8 feelings Leaving Cert students know all too well

Lifestyle

Jun 4, 2015

The dreaded Leaving Cert kicked off yesterday, with thousands of Irish students sweating as they sat down to that pink exam paper for the first time.

There's nothing quite like the sheer hell and stress of facing a week or more of state exams, and while it definitely won't be the best time of your life, we guarantee you will never forget it. Ever.

Here are a few feelings every LC student is bound to experience over the next while…

1. Smugness at home because you're mam's favourite this week
"Is there anything else you need, love?" Ah, music to your ears.

My mam just came home with a cappuccino and a bounty bar for me..the fridge is stocked with fruit and the freezer with icecream #leavingcert

— Lorraine (@IrishLoriii) June 3, 2015

2. Ice cold fear that you'll forget everything you know as soon as you open the paper
So many formulas. So many diagrams. So many quotes. One tiny brain.

3. Hope that the stuff you have learnt will actually come up, for God's sake
John Montague, you beaut.

Montague please #leavingcert #PLEASE pic.twitter.com/fCHnF8pLaz

— Cora Moloney (@CoraGlenroe96) June 4, 2015

4. A mix of revulsion and awe when the person next to you asks for more pages
Have they really used them all already? Show off. *cries*

5. Suspicion when someone leaves the exam early
Are they really quick or did they just not know anything?

6. Sheer terror when you hear the "beeeep" at the start of the Irish Aural
No one can save us now.

“LEIGH ANOIS GO CURAMACH AR DO SCRUID PHÁIPÉAR, NA TREORACHA, AGUS NA CEISTEANNA A GABHANN LE CUID A.”- ancient Irish exam blessing

— Clare O'Dono[hoe] (@clareisainmdumb) June 7, 2014

7. The stress of people analysing every question after the exam
They already KNOW they got the right answer or they wouldn't be asking.