, I know what you mean, you get so hyped up and you get that adrenaline feeling, your brain is just raving to get in there and quickly get the answers in your head onto paper! :)
• Philippines
4 Jul 10
nah. its not only my brain goes rampage, but most of the time my senses.! i use my senses and techniques how to copy or how to obtain the answer from my classmates haha.. i know its bad but sometimes, its just necessary in order to pass. especially if you dont study for that exam.
@Bellapop (1279)
6 Jul 10
ah, like telepathy, just telepathically take the information out some other student's head...mmm, great ability to have ;)
@youless (112103)
• Guangzhou, China
5 Jul 10
Here the exams are quite important for the students. It seems that the exams play the main role in their lives. It's not possible for me to fall asleep when I had exam. There was only one exception. At that time I didn't feel well, so I had to take a rest during the exam but it's only for a while. I love China
@Bellapop (1279)
16 Jul 10
That was the case with me, I felt a little bit 'off', but not really ill enought to qualify for special consideration...
• United States
12 Jul 10
No I cant say I have ever fallen asleep during my finals or any test. That would be pretty sad if you fall asleep during a big test. I have fallen asleep during regular classes but not exams. Which if i did I would deffintley fail it which would suck because I would be up all night studying if i fell asleep during it.
@Bellapop (1279)
30 Jul 10
I've been up all night before, revising for exams, definitely not a good idea, because you just can't focus or concentrate, funnily enough I don't fell asleep, but I just tend to feel disorientated... :)
@reetu3 (262)
• India
5 Jul 10
once though i didn't fell asleep but i was really feeling very much sleepy during my graduation last exam...i slept for 3-4 hrs. at night and the next day in exam i was just wanted to sleep it was very difficult for me to write but after that in my every exam i take full sleep so that this will never happen again...
@Bellapop (1279)
16 Jul 10
I always try to make sure i get a good night's sleep the night before the exam, infact, I make sure that everything is in order a few days before just so that my body gets into that rhythm. It's so much better for your brain and you can concentrate better...
@digidogo (444)
• Philippines
5 Jul 10
I dont really remember falling asleep but i know it has happened and usually does all of a sudden when im sleepy. I try to make sure that i have finished the paper though, and i always manage to keep myself awake to answer the papers.
@Bellapop (1279)
16 Jul 10
I haven't fallen asleep this year, but hopefully never again...!
@dodo19 (47050)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
5 Jul 10
This hasn't happened to me. I have never happened to me. Depending on what time the exam is, I might be a little tired, a little sleepy, but I've never fallen asleep, while writing an exam. I have no recollection of this happening.
@Bellapop (1279)
13 Jul 10
I have actually never falen totally asleep myself, I just remember when I was doing my major exams, that with one, I was feeling very sleepy and drowsy and gradually I nodded off for a second. I couldn't focus and concentrate during this important time, and this was what worried me... :(
@attente (986)
• Philippines
5 Jul 10
have slept on my physics exam when I was in second year. I didn't really have any idea on some questions, I wasn't prepared for the exam because all of us haven't read the bulletin that week. I have answered some questions, those I remembered in class. But I got blank eventually, so instead I fall asleep. When I woke up, some of my classmates already passed the blue books. I failed the exam, apparently! lols. But I passed the subject. hehe. be blessed! :)
@Bellapop (1279)
16 Jul 10
oooh, that was a close call, so glad that you've still passed the subject...:) I fell asleep in my geography exam and thankfully I had top marks in my other units which still took me through to pass it...phew!
@attente (986)
• Philippines
5 Jul 10
Have slept last year, on my physics exam. I don't really have an idea on our exam because I wasn't prepared. I answered those I know but really got blank at the middle of the exam time. I failed the exam. lols. But I passed the subject. :)
@Bellapop (1279)
13 Jul 10
Oh goodness, thank god, you passed, I was very grateful when I passed the one I fell asleep in.. :)
@sunnycool (12714)
• India
4 Jul 10
There have been times when i sacrificed my entire night's sleep to get some good grades---so you would never find me falling asleep in my most important "three hour" external exams.Its like write now or never attitude which makes me awake .great day.
