I never thought this will happen to me....
I never really thought it will be possible....
I thought it was an incentive to prevent people getting nervous....
But pressure and the nerves really kills
I feel like crap after my first 4U test. the test was so easy but i did extraordinarily bad. I had practiced well, especially on questions harder than the ones in the test. I knew i was ready to do the hard questions or at least give them a good attempt.
But it was inevitable. I knew i will not think striaght. An unfamiliar question pops up. You panic. You haven't seen a question worded like this before. You try to draw diagrams and figure it out. You first diagram is unclear and you still don't manage to figure what going on. You panic further. You cross out the diagram and read it again. There is a hint. You try to use the hint but can't see the correlation as such. Thought starts running through your head. Thing like 'this is the first test and you don't want to fall behind'. 'This is the HSC, you can't fail'. 'You're going to lose this mark'. Your confidence plummets. The teacher announces there is two minutes left. You don't have much written down. A weight seems to on top of your shoulders. You feel you head increasing in temperature. You thoughs becomes clouded. This continues for the 2 minutes and you give up. Finally the test is over. You take a deep breath but realise what you had totally killed one of the questions.
Consequently, consulting with co-student you realise how easy the question was. You feel totally depressed but decide to let it go after a few hours. You hope for the best. You hope your nerves didn't affect your performance too much.
Then the day comes.
You test result comes back. The teacher walks up and places the test paper on your table. You scan through the page and realise that you obtained a 80% in your test. Some people aced it since it was only a one topic test. You feel totally down. You look through your paper and smiling lamenting the stupid question that you had gotten wrong. The marks allocated are accordingly given. Then you look for other areas where other marks are deducted. The first question was wrong because you forgot wrongly did the substitution. You graph got deducted a few marks because you drew the line going away from the asymptotes by accident and you forgot to circle the origin. For the conics question you derived the general equation for it instead of the specific equation, with the information require. You feel fully crap. Once you would have aspired to come top 3(and it will be possible), now you're ranked top 15.
There is a similar situation with 3U. Nerves! Nerves! Self-burdening pressure to do well! Getting shaky in exam and not thinking straight. Plummeting self confidence. A feeling of hopelessness. This kills.
I never really thought it will be possible....
I thought it was an incentive to prevent people getting nervous....
But pressure and the nerves really kills
I feel like crap after my first 4U test. the test was so easy but i did extraordinarily bad. I had practiced well, especially on questions harder than the ones in the test. I knew i was ready to do the hard questions or at least give them a good attempt.
But it was inevitable. I knew i will not think striaght. An unfamiliar question pops up. You panic. You haven't seen a question worded like this before. You try to draw diagrams and figure it out. You first diagram is unclear and you still don't manage to figure what going on. You panic further. You cross out the diagram and read it again. There is a hint. You try to use the hint but can't see the correlation as such. Thought starts running through your head. Thing like 'this is the first test and you don't want to fall behind'. 'This is the HSC, you can't fail'. 'You're going to lose this mark'. Your confidence plummets. The teacher announces there is two minutes left. You don't have much written down. A weight seems to on top of your shoulders. You feel you head increasing in temperature. You thoughs becomes clouded. This continues for the 2 minutes and you give up. Finally the test is over. You take a deep breath but realise what you had totally killed one of the questions.
Consequently, consulting with co-student you realise how easy the question was. You feel totally depressed but decide to let it go after a few hours. You hope for the best. You hope your nerves didn't affect your performance too much.
Then the day comes.
You test result comes back. The teacher walks up and places the test paper on your table. You scan through the page and realise that you obtained a 80% in your test. Some people aced it since it was only a one topic test. You feel totally down. You look through your paper and smiling lamenting the stupid question that you had gotten wrong. The marks allocated are accordingly given. Then you look for other areas where other marks are deducted. The first question was wrong because you forgot wrongly did the substitution. You graph got deducted a few marks because you drew the line going away from the asymptotes by accident and you forgot to circle the origin. For the conics question you derived the general equation for it instead of the specific equation, with the information require. You feel fully crap. Once you would have aspired to come top 3(and it will be possible), now you're ranked top 15.
There is a similar situation with 3U. Nerves! Nerves! Self-burdening pressure to do well! Getting shaky in exam and not thinking straight. Plummeting self confidence. A feeling of hopelessness. This kills.
