So I am the one that wrote the other thread Teacher Certification Failure and now I am back with more bad news. I decided to buy a book on the THEA test that I now have to take because my three years of college have yet to show proof that I am very capable of being apart of the Teacher Certification Program (sarcasm). I am known to be a brilliant kid with good grades my transcript shows it however I am still being forced to take the darn THEA test. I decided that today was the day that I would take the practice exam out of my newly bought book. And Sure enough I fail the reading section (the only part I have taken so far) hard. Not just a 60% fail but a 53% fail. It hurts to know that I can't pass the THEA, which is known for how easy it is. It's actually really embarrassing and discouraging. I have to get a 260 (which I'm not sure what that equivocates to in percentages but I'm sure its not a 53%) on the reading section. I just feel like a failure now and have no courage to get my butt up and study the material so I can get better at it, because I am a hard core perfectionist. I didn't expect to do so horrible but going through it I already knew I was going to fail. It's like they set you up to fail. It's like the stupid SAT. I just want to sit in a corner, be a baby, and cry because I am not one to handle my emotions well at all. I'm bipolar if that makes a difference or not and a schizophrenic to top it off, which makes me feel more like failure with each passing day. I just want to give up on school and my dreams of becoming a teacher because they seem like unreachable goals. I think I set them too high and I think I should just give up now.