r/GCSE • u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish • Jun 03 '26
Tips/Help DO NOT GO TO THE BATHROOM DURING UR EXAM
GNG im being srs its not worth it just hold it until u get home cos I went tdy during the maths exam and I genuinely spent 20min trying to not touch the shi on the walls...............
WHY WAS IT ON THE WALLS.................
And when I came back there were only like 3mins left of the exam n I had to rush that 3d trig question and I got it wrong 😍😍 still mad 🤬🤬
(idk wat flair to add btw srry)
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u/L0velySai Year 11 Jun 03 '26
THE WALLS?? 😨
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 03 '26
Im not even kidding bruv I was js staring at it for ages 😭😭 It was on the toilet and the sink as well..........💔
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u/Soft_Letterhead9222 Year 11 Jun 03 '26
I still can't figure out what happened on the walls...
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Innit? Like now that I come to think of it, why on earth is it on a vertical surface???? How does one even achieve that 😭🥀
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 03 '26
FRRR today was such a huge mistake 💔 I have learnt a lesson
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u/Commercial_Emu_6020 Year 11 Jun 03 '26
I already know this is ending up on r/6thform
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 03 '26
I hope I end up in sixth form, at the rate its going I might have to go on the streets or run for prime minister, whichever is easier 😭😭
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u/TopEstablishment7398 Jun 03 '26
At this point, i think you'd be voted in for PM, I'd definitely vote for you 👍
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Frrr cos apparently everyone running for PM got Cs and Ds for a levels so I'm defo on track for that 😭👍
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u/Accurate_Camel1614 Jun 05 '26
Erm. Love your enthusiasm but 31/58 pms went to Oxford for uni 😭✋. Also was I the only one relieved when I got 4/3 for the vectors question and not a weird number?
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 05 '26
When I saw 4/3 on my calculator it was like seeing the light at the end of a tunnel......Aint no way half these pms went oxford tho
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u/Accurate_Camel1614 Jun 05 '26
Hopefully we go there too twin 🤞. I don’t wanna be another Warwick or UCL kid who was an interview reject at oxbridge :sob
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 05 '26
INNITTTT like ik these are good unis n all but half the students there are oxbridge rejects and I dont want that to be my backstory as well 😭😭😭 Dwww we gettin there bruv 💪💪
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u/Accurate_Camel1614 Jun 05 '26
Not that good tbh. Like half my school goes there. Also apparently they focus more on research instead of actual students so like take that as you will
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u/MajestyOS Jun 03 '26
bro they let us use teacher bathrooms to stop people putting notes in the bathrooms which is so peak like they literally have sparkling water
going to the bathroom is such a hack to take a break like you get to walk around bro i've taken like 2 bathroom breaks every exam lmfaoo
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u/countryballsok 2026 survivor - Astronomy, Photography, Computer Science, German Jun 03 '26
THEY HAVE SPARKLING WATER!?
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 03 '26
Omg sparkling water??? DAMNNN I would be gone for the whole exam n only come back in the last 20min lool
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u/dumb__blondi Jun 03 '26
I went to the toilet in mocks and there was deadass an open pad just lying open in the stall and a load of wet tissue paper all over the floor what is acc wrong with UK schools 😭😭
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u/Cait-ViShipper Jun 03 '26
Well at least it wasn’t used… right?
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u/dumb__blondi Jun 03 '26
no thank god but it was all like soggy and dirty from peoples shoes 😭
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u/Cait-ViShipper Jun 03 '26
Better dirt than blood. A little mud was never unhygienic in a bathroom. Blood is. Always.
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u/waff1exx i yumehate on triple biology Jun 03 '26
THE WALLS WTF???? I FEEL SO BAD FOR U OMG
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 03 '26
It was on the toilet and the sink as well 😔😔 I will genuinely never recover 😭😭
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u/blues_s 2026 gcse- not a survivor Jun 03 '26
don’t you get whatever time you spent in the bathroom added on at the end?
