A Prayer for Exams
O Fountainhead of all Knowledge,
I praise You for the privilege of education You have blessed me with.
I adore You. You have given me greater facilities as compared to the boys
and girls who live in remote villages, jungles and mountains,
and who are illiterate and uncivilized
as they do not have the opportunity to go to school.
I thank You for my teachers who teach
and my parents who invest so much in order to educate me.
O Spring of all Wisdom,
I come to You for the forthcoming exams.
Without You I can do nothing. I have prepared to some extent,
yet I’m not satisfied. O God, I’m sorry for not working hard
and studying systematically right from the beginning of this academic year.
Help me to retain in memory all that I have studied.
Let me be in good health.
Help me to overcome distractions and concentrate well.
Lord,
let Your presence be very real to me as I write my exams.
Help me not to panic when I see difficult questions on the paper.
Help me not to indulge in malpractices like copying
from other students, and trying to help others in the exam hall.
Let my memory be exceptionally sharp when I write the answers.
Bless my batchmates also who are appearing for the examination.
Let Your grace be specially upon the poor students.
O Omniscient God,
I pray for the examiners who will be evaluating my papers.
Grant me favour in their eyes. Perhaps if one who corrects my papers
is known to me, let him do it without partiality.
Lord, I am trusting in You alone. Let me not be put to shame.
“My God performs all things for me, His promises never fail,
He fulfils the desires of all the saints who fear Him”
—So I sing praise to You.
O most High God,
who blessed Joseph with wisdom in Egypt,
and exalted Daniel in Babylon, as I am trusting in You alone,
bless me also that I may bring honour to You.
I plead this in the Name of Jesus, your All-wise Son, Amen.