@Bellapop (1279)
9 Jul 10
I've done that before as well, where I just couldn't get focused, but right the night before I would try to do the revision and just didn't sleep the whole night - definitely not a good idea, I always try to revise well ahead now...
• Portugal
4 Jul 10
ahah i think that happened before yes but me during an exam never happened just one day i almost fell asleep in a class bcs i was so late in computer waiting for my bf that didnt sleep almost nothing so was watching a movie in the class and my eyes wanted to close. but didnt sleep really i did my best to keep my eyes open. if it happened during an exam would be so embarassing ahah im happy that never happened to me ^^
@Bellapop (1279)
4 Jul 10
I've fallen asleep a good few times before in an exam, not on purpose but I think I was feeling ill on that day too, and I'm sure the invigilators must have noticed... :(
@BethannTT (222)
4 Jul 10
i could never fall asleep in an exam, i worry to much and always have my eye onthe clock every 5 seconds. i have too much going through my head to fall asleep
@Bellapop (1279)
12 Jul 10
Lately., I've been pretty nervous about the times on the clock as well, I've ended up looking every five minutes as well, don't know but I think I'm getting paranoid... :(
@ferry2046 (146)
• China
5 Jul 10
yeah! do you know China's NECE(national examination of college entrance)?it's very very important for us Chinese students. however, when i took my English examination,i fell asleep!lucky to me, a proctor wake me up and i finished my papers just on time! i don't know how could i get so sleepy till now!
@Bellapop (1279)
6 Jul 10
I think it is good for invigilators to observe students and to gently wake them up if they do find many falling asleep accidently, the marks are important! :)
• Italy
4 Jul 10
Ahahah, I didn't think there were so many people just like me. It happened to me before, because sometimes, during a written exam, I close my eyes and put my fingers on them to relax a bit and think about the answers. But when it happens in summer - since we really have a lot of exams to do in summer - well... I happen to fall asleep. Luckily I don't have a heavy sleep, so when I heard a sound I immediately wake up. Once, though, the girl sitting next to me, who was a friend of mine, had to kick my chair to wake me up!
@Bellapop (1279)
4 Jul 10
Oh no, never go into a deep sleep, even worse if you start snoring, I would feel really for any student who does this, it would be so embarrassing :)
@mizstress (719)
• Philippines
10 Jul 10
when i was still a student, i usually do this during exam week. i tend to finish answering my exam much faster compared to my classmate but my teacher/professor dont allowed us to stay out of our seat. so while waiting for my classmate to finish their exam, i rest and sleep for a while, giving my brain a break. i also fall asleep when i took my licensure examination for nursing. its a 500 item exam that took 2 days. we are alloted 2 hrs per 100 items. my eyes got bored and overwhelmed by looking at the test paper so i sleep for a while before answering it. thankfully i passed the exam and now im a registered nurse!
@tap0991 (2766)
• United States
12 Jul 10
I have never fallen asleep during an exam but I have slept so long that I was late to the exam. What usually happened was I was up really late studying and I would end up waking up an hour or more then when I wanted to. I usually set my alarm an hour earlier than when I need to go but I just didnt wake up. It was lucky I did wake up. I showed up two times an hour late to my exams and luckily my studying paid off because I was able to complete the exams and get a good grade.
• Turkey
7 Jul 10
I never fall asleep during my exam!! How can I? They are very important for me :)
@rtsh_gup (185)
• India
28 Jul 10
Ah ah..........it happen to me long time back when I am in seven standard.The weather is too hot we were doing math exam.I had done all part one answer but I cant do part two question because I am very poor in math...I forget everything,even I can't remember a simple formula also..........you all know that without formula we cant solve any question, to recollect the formula I put my hand on the head and band down.....after that felt deep sleep.My exam coordinator came near to me and hit my head with his pen and I get up nobody was their in the exam hold...... ha ha guess my result.
• Vietnam
30 Jul 10
So happy because i never fall asleep during on my exams. but sometime , i am felling asleep...hi hi hi
• Singapore
17 May 11
I fall asleep in every exam. I believe this is a medical condition. I will just fall asleep with my pen on my hand and still writing but yet dreaming and drooling at the same time.