(10-22-2010, 09:27 AM)BusyMum Wrote: Hi Sila and everyone

(hey Dan, the steam driven one is in! She worked out how to search her emails for old things that reminded her old brain...)

88/100 (yes?) is pretty good you know! What's the Pass grade range? Where I teach (at college level) it's 50-63%, 88% is a "high distinction" grade score. Your assessor will look past the obvious anxiety and look for the content: your factual accuracy, how widely and well you have read, the structure of your argument, the degree to which you addressed the question. A wobble in the voice box counts for very little. Just don't bury your head in your palm cards and learn how to make the killer powerpoint. (Lots of academics don't do it well themselves!) We all hate to speak to the bigger group but it gets better the more you do it.

I agree with Dan, go and find out about special needs support services at your college and see about getting them applied, you could be eligible for all kinds of things - extra time in exams etc. There should be a way to register that means you don't have to confront individual teachers... sounds as though you work hard, that's good: one things that is hard for teachers at any level to cope with is the whiny person who wants all kinds of support and exemptions but never pulls themselves together and makes some kind of effort.

88 out of 100 i believe, yeah. I'm not too sure on what the actual grade scale was, it was complicated and i can't remember numbers so. lol Idk he seemed to mark down a lot of points because I was nervous and kept turning away from the group. I can't help that, I'm afraid of eye contact and looking over at the others makes my anxiety ten times worse. ^^; I'm good at actual powerpoints and I knew the material, I just couldn't make it seem like that because I froze up on everything I had to say. >.<

I have no more classes until January now so I'm going to try and use this time to get as much help as I can. I don't even know where to start though, honestly. I emailed an OT that Dan recommended, who is here in Florida too, but I don't know how to start getting help anywhere. School or outside, or both. ^^; I want to get help because all these problems I've got have gone on long enough without any help at all, and I've faced the consequences of it in high school and barely graduated. I want to excel here in college now, I want to prove to myself that I can do it in the right environment. I just can't do it all alone anymore I guess.