Personal Narrative: Why I Failed Tests

Throughout my freshman years, I have failed various tests. A few of them were crucial to my grade and some weren’t as important but would affect it greatly with several others. I can never seem to put my mind to study for any of the tests until the day I need to take them. I believe I have failed at least one test in each subject. This is how I failed all of my tests.

Mr.Legat my world history teacher gave us a very important test that is all about everything we learned. He told us to gather all of our notes and study them on the weekend. I completely forgot about the whole test that he told us to study about but I believe I wouldn’t try to study it anyway. Before the day of the test I was unaware about anything related to school. I assume we had to go somewhere since it was a Sunday and it took things off my mind. By the time we had to go to school, I started to remember everything that I had to do for that day. I remembered that I had the test and began to skim through my notes until second period which is my world history class. I didn't had enough time to go through all of my notes and notice that I'm not very good at remembering everything I skim. As I reach the part of the test where I had to connect the timeline of the event together I was very confused and couldn’t recognize any of the dates. At the end of the …show more content…
It wasn’t as dreadful as the one Mr.Legat assigned to us but I still did terribly on it. She told us about this test a week before we had to do the test and helped by reminding us almost everyday about it and gave us a study guide to work on. I actually look through my notes before the day of the test and reviewed it in school but not all of it since I was missing some of it. Once I took the test I thought it was easy and believe that I got a good grade for it too. But once she gave back our test I was shocked that I did worse than i thought I would have