Original question : Imagine you are just about to face a major challenge. Describe your thoughts and feelings as you begin.
Sweaty palms, weary eyes and my head throbbing from all the stress. There was trepidation in my heart as I sat in my class, waiting for my watch to tick off segments of time that led to the inevitable. My IGCSE English examination! It was the Paper 2, and after a week into my exams, never had felt such a tremendous feeling of anxiety. I was fraught with fear whilst my mind kept on conjuring thoughts about everything that could go wrong. I kept my index and middle finger lightly against my right temple and the pulse that rippled through made me cringe. Despite weeks of preparation, I felt it was not enough. Although I had recently started reading a lot of novels, I had a feeling I started too late. It was unnerving as I sat on my chair and heard the incessant murmuring as my friends parsed meaning of impossibly encrypted sentences. Their meanings locked and hidden in a maze of words... an unsolvable puzzle to me. Anytime I failed to reach the peaks of my expectations, a wave of discouragement battered against me. I felt unable to achieve anything greater, and now I was going to face this task that has constantly brought me disappointment in the past.
I heard the sonorous, metallic ringing of the bell that signaled us to exit our classes and head to the exam hall. It hit me like a saucepan on the head, shaking me out of my delirium and making me flinch. I saw my friends frantically zipping their bags and tenaciously gripping their transparent, ziplock bags with ball point pens and sharp pencils that poked holes through the bag. As they egressed, I grabbed my own bag and hobbled down the path, my head still throbbing and a wave of dizziness overcoming me. I resisted it! It was tempting but I knew this was the moment to give it my best. I couldn't succumb to the alluring call of my sleep. I wished, "Good luck!", to my seemingly calm friends as I stepped in to tackle the problem that had deprived me of sleep.
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Descriptives and Narratives(IGCSE English)
RandomThis book is a compilation of narratives and mainly descriptives that I wrote as practice work for my IGCSE First Language English course. They are mostly unreviewed and I do not claim that they will achieve top band marks. However, it will be helpf...
