Quote:

"Envision success, be ready for disappointment."



Or "expect the best and prepare for the worst".

Logwood, I cannot even start to imagine how your examiners mean to assess you and your fellow candidates by giving you lists of sentences to translate without a context! In terms of translator training, I honestly think that a mere exercise in trap-recognition (no matter how clever the traps) cannot say all that much about the linguistic sensitivity in y'all.

Having said that, of course you must do the best you can, and it appears that you will do very well indeed. Best luck to you!