Ms Sive O'Brien:

It was a very stressful time especially when I went in knowing I would run out of time. My first exam was English and I badly ran out of time in that exam. That had a knock-on effect for all of my other exams. I was not going into my exams very mentally strong because of that. It is very disheartening. When you go into an exam after you have put in all of the effort and done all the study and then you cannot show what you have learned. It affected me in my other questions. I would be looking at the clock trying to write down as quick I could and would mess things up in my head. I would not be able to focus properly because I would see the clock and hear 20 minutes left and I had a good bit of the paper to go.