It was our final exam and my friend, David, had run out of socks – a result of revision-induced laundry avoidance. He thought no harm would come of wearing his comedy Christmas pair.
Halfway through the exam, a muffled, musical rendition of "Rudolph" emerged from his shoes. He was forced to hand his socks over to an angry invigilator mid-exam.
I had a complete mental block and forgot how to spell "if" in my English exam. I spent most of my time trying to rewrite sentences so that they did not require "if". When I came out of the exam I didn't want to speak to anybody about it, I was too embarrassed. I couldn't even look it up in a dictionary.