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When i was considering goign to Madison i took the SATS. I got them back. I failed math and got below what i thought i should have gotten in Englsih. I feel really thrashed like i am a complete idiot . So if it does not matter why do i care and when was the last time you felt like a complete failure.

― anthony, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You aren't a complete idiot. It is all relative. Compare yourself with the average joe, Anthony. You will realize you aren't an idiot. By the way, focus on the victories and ignore the losses. Life comprises of both. You need to forget about the latter and enjoy the former.

― nathalie, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I feel like a complete failure all the time. It's my only problem in life. NB. This is not a joke.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Passing exams is all about technique. I told someone at work that I had never failed an exam and they looked at me in utter disbelief, clearly I come across as a failing person. I then remembered that the first time I took a touch typing test I failed that, I was very embarrassed about this.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't feel like I failed exams per se, just failed to put effort into things, so my GCSE results were the result of not trying very hard, so my a-levels were much better because I was interested and studied.

I'm more likely to feel like a failure when I get another crummy job after graduating again in a month or so. Just hate interviews and looking for jobs, or considering careers.

― jel, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do feel like a failure. But to say you feel a complete failure seems so... strange. The strange thing is I understand my inferiority complex, where it comes from, how ridiculous it is, how it results in a self-fulfilling complex, how it tinges my relationships with others... but still I can't seem to cure it. I have tried though. I find a possible solution, then it rears its ugly head and I am off in hiding.
Of course you can treat it as a positive thing: It makes you want to better yourself. What is worse, thinking you're the best or thinking you're the worst?

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a failure, having been to a grammar school and emerging at the end of it with 3 GCSEs (I had to resit maths), but I don't care. I *know* I'm smarter than 99% of people who are better qualified than me.

― DG, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Feeling like a failure at least means you had a go. Far too much of my time is spent feeling like a potential failure and preferring not to find out whether I'd make a real one or not.

― Tom, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Self-fulfilling prophecy. I *knew* I would make mistakes in my post. ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno. You can never win. I mean I did well at school & university then went into an underachieving job so my parents constantly nag at me about it attempting to make me feel like a failure, I have let them down etc. My mum also pulls the 'you have no boyfriend so you are a failure' line only with a bit more subtlety i.e. 'how come all your friends have nice husbands / boyfriends and you don't? You have a bad attitude![and that is why nobody loves you YOU FAILURE!]'. Screw them.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can win. The point is not to base your self-esteem, happiness,... on the rules that other people set. I did this for a long time. Then I realized I am not like my parents. Nor my friends.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, just blame your mother. ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nathalie, I don't think I'm a failure but my parents do. This is entirely their problem. They will be sorry when I win the lottery!

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm with Tom on this one. I came. I saw. I probably wouldn't have conquered, anyway.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm more: I came. I saw. I could have conquered if I had put my mind to it, but y'know, there was stuff on telly.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once answered six percent of the questions correctly on a trigonometry exam. Since then the glass has always been 94% empty.

― Steven James, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And let me guess - there were only 80 questions, so you realised your arithmetic sucked too.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry - that doesn't make any sense. The last time I tried to make a mathematical joke I fucked that up too. Mathematical jokes - DUD. B.O. Banson once made one at school that involved writing some bogus proof on the blackboard and then turning us and saying "This is a mathematical joke". Oh how we laughed.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were 4 questions. I think I got partial credit (six percent) for the one is because I kept semen off the paper. That's the only reason I can think of.

― Steven James, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Euclidding me? that joke was funny!

― Steven James, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just have to mention that I got an 800 verbal on the SAT, which, if you didn't know, is a perfect score. *smiles smugly*

― Sean, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean who did you fuck to get an 800.

― anthony, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean, you bastard. I only got a 720. I make up for this by having a 17-foot penis.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly Dan failed the math portion of the test.

― Josh, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got an 800 on the verbal and analytical (read: puzzles) parts of the GRE. My math score was like 50th percentile or something though.

― Kris, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I am no failure when it comes to killing threads. That's for sure. I once had 76 percent for an oral history exam without having answered one question. Beat that.

― nathalie, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, Dan, was it your penis?

― nathalie, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is now! I paid enough for the damn thing!

― Dan Perry, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SATs aren't so bad. It's a matter of knowing their very specific format and patterns. You can take them six times, and even if you still don't do well, you have your transcript and yourself to back you up.

The time I most felt like a failure was after the Latin AP exam, and I got a grade higher than I thought possible considering that I knew under 50% of the test material. However, I then took a chemistry exam about which I was very confident, and I didn't do anywhere near as well as I thought.

― Lyra, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thirteen years pass...

No success at all.

― clemenza, Saturday, 14 February 2015 14:49 (eleven years ago)

<3 young anthony

It is all relative.

― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:37 (eleven years ago)

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