Everyone screws up a test at least once. We're all only human—fallible, ridiculous humans who sometimes completely forget what a triangle is, or sleep in just a little bit on Saturday only to discover upon waking up that it's actually 2 p.m. on Wednesday. If you're sitting there going "Nuh-uh, SparkLife, I have never screwed up a test ever," well then congratulations, Perfection Bot 5000. You can go defragment your brain-drive while the rest of us commiserate over how we got a C- because we managed to drop our textbooks down a wishing well.
Reason 1: Forgetfulness
The Scenario: You stagger sleepily into your first-period class and collapse in your seat. You are not really alive before 11:30, but you can just maybe make it through this class; a teacher-shaped object will say words about Elizabethan England, you will ignore these words, and then you'll go grab an eggwich at the cafeteria, because it's Eggwich Day! Mmm, eggwiches! They are so delicious that OH BLERGH WHAT IS SHE HANDING OUT?! TESTS? (Yes, tests.) You then fail one of these tests, because it was both Eggwich Day and Test Day, and you were only mentally prepared for eggwiches.
The Test:
Reason 2: Bafflement
The Scenario: You are a lord among students. You don't merely get As; you get As with smiley faces next to them. Even your poli sci teacher, who looks suspiciously like Dracula and hasn't smiled since 1949, wound up drawing an awkward little smile next to your latest A++.
But something happens to you when you're confronted with calculus. Your eyes see the calculus, and the symbols and equations are transmitted to your brain, where they smash into each other in a ten-car pileup of hopeless disaster. You've studied—you'd have memorized every possible calc problem, if that were a doable thing—but then you discover, to your horror, that your confuzzlement is somehow worse on test day. Your eyes won't even focus on the paper. Your brain, aware that it's staring at poison, hangs a sign on the door that says OUT TO LUNCH and starts thinking about television.
The Test:
Reason 3: Carelessness
The Scenario: You are either a graduating senior or genetically immune to worrying about things. In the former case, your school of choice has already accepted you, so what do you care about Civics & Government? In the latter case, you're like a cat; you always somehow land on your feet, and you're unreliable at best, but people enjoy having you around anyway. Also, like most cats, you do not care about Civics & Government.
Either way, you bombed this test so hard that you deserved, like, a G, or some other measurement the school system has yet to invent. Frankly, you are totally unconcerned. If this has repercussions down the line, well, you'll cross that bridge when you fail it.
The Test:
Reason 4: ????
The Scenario: Well, for starters, that is your exact reaction when you get this test back. Question marks are shooting out of your face. This was a class where you know everything, and you destroyed this very easy test. You wrecked this test so hard you heard sirens in the distance. Then you got it back, and instead of a plus, there was a minus. Instead of an A, there was a D. Instead of you, there was a shell-shocked creature staring dumbly at the place where your A+ was supposed to be. Did you get back the wrong test? Did you take the wrong test? What planet are you on? What is happening here?
The Test:
Which one of these happened on your worst test ever?
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Topics: School
Tags: grades, horrible things, fail
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