I remember I have had a recurring dream of taking an unprepared examination. In the dream, I used to have no knowledge of the examination from the start until I suddenly realized that the examination would be held in a minute. Needless to say, I was petrified at that moment as I had not in any way prepared or studied for it. I could sometimes manage to arrive at the examination hall on time, but I was usually late. On the grounds that I had not studied for the examination, all the questions on the test papers were complete strangers to me. I felt extremely awful and was in great despair to learn that I could not even answer a single question as I had never had such experience before. When the time of the examination ran short, I suddenly woke up with my body sweating buckets.
According to the interpretation from the “dreammoods.com”
(http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/examdreams ... =examintro):
“To dream that you are taking an exam, indicates that you are being put to the test or being scrutinized in some way. Such dreams highlight your feelings of being anxious and agitated. You may find that you cannot answer any of the questions on the test or that the test is in some foreign language. Is time running out and you find that you can not complete the exam in the allowed time? Or are you late to the exam? Does your pencil keep breaking during the exam? Such factors contribute to you failing this test. These dreams usually have to do with your self-esteem and confidence or your lack of. You are worried that you are not making the grade and measuring up to other people's expectations of you. You may also experience the fear of not being accepted, not being prepared, or not being good enough. You feel nervous, insecure and tend to believe the worst about yourself.
These dreams also suggest that you may feel unprepared for a challenge. Rarely, are these dreams about the content of the test, but rather the process and how you are feeling during the exam taking process. Generally, you feel distressed and frustrated. These feelings may parallel how you are feeling in a particular challenge or situation in your waking like.
Dreams of this nature are also an indication that you are being judged and this dream is a signal for you to examine an aspect of yourself that you may have been neglecting and need to pay attention to. You may harbor some guilt because of your neglect in preparation for a school exam, meeting, business project, or some challenge. Most of the time, though, people who have such dreams are unlikely to fail a test in real life. This dream goes back to their fear and own anxiety that they may not meet other's standards of them. They are afraid to let others down.”