I'm so nervous now that I don't know how to survive the next two days. My exam is on friday, and even though I feel that I've been good at revising and working quite a lot during the whole term, I feel that I may still get some questions I don't have a clue how to answer. I suppose the main reason for this panic was the last chapter of our style analysis book. It consisted entirely of an analysis of a danish political text. And in short....I didn't understand more than a little bit of that analysis. Maybe it was partly because the base text was in Danish or something, and I may not automatically understand all things in Danish, even though the language is closely related to Norwegian and it should be possible to understand most of it. The second problem was of course the genre. We have been working mostly with "easier" texts, such as commercials and so on. We have only done one political text before, and my analysis of that one wasn't great either....so, in short - I don't want political texts for the text analysis part.

Also, we have been told for most of the term that the analysis part is THE thing to concentrate on. Everything else is there just to help us make a more complete text analysis. But last week, in the last lecture before the exam, we were suddenly told that we had to learn to draw various analysis-models and explain them from a theoretical point of view, not just use them as part of an analysis. So this is also a reason to be nervous. I was only half-good at those stupid models from before....blah!

I'll just have to hope for the best, but I don't have a good feeling for this exam at all. Of course it's normal to be nervous, but is it normal to be as nervous as I am now?