Saturday, June 2, 2012

Hyung-Il Kim / national college entrance exam / wed 11a.m.

One of the big challenge that I faced was the national college entrance exam. When I was 20 years old, on November, I went to the Sang-Il high school for my national college entrance exam. Before the exam was started, I feel very nervous because it might be my last opportunity. The first subject was Korean language. At first, I concentrated on the questions and solved them calmly. I felt so good and I thought it's my face. However, when I faced with tricky text, I suddenly felt nervous and became confused. Moreover, I noticed that I wasted too much time and I felt more confusion. After the Korean exam, I felt very dispirited. I even thought about going home now and give up other subjects. With this mental state, the math exam was started and I just solved the questions phlegmatically. After math exam, I ate lunch and was able to cheer up myself so I could do well in the other subjects. But I thought that I can't go good university because I spoiled Korean and math. After few month later, when I checked my score, I found that my Korean score was much better than I expected. I felt sorry that if I didn't be confuse by Korean, I could get better score in math too. I still regret that I made hasty conclusion about Korean score.

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  1. One of the biggest challenge that I have ever faced was the national college entrance exam. When I was 20 years old, on November, I went to the Sang-Il high school for my national college entrance exam. Before the exam was started, I feel very nervous because it might be my last opportunity to take this exam. I studied very hard about 3 years but that effort could be vain if I make some mistakes. The first subject was Korean language. At first, I concentrated on the questions and solved them calmly. I felt so good and I thought I can get a good score on this exam. However, when I faced with tricky text, I suddenly felt nervous and became confused. Moreover, I noticed that I wasted too much time and I felt more confusion. After the Korean exam, I felt very dispirited. I even thought about going home now and give up other subjects. With this mental state, the math exam was started and I just solved the questions phlegmatically. After math exam, I ate lunch and I tried to cheer up myself and also tried to throw burden of failure away. When the tird subject, English, was started, I just tried to do everything that I can do. Without the burdensome feeling, I could solve almost every questions easily. However, after the exam, I thought that I cannot go good university because I thought I spoiled Korean and math. But after few month later, when I checked my score, I found that my Korean score was much better than I expected. I felt sorry because if I didn't be confuse by the result of Korean, I could get better score in math too. I still regret that I made hasty conclusion about Korean score. If I could recover earlier, I could get much better score on the exam.

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