Maya Konieczynski
Hard Work Does Not Always Pay Off An experience that I have learned a life lesson from was when I got a really bad grade on my first biology test of the year. Before this experience I thought that if I worked hard for something then I would succeed. But afterwards I learned that hard work does not always pay off.
Before getting this really bad grade on my first biology I usually got good grades on tests and projects. And I thought that I if I studied hard then I would get the grade that I wanted. Which gave me a lot of confidence with the work that I did in school and I often didn’t second guess myself.
During the biology test I looked at the questions and there was many questions that I had no idea what it was asking. And then I started to get stressed out and the questions that I did understand going into the test totally flew out of my brain. But I decided that if I got through the test in the time period then went back through the test and …show more content…
I also thought that I was the only one who had received the score that I wanted and that I did not belong in the honors class. But as I thought I came up with going back over my labs that I had done in the unit and I could have spent a little bit more time on the diagrams that our teacher had showed us in class. I also looked at the right answers that my teacher let us look at to double the check our answers and I realized that the answers I changed were wrong. But when I did the math I knew that I was prepared enough for the test then what the results showed. And then I realized that hard work does not always pay off and that there are other factors that lead success. Over a few weeks after the test I learned that staying calm and having confidence are two of the other major factors that lead success along with hard
Hard Work Does Not Always Pay Off An experience that I have learned a life lesson from was when I got a really bad grade on my first biology test of the year. Before this experience I thought that if I worked hard for something then I would succeed. But afterwards I learned that hard work does not always pay off.
Before getting this really bad grade on my first biology I usually got good grades on tests and projects. And I thought that I if I studied hard then I would get the grade that I wanted. Which gave me a lot of confidence with the work that I did in school and I often didn’t second guess myself.
During the biology test I looked at the questions and there was many questions that I had no idea what it was asking. And then I started to get stressed out and the questions that I did understand going into the test totally flew out of my brain. But I decided that if I got through the test in the time period then went back through the test and …show more content…
I also thought that I was the only one who had received the score that I wanted and that I did not belong in the honors class. But as I thought I came up with going back over my labs that I had done in the unit and I could have spent a little bit more time on the diagrams that our teacher had showed us in class. I also looked at the right answers that my teacher let us look at to double the check our answers and I realized that the answers I changed were wrong. But when I did the math I knew that I was prepared enough for the test then what the results showed. And then I realized that hard work does not always pay off and that there are other factors that lead success. Over a few weeks after the test I learned that staying calm and having confidence are two of the other major factors that lead success along with hard