Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.

The hard part is majors are exhausting on their own. They're a long week. So the hard part is your energy levels.

If a teacher goes, 'Do you guys want an easy test?' You're going to say, 'Heck, yeah.' The less you've got to study, I'm going ace this test.

From a young age, pupils are put under immense amounts of pressure in high-stakes exams. Often, they're made to feel like their whole future depends on how they perform in these narrowly focussed tests.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

My dad emphasized athletics. My mom did as well, but my mom was really hard on the academic end of things and always stressed, 'Hey, you've got to have the grades, you've got to be prepared for life outside of sports.'

As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.