I had the joy of voiding my Aug 26th because I made an easily correctable error in getting too involved with one of the really rough passages on BS which forced me to guess on about 5 questions at the end as I ran out of time. I knew I could avoid making the same stupid mistake again and since I only want to show one good score I voided it and signed up for the 6th as soon as I was able.
Of course just after the 26th my allergies went nuts, ragweed in MN came out, and I've been on Zyrtec and Sudafed and can't sleep. Thursday night I got about three hours of sleep so I was exhausted on Friday driving the 1 1/2 hours to the only testing center that had a spot open. I was pretty confident having had so little sleep that I'd be in great shape to get plenty of sleep last night. So I got to the hotel in plenty of time, went over some material and jumped into bed around 9:30pm with a 5am wake up call.
...and there I laid, 11pm, hrmm boy I can't seem to quite get over that last little hump of consciousness, I keep coming back to an alert state. 12pm, uhh please change my wakeup call to 6am...2am $#^%$%^#@ WTF is going on? 3am. call my wife back home, "guess what dear, I'm still awake!" Okay I may not be at my peak but I can get by on 2 or 3 hours I bet. 4am. This is unbeleivable. I've been laying down in a quiet room trying to sleep for 6 hours! 5am. well this is just great I'm still not asleep. 5:58am I WAKE up and look at the clock, I was somewhat giddy that I had actually finally fallen asleep it seems since I couldn't remember anything after 5:30am. How fitting after 3 1/2 hours or less of sleep in two days I still wake up before the alarm. There goes void number 2. WHAT A WASTE!
It wasn't really nerves because I slept fine before the 26th and was in even better shape content wise now. I can only imagine the allergy meds were keeping me awake or the constant sore throat. It was such a shame too because this one was easier than the 26th, I would have done pretty well had I not nodded off in each section.
The real question now is do I try to retain all the content over the next 5+ months of classes, maybe trying to make it all permanent knowledge that I'll be able to mentally work with even more adeptly? Perhaps content review a few hours every week or do I ignore it and see how much I retain next spring and spend a month going over it all again?
Good luck to everyone else btw.
P.S. I'm still awake, I haven't been able to sleep still.
