You ever have that feeling when you know that you’ve bombed a test and your stomach just drops…. Yeah, well, it sucks.
I was in class and here comes this big test. I have spent the last week studying and studying for this test and then my teachers put it down in front of me. I look at the test and my brain just blanks. I forget all of the equations and knowledge that I had prepared for this test. I look around and everyone’s quietly working on their test and the only thing I’m doing is staring at it.
My palms are sweaty and I’m burning up. Everyone around me is getting up and turning their test in and I’m trying to remember what 2+2 is. My teachers see me as the kid who gets good grades and turns in his paper first but not that day. That day I was the kid that stared at a test until the bell rung and got a bad grade. I tell other people but they don’t understand. They say it’s just one test and it doesn’t matter, but it does to me. Though that test may not have been horrendous to my grade, that one test impacted my day. I went to my next hour furious and disappointed in myself. How did I bomb a test that I spent hours and hours studying for?
I decided to go to a counselor and talk about the situation. My counselor told me it was just one test and it made me angry. I am not a person who bombs a test. I decided to take matters into my own hands and I spoke to my teacher about the situation. It is nerve-wracking to walk down the halls and feel your stomach drop. What do I say? How badly did I truly do? When I walked into my teacher’s room, she gave me the fakest smile ever. That’s when I knew I had truly bombed the test.
She told me to take the test and redo it. So I redid it and finished in five minutes. I felt really confident as I walked up to her desk because I knew that I didn’t bomb it this time. I sat it on her desk and then when I turned to walk away, she stopped me. She said, “It’s already recorded in the grade book. ” What do you mean it’s already in the grade book? How could you possibly have it in the grade book if I just redid it? I said, “I just redid it. How can it be in the grade book?” That’s when she turned to me and said, “I let you redo it for practice, not for a better grade.”
I was furious. I did all that work for nothing. I could have practiced on my own time. I marched up to her and told her exactly how I felt about the situation. I wanted to retake the test. I didn’t need practice. I needed a second chance to make up my grade and put my knowledge to use. I complained over and over again and finally, she broke. She told me I could retake the test and I did. It took me 10 mins and I was happy. Not only did I ace the test but I even got the extra credit part right. I believed in myself when no one else around me did. My situation shows you that you should never give up. You can accomplish anything you want by not giving up. If I would have given up, I would have never retaken the test and got a better grade on it.
