i took the loma 290 exam this morning, and to my dismay, a lot of questions are tricky that i’m still not sure if i made it. 
anyway, this is something about exam takers, some i observed this morning and a lot from university! 
types of exam people:
1) the early birds - these people come at the exam site at least 1 hour before the exam. they’re too excited that they couldn’t sleep the night before that’s why they’re early.
2) everready - a girlscout or boyscout at heart. brings a complete set of utilities at the exam site, carrying it in a backpack. not one, not two, but at least three newly sharpened pencils are out, with matching eraser rubbers in each one of those, all inside a neat pencil case. a sharpener is at the side in case all of the three pencils break. when i say i complete, it’s literal. they have 2 set of meals, and an extra bottle of mineral water, with napkin, salt and pepper to taste.
3) late comers - opposite of the early birds. come to the exam at least 15 minutes before the exam period is over.
4) the carefree - carrying nothing but themselves and a pencil during an exam. no tension can be seen or whatsoever. (not until the result is given)
5) the flash - these people finish the exam in a blast. that everyone is just in number 10, and he’s done everything up to item 100.
6) the may-i-go-out type - people who can’t refrain to go out of the exam every 5 minutes.
7) talking-to-myself - they are annoyances. avoid taking an exam beside one. they read every questions out loud that it seems he’s dictating it for the whole room.
8 ) cover-it-up - they have their whole shoulders, torso, and head covering the exam paper just like they’re protecting their entire wealth. for girls with long hair, they use it as an added curtain.
9) crammers - books open out wide up to the last moment the proctor announced to keep everything away. he’s usually flustering, and thinks that every single second of the last moment before the exam is crucial just in case he left something and just read now, and it eventually will be an item in the exam.
10) askers - ask the proctor a lot of things that may or may not be about the exam.
11) miss congeniality - super friendly seatmate in an exam that you don’t know if they want something or what. cover-it-up and miss congeniality are famous enemies.
12) bingo - people who shout out loud for joy and sing with praises that for them, they had just solved something beyond human logical comprehension. they believe they’re the next einstein.
13) hummers - they are close relatives of talking-to-myself in a way that they both sound. but the hummers are more of that artistically inclined. they hum tunes and songs of salvation thay they thought would help them revitalize things in their minds.
14) sleepers - as it says, they sleep in the exam.
15) the-phlegm-is-heavy - these are the coughers. some variety of this might be disturbing to others, especially when the sound seems to be from a thick, sticky, greenish phlegm. combine talking-to-myself, hummers, and the-phlegm-is-heavy in an exam room and you’ve got a chamber music entourage.
and the list goes on not to mention those people with super talents on getting answers from their seatmates….these are just among that i can think…hahaha =D
16) unprepared - at this exam, this is me. i forgot to bring a pencil. and have to take a taxi going to the exam venue as i’ve never been there before and i kinda got up late in the morning too. hahaha =D
