Hi all,
I am a first year med student. In early March, my class finished biochem and anatomy (both of which I did well in) and immediately started our next block of classes. Every week in March, we had some type of assessment (eg. exam or paper due) each week, and I started to feel burned out.
This past week, I was feeling sick (falling asleep every night in the early evening for a few hours, then waking up and being unable to fall back asleep, then falling asleep and ending up sleeping really late) and tried my best to study for an exam I had this past Friday, but wasn't really feeling it. However, I was not that worried about the exam - my class had been told by second years that it would be one of the easier exams that we would take all year, and I studied enough to feel like I would certainly pass (we are true pass/fail).
However, when I got to the exam, it was much more detailed than I expected based on the practice questions provided by the professor, and now I am nervous that I may have failed it -- I already know that I got a few questions wrong by second-guessing myself and changing my answer, which I feel stupid about. Since my school is true pass/fail, I believe I get a retake before I actually fail the class (our entire grade is only based on this one test), but I feel mortified because this is not a class or exam that I should have failed (e.g. it was a lot easier than something like anatomy), and I do not want to give the faculty or deans the impression that I blew this test off or was not working hard - I think I just reached my limit between burn out and feeling sick, which I know sounds like an excuse, but I think it happens to everyone at some point. I also have a summer fellowship to do research that I don't want to be jeopardized, and I am worried how this failure could affect my chances for residency.
Can anyone here comment as to how to retaking an exam in order to pass a class would affect things like one's chances for residency? Is this something that I could bounce back from if I did in fact fail? Thanks.
I am a first year med student. In early March, my class finished biochem and anatomy (both of which I did well in) and immediately started our next block of classes. Every week in March, we had some type of assessment (eg. exam or paper due) each week, and I started to feel burned out.
This past week, I was feeling sick (falling asleep every night in the early evening for a few hours, then waking up and being unable to fall back asleep, then falling asleep and ending up sleeping really late) and tried my best to study for an exam I had this past Friday, but wasn't really feeling it. However, I was not that worried about the exam - my class had been told by second years that it would be one of the easier exams that we would take all year, and I studied enough to feel like I would certainly pass (we are true pass/fail).
However, when I got to the exam, it was much more detailed than I expected based on the practice questions provided by the professor, and now I am nervous that I may have failed it -- I already know that I got a few questions wrong by second-guessing myself and changing my answer, which I feel stupid about. Since my school is true pass/fail, I believe I get a retake before I actually fail the class (our entire grade is only based on this one test), but I feel mortified because this is not a class or exam that I should have failed (e.g. it was a lot easier than something like anatomy), and I do not want to give the faculty or deans the impression that I blew this test off or was not working hard - I think I just reached my limit between burn out and feeling sick, which I know sounds like an excuse, but I think it happens to everyone at some point. I also have a summer fellowship to do research that I don't want to be jeopardized, and I am worried how this failure could affect my chances for residency.
Can anyone here comment as to how to retaking an exam in order to pass a class would affect things like one's chances for residency? Is this something that I could bounce back from if I did in fact fail? Thanks.
