One time that I failed this past semester was when I took a
chemistry exam. I had been doing surprisingly well in Chemistry until I got to
the third exam, which I got a 64 on, despite studying for nine days in advance.
I learned that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you
are just not prepared for what comes up in the end. I should have paid more attention
in class instead of cramming in the last few days!
Usually, when I fail, I lounge about and act miserable for a
bit but get up and move on pretty quickly afterwards. I am always looking for
new ways to do something and try again, just as long as it’s still within the
realm of possibility.
I don’t really think this class has changed much, but maybe
I am a little bit more ready to get out there and experience failure firsthand.
Hey Danny! I had a similar experience in stats. I pulled off a 75 on the first exam, despite hyperventilating and thinking I was going to fail. I still think I just got lucky with the specific questions that were on it. After that, I knew I'd have to do really well on the other exams in order to save my grade. I eventually had to drop it because I bombed exam 2 so catastrophically, which I expected as all of my practice exams predicted it. I've never been a nervous test-taker, and I consider testing well to be one of my biggest academic strengths. So this was the first time I'd ever had to deal with struggling so much in a class, despite all the studying I'd been doing.
ReplyDeleteUnlike you, I consider my experience to be a deterrent to future failures. This failure was such a big deal, was so expensive, and so embarrassing that I will work to make sure I never drop a class again. This failure didn't make me want to embrace more failures or be more okay with it, it just made me even more scared of failing classes in the future.
Anyway, I'm glad you got something out of failing a test. All I got was "you can never let this happen again" from my parents. :/
Hi Danny. I can relate to your “failure”, as most college student surely can. It happens. Like you said sometimes there is not enough preparation in the world and the best way to experience something is to simply do so. I can specifically relate to failing a Chem test, that was a class that like you, no matter how hard I studied I just couldn’t get the hang of it. Failed it. Tried again. Dropped it after the second exam.
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