You guys are studying??

A level exams, they suck so much ass, i wish i could just win the lottery or somehow get a way to destroy a billionaire unless he swore to give me anything i wanted whenever i wanted

Good luck. I'm in last year of uni and I should be studying right now because I have finals and retakes, lol
I like knowledge, but I hate having to be examined. It's so arbitrary and useless. Like you could memorise everything the day before, pass and then forget everything and they don't care. Exams are just useless and a waste of time for both students and teachers.

I didn't get into a maths degree precisely for that. I'll learn maths by myself. I'm not getting examined of random and hard as hell topics just to increase stress.

EXACTLY its because our society has become so focused on credentialism over actually having skills or knowledge on something, weve made knowledge into a series of check boxes where if youre missing something all the rest of the knowledge you have is useless

Luckily in the occidental world, even though credentials are important and helpful they aren't everything. And even without formal credentials there are many good business that will hire you. And I say this because I have friends without degree working as CS and other stuff that usually requires a degree.
But in Asia (at least in China, Korea, India and Japan) credentials are everything, and a difference of 0.1 is the difference between getting into a good uni and having a job or having zero chances (this is said by some Asian friends, I haven't had that experience first hand).

So as Europeans we are kinda lucky. And also we have more chances to repeat the exams throughout our lifes.

But even with that, the system of exams is absurd and only proves that you can do exams, nothing more. It doesn't prove knowledge nor skill. And once I finish my degree I'll study other things, but outside the university system; because I don't need the stress of exams no more.

I remember working like a dog doing my english exam for GCSES, and i couldnt tell you a single fucking quote from to kill a mocking bird other than the fact me and my mate would underline the world Cecil whenever it came up in the story because at the time we were fan boying out over invincible

Exams be like.
I had a friend in uni that was awesome at memorising things fast and learning fast for exams. So he would study two or three days before the exam and ace it. And then three days later he didn't remember anything about the exam. While another of my friends learned things quite decently and was capable to give knowledge a practical usage, but was shit at doing exams, so she ended up failing or having pretty low scores.
That's the greatness of exams. It doesn't matter your actual skill or knowledge, just how good you are at taking exams.

Its a load of fucking bollox

Amen