You May Begin Your Test

One day before the test, and my nerves start to fizzle.

I need to study all I can to make up for the days that I was never in class and never learned anything; Make up for my stupidity and procrastination.

12 hours before the test, and I can feel my need for sleep drifting away.

I'm now staying up all night, revising homework on systems of equations and the quadratic formula, praying that the math gods will magically bless me with knowledge. Perhaps it will help?

6 hours before the test, and I have to anxiously sit through all my other classes to get to Algebra 2 at the end of the day.

My mind is repeating a mantra of: Quadratic formula, standard form, axis of symmetry, greatest common factor.

Quadratic formula, standard form, axis of symmetry, greatest common factor. 

Quadratic formula, standard form, axis of symmetry, greatest common factor.

It is now 10 minutes before the test, and time has flown by too quickly.

Am I really prepared for this? Do I actually know anything? Will my brain just melt into a pile of thick goo? Do I actually know what the square root of 25 is?

I don't know right now, and I won't know until I'm given that paper and hear those words: 

"You May Begin Your Test."