Oh man, I just took the AP history test for chapter 9-10 yesterday, and today we needed to write a in time essay. Well, either of these freak me out.
Maybe because I studied too much on before yesterday night, so yesterday, when I was taking the test, I screwed couple question, such as there's a question like "list at least 3 compromises and explain what they are", well, I just remember the 3/5 compromise and that's it. When I finished the test and looked at the book, I felt like an idiot, the number of Senators and Representatives are two other compromises, I mean what can I forget that??It's like everyone should know it.
More worse, the in time essay, you can not used neither book nor notes, we need to write 4 paragraph in 50 mintues, it's the practice for the AP exam. So, when we got to the class, and our teacher wrote out the question, then we needed to start writing. The question was " During Washington and Adam's Administration, to what extant they follow the guideline of the Constitution, and how did they improve America's economy". Ok, I remembered what happened during Washington's administration, so I just dadadada, and wrote out my first two paragraph. But when I went to the third paragraph, I was stuck. I didn't remember anything that happened during Adam's administration except the XYZ affairs and the Convention of 1800, but they's nothing to do with the questions. I was sitting there for 10 minutes and trying to squeezed something out of my brain, and finally I squeezed the Navy Department and the Alien Law and Sedition Act out, but I only had 5 minutes left. When the teacher said there're only 30 seconds left, I was in the middle of the third paragraph, and I just ended it, and wrote a really dumb conclusion--Both Washington and Adams mostly followed the constituion and did a great job for improving America's economy.
Man what dumb that is. That's not suppose to be an junior student's conclusion for essay.
Anyway, I just having a really bad week.