Exam nerves

I have been home from the cruise for a while now (we disembarked the ship in Australia, which gave us a long journey home - way outside my comfort zone for flights). We are in lockdown like everybody else. Because of our ages, we are not shopping for ourselves and are reliant on scarce and unreliable delivery slots. This is very stressful for a control freak like me and my concentration is very short. Not an ideal way to study quantum mechanics and the theories of the universe.

Fortunately the exam is cancelled but we are to do it at home over a period of 24 hours. No exam conditions required, so I will have access to the course materials, which means that it is no longer a memory test. A huge relief!!

I am also helping in a very small way to educate a couple of locked down children (ages 4 and 6). So far we have looked at the Big Bang and the solar system. Not as nerve-racking as the exam but they still terrify me as an audience. Next week - space craft. About which I know absolutely nothing.

Can I do this?

So I am half way through the OU physics and space course (still the equivalent of 1st year undergrad). Strange course - a mixture of topics I covered in A level physics (1969) and some very tough quantum mechanics. I looked at a past paper for the exam which I will be taking in June and couldn't find any question I could fully answer. So there is a huge amount of work to do.

But the marks for my assignments so far have been very acceptable so with a big push on revision I could be OK. And I am currently on a cruise ship which is having problems docking anywhere because of covid-19. No-one is ill as far as I know and the ship is taking many precautions. But I have my work with me.