The Highs and Lows of a Vet-In-The-Making

Last night I had the stereotypical pre-results day dreams.  On section one in my dream I achieved 1.9 and was absolutely gutted (results for sections one and two are on a scale of 1-9, with 9 being the best), and relieved to wake up.  The relief was short-lived when I realised I had to then go through the whole anticipation again before getting my real results!

So I get to college, head straight to the exams office, prepare myself, and knock on the door.  Door opens.  I inform them I’m here for my BMAT results.  Ah yes, I’m told, they’ve been expecting me.  ‘The results haven’t arrived yet’.  WHA…!?!!  Gah, all the anticipation for nothing!!   So, three visits between college and school (my lessons are taught at a local school, even though they’re organised through the college), a few phonecalls and lots of jigging up and down later, I’m told they probably won’t be here today. 

Consequently I look a bit harrassed and still don’t know what my results are, and won’t until tomorrow at the earliest.  You know what I said about being as cool as a cucumber?  It all goes out of the window when you’re kept hanging for so long!

I can’t believe it has been nearly a month since the BMAT exam.  And that TOMORROW is results day.

In all fairness actually, I’m relatively calm about results – not because I think I’ve done particularly well, because I still don’t have the foggiest idea of how it went! – but because I am the only one in my college taking it, so there is nobody else to stress about it with!  I can’t stand it when you come out of exams and then for the next month or two there are people reminding you (often unintentionally!) of the detail you missed in question 4b! 

There is also the fact that I’ve just spent the weekend with 5th year Cambridge medics and vets who all say that they stressed far too much about it, and that there is a lot more to your application than just your BMAT score, so stress not… (although a couple of them got two of the highest scores in the country… so um, ok, don’t stress!!)

Either way, there is nothing I can do about it now, so I will head on into college tomorrow, cool, calm and collected… wish me luck and I’ll let you know! 8)

Sounds like a cheap movie, doesn’t it?!

Anyway, I have absolutely no idea how it went – it’s so difficult to tell with that kind of test.  Some of it was do-able, some of it was complete guesswork, but that’s the nature of the exam anyway.  Well, there’s nothing I can do about it now, apart from put it to the back of my mind until 1st December when results come out!