Personal Narrative: If I Had To Graduate High School

If this goes wrong, I may not graduate High School. In 7th grade I took
Algebra 1, a hHigh sSchool credit class, and I took the most important test of my life so far. Because of this experience I have adopted the quote by Charles Barkley that says, “If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!”, as my personal words to live by.

I chose this quote by Charles Barkley that says, “If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!”. This is my personal experience: I am in my room studying for my Algebra SOL. I am as nervous as you would be if you were going to jump out of a plane. I remember how important this test is. If I don’t pass this test I can’t graduate High School. I can’t concentrate with everything going on. I look down at my gigantic binder full of notes from the whole year. I felt the staple scrape against my thumb. I hear my sisters in the other room doing their homework. I smell the delicious dinner cooking downstairs. It’s aroma filling the air. I can already taste it in my mouth. I hope tomorrow goes well. Wish me luck! …show more content…
For example, I study for tests until I am confident and I don’t get as nervous for tests! I recently took a science test but I had missed a day where the class took important notes. I got really nervous because it was the first test of the year. I finished all of my make-up work and the day before my test I studied a lot until I finally felt confident. The next day as my teacher passed out the tests, in my head I told myself, “You got this! Just do your best!”, and I got an A+! Now everytime I take a test I will study until I am confident, do the best I can and tell myself, “You got this!”, and hopefully I will get an