I had studied hard but maybe not in the right way or maybe not enough. You can always study more right? I mean, I could have gone completely overboard on all the review. I just studied more than I usually did which granted was not very much because I was smart enough but certainly not brilliant. I knew well that I need to study in order to get high grades. I wasn’t one of those people who could just skim a few chapters then stroll in and ace it all. So I had studied more than usual because I wanted to be absolutely sure that I would pass. This one was my make or break my get out of jail free card. If I passed this one I would graduate and I wouldn’t have the chance to retake like in the past. Last chances are funny. They can either put you into a position where you just click into a totally different mindset or one in which your unconscious mind just completely takes over and decides not only to shoot you in the foot but to shoot you through the heart. Therapists get paid a lot to figure out why you do these things.