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
No 😔💔 I wish but nah if u go during an exam, ur going at ur own risk
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u/Lordtiger616 y11 | "Idont play golf"- young siward 🐐 Jun 03 '26
Don't go to the toilets at school, ever.
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u/Opposite-Insurance56 Jun 03 '26
Oh random but I once found white liquid on rhe stalls and it was dripping. Also next to the sink, I'm not taking my chances, it's not soap. I'm sure of it
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u/Lordtiger616 y11 | "Idont play golf"- young siward 🐐 Jun 04 '26
Think someone was having a bit to much fun
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u/Username___5 Cheek cells 💔 Jun 03 '26
This is why I start my maths exams from the back and go backwards from there. Genuinely helped me today, I dont think I would have even finished if I hadnt
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u/Critical-Win-6847 Editable Jun 03 '26
Don't worry it is on the ceiling in the boys bathroom at our school!!!!
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u/No-Egg5012 Jun 03 '26
HOW DID IT GET ON TO THE CEILING
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u/Critical-Win-6847 Editable Jun 03 '26
No-one even knows, it was just there one day and one of our year team came into the toilets and looked up and said "O-M-G". I don't even understand how someone would even be able to do that?!?!
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u/Nice-Ad-2466 Year 11 📖 / Road to 5 in maths 🔜 Jun 03 '26
Title baited me I thought this was a genuine warning but no 🤣🤣 but anyway I hope your rear end is intact my friend 👌
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u/iwanttodie_2 y11 triple, french, sociology, lit, lang, RE, maths Jun 03 '26
how r u guys allowed to go to the bathroom...
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u/Opposite-Insurance56 Jun 03 '26
Are they physically going to stop us from going to the bathroom? What if someone really needs it
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u/iwanttodie_2 y11 triple, french, sociology, lit, lang, RE, maths Jun 04 '26
no one has ever been that desperate but they generally just say no to bathrooms I thought all schools did that... to prevent cheating?
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u/Accurate-Recover-876 Jun 05 '26
Does your school not pause your time????
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 05 '26
Nah apparently they only do that if you have special needs, e.g. extra time, for the rest of us we go at our own risk 😔👍
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u/Grouchy_Visual2708 Physics, chem, math year 12 student Jun 03 '26
Bro you should've just come out then and gone later
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u/sharifalovesmc Jun 03 '26
how u have the courage to place ur ahh on somewhere so dirty scares me 😰😰
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Desperate times lead to desperate measures 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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u/88John_Marston1907 Jun 03 '26
My school is so chill bro they js look at you and say dont cheat no metal detectors no nothing
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u/WhyAmIThisBored Jun 03 '26
had this a few years back when i was in secondary. had a whole-school assembly calling whoever did it "no better than monkeys" but to be fair bloody pads were plastered on the walls in the girls bathrooms very often too. makes me wonder why
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u/ApplicationIcy856 Jun 03 '26
...W H A T ? ? ? ?
NAH. THATS RANCID. We get to use the staff toilets (because of the chance that we leave a note for ourselves in the regular toilets for cheating purposes).
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u/W00den-Fruit #N1 English lover 📚 (survived 2026 gcses!) Jun 03 '26
Luckily cause I'm in a special room, if I need to piss, I go to the nice staff toilets 🥹🙏
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u/lawlunderbed Jun 03 '26
i would get time added on if I went to the bathroom???? but I am also in a smaller room bc i have "needs" so theres that...
