Why Did I Get My Slope?

It was the summer going into 11th grade and I still had yet to get my permit. Meanwhile there were people in my grade who had their licenses. The reason for not having my permit was because my birthday was in the summer and sixteen is the age you are eligible for your license. I promised myself that on my birthday I would be at the DMV the minute it opened. My peers informed me passing their permit test was one of the easiest tests that had ever taken. With that in mind, I did not go out of my way to study which was a huge mistake. I was on my twelfth question when I realized it was my last question due to the fact that I had failed. There are 18 questions, you are able to get a maximum of three wrong, I unfortunately reached this maximum.

This was when I knew something needed to change. My work ethic up to this point was not to my full potential. Whether I waited till the last minute or just not trying as hard as I could all the time. What I thought was “hard work”, which was only skimming through the drivers’ book, did not pay off. My confidence level instantly went downhill when I read the first question in total confusion. I envisioned myself breezing through the questions on the test and being able to walk out of the testing room waving around my newly printed permit. Leaving the DMV my mom interrogated me, “Did you really study?” “Why do you think you failed?”. Ignoring all of her questions, the embarrassment overcame my body. Sitting in a McDonald's parking lot down the street I felt empty and disappointed. Thankfully I had another chance at trying the test again in a couple of weeks. I went home and first started off by correctly answering the questions I got wrong the first time. On top of that, I did practice tests every night for about 30 minutes. When the time came around for me to retake the permit test my actual hard work had paid off. I passed with a 100% and could not have been