By gracehi - 10/09/2015 17:45 - United States - San Diego

Today, after studying for hours a day for the past month, sacrificing weekends and time with my husband, I finally took the exam required for a possible promotion at work. Out of over a hundred questions, I only knew the answer to 3 of them for sure. Boy, am I glad I studied so hard. FML
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gracehi 31

YES? I was waiting for someone to say that! I'm guessing you and I are in the same boat. But who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both be second classes in a few months.

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Tacogamer20 14

I feel like it is less about how op studied and more about what she studied. Trashing hours of her life for 3 answers sounds pretty BS from a standpoint that she didn't study hard enough.

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JdB22 7

Sometimes it's not the studying but the way the questions were worded/ the set up of the exam. Sorry about your luck :/ hope you passed!

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VeganVampyre 26

This is totally true! Sometimes you just get a really badly worded/ laid out test, and no matter how well you studied it can **** you over. Or, like me, you can get a prof who doesn't make his own tests (or even so much as look at the questions on it) and despite understanding all the material and studying really hard, I barely passed because half the questions weren't even on topics we had covered. Sometimes you just can't win.

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aruden 25

You should take classes on how to take a test and better techniques to studying. They can help you better answer questions you don't know and teach you techniques on picking out key elements to study giving you more effective time management

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vikky538 28

The real question is did you study for right exam?

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khorstmye 15

So I know it says you studied, but did you study for the right exam? It's pretty heard to study that much and still not know any answers

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jmcr 27

some people arent just good test takers even if they know the material really well. it isnt that uncommon

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CoupeDeAce 6

All this means is you weren't ready for the job. Better finding out like this than being let go due to poor performance. Consider it a blessing.

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gordjess1 19

That's horrible. That's how I used to feel in maths ? Hopefully you guessed most of them right anyway

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Dick_diamond 22

I've walked out of an exam room thinking I only got a few right but end up doing better than I thought. Hoping that's the case with you and you're being too hard on yourself..

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AirBusDriver 23

Somehow I have the feeling you nailed it, study pays off! Post us on your results OP :)

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olpally 32

That test must be a joke. There's no way you can fail that horribly. :(

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fightingkittens 39

Try taking the MCAT. You have to study for 3 months, minimum, and that's only if you can devote all your available hours to studying for it. If you're also in school then you have to start 6 months ahead of time. It's quite literally the worst thing ever invented, although it's understandable that future doctors should be held to these standards. Anyway, the 90th percentile is scored around 75% (it's scaled, so the percentiles fluctuate). A "good" score, where the admission committees won't immediately chuck your application, is around 65%. So whatever test OP was taking sounds completely legit.

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