Normally, I actually enjoy doing the AP multiple choice questions in English. Even though during the test I do not feel particularly confident, I always end up doing better than I thought I would. However, this past one was rough. Thursday was the dreaded “Eve of the Data sheet,” a stressful time for procrastinators. Except that night, I had a gymnastics meet…and an AP Biology test the next day! This combination catalyzed an enormous amount of stress. After getting home at ten o’clock, I went straight to work on the data sheet, working into the late hours of the night. And when I was done, I could barely keep my eyes open enough to study for biology. Bad decision. The next morning, the weight of having failed to study for a test that would make or break my grade dawned on me. The whole day I frantically tried to study, but did not accomplish much. To make matters worse, my last two periods of the day were AP Biology and AP English. And the biology test was like running a marathon. It was definitely a test of endurance. Then on to English. By then, my head had succeeded in expending all of the possible knowledge it had in it, and defiantly shut down with a quite whir. With that said, the practice multiple choice was rough. Ultimately, I am mad at myself for not getting my work down earlier. I am such a big procrastinator, and I definitely do want to experience that kind of stress again. And I never want my brain to shut down with a whir again.
Nicola, I felt the same way taking the multiple choice. This past week has been so rough with the needless projects *cough*, the stress of exams, and the tests on top of it. Granted the data sheet took up a lot of my time, but I am very thankful we had a pretty chill week in English. I'm sure you did better on the multiple choice than you think--everyone struggled this week.
ReplyDeleteNicola, I know this has been a difficult week for all, but I guess I am making this comment to cheer you up! Although we all feel failure and that our brains have turned to mush pretty much everytime we walk out of both Biology and English, there is an end in sight! These are our last finals at Chagrin Falls High School, and all we need to do is push through them and we will have a little break that will hopefully sustain us as we begin our last semester in high school. No worries, this class has taught us to persevere through the most difficult of tasks, and the end of school is near! We can do it!
ReplyDeleteNicola, I also found this multiple choice particularly troubling. I have never felt very confident when taking the tests, but during this one I felt fairly lost for a fair amount of the test. Though with the far less stressful English final coming this week atleast you have the opportunity to take all the effort you put into
ReplyDeleteEnglish to focus it on another task. For example since I do not have any English homework besides this tonight, rather than spending my time working on English tonight until 3 am I will be able to do the pointless psych project which was assigned us.