So last Tuesday at about 5:00 p.m. I remembered that I had a Psychology test the next day at 9:00 a.m. that I hadn't studied for at all (this is what happens when you take 18 credit hours and have no time for sleep). Anyway, when I got home that night at about 9:30 p.m. I started to hurry and go over everything I needed to for the test the following morning. I started feeling extremely overwhelmed and I started to convince myself that I was going to fail this test. I did what I could that night and went to bed at about 11:30 so I would be able to get up at 7:00 to start my day. I got to school a little earlier than usual and used that extra time I had to review notes and read through my book. Then came time to take the test. I felt horrible about it as I was taking it. The multiple choice wasn't bad because I usually do pretty well with those but the labeling of the diagrams and the essay questions were stressing me out. With one of the essay questions I didn't even know what the terms in the question meant so I had no idea what I was being asked to do. I made my way through the diagrams just fine and I just wrote down stuff that sounded good to me for the essay questions.
Well, today we got back our tests. Before handing them back the professor wrote on the board the number of people who scored in the 90s, the 80s, the 70s and so on. She put that 13 people scored below 50 and I was certain that I was one of those 13. She started handing back the test and told us she was going to hand back the tests to the 3 people who scored in the 90s first and have each of them share with the class what they did to study. She handed back the first two and when she was getting ready to say the name of the last one I just kept thinking how funny it would be if it were mine and I had to explain to the class my study habits. Well, it was mine. I had no idea what to say to everyone. What was I supposed to say? "I studied for about an hour and a half last night and then hurried and memorized the diagrams five minutes before class". No way. So when it was my turn to share with everyone my "study habits" I just said that I take really good notes in class and went over them, a lot. I mean, that's what I did. I do take really good notes, that's why the multiple choice was so easy for me, I tend to remember things I write down. As far as the essay questions go, after rereading them I understood them a lot better than I thought I did.
My Two (or Three) Cents
9 years ago
