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(For those of you that don't know, I'm currently going to college and studying a Applied Sciences course)

I've been at college for a couple of months now,but I have no idea where I'm going wrong.

I've been putting my all into college, I've been studying, I've constantly been revising, I've stayed behind late in the library to go over things I don't understand and when I do the homework I can do it.
We were just sitting the NABs (end of unit test kinda thing. Important.) and I've passed 2/4 of them.
I passed Biology and MER (Managing Environmental Resources).
I've failed Physics and Chemistry.
I have no idea why I failed them.
Physics, yeah, okay, it's not my strong point, but I revised for three hours the night before and studied for it all week. I understood what I was meant to do and how to do it.
I still failed. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the entire class failed, except one person.

Chemistry I was pretty confident with, I studied for it for the entire week before it, I took three hours revising the day before and half an hour before the NAB.
I STILL FAILED.
18 out of something like 22 of us failed.

If I'd revised and studied that much, why didn't I pass?!

I only passed Biology and MER by one mark and I revised and studied like mad!
I just can't understand why I'm doing so badly!

The re-sits for Physics and Chemistry are the 9th and next Wednesday.
One re-sit and then that's you done.

How did you guys revise?
Is this just some stupid mental block I'm getting before the NAB, or am I really that stupid?

Ugh!

Michael~

There's a reason why people in college are normally much older.. =/

Even if you're really smart for your age it's wickedly hard and stressful. Sometimes you just need longer in life to learn and process things.

From joy to sorrow, yesterday to tomorrow, you've been there. Friends like you are rare, your touch is so gentle,
You're my guardian angel.
Like a blossoming flower spreading your wings in grace, filling my heart with power
by feeling your embrace.

Wherever the wind may blow, we will overcome this war, in times happy or sore, I will never let you go.
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I've heard just how hard science is in college/sixth form. My friend's brother studied it in both and failed every single time but so did the entire class. I think it's just the sheer difficulty that makes it so hard to pass. The teacher was shit too though so that can't have helped either e_e
I don't think there's much else you can do. Is your teacher any good?
Good look anyway Bridie. I hope you manage to pass them all, you're certainly putting the work in

Don't worry too much about it. Things like this sometimes happen. Especially in science, Sometimes you understand everything you need to but you get a problem or a scenario that you're mind personally can't work through. That's just bad luck. And there's not too much you can do about that. It happens to me every now and again. Also, it sounds like you might be too stressed when you take the test. The more relaxed you are the better you'll do. Good luck though. I hope things go better for you.