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absolutely bombed a prelim - freshman

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hi i lowk need some advice.

i just bombed the FUCK out of my prelim. not just bomb bomb, i genuinely never have done so bad on an exam in my life. i came here thinking i was the shit apparently and i think i scored a 30% on my prelim. 30 fucking percent what do i do. a small part of it was because of the anxiety that i felt about the prelim during the prelim itself so i spent 40 minutes of it dooming, and the other part was that i was on hella allergy meds which made me pretty slow. but even then, i was just too stupid to do well on the test.

i'm genuinely questioning everything i've come to think about myself. i never thought of myself as incredibly dumb -- i genuinely was able to cram for any exam in HS in 3 hours (and did well -- scored a 5 on all the important APs with practically no study like physics c mech/e&m, calc, lit, lang, ush, csa, whatever).

but tonight i genuinely got railed. i think i might genuinely be stupid here. im intelligence diffed by my entire class. i might actually fail this exam. i did study for it btw, although only for a few days, and i've genuinely just never been this lost.

i can't drop this course because i'm also fucked in a different course and might need to drop that one. but i've just never been in this position where i've been so fried.

Posted Sep 30, 2026, 3:45 AM UTC

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