Are you surprised, relieved, disappointed, or what? I am very pleased with my exam grade. I feel as though I have worked hard in the class and studied, as a result I was able to get a better gradel. I tried my best in getting help, studying, and completing all of the work in order to get the best grasp possible on the material and it was a success comparatively to my other exams and efforts. 4.
The turning point for me when I realized what I was doing was not going to work was the mid-semester check-in email, where I had a 69% in math. This made me very upset and insecure about myself as a math student. Due to this experience, I grew so much as a student and became more mature in general. I met with my teacher and came up with a plan for the rest of the year to fix my study habits. This helped me as I finished the year with a B+ in math.
This is where failure comes in. Sherry proclaims that we need to recognize that this fear of failure is a positive teaching tool. To make this tool work, teachers and parents need to accept that if the student doesn’t learn the material, they must follow through with their promises of flunking. Both teachers and parents have to realize that the future of the child is at stake, and only good intentions come from the
Hopefully I learned and understood and am able to apply that information and hopefully my grade reflects that. On a scale of 85 to 100, I honestly can’t pick a number. Maybe something even. But then again I am a little
We learned the material in class and was assigned homework everyday. However, when the test came along, the results I obtained were devastating. Test after test, I kept getting C’s, D’s and even E’s. Every time I get a bad test score back, I would shrug it off. “The next test will be better,” I kept telling myself.
I will strive to be successful; whenever I fail, I will not look at it as a way to feel bad for myself. I will look at it as an opportunity to do more and try harder. As Vince Lombardi said, “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” I want success in life; however, I have learned that it is near impossible to attain success without failure. Every single success and failure in life has led me to believe in myself and everything I hope to become and aspire to
Before the exam, I had been practicing almost every day. Even after all the practicing, I was still quite worried I would fail the exam. Despite my thoughts, everyone seemed to think I would do wonderfully. My parents thought I was
When assignments and test/quiz material became available, I always kept note of the work and began preparing my study material and practiced. Once finished with the assignment, I would go back several times and reread it and compare it to the grading rubric. This presents my personal perfectionism and concern to the task at hand. (warrant) My biggest downfall this semester would be my lack of vocal participation within the classroom.
I was upset for some time, considering dropping the course altogether, but after some scrutiny, I acknowledged that giving up would not solve my problems, only allow them to follow me into my college career. My goal is to be a chemical engineer, and if I thought I could do that without understanding calculus, I would never get to live my dream. I took the failing grade as a motivation to do better next time; I put more effort into studying and practicing, even when work was not assigned, and I was miraculously able to earn an A for my semester grade, and a passing score on my AP exam. As cliche as it may sound, the failure helped me by motivating me.
As a young scholar, I know the adrenaline rush feeling when recieving final exam grades that can determine our weekend. When most persons experience the feeling of an unsatisfactory grade, they tend to be distressed and bitter, blaming everyone and everything other than themselves. Contrariwise, some students optimistically better themselves and plan to be greater in the near future. An influential Spanish teacher, role model and leader named Señora Denise Ali-Gibson once said “You cannot be upset by the results you did not get, from the work you did not do”. This astounding quote has inspired others and myself not to bitter ourselves on what we thought we knew, but to better ourselves on what is to be known.
Competition in the classroom can be very intense, especially when other students appear to excel relatively quickly while you have to struggle through. I personally experienced this one in a class I had several years ago. I put in hours to my work and was not receiving the grades I wanted. On the other hand, a classmate never seemed to study and aced every assignment. It was very easy for me to become resentful of her and her success.
I wasn’t able to master the materials in the beginning, and it hurt me throughout the rest of the semester. I tried to recover by staying on top of homework, visiting the BLC and my TA’s office hours, and studying even more for exams. In the end, the hard work didn’t pay off, for I still received a D in the class. Although I passed, I am still disappointed in the grade I received and my experience in the class as a whole.
I will never give up or step down from the challenge that someone presents to me. Never giving up will allow myself to become that best person that I can be, and to know that I would have done my own part to get where I want to be. Optimism will help me to accomplish those dreams by never letting anyone put me down or be hurtful. Everyone at some point in time dreamed of being an astronaut, the president, or a lawyer.
What made me more angered than anything was me having to tell all my friends the unsettling news. Knowing that I would have to call my friends for rides to places made me want to work even harder towards passing the exam. As a result, all I could think about was taking the test again and passing it so I wouldn’t have to deal with the dissatisfying emotions any
After one year I was ready to take the test. It was not like what I imagined, the test was harder than I thought, and I realize that my knowledge was not ready for the college. I was so disappointed, and I want to give up. After the test, I know that I have to try harder if I want to go to college.
