In the past I’ve written about two very memorable experiences on my road to becoming a speech therapist. Both of them took place before I actually started school. Today I’m going to tell you something that happened during my time in school: the story of how I failed my exam. If you’re interested in finding out what happened, make sure you keep on reading!
It was the second semester of school. This semester we had to learn a lot about hearing and voice. I did like the voice part but the hearing part just wasn’t my jam. Even though I didn’t really like hearing, I was pretty good at it if I can say so myself. I understood the theory really well and the practical parts went greag too. Untill the exam..
For the exam we had to do a hearing test, aswer some questions and come up with a possible diagnosis. I wasn’t nervous at all, which pretty unusual since I’m really bad at performing under pressure so things like this usually go wrong.
I went in and did my thing. There were two types of hearing test and you had to do one of them. Which one was upto the teacher. I got the part I wanted so I was even more relaxed than I was before and started with the test.
I walked up to the test person, told her I was going to do the test and told her what she had to do. She sat down in the little room and I put the headphones on her head. Red was for the right ear and blue for left. Because I’ve always struggled with left and right I wasn’t too sure if I did it right and I ended up putting it on the other way around.
When that was done I did the test, answered all of the questions correctly and came up with a proper diagnosis. I was quite confident about what I just did there so I felt happy and relieved that it was done.
But then it happened. The teacher told me I made it difficult for her to decide whether I passed or not. That because I actually put the headphones the wrong way around. End of the story is that I didn’t pass.
Because I’m quite a perfectionist when it comes to school the bad news hit me hard. I was pretty devastated to be honest. When I saw my friend who was waiting for me I broke into tears and told her what happened.
On a more positive note: I did rock the voice part of the exam because I couldn’t care less at that moment. I thought you had to redo that too if you failed the hearing part.
Even though this wasn’t my favourite experience and I wouldn’t have minded it if it didn’t happen, I did learn a lot from this experience. I learned that it’s no big deal if one little thing goes wrong. It’s not the end of the world if you have to redo a test. Just calm down and move on!
For those of you who are wondering how it went the second time around: I was very nervous but I rocked it and ended up getting a 9!
And that was it for today’s How To Become A Speech Therapist. I hope you enjoyed reading it and let me know if you’ve ever experienced something similar!
XOXO, Nicole
Wat flauw eigenlijk, door zo’n klein foutje. MAar je hebt er een goede les uitgehaald! SOms gaat er iets kleins mis en dat komt ook wel weer goed.
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Nou jeetje, wat flauw om zo’n klein dingetje!
Ja he! Dat vond ik dus ook.
Heel flauw! Gelukkig is het goedgekomen en heb je een geweldig cijfer gehaald. top!!
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Dat is even balen zeg, flauw inderdaad. Toch knap van je!
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