Take the entire time.

I once took a required math class during summer school. The class ran four nights a week and the instructor moved rapidly through the text. The format was a test, usually about fifteen problems on the previous night’s lesson for the first half hour of the session. Then we had a brief break came back and it was on to the next chapter. Like most students I took the test, turned it in, and then went out for the break. There was one woman I noticed in the class who frowned and chewed on the end of her pencil while taking the test. She also always worked almost all the way through the class break. Just before we started the regular class she would run up put her test on the teacher’s desk. I thought, “Gee, she must be having a hard time with this class”. At the end of the summer term the instructor said, “I would like to salute one student in this class in particular. She has completed the entire course while making only three errors total -THREE ERRORS TOTAL- on the nightly tests.” He said,” Would you stand up, please?" And he motioned to a woman near the front. It was the lady who frowned, who chewed her pencil and finished last during the term. There is one important lesson here. It isn't frown and chew your pencil. It is take the entire time. For any test you have to take. Take the entire time. Use all of the time given. Yes we've all seen those whizzes who jump up slap their test down on the instructor's desk and sprint out the door fifteen minutes after the test has been handed out. You are not one of those whizzes. You are an average student. So for now until graduation-any test- take the entire time. Then after graduation you can go to Cabo and judge all the wet t-shirt contests you want.