As a very unindustrious student all my scholastic life (and I ended up being in education of some sort between 1955 and 1972 ) I tended to approach exams with a sort of unfounded confidence that I could attempt them without really bothering to study or revise and I would somehow sail through.
In a way this almost worked, even though it took me several attempts I did end up with a (pass) BA degree at the end of my academic career.

The nasty thing is that this confidence has come back to haunt me in the form of a recurring nightmare.
It is, I gather, a not uncommon nightmare, even among those swots who actually revised for exams.

The nightmare scenario is that you are just about to sit an exam, usually about something of which you have heard but know absolutely nothing , and you go into a blue funk wishing that you had done some study.
Usually I wake up in a panic and sweat at that point.

Last night while asleep, for the first time ever I went and sat the nightmare exam.

The strange thing was that it wasn’t at all bad, I kept being pleasantly surprised that I could answer the questions with just a little common sense.
I awoke refreshed and confident and came downstairs and wrote this blog.

Have I now exorcised the nightmare of the unstudied for exam ?
Or am I now going to be taken over by Studynightmare Number Two :
The Results.