What do you do to keep yourself awake??

How about coffee?

Actually for the past 2 days i've been getting only 4, 5 hours sleep as well becuase i left 2 of my major assessment tasks till the last minute again. When i feel sleepy i get up and skip around for abit or turn the radio on. I also learnt to never ever rest my head on my table when i fell sleepy, even if i tell myself that i'll only do it for a little while, because when i do i always end up falling asleep that way.

good luck with your exam.

Drink sugar Free Redbull
Go online
Phone people up

So you're worried about that yet

You really have your priorities right.

Yeah, i do that, you stretch you toes and foot and then you get really painful spasms. Painful, but it works.

Usually the night before i have an exam i try to get at least 7 hours sleep, because if you stay up and revise the night before you will only retain 10% of the information because
1) you are tired, and,
2) it is not commited to your long term memory and so after 1 hour you can only remember 50% of what you learnt then after 2 hours 20% and then about 4 hours you only remember 10%.

This is what I meant about learning. You should take things in when you learn them and commit them to your long term memory. If they are only in your short term memory, meaning you will forget them after the examination, you do not deserve to pass. Imagine someone doing an exam to become a doctor or something, and they read up the night before, and then forget things, leading them to mis-diagnose patients. Obviously an extreme example but the principle is the same.

I passed that mother****er out!!!!!!!
Took me about half an hour to get the whole thing done, I was so f*cking surprised that it was that easy. Man I was so worried.
Thatks for you advice everybody.
That happens a lot when I get worried about a class, I over do it sometimes.

Wait till you go to work mahhhaha

Yeah, i know what you man about commiting it to your long term memory. But you can't commit absolutely everything to memory-thats impossible. Say you are studying medicine, that's a 5 or 6 year course depending on where you go, you can't just go into an exam and a pass it like that.
My cousin has qualified as a doctor about a year ago, and she had to revise. And now she says that she has fogotten a lot of what they taught her at medical school beacuse it has been replaced by more practical knowledge. She said that what you get taught at medical school doesn't really help with a lot of patient diagnosis because that is a what you learn in your final few years at medical school (as well as the lectures) and that you aren't tested on the practical stuff, just the knowledge-most of which is about how a healthy body works and how disease spread within the body which doesn't help with the diagnosis.

I'm not implying that people should only go to lectures and never revise, but at the end of each week of learning sit down for a few hours and read through your notes, get extra information from other sources, don't just rely on waiting until the last night and your short term memory.

If you attend lectures and do independant study in adition to that then you should be able to retain a lot of the material. Obviously you won't remember everything, but it is better to learn this way than bluff your way through an exam relying on your short term memory, that is only as bad as cheating.