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Am I overreacting about exams?

I recently did 3 exams. I am worrying about one of those exams in particular. Ever since I finished that exam I have been crying at least once every day (its been 3 days). There are still about 5 days until I get my results back. I am DEEPLY frightened about my mark. My mark in that subject is in the early 90's. I calculated that in order for me to increase or at least maintain that mark, I can make a max of 5 mistakes on the exam. I am soo scared that I have gone over 5 mistakes. I have actually begun to write down all of the questions I can remember from the exam just to make sure that I got them all right. So far, i believe I have gotten 3-4 wrong. Every time I think I got one wrong, I freeze up and I feel terrible. I know it sounds ridiculous but ever since I've been getting high marks in this class I have deeply wanted to maintain them, that's why I am going crazy now. The night I did that exam, I couldn't even go to sleep b/c I was so scared I got lower than 90%.

I believe that most of this craziness came from the trauma I experienced from after I did my science exam in first semester. After doing it I thought i did SO good, I thought i was going to get almost perfect. Everyday I would wake up feeling great, until exam review day. I ended up with a lousy 76%! It lowered my mark, and really did leave me shocked for days. Its like everything I built up, all the excitement came crashing down. I couldn't even look at what i did wrong, I just froze up. I remember before doing the exam I calcualted that I could make a max of 18 mistakes and still get an 80%, which was my target. I can't believe I managed to make more than 18 MISTAKES. I lost a lot of faith in myself after that. I remember the exam being quite easy and I was telling everyone how it was so easy. Ever since then I vowed I would never say that an exam was easy b/c it would bring my expectations too high and i would end up getting emotionally hurt.

On the day of exam review, I think I'm going to have to bring a pack of tissues b/c I think i'm going to cry before I get the exam, and if I get a mark lower than my expectations, I'm going to cry, and if I get a mark higher than my expectations, I'm still gonna cry-like crazy. I don't think i'm going to not cry at all on that day. & oh god, if somehow i manage to get lower than an 80% on that exam, I am not going to be able to handle myself. I'm probably going to go into a deep shock and faint-no joke. I want a high mark so badly. I don't want this to end up like my science exam, where I was shocked and feeling crummy for days and days.

Now, after all that, I was wondering if anyone else has ever felt anything sort of like that. Like that need to maintain a mark. It's driving me nuts. While everyone else in my grade is probably sitting down, relaxing, I'm freaking my **** out. :/

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    They are done so there is no sense in worrying because you can't change them now. Have fun and relax while you can! School is school and everyone has hard times now and then. Just chill! If you get higher great, and if not you know you tried your hardest.

    Source(s): Being a Student Myself
  • 9 years ago

    Relax. You have taken the exam and there is nothing that you can do now to change the grade. Move on to the next exam and stay calm.

    Source(s): Teacher
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