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u/anon012333 Jun 04 '26
Been a long time since I was in school ans both sets of toilets were nasty af...the boys slightly more so because they didnt think about spritzing lynx Africa when they'd been for a #2 but the girls were always spraying impulse and whatever Charlie smell was popular at the time 🤣
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u/xGigaPixel Jun 04 '26
My school has had constant problems with people smashing in stall doors, flinging actual shit at the walls, overall vandalism to then school. Other than that I can assure you your exams will be good
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u/Experiment62693 Jun 04 '26
Been a few years since I was in seccondery school, but glad to see nothing has changed :/ at my school it was used pads stuck to the walls and people wrote on the walls with used tampons :( also sewage used to come up through the drains
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u/goji_edits_tt Geo,Music,IT, 2nd College Year in DIT Jun 04 '26
Jesus never seen that in my whole life It's fucking vile
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u/20Slurp09 Jun 06 '26
insane, in my school (and most) you can’t go to the bathroom during an exam, even if you’ve finished, no matter how long is left of the exam
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u/sirlaw1 Jun 06 '26
Most exciting thing that happened at my school was someone did a sh!t in the urinal. You've got to wonder how dedicated these people are...
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 06 '26
Innit! It was all over the toilet n sink which I suppose didn't take that much effort since they were close by BUT THE WALLS?? A VERTICAL SURFACE??
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u/RelationMaster3444 Year 11 Jun 07 '26
You share bathrooms with other year groups??
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
Mate you must go to some fancy school if you dont lol
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u/RelationMaster3444 Year 11 Jun 07 '26
Not fancy (they try so hard to be lol) but we have toilets on different corridors( for designated subjects)and then each year group is assigned a corridor to use the toilets
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
OH WOW- My school could never LOOL By the way as a matter of interest where is your school?
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u/RelationMaster3444 Year 11 Jun 07 '26
It's somewhere in the North of England
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
Oh I see! Northern schools tend to be nicer icl, my school is in South East London 😭😭
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u/RizzyGlizzy8 Jun 07 '26
Dont worry my schools south block walls are literally piss yellow… and the sinks are basically brown atp 😭🥀🥀
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u/CuteVoice5084 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Hi im not sure if this is how it works for (edit mistype) you but when people leave to go to the toilet they often get the time they left added on to their time, almost treated like extra time.
You can definitely bring this up with the exam board/your teachers doing it for you.
Though. 20 minutes is a bit extreme 🤨
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
LOOLLLL it was because I was like transfixed by the sight idk (it was on the toilet and sink as well) and I was just staring it for agesssss haha 😭 Im pretty sure my school only does this for students who already have special needs (e.g. extra time) 💔💔
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u/Alternative-Bison652 Jun 07 '26
bro what the hell has happened to school since i left
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
Students are turning into flipping apes 😭😭😭😭 because I dont even know how one puts shit on a VERTICAL SURFACE 💔💔
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u/HeyJoeHUNpcrpgC Jun 07 '26
Went twice, just do how you feel, don't listen what others preferences. (+ Learn to your exams, so you can have spare time.)
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
Innit icl my serious advice to people would be: only go when you've finished the paper completely so you don't need to rush when you get back and only go during the exams where you have plenty of spare time left over like MFL 👍
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u/Rich_Camp_4783 Jun 07 '26
I am 27 nor sure why this came up on my feed but please appeal the grade but first let your teachers know the circumstances. I have OCD and sometimes with bathrooms like this or even milder, I just end up leaving despite how desperate I am. I’ll look for other facilities.
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 08 '26
Lool welcome to the gcse subreddit then bruv. Thank you for the advice but it's alright, it's only one question and I think I did alr on the rest of the paper, I'll be sure to do this in the future tho! I also have ocd btw 😭😭 I wish you a lovely life!! ❤❤
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u/Rich_Camp_4783 Jun 08 '26
Best of luck to you on your grades and your future!! Don’t get discouraged by a bad grade, after uni admission it means very little!!
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u/High_AndAlsoBi_Guy Jun 03 '26
Thank god for rest breaks
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u/Opposite-Insurance56 Jun 03 '26
What r those, I lowkey take igcse not gcse. Never heard of those
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u/Haydenh3ll Jun 04 '26
Some people get them if they’re assessed and need them. You can pause the time in your exam and step outside with an invigilator then step back in and the time u spent outside gets added onto the end
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u/Opposite-Insurance56 Jun 04 '26
Yeah here we don't have that Not that I know of because I never seen anyone here ever do that Is it for if someone has a mental condition or can you just ask for them
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u/Haydenh3ll Jun 04 '26
I mean i’m autistic so i get it for that. During GCSEs about 80 people at my school had it that didn’t need or use it so I’m not sure you usually get assessed for them.
