I took in deep breaths as I desperately tried to calm myself down. Didn’t work. I tried again. But in vain. The noises of people talking around distracted me all the more as I failed to keep my cool and believe I had prepared enough. Today was the first day of my finals, and I couldn’t have gotten more nervous. I did work really hard on it but suddenly, I just wasn’t sure if I was really prepared. It was normal, right? Feeling this way? “Summer,” Yvonne appeared from the crowd behind me. “Here, take your entrance card.” She handed me a card which had my name pasted on it with ‘ENTRANCE CARD’ written on top of it in big, bold letters. Every student of Dalewood was issued this card on the first day of their exams and it acted like the ticket to be able to appear for every exam. “Are you

