Matrics, SA needs you to excel

Matrics, you're almost there. A couple of examinations stand in the way of your adult life.

- RICHARD CHEMALY

Whatever the adult life you envisage for yourself, these exams are important and they won't get any easier later in life.

It's not like a tertiary exam or apprenticeship is something you can get through with less effort.

Now that the pomp and pageantry of farewells, 40 days, shirt signings and handing batons is over, it may seems like there's plenty of time to stuff around between exams.

It may make sense since your focus has gone from an array of leadership duties, sports, cultural activities, projects and civic activity to a single focus on some exams. Perhaps there's also some focus on the party you're planning for late November.

But let's be honest, that's been planned for months already.

That extra free time can be overwhelming and you can fall into a pit of convincing yourself that your revision can wait until the night before - until you realise you'd rather go to sleep, down a can of caffeine at 4am and start five hours before your exam.