Personal Narrative: Why I Transfer To A Biology Class

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When I was a little, I was not good at studying at math and I didn’t like to solve math problems. Sometimes, I failed some of my math classes and got bad grades. Thus, my mom always changed math teachers for me because she thought I could get better grades in a different class. However, I didn’t change at all until I went to 7th grade. Fortunately, in 7th grade, I met with the greatest teacher I’ve ever met throughout my years. She taught me about the basic skill of math and critical thinking. The first time, I tried to solve math problems by my own, it was really difficult and I didn’t understand that well. However, my teacher pushed me to achieve the ideas of math. At that moment, I really wanted to give up studying math problems but I …show more content…
I knew that this class would be challenging for me however that was my first opportunity to get in the next level of my education and that class would help prepared me for college.I failed for the first biology exam; for that reason, my teacher suggested that I should transfer to the regular biology class because it would be easier for me. At that time, I felt so stressed out, upset and lacked belief in myself. However, I didn’t want to give up because I knew that I could overcome this situation. I told my teacher that I would not transfer because I would like to take this challenge to prove that I was a capable person. I put in more time for biology class than other classes, went to tutorials, and asked questions of the tutors in order to get better scores for next Biology exam. While I was doing that, I learned how to manage my schoolwork to make sure no subjects would be left out. My grades were better than before and at the end of school year, I got a B for my spring semester and got a A for my final exam in Honors Biology. I was believing in myself despite what the doubts of others; however I wanted to prove that I could take this advantage of the

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