What do you eat and drink during the exam?

Hey,

Rarely discussed but quite important considering the exam is 6hours and you need to be focus during these 6 hours.
I cannot imagine drinking coffee during 6 hours straight.
Are they normally providing anything to drink? Water, Coffee, tea?

What worked the best for you guys?

Thanks

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ThomasITguy

The best thing is Aunt Annies Pretzels and Cheese sauce.... yummmy

cbkihong

Danielm7 wrote: »

If I remember correctly there is a countdown of time remaining, I stared at that too many times and knew what time it was, hah.

Yeah, but that is the countdown timer for the test, not wallclock. You can guess roughly what time it is by doing some date math, but unless you take the effort to work it out, you don't know exactly what time it is.

This may be a blessing though, so that one doesn't have to be reminded halfway into the exam that it is around noon, and start getting hungry.

E Double U

ThomasITguy wrote: »

I drink Tiger blood #winning

That beats my raw almonds for sure.

kingholmes

I crushed a Chik-Fil-a spicy biscuit and Diet Dew on the way. Then I took one break and ate a granola bar and another Dew. It worked. I passed.

ThomasITguy

kingholmes wrote: »

I crushed a Chik-Fil-a spicy biscuit and Diet Dew on the way. Then I took one break and ate a granola bar and another Dew. It worked. I passed.

I would not have made it through. That spicy chicken would have put me to sleep.