During my final year first semester there was a course we did. It was said that the course was going to be difficult. Even when the course lecturer brought past exam questions to test our knowledge, it was evident that we were definitely not ready for that course's exam coming up in just a few weeks.
Now with that realisation, most of us started focusing on past questions along side our class notes. But mostly the past questions, including me.
Let me give a little back story as to why I said "including me". Since our first year I have been recognised as someone that is very intelligent. Not because I show it off or rub it in the faces of my course mates, but it was just perceived. Though I did answer a lot of questions asked by the lecturers correctly.
Now back to our main story. As the first semester exams kept approaching, I kept preparing, however, incorrectly. I consumed the past question, read all the lecturer's materials, but gave very little attention to my class notes. Though they were quite incomplete.
When the day of the exam came, for some reason I wasn't feeling as confident as I used to feel during other papers. Getting into the exam, we sat down according to our matriculation numbers and waited for the question and answer paper and booklet respectively, to be distributed to us. Once I receive mine, I realised how much of a mistake I had been making all those weeks past. I felt like crying but I couldn't. The questions asked where exactly what was taught in class. With absolutely nothing from the past questions. I was dumbfounded. I couldn't even write anything. For the first time in my life, I was totally blank during an examination. But I am grateful that I didn't have to resit the paper because the lecturer knew me and decided to just pass me based on my continuous assessment. I got a D.
So yeah, it was very disappointing for me because I knew I definitely could have done better.
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