After their well-deserved break, finals had begun, and with that a whole flurry of tests, papers, and projects due dates' were all around the corner. Doom had arrived in the horrid form of endless work. Sleepless nights, and time and time again, students would find themselves at the edge of a breakdown while trying to cram for their exams. One failing grade could result in a drop of a class, meaning them becoming the laughingstock of the entire school. No one, no matter how invisible, or amazing, could escape that fate entirely.

Ryoma had decided to skip studying all together, seeing as all his subjects were similar to what he had studied during the summer, as he had wanted to get his schoolwork finished, so he could play tennis more often than not. He enjoyed seeing everyone looking in pain everyday as they dragged themselves to class, while in fact, he was taking notes every so often, then taking short naps here and there.

Fuji had been preparing for the exams a month in advance, and so he hadn't found any need to study for anything, and he too, seemed to smile at everyone's despair. The clouds of gloom were seemingly everywhere, and he didn't need to be a genius to see everyone was regretting not studying earlier.

Atobe had deemed it necessary to study, as so not to tarnish his profile. He found everything quite simple, and had wondered if people really had trouble with the 7 or so subjects they had, excluding the physical activity courses. Although some of those teachers may have chosen for their students to do a final exam or a physical challenge instead. None have been announced as of yet, but the chances of that happening were quite high, as the school was not a regular local school.

Amelia had known there was going to be exams all the way back when she first enrolled. She had researched everything she could about the school and its policies and the rough finals had popped up every so often in the search results. She had done extra credit for some subjects, and did more self-study during the wee hours in the morning before she leaves for class to get ahead, and it seems it came in handy. She didn't study for any of her exams, knowing cramming wouldn't do any good for her. She wasn't going to wing it necessarily, but in reality that was technically what she was going to do. There was a very low chance of her actually getting lower than any desired score on any topic.

Monday was the day to hand in all the finished, typed, 23 page essay on the world's influence : 'choose a country that had the largest impact in 2015 January', with a works cited page.

Tuesday was the second day, with the in-class writing assignment of at least 4 pages minimum about a way that could help improve the atmosphere of Earth.

Wednesday was the first exam, with multiple choice questions only, (which would be easy except there were 75 questions), biology and chemistry, freshman college level.

Thursday was the maths final, with two parts during the day. During first period, they would have the short-answer part, then in the afternoon, 5th period, they would have the multiple choice part. With normal or no classes in between to give the students a bit of a break between tests.

Friday was the foreign language finals. If one had only one language subject they were luckier than the ones with two or three. Each language would have a separate test specifically tailored to the natural language. One part with the short answers and multiple choice in one, and the second part having a person who was born in the language's origin country( who speaks and writes it fluently of course) come in and hold a conversation with them for at least 4 minutes( which is around a average short talk).

Saturday (WEEKEND?!) Had the horrible luck of receiving curses from every direction as sleep-deprived students marched into school, with dark eye-bags and caffeine oozing through their bloodstream. They had a choice of taking one of the physical activity tests, (Fencing, swimming, sailing, running, etc) depending on which subject they take.

Sunday, the final day of tests. (AT LAST) They have options based on their future career, medical field (Correctly dissecting and labeling the human body), business (live-stock exchange with reasons pertaining to what benefit and advantage they would get with their decisions), entertainment (try a live show, concert, modeling, to showcase your works so far in the year, and see what can be accomplished), other(etc.).

The next Monday had no students in the hallways anywhere. All of them were somewhere within their dorms, sleeping, relaxing, resting, or whatever they do after taking stressful exams that could very well impact their future school lives.

2 WEEKS LATER

The stiffness in shoulders and dry mouths had come as the results were to be posted on the school's website that very day at 1:00 p.m. Biting at nails, pulling at hair, chewing on lips, habits arose to the surface as tension rose higher as the minutes passed quickly. A shout came from a dorm room, then another, as everyone tried to find their names quickly and their new schedules. Very few had a class or two changed with a point influx in their grade averages. Most had passed with flying colors, their minds put at ease, along with their parents, (and their now fully stable allowance as that was put on indefinite middle-line until their results were shown). With those over, (and the prefects passed, Atobe with the highest scores in foreign language and math, Amelia with the highest in physics and human anatomy, Ryoma the highest in language and physical activity, and Fuji with the highest in statistics change and biochemistry). They had fully expected their scores however (out of a perfect score of 800) Atobe:798, Amelia: 796, Ryoma:794, Fuji: 797.

