Thoughts on my Term 2 Test Performance

One word to express my feelings: Horrible. The score was really under my expectation. After the test and the tremendous effort I put in, I had expected myself to get at least the same score or even better than the last test. But it was dreadful that it turned out to be wrong. The test on light, acid and bases was not as easy as I had taught.I just managed to get onto the bottom line of A1, a 75.5. And out of my surprise, there were 2 perfect scorers in my class. This was the second lowest I got for my Science tests since Sec 1, and this was when I had actually done ample revision this time round.Certainly I had to reflect upon and analyse what exactly had gone wrong this time. Flipping through my test paper after receiving it, I seriously could not believe my eyes. The majority of the mistakes I made were actually out of carelessness.  To raise a few specific examples, it would be MCQ question 13. I actually misread angle of incidence as angle of refraction and got the question wrong. This was only one of the instances, and they costed me dearly. I think one of the factors behind this would be overconfidence. I think that I have been too overconfident over this test and also during the test itself. I thought that I could have gotten most of the questions correct.Maybe it had subliminally caused me to make these errors. Thus, I learnt a valuable lesson, that overconfidence can cause one's downfall, and that sufficient preparation does not always guarantee one success. Life is always so unpredictable. But never mind, I will encourage myself not to give up and continue to strive for greater heights next time. I would certainly be able to get over this pretty soon. GO ON!