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May 2011 - Optomstudent

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  • One week in, 2 weeks to go...

    I can see all the students here on Optician Space are blogging about there exams. As a student myself, I'm no different. Currently I am one week in to my exams and have 2 weeks until I can breath a momentary sigh of relief before awaiting to see how I have done. So far, my first two exams went exceptionally well and today's one I was a little less confident on. I know I've done my best and I'm pretty certain I've managed to pass. The one we have all been dreading the most is on Thursday. A 2 hour dispensing exam. I'm not sure why we are all nervous, as we've all worked hard throughout the year, but I'm guessing it's the maths under exam conditions that scares us the most. I'm sure all the student optometrists in my year will do fine. Good luck to all those taking exams and I hope you all get the results you are expecting!

  • Examinations are go...

    I've decided to save my post this week until tonight, for the simple reason that tomorrow marks the first day of my examinations. At 1pm, a two hour written exam on basic clinical techniques awaits me. Although the usual pre-exam jitters are with me, I am feeling fairly confident that I will manage to do ok within it. I have been revising for several weeks and making sure I know exactly what I need to know in order to feel confident. It should be fine, although I will do well not to get over-confident about it. In other news, the student loan has come and gone in what must be the shortest amount of time any money has ever been in the account. Car tax and student accommodation fees have meant that I am now living on the basic student diet of beans, noodles and toast (as well as whatever can be found lurking in the cupboard). But all wasn't at a loss. I was offered the chance to sit as a paid patient for some examinations this week. It did mean giving six hours of my time to staring at a keratometer, but it was a nice break from revision. In addition, I even had the chance to sit as a paid patient in a gonioscopy course this morning. I haven't quite yet learned that I every time I have a technique practiced on me I tend to provide an interesting case to be viewed, thus discovering my eyes are even more interesting than first thought!

  • All Pulling Together

    I've not long returned to university, ready to sit my first set of end-of year exams. I have a little over a week until my first one, which is on basic clinical techniques. Despite revising continuously since my little break in Shropshire, it's beginning to feel like there is not enough time to cover everything. However, there is a feeling of unity between all of the first years - we all feel the same and, unlike the days in school where every student was in it for themselves, we all are helping each other. It is of course in my nature to help when I feel I can, but it is actually very impressive that all 80-90 of us are taking the time to cover individual topics in detail and share what they have done with everyone in the year. We have even utilised Facebook to organise revision sessions, ask questions (even set polls as to test each others knowledge) as well as provide support to those that have spent the last three days in a caffeine-filled state trying to memorise model answers to potential questions (that may or may not have been me...). It really something that has motivated us to keep going and if it works well for the first year, I'm sure we will continue supporting one another throughout the rest of our time at university and hopefully in the careers ahead of us.
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