After their well-deserved break, finals had begun, and with that a whole flurry of tests, papers, and projects due dates' were all around the corner. Doom had arrived in the horrid form of endless work. Sleepless nights, and time and time again, students would find themselves at the edge of a breakdown while trying to cram for their exams. One failing grade could result in a drop of a class, meaning them becoming the laughingstock of the entire school. No one, no matter how invisible, or amazing, could escape that fate entirely.

Ryoma had decided to skip studying all together, seeing as all his subjects were similar to what he had studied during the summer, as he had wanted to get his schoolwork finished, so he could play tennis more often than not. He enjoyed seeing everyone looking in pain everyday as they dragged themselves to class, while in fact, he was taking notes every so often, then taking short naps here and there.

Fuji had been preparing for the exams a month in advance, and so he hadn't found any need to study for anything, and he too, seemed to smile at everyone's despair. The clouds of gloom were seemingly everywhere, and he didn't need to be a genius to see everyone was regretting not studying earlier.

Atobe had deemed it necessary to study, as so not to tarnish his profile. He found everything quite simple, and had wondered if people really had trouble with the 7 or so subjects they had, excluding the physical activity courses. Although some of those teachers may have chosen for their students to do a final exam or a physical challenge instead. None have been announced as of yet, but the chances of that happening were quite high, as the school was not a regular local school.

Amelia had known there was going to be exams all the way back when she first enrolled. She had researched everything she could about the school and its policies and the rough finals had popped up every so often in the search results. She had done extra credit for some subjects, and did more self-study during the wee hours in the morning before she leaves for class to get ahead, and it seems it came in handy. She didn't study for any of her exams, knowing cramming wouldn't do any good for her. She wasn't going to wing it necessarily, but in reality that was technically what she was going to do. There was a very low chance of her actually getting lower than any desired score on any topic.

Monday was the day to hand in all the finished, typed, 23 page essay on the world's influence : 'choose a country that had the largest impact in 2015 January', with a works cited page.

Tuesday was the second day, with the in-class writing assignment of at least 4 pages minimum about a way that could help improve the atmosphere of Earth.

Wednesday was the first exam, with multiple choice questions only, (which would be easy except there were 75 questions), biology and chemistry, freshman college level.

Thursday was the maths final, with two parts during the day. During first period, they would have the short-answer part, then in the afternoon, 5th period, they would have the multiple choice part. With normal or no classes in between to give the students a bit of a break between tests.

Friday was the foreign language finals. If one had only one language subject they were luckier than the ones with two or three. Each language would have a separate test specifically tailored to the natural language. One part with the short answers and multiple choice in one, and the second part having a person who was born in the language's origin country( who speaks and writes it fluently of course) come in and hold a conversation with them for at least 4 minutes( which is around a average short talk).

Saturday (WEEKEND?!) Had the horrible luck of receiving curses from every direction as sleep-deprived students marched into school, with dark eye-bags and caffeine oozing through their bloodstream. They had a choice of taking one of the physical activity tests, (Fencing, swimming, sailing, running, etc) depending on which subject they take.

Sunday, the final day of tests. (AT LAST) They have options based on their future career, medical field (Correctly dissecting and labeling the human body), business (live-stock exchange with reasons pertaining to what benefit and advantage they would get with their decisions), entertainment (try a live show, concert, modeling, to showcase your works so far in the year, and see what can be accomplished), other(etc.).

The next Monday had no students in the hallways anywhere. All of them were somewhere within their dorms, sleeping, relaxing, resting, or whatever they do after taking stressful exams that could very well impact their future school lives.

2 WEEKS LATER

The stiffness in shoulders and dry mouths had come as the results were to be posted on the school's website that very day at 1:00 p.m. Biting at nails, pulling at hair, chewing on lips, habits arose to the surface as tension rose higher as the minutes passed quickly. A shout came from a dorm room, then another, as everyone tried to find their names quickly and their new schedules. Very few had a class or two changed with a point influx in their grade averages. Most had passed with flying colors, their minds put at ease, along with their parents, (and their now fully stable allowance as that was put on indefinite middle-line until their results were shown). With those over, (and the prefects passed, Atobe with the highest scores in foreign language and math, Amelia with the highest in physics and human anatomy, Ryoma the highest in language and physical activity, and Fuji with the highest in statistics change and biochemistry). They had fully expected their scores however (out of a perfect score of 800) Atobe:798, Amelia: 796, Ryoma:794, Fuji: 797.

Congrats! Now you don't have to worry about anything! (That can seriously damage your life) for the next 5 months! Good luck!