Extra sleep or Extra Year

So my final year exam is expected to start next week, the reason why I say 'expected' is because there have been rumors of it getting postponed due to some crazy stuff happening in the state where I school, but we still haven't heard any news from the school yet, so we're all just assuming that it might hold as scheduled.

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Now although I've never liked writing exams, I'm a little bit excited about this one because this will be the beginning of the end for me in this school and before I know it, within a couple of months I will be done. Now for all I know, that is good news for me but there's something I've recently noticed that just might make this exam a really bad timing.

Like most of you know, I struggle to wake up early in the morning because I'm not usually a morning person, so I always try to push all of my works and appointment to sometime around noon in other not to miss any of them, but of recently, I've been waking up by 12pm. Now at first I thought I was becoming extra lazy and was sleeping more than usual (I usually get up around 10am) but I soon realized that it wasn't entirely my fault.

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but we seem to be having longer nights and shorter day (I don't know what it's called), it's either that or time is just running super fast over here these days. It has come to my notice this last couple of days that it really doesn't take long for it to get dark and by the time I go to sleep and wake up, it is already 12pm.

Now that wouldn't be a problem if I was having just lectures but my exam is around the corner and I can't have mother nature tricking me to get more sleep. My exam starts in the morning and during those exam periods, I always go to bed late because I have to do these crazy night reading (that's the only way I can read to pass) and then wake up early to go to school but if by 7am I take a sneak peak and everywhere is still dark, I might go back to bed thinking it's still 5am or something.

I really pray that doesn't happen to me because like I said, this is my final year exam and any mistake can see me having an extra year, which I really don't want to happen.