Being Unprepared Essay

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I looked down at the review paper on my desk. My heart was racing rapidly, my hands were sweating, and my knees were shaking. I was completely having a nervous breakdown. “You all have less than five minutes to finish studying,” Ms. Reed said. Just then my chest felt as though my heart was about to sky rocket straight through it. For the entire ten minutes my kind teacher gave us to study, I could not help but to think that I should have studied last night. “Brittney, please do not waste this studious time to daydream,” Ms. Reed said, snapping me out of my thoughts. “Sorry.” I responded and began to look over the review sheet again. It was covered with many formulas, equations, and fractions that were unclear to me. At that moment I knew I was in trouble; for I was about to take the final exam for AP Calculus, which was worth more than twenty percent of my entire grade. In addition, I wanted to have an overall average of a B in that class. If I failed this exam with a sixty-nine or lower, I was sure my overall average would drop significantly from an B, to an D or lower. In my point of view, taking this exam was a life or death situation. Either I passed it with a B or higher or I fail it and my overall class average plunges. But how did I get to this point? It all begins yesterday afternoon. It was the end of the school day. When I got on my bus I had my mind set that I would study as soon as I got home. For I knew I had two finals to take the next day; AP English III and AP Calculus. So when I arrived home I did just that. I started off studying for the AP English III exam, since it was the first final exam I would be taking. I reviewed various vocabulary words, phrases, and rhetorical devices. And towards the end I wrote the two types of essays that I would have to write. One argumentative essay and the other a rhetorical analysis essay. This I struggled with
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