How I Prepared and Still FAILED An Exam at Uni!

 

This would be very brief, my name is Boye. I remember in my 3rd year at uni I had this course called Operational and Quantum Mathematics (Math 324). At the beginning of the semester, the course was somehow. I missed the first two classes (The lecturer was the type that would hit the ground running at the beginning of every semester- bloody ITK) but I had my buddies Tamara and Mayowa explain the classes to me more than once, yet my knowledge was still not grounded coupled with the fact that as we progressed into the semester this course began to unveil weird levels of difficulties, so I had zero confidence in my knowledge of this course but I gave a front of “master of knowledge”. Well, I soon got exposed as the first test came and I failed like a woeful cat.

2 /15 was a major stain on my reputation. I couldn’t allow any evidence of this evil fail to exist, so I destroyed the script and cleared my brain of the memory, this was done before I had cried and yelled at myself for being a ridiculous failure which isn’t true.

I know I promised you brevity hence. I adopted a tactic to tackle this operational and quantum manthemantics situation once and for all because the current state of things was already messing with my confidence and self-esteem.

Components of the tactic were put into motion and the second test was suddenly upon us it was an impromptu test and it had come at the perfect time as my tactic was already yielding some knowledge dividend and my mojo was feeling restored. This time around I knew what to do and I did it, however, the result amazed me. My score this time was a bloody 8/20. Ha!!!! Wetin dey sup now!!!! This course wants to be the end of me… I had many questions; how did I mess up on this again? What mistakes did I make this time? I thought I had all the formulas right. I was heavily devastated, I felt like my heart was under the sole of my shoe and I was walking in the mud.

Wallowing would not help me so I picked myself and decided to supercharge on this bloody course. Meanwhile, my other courses in that semester didn’t give me any issues like this hence I was able to absolutely square up against the monster. So, I fired my examination preparatory system very early and optimized it to focus on scoring at least a 60/70 in my exams. I had to totally knock this exam wide out of the damn park without any doubt.

I spent 3 hours daily rediscovering my Maths 324 notes and making new notes from recommended texts and even unrecommended resources.

I was insanely ready for any kind of exam from this course and it was so obvious that everyone was asking me to explain stuff to them. Which I excitedly did; I taught my roommates, their friends, and their own friends and even enemies. My smart boy reputation was gradually been restored and the exam was going to totally cement it. Well, so I thought

The night before the exam day I was on fire, I had finished the past 3 years’ past questions all done in serious exam conditions. I was totally confident of my readiness I couldn’t wait to be in the exam hall. Exam day came, my question paper was given to me and I began answering the questions. Question 1 -less go!!!!!! Then…

All I remember is it was soon time to submit and it was 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, taaaaaannnnnnn submit, please. WHAT! I had done only 1 question before my whole system caked and I couldn’t write anything else. It felt really out of my control. It was total chaos in my mind because I couldn’t make sense of what had happened. I kept it to myself because people will begin to share deep spiritual perspectives that would make me go nuts and uncomfortable.

I’m still searching for the non-spiritual, logical, scientific explanation for this very weird phenomenon.

As you may have already assumed I failed this exam squarely… However, when I re-sat the exam, I was a total beast. My ‘A’ was inexcusable.

The story of how I failed despite preparing.

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