An Inconvenient Truth: Grades

At school you have your easy classes and you have your hard classes. The one reason why those classes might seem difficult is because of how much effort goes into getting a good grade. You are getting difficult homework assignments and the you study for hours on end for the tests. And sometimes no matter how hard you study and how much you understand the concepts you end up doing horribly in the class and your grade drops. Tests and how students are graded are concepts that bug me.

For example in math, I understand the concepts and I know how to do the work but all the tests just destroy my grades. It makes me think that even though I understand what to do I will never know how to do it. It also makes me feel that I'm not smart enough to do well on the tests or the class. 

There will be tests all throughout college and there will be some that are impossible and some that may seem easy but really aren't. All the people that hate taking tests, including myself, will just have to deal with it. I guess I can look at it as though there are worse things in life than getting bad grades.