Handling Academic Failure 2 Chapter 1:

Failure simply means falling below the set standard. This standard could be the one set by yourself, your lecturer, your parents, the school authority, or whoever. Once you fall below this standard, irrespective of the one who sets it, you have failed the one who set the standard. This could be yourself, your lecturer, your parents or the school authority, as the case may be.

Failure is not very palatable; it has dire consequences. You may be asked to resit the examination, repeat the cla.s.s, bag a carry-over, asked to withdraw from the school, or graduate with very poor and unsatisfactory grades. This is why most students detest failure, but some still fail anyway. Therefore, every student needs to learn how to handle failure so as to get the best out

of it.

FAILURE IS NOT STRANGE

Failure is not peculiar to you alone. Anyone can fail. Even the best of students in your cla.s.s fail too once in a while; though he may not admit it openly, he possibly get marks that are lower than what he sincerely desires and he is disappointed with his performance. He still may get much more than you got, but he is not too pleased with himself. Since failure simply means falling short of the set mark, then, in the real sense, everyone has failed before. No one can outrightly claim to be a
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complete success.

FIRST TASTE OF FAILURE

If this is your first time of swallowing the bitter pills of academic failure, do not be too discouraged. It is not the end of the world. The truth is that others have been there before, and they have scaled the hurdle. You also can, if only you will handle the situation successfully.

Life is a series of ups and downs; it is not always a long bed of roses. Hence the cliché no condition is

permanent. No one attained a high degree of academic success without tasting of such pills at least once, no matter how minute. Even the greatest of stars too fail. Michael Jordan once said, "I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed". Everyone who succeeded had, at least once, failed before. If you are a habitual failure, do not 'get used' to it. Most times, the secret of smooth academic success is learnt while pa.s.sing through the rough roads of academic failure. Evidently, you desire to learn these secrets as you pa.s.s through this deserted valley of failure. This is why you picked up this booklet in the first place so as to learn what you need to know to cross the demarcation line between failure and success.