Please tell me that some of you out there have studied really hard for a test only to have it throw you a curve ball you are totally unprepared for?! Yesterday I got my results for my American Revolution midterm and I got a B- so it's not that bad, but I felt like I put B+ or A- work into studying for that test. Some of it I have recognized as being my own fault... in the 12 multiple choice questions I was only supposed to answer 10 and it even said on the test that he'd take the first 10. Lo and behold, I missed 4 out of the first 10 but I got the last two (that don't count since they were past the first 10) right. If I had read the directions and left out two that I didn't know then that alone would have raised my grade to a B+!! That alone makes me feel a little better knowing I could have gotten that... if I weren't just a nincompoop. Argh.
Then today I took my midterm for Russian. I've been studying for days for this. I'm taking the 2nd course after 2 year absence from the 1st course, so I'm working harder already to keep up with the others. So I made sure I knew the basics for the case we're learning and tried my best to learn all the vocabulary words on our list. Then when I get the test in the listening section I understood the paragraph the teacher read about Sally who went to the store to buy shoes. But when she asked the question we had to answer about Sally I swear she was speaking gibberish! Not only am I still trying to get used to listening to Russian being spoken, but there were a lot of words I didn't know (most likely learned last semester that I wasn't there for). That alone made me frustrated since I understood what she said about Sally, just not the question to actually answer!! The rest of the test went along in a similar fashion. Only the extra credit questions do I really feel good about, and that won't save my grade. I literally left class wanting to cry today, I just know I'm going to fail this test. AND I STUDIED!!! AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!
Now I have my last midterm tomorrow for Intro to Islam, my hardest class. I feel like how my luck is going I should just take it now and fail early so I have the rest of the weekend to just wallow in misery. But instead I'm going to study. At least for all of these classes I do great work on my essays. I just hope their good enough to pull my head above water. Wish me luck.
Then today I took my midterm for Russian. I've been studying for days for this. I'm taking the 2nd course after 2 year absence from the 1st course, so I'm working harder already to keep up with the others. So I made sure I knew the basics for the case we're learning and tried my best to learn all the vocabulary words on our list. Then when I get the test in the listening section I understood the paragraph the teacher read about Sally who went to the store to buy shoes. But when she asked the question we had to answer about Sally I swear she was speaking gibberish! Not only am I still trying to get used to listening to Russian being spoken, but there were a lot of words I didn't know (most likely learned last semester that I wasn't there for). That alone made me frustrated since I understood what she said about Sally, just not the question to actually answer!! The rest of the test went along in a similar fashion. Only the extra credit questions do I really feel good about, and that won't save my grade. I literally left class wanting to cry today, I just know I'm going to fail this test. AND I STUDIED!!! AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!
Now I have my last midterm tomorrow for Intro to Islam, my hardest class. I feel like how my luck is going I should just take it now and fail early so I have the rest of the weekend to just wallow in misery. But instead I'm going to study. At least for all of these classes I do great work on my essays. I just hope their good enough to pull my head above water. Wish me luck.
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