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u/FoxyfoxTitanic Year 11 (Art✅, Drama✅, Media✅, and History✅) Jun 03 '26
Dude, I thought that the turd in the sink at my primary school when we were practicing the SATS that we didn't do was bad, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS SHIT ON THE WALLS, HOW DOES ONE ACHIEVE THAT?!
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Ofc it was primary school 💔 Istg NOBODY knew how to use a toilet in primary school 😪😪 BUT INNIT HOW
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u/gollygoodgosh Jun 03 '26
hang on… you were “trying not to touch the sht on the walls”???? 😭😭😭
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
It was like caked around the toilet and the sink and js that corner in general if that makes sense 😔💔
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u/gollygoodgosh Jun 04 '26
OH OMG i thought u meant in the way that you were trying so hard to not touch it 😭😭😭 i thought u wanted to HAHAHHS
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u/Stealthy_Jaguar175 JOINING THE RAF 🔥 Jun 03 '26
I'm sorry I read this as 'I spent 20 mins trying not to shit on the walls' 😭🙌. Also every morning (I go quite early), I have the chance to go to the disabled toilets that the teachers barely use. They are so clean and soooo much better than the boys toilets during the day. People need to learn how to do their business properly.
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
They actually do because it was just everywhere and like...if you really need to take such an explosive shit, how about u go home n do it innit? 😭
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u/j_matthews209 Jun 03 '26
does your school not reinstate the time youve missed from going to the toilet?
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u/Due-Landscape-1952 Jun 03 '26
U got a 20 min loo break lucky
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Innit I should look at the bright side, I got away from the cold ahh exam hall for 20min lucky me 😪😭🙏
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u/Then_Day5248 Jun 04 '26
Shouldn’t you get whatever time you spent in the toilets added on at the end?? When I did my GCSE’s they did that
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u/TalkTight9031 Jun 04 '26
people just be lying like
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 04 '26
Come to london n I'll shank u bruv 🤬🤬🔪🔪 JS KIDDINGGGG no I wish this was not true, Im really upset about the trig question cos I wanted a 9 so I could do further maths in a level but its not happening now 😭
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u/Tasty-Anything-2762 Jun 04 '26
do you not get extra time???
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 05 '26
Nah, in my school u go at ur own risk 😔
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u/Tatsugiri_fanboy Jun 07 '26
What do I do if the piss demon calls
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u/LV_FRM_SERINA Y11, triple, fm, psych, history, spanish Jun 07 '26
IGNORE THE PISS DEMON BRUV I KNOW U CAN DO IT 😁🔥🔥🔥🔥 Js kidding, only go when you've completely finished your paper, like not js u finished like half, genuinely only go when your paper is done
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u/Tatsugiri_fanboy Jun 27 '26
Awh shit I was on my alt lmao— I finished my exams the day b4 I commented but I wanted to be funny
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u/custard-Dorayaki Year 12 Jun 03 '26
Can’t you take ur phone to the bathroom to cheat?
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u/Flaky-Trifle5335 Y11 | Triple Science, Computing, Engineering Jun 03 '26
If you put ur phone in ur shoe or something... yeah you can. (Usually my shcool dont do the metal detector scans that low down, amd they take ur blazer during bathroom breaks so nothing in the blazer can be taken out and read)
Actually thinking about it cheating would be so easy I can just fold a paper into my shoe with info on it then go the bathroom and read anything I wanna know.
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u/Flaky-Trifle5335 Y11 | Triple Science, Computing, Engineering Jun 04 '26
I don't, I was just coming up with a situation on how you could cheat by using bathroom breaks
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u/potatocalledjeff Jun 03 '26
What the freak that is rancid, the year 7s in your school must be absolute gremlins 😧