It’s always a negative!

Right, slow down. It’s what everyone says after I take a test and do poorly on it. What people don’t understand is I do slow down, I recheck, and double check. Guess what it normally gets me. Nothing. My latest calculus test is no different. I go though each problem, i check my work, feel comfortable in the answer, usually because they are very similar to the homework, if not the same. I leave the room feeling confident I did well this time. I get the test back, what do you know, I failed yet again. Why do I try? I look at what I’ve done wrong and get sick by what I see. Simple addition error here, division error here, didn’t copy a number right there, no negative sign over yonder. I would say every test I lose at least one letter grade if not more to careless errors. It’s not like I mean to, I swear I go over the problems and check my work. For some reason when I’m checking, my eyes see one number my brain sees another, and my pen writes yet a different number. This is why I will never be an A student. Not because I’m dumb, or incompetent (although I’m sure others would contest that) its that I mix up numbers. I am partially dyslexic. The only problem is, it’s nothing that can be diagnosed by someone, because it happens so in frequent, and usually when I’m concentrating really hard. This could be why I did well in my circuits class. I didn’t really work with numbers that often. I generally worked with variables, letters to represent the numbers. For some reason, that worked better for me. I just wish there was something I could do before my final on Thursday..