The Test
This poem was posted on our school noticeboard prior to our Year 11 Exams. In our second last year of school, these were our first major exams. I was encouraging my school friends. To be honest, I was probably encouraging myself too! I would have been 16 years old at the time.
The Test
To test one out there are many tests,
Which cause study, tension and fear.
After which one looks forward to rests,
Especially when the end of the tests is near.
School is where many tests take place,
At college and university much the same.
Failure leads to much disgrace,
High pass to a much-praised name.
All through one’s life one has many tests,
Some so hard and painful to endear.
Yet life itself is the greatest test,
And continues on year after year.
Simon C.J. Falk as a senior school student in 1988.
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