No child is a dullard
On sighting the result of my MTH 101 test when I was running my undergraduate program at OAU, I was stunned. I got an 85A. With the level of preparation I put into the exam, I expected to be in the 90th percentile with at least a 90%+ mark. What really happened? Any doubts over marking inconsistencies were dispelled when I saw my engineering colleagues get marks in the top 90th percentile—91A and 96A. This was a question that baffled me personally, and I decided I had to find an answer. If I prepared well and still failed to hit my goal, was it because I didn't study well or was it just that I wasn't good enough to chill with the big boys whose points were in the top 90th percentile? On prodding further, I discovered that my mood and way of going about things in the exam hall played a huge role. I discovered that how I felt impacted my overall performance in the exam. On sighting the question, I saw that I knew all of it and got so excited that I jum...