Have you ever missed an exam at University? How did you deal with it?
Technically I didn’t miss an exam… it got rescheduled. But I missed an exam which was the reason it got rescheduled.My exam was for Psych 179…Drugs, Addiction, and Behavior. The class is on Tuesdays and Thursdays but for whatever reason the final was on a Monday.I went to school for a different professors office hours and a girl who’s in that psych class started talking to me about how the final went. At first I thought that she had taken the final early (for whatever reason) but she kept on telling me that the final was today. I was in denial until I looked up when the final was and it really was on that day.The final was still going on at that time so I ran as fast as I could to the room it was being held in. I told the professor “I’m a fucking idiot. I thought the final was tomorrow.”He laughed and he told me that when he was in Grad school he mixed up a metabolic pathway that was on the exam. It wasn’t until he got home that day that he realized that he mixed them up. He went to his professor and told him everything and his professor allowed him, on the spot, to draw out the correct pathway, which he did. He ended up passing the class and that experience made him a firm believer on second chances. He then gave me the address of his lab where he does research and he allowed me to take it the next day.
Am I retarded according to my SAT score?
Just like the person above said, although the College Board who makes the test wants it to be a good measure of what you've learned so far, it's more of a test on if you know how to take the test than anything else. People spend their time not studying mathematical formulas and reading Shakespearean literature, but learning how to use process of elimination and tricks for speeding through reading comprehension sections regardless of the topic. Standardized tests are supposed to put everyone on an equal playing field, but obviously some people are better at standardized tests than others while some people can afford 100 hours of tutors, practice tests, etc. and others cannot. Low standardized testing with high grades could indicate to a school that your school is not very rigorous, but that's not really your school's problem as they're supposed to teach you in general, not just for the SAT. Obviously there is no History, Science, or Foreign Language on this test, thus illustrating it's not testing for everything you've learned; it's just what you've learned from a prep book or course on how to game the test. Also, PSAT scores aren't everything, much less than the real SAT, which is only a small component of the whole application. I've known people who get the equivalent of 1800 on the PSAT and get 2200 on the real SAT and vice versa. It's not a real good measure of what you know because a) you take it a year or two before you do the real SAT and b) you're never going to see those questions again, so you can't expect the same score again with different questions. Don't fret about it, but look ahead to studying. An SAT is not the typical test and regardless of who you are, you do have to spend time learning how the test works.
I am very weak in maths. How can I develop it?
I'm very weak in Maths, or I don't know whether it's something that I, myself developed over the years. From my 7th grade, I started loosing interest in Maths since my teacher wasn't that good and she only appreciated students who did well and insulted us very badly. From that year, I just gave up my hopes on Maths and considered it as a shitty subject and pretended like I didn't care when I was really really very sad on getting very low marks in Maths when I was an excellent student in the class and scored more than 91% in other subjects, Maths always bought me down when it came to ranks. I was so depressed, I started hating Maths, and it became a nightmare for me. The day before the exam, all I remember doing was crying, crying and crying. I couldn't bear the tension it gave me. It still does. I suffer from anxiety even though I'm young; and no one is allowed to put so much pressure on me because it's trouble. Whatsoever, I still have chills and I failed in this year examination and writing a retest on Monday, and this time, I just googled whether there's anything I could do to score better in Maths, and that's when I read this interesting article and found out that I'm not alone. Because this is exactly like my story. I'm weak, I always get the just-pass marks, my brother is a top-scorer who is hopefully cracking a AIIMS soon and has 95% marks in his 12th grade and all, and I left a group tuition cause I was insulted and then joined a tuition where I used to be the only student, and I'm continuing that, but the thing I failed to keep is being regular. I'm never regular to the tuition because I hate maths firstly and I'm a lazy girl who spends her weekend by watching new movies, with drinks and chips and popcorn and stuff and going out every weekend for shopping with my family or friends, or going to stay at cousin's or mom's or spending quality time with my best friends or my best-friends-cum-family my cousins..Okay! I've told too much. I hate maths. No, I hated it. Not anymore. I'm going to pretend like I love it and work hard. I've got 5 days from now, that's like huge time to cover 6 lessons and then practice extra questions and sums. Well then! Let's see how I'll score and whether the hardwork will pay off! Fingers crossed! Maths!! HERE I COME BROTHER.