It is the time of the year, when the results of your efforts or
the lack of it is evident.
Ultimately, what's done is done. There can be no turning back of
the clock. If you had done well and the results shows,
congrats.
If you had not done well at all, played truant all the time, you
only have yourself to blame and absolutely no one else to
blame.
But if you had done your best and the results are less than
desired, or even failed, there are reasons that you must be
prepared to understand and correct.
Reading and memorising is not the correct hope to pass exams. It
is understanding the subjects matter, analysing it and come to
terms with why something is done that manner, that will help you
excel in exams.
Maths are about formulas. Understand how the forumula is derived
at, so that no matter how you approach it, you will always get the
same answer. Practice makes perfect, not memorising it.
Science on Physics, chemistry or biology is about names and
terms, based on logic. Always ask why, during lessons or find
answers to it, so that you can understand how such laws or
principles came about. Memorising the data will kill you.
Understanding will help you to relate to any questions asked.
History is about a timeline, a sequence of events, divided into
epochs. It does require abit of memorizing but not difficult so
long as you can place events during its epochical timelines.
I would love to go on, for there is more, but in summary, you
must critically analyze the subject and NOT just memorise, for our
human brains are not computers, incapable of binary formating and
mining of info.
As said, what's done is done. But always remember, you are NOT
stupid, not even by a long short. You are only stupid if you allow
your family, your relatives, friends, and others to say you are and
you personally believe it.
It is ok to make mistakes, for only by making mistakes will we
learn. It is easy for me to talk now, but I am sure if you had
failed, your parents would be disappointed and some worse, may take
extreme measures, and may not understand.
They do have a right to be disappointed, for they placed great
hopes in you. BUt it is not the end, nor will they even actually
contemplate abandoning you. No parents will ever abandon their
child. Threats will occur, but in time, parents will get over
it.
Some kids are just better at scholarly subjects, and other kids
are just great with their hands. Just because if you tried hard at
academic subjects and did not make the grade, it is not the end of
you. There are other avenues for success in life, a bit tougher,
lots of luck but still avaliable if you believe in yourself and
your capabilities.
If everyone's a lawyer, our country will be bored to death and
will have to pay a hefty imported price if we want other aspects of
life fulfilled. Our country needs all the various abundant talent
in human kind for our society.
So do not EVER despise yourself, or look down on yourself, AND
never give up on yourself. Each and everyone of us has a gift
inside us, that will benefit ourselves and others, just
waiting to bloom if given the opportunity.
You are special, just as everyone of us all are, and meant alot
to some people whom are already in your life, as well as those
others yet to come.