Wearing Wednesday...
I failed the mock today.
I got 38 right out of 60 questions, (63%). I must confess I wasn’t expecting to do so badly, but it was a good introduction to the real thing. (Multiple choice a, b, c or d).
The way I approached it was if I knew the answer I just wrote the right letter down knowing that each one like that buys me near enough two minutes. (I thought doing it like that might boost my confidence too). If I was fairly sure I did the same but with the intention of going back at the end to double check. The hard ones I left until last and I think the extra effort on them probably meant I got them all correct, but I was so burnt out after 100 minutes, and knowing it is only a mock, I submitted my paper thinking it doesn’t matter if I get a few wrong. (Big mistake).
I should have used the full two hours and treated it more seriously, which I will in the real exam on Friday of course.
But as a result of my stupid attitude and cavalier approach at the end, it’s done the opposite and knocked my confidence.
To be fair to me I’ve had a terrible week with virtually no sleep, worrying about this and my real work, so I honestly couldn’t hack very much today.
As one guy on the course there said, “we’ve all been here for so long I’ve heard the terms so many times now I knew about 30% of it off the top of my head”. Unfortunately, like I've said, I haven’t had the same advantage.
I wasn’t the only one to fail and it comforted me a little that one guy on the full seven week course got only 27 right. Well that and a new biker guy I’ve befriended there has offered me a complete set of good golf clubs for free, which I’ve been after for ages but couldn’t afford to buy. How nice is that in this crappie selfish dog-eat-dog world these days?
If I pass I'm going to treat myself to nine holes at the weekend... (
So tempted to say ten if he's gay )