[LadyDragus]

I just got my first test back in My poltical Science class and I flunked it majorlly
I am so deperssed I made a 63% on the test and I feel like such a failuer. What am I going to do. I have never flunked a test this baldy kin over 15 years or more.....

I do not know what to do... I had been doing so well latley even with a bunch of memories playing tricks on me, I had moved on past some doubt about myself and now this stuff comes up..

Help me.
I feel so down right now. all I want to do is cruel up, and sleep. and I am at school so that is not an option

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[bptoo]

And Trish, I think you need to remember how well you have been doing. That's very important right now. This is a setback, and you're going to have those. I went back to college when I was 38, and despite my best efforts I had bad days and didn't do well on tests. But when all was said and done, I graduated with a 4.0 and on the Honor Roll.

You work hard and you WILL make this up. I have so much faith in you Trish. Don't let a setback here and there destroy all that you've worked so hard for. You are an inspiration, my inspiration. Give yourself a little time to be upset, you deserve that. But then remember all that you have accomplished and move on. Tomorrow's another day, it might be a great one.

I don't know how you feel about cyberhugs, but I'm sending you a bunch of them anyway!

It'll be OK.

bp

"You might as well learn to like yourself; you have an awful lot of time to spend with you."

[dexter]

I don't think I can say anything better than BP did. With all you have accomplished this one test doesn't make you a failure. We all have bad days, sometimes a test can make us nervous, or we may preoccupied over one part of the course... one year in school i had a materials science course (i wonder if there is some school that offers a political materials course? ) and I got three high "A"s but on one test I got a 38 out of a hundred . I was just completely "zoned" or something during that whole quarter of the course. I still have that test, in retrospect my answers were so ridiculous that they are amusing, but I pulled it together for another high "A" on the last test.

But like BP said it is your right to be upset about this. Just don't let it destroy your confidence. You'll do what you have to do to improve next time! If you are having some trouble with the course you you'll know what things you have to work on and can get help if you need it. If there was a lot of memorization involved for this test maybe someone can help with quizzing you or making flashcards. If this was just an isolated bad day then just don't let it make you nervous next time.

Do you get nervous taking tests? That can really hurt you if you feel panicky at the beginning it can ruin your "flow" for the whole exam. In high school my chemistry teacher used to make us take a "minute of silence" every day before class, he would sometimes play classical music or sometimes we would just close our eyes and sit silent before he began any part of the day's lesson. He taught us to do that before tests as well. Although I did not pursue chemisty in college I used his "minute of silence" at the beginning of each and every exam... when the tests were passed out I wouldn't even open the exam book, just take a few moments with eyes closed and relax... then open the test and dig in. A lot of times when you are nervous that first question looks like it is in roman or greek or something and it just ruins your whole concentration. The "minute of silence" the the best thing I ever learned in any school class ever.

I don't know if this will help at all or not but the most important thing is to not lose confidence! I know this is something you can do and you know that you know this is something you can do. Take some time to vent and then go on with your eyes on success.

Good luck!

-- The world is what we make of it --
-- Dave
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[Peanut61]

Sending you positive energy, (((((Trish)))))...

<font color=blue>HI FROM PEANUT</font color=blue>

[LadyDragus]

i know this is just a set back. but I studied so darn hard, and I still flunked it..

I am just not sure what to do about this class. Should I stick with it, and hopefully pull off a C in it at the end of term, or drop it ???

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[LadyDragus]

Thank you dexter.. I have heard of the mommnet of slience before a test.. Sometimes I use it sometimes I dont..

This test was a reall dozzie but the next one will be even harder he gave us a study guide for this one because we hve to know 30 superme court cases for the test in Three weeks.. ACK !!!!!!!

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[LadyDragus]

Thank you my one and only Fuzzy Wuzzy teddy bear..
I appercait the postive thougts.. .Really I do

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[Fuzzybear]

{{{{{{{{{{{{Trish}}}}}}}}}}} I am sorry I missed this before ... I read it and was going to come back to post ... and I saw my name! {{{{Peanut}}}} ...Sending love and good thoughts your way! Fuzzy xx

[PlanningtoLive]

You can do it, Trish. Like everyone said, you are always entitled to make some mistakes and to get frustrated.

Take it in stride and try to learn from them - but don't let it get the better of you. I vote against dropping the class - you can pull off a C or better - an intelligent, hardworking person like you can do whatever you wish to.

I love you - regardless of what "grade" you earn. You know that. Whatever happens, take care of YOU.

xoxox

[Chippie]

I'm sorry your feeling so bad, I have been where you are and still am, hang in there though I know it is more than possible to pull off at least a C in your class. Just hang in there, you'll do better on the next one.
Chippie (kendra)

[Rapunzel]

Trish,

You can pull that up. Maybe it would help to talk to the instructor about it and see if you can get any suggestions for the rest of the course. Maybe you could arrange some extra credit or something? One of my professors this semester gave us the option of coming up with a project to do instead of taking the tests (but it has to be approved first) because she recognizes that some people just don't take tests well.

You've been doing well in your other classes, and you'll do better on the other tests in this one too. That one bad grade will average out when the other grades get added in there. You can do it! I have faith in you.

[LadyDragus]

well I alredy took yoru adivce I think before I read this today.
I have a meeting with in on Thrusday to look over my test

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[LadyDragus]

oh man I hope I do better on my next test.. if not i wont be able to pull of a C in the class.. he has alredy told us that

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[LadyDragus]

These words mean a great deal too me..
*crying* you all have touched my heart and yoj most of all Mary ALice..

I really needed to hear this from you..

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[LadyDragus]

that is ok.. we are all very busy in our lives so i understand trust me I do

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[PlanningtoLive]

You will always mean the world to me, Trish.

No matter what.

Mary Alice

[LadyDragus]

you have no idea how much that really means to me..

I hope you are doing better than the last time we talked..

This dragon will always love you .. no matter what either

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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[SundaysChild]

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Lady D}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Don't let one setback undo all the good that is around you. So you stumbled! You didn't fall off a cliff. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep marching proudly to the beat of your own drummer.


"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived."

[LadyDragus]

ya i know...
I am meeting with my teacher today at 12:30 my time.. so we can talk about why my notes did not help me or what I can do to better the notes to help me mroe..

So far I have did all he has aksed me to do, and I still flunked.. the first test.. I may be able to uphold my bargin on the quiz i think that he is going to give us on Friday...

I hope so..

Thank you for the vote of conficnede i reall need all i can get right now

<font color=purple>The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- G.K. Chesterton
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