The time I encountered failure occurred during my driver’s test failure. I experienced intense frustration due to possessing a strong sense of confidence and devoting days to practice beforehand and feeling prepared, but in reality, it was not the case. Everything started when my friends would text our group chat and discuss their accomplishment of passing their driving test and being able to drive with their permits. So when I observed them all successfully complete their driver’s test and ultimately being able to drive. I wanted to give it a try and eventually gain the capability to drive. I asked my friends what the test contained. They instructed me to go on a website and take lessons and later the quiz so that I could be well prepared for the driving test. I complied with their directions, but my initial endeavor did not yield the same success, nor did my subsequent one. Yet on my third try, I got a very high grade. So I was determined that I was going to pass the driver’s test. I went to the DMV and scheduled my test on a Monday morning. So until then I started studying every day until the day of taking my driver’s test came. …show more content…
Along the way, I was still studying the notes I had written down and learning from the lessons I took based on driving. When I went inside the DMV, that’s when I felt the anxiety and nervousness kick in almost immediately. I knew this was going to happen, so I just kept pushing. When I was at the table, I saw the test and started taking it. An hour had gone by and I was finally done with the stress test. When I came out of the DMV, I felt really confident that I was going to pass and the lady at the front said I’ll get my results by 5 that day. So I anxiously waited and waited until 5
My biggest accomplishment throughout high school so far has been learning how to fail. Not necessarily falling flat on my face in a viral video, but instead just barely coming up short and not being able to reach a goal, despite my best efforts. Although I was unaware of it at the time, failing my driver’s test on my first attempt would become a life altering incident.
Failure can cause a torrent of mixed emotions and thoughts. One can begin to doubt their motives for even attempting to succeed at a certain task. Some people may choose to give up after failure, but there are a select few who rise up to the occasion and move forward to try and succeed no matter how many tries it takes. By overcoming those difficult moments in life, it gives a person a sense of accomplishment and pride and that alone is a beautiful thing.
Failure isn’t always something you have control of or have the ability to predict. Failure seems to happen at the worst of times; however we need to accept it, because you cannot always win. My greatest failure would be tearing my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), my junior year in a lacrosse game, through no fault of my own in which my body physically failed me, but it truly changed my aspect of life in multiple ways.
A week before the test our teacher gave us a heads up on when the test was going to be. In my mind, I thought the test would be a multiple choice test and that the questions would be similar to the ones went in class. So, as the weekend approached, believing I had the test covered, I went on with being reckless on the weekend. However, it turns out that what I thought was the time of my life ended up biting me in the rear end.
I committed to a lot of preparation that would assure that I passed the exam on the first try. I studied for three weeks day and night and created flash cards to help me memorize rules. When the day came to take the written exam I isolated in a room with a piece of paper and a pencil, this did not help my level of anxiety that I had prior to arriving at the DMV. But by some miracle, I had passed the test. Receiving my driver’s permit made me one step closer to freedom, but it wasn’t over yet. Now that I had my permit, I had to learn how to actually drive a car. I had a little over four months to perfect my driving skills and learn the interior/exterior of a 2003 Toyota Corolla. Through the course of that time, I put in hundreds of dreadful hours in learning how to drive and locating the interior buttons. I practiced turning left and right correctly, as well as how to accelerate and stop smoothly on public roads. I was told by many that having a car wasn’t only about driving it, it was also about knowing how to keep it clean and knowing how to make sure every aspect of the car was running well. The hard part of learning how to drive was memorizing all the rules, such as the meaning of the lines and signs on the road. Every day spent practicing was a day closer to turning eighteen. On the day of my birthday I made my DMV appointment to take my “Behind-the-Wheel” test. The fear of failing my driving test made me far from excited when the day came. When I arrived at the DMV, I was told to park the car on a drive way next to the building. As I waited for my instructor to get in the car I was sweating bullets but despite the twenty nerve-wrecking minutes the drive lasted, I
When I think about my past experiences of when I failed many scenarios come to mind. Us as humans beings are bound to fail at one point in life but its how you learn from them that makes it a fundamental. I came to a realization that all my past failures have played a huge role in my life, all of which have been either a lesson or an eye opener. The most vital scenario is when I failed to make the grade point average (GPA) required by my school to run track my first year entering high school. This event played a major role in my high school life.
Exam number one. The test to start off the semester. Bombed it. What seemed to be so easy, all of a sudden, got extremely difficult. I went blank. Scientifically speaking, I had test anxiety. Next thing I know, I’m sitting with a F in the class. A pretty low F at that. But how? All of this “low grade clerical work” was such a breeze. It was like I forgot everything I did for the past two weeks. So of course I panic. I can’t go into college next fall with an unacceptable grade like that on my transcript! I make it a point to study hard for the next
Maybe this was a sign I was going to fail. I could only imagine how my brother and sister were going to make me feel. They had teased me about studying so hard for the permit test. Now here I was, not actual failing the drivers test, but failing to go on the correct day.
Top 4 Mistakes to Avoid When Preparing for Driving Theory Test Let's face it, a lot of people mainly concentrate on the main practical driving test and often overlook the theory test. Besides, they think it's easy and will probably pass first in their first attempt only to end up with egg on their face. Considering the fact that more than fifty percent of those taking the theory test fail the exam in their first attempt, it is vital to properly prepare and pass your driving theory test as soon as possible so it doesn't hold you back in getting a full license. However, while you can find a number of websites that provide driving theory test practice questions for car, bus, motorcycle among others, passing the theory test is not easy as it sounds.
Back to the thing I did wrong. After studying, taking the test, and receiving a C+, the grade wasn’t good enough, and there was a makeup test coming up. I studied over the things I got wrong for a week, but on the day of the test, I completely blanked about the test, and missed it. Compendious, I panicked, and asked my teacher if I could retake the test during my free period. She told me maybe, which didn’t mean yes, so I continued panicking, to the point of tears.
The first time I remember experiencing failure was my 8th grade year. I tried out for the basketball team in 8th grade, having my height and length I thought my spot was for sure. I was completely wrong.
That night my sister revealed to me that she also suffered from test anxiety at my age, she gave some helpful tips to help relieve my stress. After listening to my sister, I realized that she was right. I needed to take charge and not listen to the voice in my head. That night I got out all my study guides and reviewed went to sleep early, woke up and ate a good breakfast. I felt good that I was ready to get over my fear of taking a test.
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
But I still didn't pass. I was very frustrated with it. By the fourth time, I tried again and passed. The result was not as great as I expected. However, I feel that I really learned a lot from this experience.
Failure is always a demoralizing and upsetting experience for any man or woman. Nobody likes to be enrolled into the school of adversity or failure. But the truth of life is that you cannot ALWAYS stop difficult things from happening to you. What you can control is your reaction to them.