You need a contingency plan for everything

It doesn't matter how much you study for a test. Or how attentive you are in class, or how many of them you show up to, or how many questions you answer in them.

There's always going to be that one bitch of a question that throws you off.

And then there are the careless mistakes.

Perfect scores are arbitrary. Your input is never guaranteed to show in your output. That's why school can suck balls at times.

I'd like to say I'm not too fussed about missing out on clean, full marks. But I do admit I get disappointed when my SAC mark is lower than the person next to me.

What made me write this post is a recently nagging feeling I've had. One part of me says "if you don't spend every minute preparing, then you're gonna walk into that test, see a question that turns you to a confused cow, and you're going to wish you spent that one lost minute studying." But another part says that I could study in every available minute I had, and I would still find a question unanswerable. And I'm rambling right now...

Anyway, so I'm telling myself I need a contingency plan. I'm going to stop propelling myself head-first into disappointment. I'm still going to try at school, of course. But I won't need every question I have to be answered. I'll have what I can get.

Hm, am I using this as an excuse to not put effort in? It's like when people never try at anything because they're scared of failing. I dunno.. the hardest reading material isn't Shakespeare. It's yourself