Have you ever failed exams in college miserably but still ended up getting the degree?

The thing to understand is that once you ever give up, you will lose everything. So either fight on or lose all the chances you might have. However, this doesn’t apply for gamblers.

Yep. My cumulative GPA wasn’t great upon graduation, but I almost got kicked out my sophomore year. One semester I had a .067 GPA, or some obscenely low GPA like that.

You know what I did? I went to the counselor of my department, explained the issues I had going on that were giving me trouble, and she directed me in ways that I could help myself out of the rut.

I tried subjects that were all over the place. I just planned ahead. If I was going to go for something I didn’t have a clue about, I knew I had to play it safe next semester. I bombed big time on computer programing and physics. I was on probation once. Still got my BS.

I failed one subject. The way you get over any failure, you work harder.

@aprilsimnel thanks im sure that those issues that you had were very hard ones…but what if you dont really have issues like kids or work or stuff like that like me and you still fail…what do you say to your counsellor then?

I have failed many times.There was never a need to explain it to anyone other than me myself.I am trying my best now and will get my degree someday :)

Then ask her/him what it is you have to do to bounce back. Believe me, if they have any experience, then they’ve seen and heard it all from many students before you. In that sense, you aren’t a special snowflake and they can help. That’s what they’re there for. Don’t worry, just find out. The anxiety is usually worse than the reality. Just go in, and if it turns out you let partying, TV watching or sexy times get in the way of your studies, you can’t let that happen anymore. Capische?

I’d also talk with the TAs of those particular classes that I messed up in and find out what it is I could’ve done better. This term is a wash, obvs, but you can learn something now to improve next semester.

@aprilsimnel whoa! .067 ? what issues could possibly lead to that? Even i am not better than this lol

@gamefu91 – I was having serious issues with my mentally ill guardian interfering with my life.

That is a great testament @aprilsimnel thanks a lot. Was it very embarrassing for you when you failed? How did you deal with it?

I got a 4% on a midterm once, and still managed an A- in the class. I talked the professor into giving me some extra credit work.

No, I never failed anything in school.

Yep. I failed practically my whole freshman year in college b/c I was studying pharmacy since my grandfather owned a pharmacy.

After I got the letter from the university stating that I was on probation and at risk of failing out, I reevaluated my priorities, and spent the rest of my time in college doing great and only getting out with a half way decent GPA since it dropped so low freshman year.

Just be honest with yourself. Some people are conditioned to believe that they HAVE to go to college, and they are simply not cut out for it. My best friend of over ten years is a 7th year student still on his bachelor’s. In high school he had WAAAAY better grades than me, and I still think he’s brighter than I am. But I graduated, and he’s still in school, still failing.

Maybe if he pursued what interested him rather than what he was “set up” to do, he’d be in a better place right now (career wise).

Long story short, yea, you can EASILY fail just two subjects and still come out on top. . . just make sure you learn a lesson and ONLY fail those two subjects.

@Eggie – The Dean of Students actually had me come into his office and he yelled at me, like, ripped me a new one. He was really upset, this guy, and I didn’t think he knew me from Adam, you know? Which made me feel horrible because my school is a Big Ten school. Me in a school of 40,000 undergrad? And I was the special failing snowflake that was getting called on the carpet? I was highly embarrassed.

And here is where I learned at 19 that part of growing up is knowing when to acknowledge that felt embarrassed, but I had to push forward anyway to get stuff done and sorted out. It’s not like anyone else has never, ever failed ever and I was the only dumkopf.