Was supposed to sit 3 tests and luckily only sat 2 because one of my lecturers thought she could spare me from the 3rd one and having me sit it on Thursday.
The 1st went well or so I think...
I am always hesitant to use the word 'easy' as it's when you feel safe that you really are not but I do feel I did ok and all the effort put into studying will possibly pay off when I get the result.
The 2nd test instead was another story...
Hours of preparation, tutorials, flash cards, internet research, book reading and note taking just happened to fail miserably when, after having thought I did fairly well, I found out that I got 60% in my Chemistry test where the pass mark is 70%
A couple of stupid mistakes and then a major one...
One that cost me all the marks of the last 2 questions.
Just one stupid rule I didn't understand that completely ruined my results.
Well, not like the rule is really stupid, it's more me not thinking straight but what a silly way to throw away a pass!
Today's test was a self assessment, the real exam is not until January but, even if my lecturer was fairly pleased with my result for not having done any chemistry before, I still felt a bit of a failure...
The positive side is that I will never make this mistake again...
The negative side is that I'll have to go again through every single rule to make sure I know exactly what to do with it...
Or maybe I should consider this a positive?
Not sure quite yet but meanwhile I'm buying a shovel for the chocolate ice-cream tub...
I think it will be a few long weeks leading up to the real exam...
1 comment:
Yuo are just human, any human being can have a failure!
You did your best, thats is the point. If your best was not enough you have to check what you did wrong.
I believe you studied too much. Too much imput which have made you lose focus on key point. You failed for: "Just one stupid rule I didn't understand" as you said. Chemistry is a science built on rules, better to miss one rule (you can always learn it) than use it wrongly (you will repeat mistakes without realizing).
Anyhow continue to do your best, positive results will come!
Daddy
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