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"Your heart rate has just increased ten times faster than normal as you wait for your professor to hand your first test of the semester back. &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t terrible, worst case I probably got a B, which is good, I shouldn&amp;#039;t be worried,&amp;quot; you think to yourself. Then, in the moment of truth, you open the blue book and see a big fat red C on the corner of the first page. Suddenly, the adrenaline of getting it back is gone, and you slowly realize, &amp;quot;Eeks! This was 30 percent of my grade, I&amp;#039;m doomed.&amp;quot; Before you run out of the class in tears, resort to working at McDonalds, or worse - dropping the class, think about a few options you have. Talk to your professor or TA. See where you made your mistakes if it was multiple choice and what your exam answers lacked if it was written. They will appreciate that you want to learn the material and are serious about your work in the class. Study and work really hard towards the rest of your grade. If you get high marks in the other 70 percent of your grade, you can still potentially get a great grade. Ask about the grade distribution. Sometimes, professors will agree to adjust the grade distribution so that one bad grade can be counted less than the rest. It can&amp;#039;t hurt to ask about their own policies toward this. Don&amp;#039;t lose confidence. You could have been a straight A student in high school, but college is very different. You&amp;#039;re still a good student. Everyone has bumps in the road and classes that they will struggle with. Just do your best and keep trying! Be sure to make use of resources on campus, like tutoring from older students, professor and TA office hours, study groups, and exam reviews. I wish I had done this earlier on in my own college career! How do you deal with a bad grade? Tell us in the comments below! Xoxo, Divya "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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