waaaaa! help me not to worry !

[97tbird]

I had a Therapeutics exam today, a final for the 1st module, and I needed 62% to pass the course... and i felt like i FAILED !!! i mean, I have always done clearly better than 62% in all other exams, and i felt similarly then, too...but today I felt even worse ... hope it wasn't really worse enough to go below 62% ... i felt like i was guessing every other question, and I have to repeat the module if i fail to get a 62% !!!

and i have to suffer till next week to know my grade.. probably tue or so...

in the meantime, how can I stop worrying so much ????
wa wa wa ... I feel like i'm doomed!

---sorry; rant/whining over---

...for now

 

[wavinwayne]

Get some good exercise. That will help to relieve some stress. Or you could work on your car. Something under that hood MUST need some attention, right?

 

[TurboLuver]

You studying to become a pharmacist?

 

[97tbird]

yep.

 

[doitmyself]

Take two pills and call us in the morning!


Ironic.....asking oil nuts for a remedy for anxiety regarding a therapeutics exam. If I was in your shoes, I would be worried too!

Wait until several years after school and you will be having occasional nightmares about: showing up to class to find out there is an exam....totally unprepared. Or, on exam day you can't remember the building/room to go to. Or, you open the test and don't recognize any of the material.

Oh, wait, you are already having these nightmares!

Good luck. You did fine. I can sense it.

 

[Pablo]

Originally Posted By: 97tbird
I had a Therapeutics exam today, a final for the 1st module, and I needed 62% to pass the course... and i felt like i FAILED !!!


You should worry. That will be your bread and butter as a pharmacist!!

A: Beer?
B: It's 11:00 in morning!!
C: Scotch?

 

[Pablo]

Listen - it's part of test anxiety. If you did better than you thought in previous cases, the pattern will repeat here....unless you are kidding yourself.

If it bugs you that much dig out your books and answer the questions...to the best of your memory.

If not? What the heck is worrying going to do?

 

[97tbird]

I don't know, man...I feel like [censored].
I hate the waiting... and not knowing.
(i have abs. no memory of most of the questions, and checking after exams scare the [censored] outta me)..

thanks for the comments, guys.

 

[Pablo]

If you don't remember then FOR SURE you are worrying way too much.

Relax.

 

[Mr Nice]

A little bit of advice:

Less time on BITOG, more time hitting the books.

 

[Johnny]

No problems. Your wife is a druggist, get her to recommend something. Just set back and think about that great trip the two of you took earlier this year.

RELAX!!

 

[Gary Allan]

Quote:
in the meantime, how can I stop worrying so much ????


..about the exam? That's easy.

Quote:
wa wa wa ... I feel like i'm doomed!



Well, like many of us that have had our cross hairs lowered on our expectations of our current and future worth/wealth, you too can worry about a viable future in "reech America" (said with a slight Breeteesh accent

)

Now there, don't you feel better about the exam??

..yes, dark comedy can lift your spirits

 

[hate2work]

What? You mean they will let you pass a pharmacy module with only 62%?

Shoot, you have to get 70% to pass English class...what's wrong with this picture?

 

[Pablo]

There are reasons I don't get prescriptions filled....

 

[sciphi]

I feel your pain. There have been tests where I've walked out not knowing if I passed/failed/what just happened. Turns out I did just fine on all of them, and passed what I needed to.

Hey, you got this far in pharm school. You got into pharm school. The acceptance rate for that is really small. So that makes you a pretty smart person who is more than likely beating himself up over not having explicit recall for most of that test. Turns out you probably know it when you see it, which means that you likely done just fine.

Chin up, good sir! Don't take this grad school too seriously, else you'll never get out alive!

 

[NJC]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
There are reasons I don't get prescriptions filled....

Heading down to the local WA State liquor store counts as "filling" a prescription.

 

[drivewaytech]

Hey, you are studying to become a pharmacist. You should know how to cook up some good stuff to help with the anxiety. If you don't, well.......

Reminds me of 2 days after I graduated from high school. I went to take the SAT test. The only thing is my buddies and I were leaving that day to head out of state to the beach to do some partying. They were sitting out in the car waiting for me to finish. The test was the furthest thing from my mind. Halfway through, I just started coloring in bubbles on the scantron sheet. The abundance of women and alcohol eased my concerns. Ha, still made a good enough score to get excepted to a local college.

 

[97tbird]

Originally Posted By: hate2work
What? You mean they will let you pass a pharmacy module with only 62%?

no they don't. I need a 70% OVERALL for the whole module.
But, I did well enough on the previous 2 exams, and this is just the cumulative final; in order for me to get a 70% OVERALL, I need only 62% on THIS one.

To make it all worse, now I have a paranoid feeling I missed a page and bubbled the scantron wrong !!!

 

[salesrep]

Chill. That is the only logical choice. No sense worrying about something that you cannot control.

 

[1sttruck]

Instead of worrying about the exam, you should probably be concerned about HIDDEN STRESS. Studies show that it's a killer, as bad as heart disease, but unfortunately it can't be detected until it's too late. You don't know if you have it, but if you do it's taking years off of your life. Some studeis have shown that keeping a detailed dairy if things that appear to be stress is about the best that can done, but it's only about 50% effective.