Personal Narrative: Why I Receive My Test Score In AP Geography

The day finally came of the final, and I sat at 75% on the year. Luckily, MAH had a rule that could save me, as everyone got 3% back for doing their homework. I had officially a 78%, and needed to bring it up to an 80%. The day of the test came and went, and I thought I failed. But, the test came back and all the

However, when I got mine back it was a flat out zero, and after class he pulled me aside. In short, Mr. Grove told me that I basically need to get almost all the points remaining in the school year just to pass the class. If I would fail, I would not be able to graduate considering four English credits are mandatory. At that moment I experienced a moment of shock I have never quite experienced before. I had an immediate sense of stupidity. I questioned it. For lack of a better term, I felt like a complete moron. I was so down on myself and all night I thought about what I got myself into. How I was going to get out of this was beyond me and I was lost and hopeless about what to do. I continued to be sad and depressed for a while. My life went from fun to complete misery.

Hey, but maybe it is not that bad. You forgot you had a huge test, but you walk in the class grinning; you have a translator that translates all the jargons in a physic test to a simple survey about Six Flags. You turn in the paper and boom, you got a 100. SAT? 2400. Ap exams? 5. Path to a happy life? No worries,

I wanted to achieve this 3. I kept asking my teacher if it was possible. He said it was and that maybe I could even get a 5. I used this as more motivation. I worked even harder as the test date grew closer and closer. The day before the test, I reviewed everything I could. I walked into the test with some confidence because my teacher and my friends believed in me. However, after the test, I didn’t feel like I achieved the score I wanted to. I felt like I had let everyone down. That feeling lasted until I checked my scores in July. I woke up early to check my scores when I saw one of the biggest surprises of my life. I had not only achieved, but I exceeded my goal- I ended up getting a 5. All of the struggles and failure I went through led me to this moment. Everything was now worth it. This failure I experienced allowed me to accomplish something I never thought was possible. The struggle and failures I endured throughout AP World History were all worth it in the end. This situation made me realize that failure isn’t a bad thing. Failure doesn’t define me, but it does provide motivation for me to work harder and do my best to not put myself in that situation

People who have a fixed mindset usually want something easy and not challenging; they feel scared to lose while growth mindset people tend to love challenges and making mistakes lives within their body as a trait. The author proves when she said that students with fixed mindset will never showed any interest when they found difficulties in completing those assignment. Only when they did well right away, they will feel the enjoyment. In contrast, the harder it gets, the more urges for the growth mindset to grab the knowledge and feel excited to learn something. Carol Dweck also gives an example in Columbia where she met a lot of intelligent med students who always get A’s in their test. It only took a day to make them a failure, when they said

I get the news... a math test! We are having a math test on something we just learned today. I sit back down at my desk and begin to panic because I cannot let myself fail this AP Statistics test considering we only have one test per quarter. Everything is rushing through my head at one hundred miles an hour. The pressure in my eyes gets harder and harder and then a tear falls down my cheek. I am crying in front of a class full of seniors and I’m the only sophomore; what an embarrassment. After what seemed like years of trying to calm myself down I finally come to realization with myself that freaking out will not help me learn this math by tomorrow; I need to take action now and the next day I took the test and received my grade of a C, this

Every year I set new goals for myself to improve and get better every year to reach higher and higher and I did. I have applied that same mental mentality with my school work.

While I am still not happy with the grade that I received on this exam, I am seeing improvement not only within my understanding of the class, but also within my assignments. I feel that this exam was a huge step forward from my first exam. While I did receive a lower grade than my first exam if the curve is not added in, I know that this is not anything to feel ashamed of. The reason my grade was lower was simply because I did not have sufficient time to finish the exam.

I am doing well in every class because I have an A or an A- in most classes except in P.E since I have a B-. I am doing well in Advisory because in Advisory I always write the journal entries. I am doing well in Learning Lab because I always write the journal entries and I show Mr.Benjamin my flex math percentage. I am doing well in Cultural Geography because I turned in the Vocabulary quizzes and I turned in my printed essay. I am doing well in English because I have turned in the vocab words and the reading questions and I also turned in the creative writing and the homework every week. I also did the extra credit work for the Fashion Words. I have a B- in P.E but I dress up every week in appropriate sportswear. I also try to participate

According to my MYSA Results, I have improved in nearly every motivational assessment. My study habits, interests in my school work, and my interactions with the professors all showed significant advancements. I have always made my school work a top priority, but I know realize how important it is to really comprehend the material being taught in college level classes in order to further succeed in the upper level course to come in the future. Throughout this first semester of college, I have also heard a lot about how I learn best and what works best for me. I am now much more efficient with the time I allot for school work.

“How is it possible to do that bad?” “I should be able to take a stupid timed multiple choice test.” Those two sentences haunted my brain and punched me the stomach as I stared with my jaw dropped at the paper holding my ACT scores. Then, I gathered my thoughts and it all made sense. I had two options, It was that I either work my butt off getting the best GPA possible or, I study day in and day out for a test that I feel does not reflect the type of student I am. So, I chose the first option. I recognized the hard choice I made and then I decided to live with it. I chose to not let a test hold me back. I plan on doing the same thing in college. If I do poorly on something, I will learn from it move on.

I work constantly trying to make my essay for history as perfect as it could get. I guess the 12 hours invested into paid off since I aced it. Now all I had to do was stay awake and study for hours for the next three exams. During the next two days I was running on fumes with whooping total of 5 hours of sleep. I went through as many energy drinks as books that were piled high on my desk. When I got my physics test to take I complete forgot everything that I have crammed into my brain. I was beyond worry I was doomed. I didn’t care to look up my grade I was just ready to get the other exams over with. The calculus was the only one that I kinda knew what I was doing. After struggling my way through it I rush my way to the opposite side of campus so I could take my exams with one of the most dread teacher on campus Professor Ron Wooderson. His enjoyment in teaching was watching people struggle so he would always make his test super hard. After I finish my last exam I check all of my grades. I was in constant shock I have only passed three out of five of

I have become more proficient in my in note taking because I make sure I know what i'm writing about and not just copying what the teachers has put on the board. I also review my notes that I have taken to further understand the lesson or thing I have just learned. I never really did that in the beginning of the year because I felt I didn't have to but know that the material has gotten harder for me I do more often. I have also become better at my studying skills because I try to review all the content from the notes that I think would be helpful on a quiz. I also take my time when studying and don't rush to finish studying so that I can take more time to understand the important stuff in the notes.

I didn’t do as well as I normally did on the quiz, but I did fine. It didn’t change my grade, and it didn’t shake my confidence in myself to understand the text. I put everything I had into my work and what I needed to do, but my energy was divided not just between school work, but between social and family priorities as well, and it was inevitable that my effort would falter on one of the tasks. So I did for the first time what I needed to do... I cut myself some slack.

On the MC test the first week of school, I scored a 70%—not bad for my first test, and still higher than some peers ever scored. On the same test taken months later, I scored a 70%. I saw the grade. I closed my eyes, let my head fall into my hands, and rubbed my temples. I know I wasn’t asleep during the class. I know I had it in me to score higher—I scored a 93% on the second MC test. I know all the answers are right there and if I use my analysis skills, there is no reason I should miss questions. I still did.