It is aim of every student to qualify his examination getting highest marks. Every student strives a lot to achieve success in his exam; still many students may suffer from getting low marks or even getting failed in their exams. Such a student may think that he cannot get equal reward for his struggle for examination. He/She thinks that he/she made a lot of preparation for the exam but the result was contradictory. Why some students failed due to their wrong academic lifestyle, attitude, mindset and hereditary predisposition. Sometimes it is caused by previous lack of seriousness and complex psychological issues that might be ignored or not known to such individual students.
Cheating can sometimes have serious consequences, such as obtaining a failing grade, probation, suspension, and a negative mark about your conduct on permanent record. Also, the cheating student will never really learn the coursework, which puts him/her at a disadvantage over time, leading to low self-esteem. Counseling, creating an honor code, changes in question papers,strict monitoring, and severe punishments for cheating are some of the solutions to solving this problem.
Working hard but still failing to attain the desired results ; we all have been there and done that! More so in academic lives where sometimes being successful looks near impossible. Sometimes working really hard too fails to pay. Sometime the result reaped is not really proportional to the effort sowed. What are the reasons that sometimes even the most sincere of efforts result in disappointment in student life? Read along to find out the top 27 well researched reasons why students fail despite of studying hard or not.
1.Chance/Opportunity For Cheating:
During an examination, students may occasionally come across unexpected opportunities to cheat. The invigilator may have left the exam hall, or was lax in his duties, or a neighboring student did not cover the paper properly. In such cases, the student might feel tempted to use this to obtain a few more marks, and thereby, gain an edge over his/her peers.
2.Poor Attendance/Lack Of Effort:
Students who are not sincere have poor attendance in class and leave their exam preparations to the last minute. With exams just a few days away, the nerves and the ramifications of failing become clear as there is not enough time for preparation. As a last resort, students look for ways to cheat and get through. When done repeatedly, cheating becomes a habit.
3.Unfair/Strict Teacher:
Overly strict grading in tests, extremely tough exams designed to fail students,
and teachers giving out an unreasonably high amount of course work during each semester, can frustrate students. Unable to cope with performance pressure,
students will cheat in order to get by and complete their studies as required.
4.Pressure:
Apart from peers and teachers, parents are also guilty of pressuring their child to constantly be the best. Also, since students having part-time jobs or suffering illnesses are not able to prepare well for exams, their chances for higher education or jobs is reduced, which forces them to cheat to save themselves.
5.Too Many Material To Cover/Heavy Academic Workbook:
Since the academic system emphasizes more on standardized tests rather than how much an individual has actually learned, a lot of the syllabus is very cumbersome, with too much workload squeezed into each semester. Poorly explained concepts by teachers and a multitude of consecutive tests are difficult to handle. So, when a student sees that his peers are at an advantage by cheating, he/she also does the same.
All students are not the same. There are those who need less time to understand and retain the subject matter. However there are also those who inspite of putting in hard work find it difficult to recollect the same during assessments. It is actually one of the very common reasons of failure in students who even relentlessly burn the midnight oil.
6.Greater/Excessive Competition:
Nowadays, due to greater competition,
anything less than a top grade is considered tantamount to failure. A poor grade in school is enough to put a massive dent in the child’s career path. Thus, the fear of a poor future brings in a belief of excelling at any cost, prompting a student to resort to cheating.
7.Improper And Misdirected Preparation for Exam – A cause of Failure:
It is a common problem of majority of the student that their preparation for their exam is misdirected. Preparation should be made in the lines of exam, according to the nature and format of exam. The preparation for exam must be initiated right from the first day of the session including attending lectures, studying by yourself, writing study notes, selecting good books. Read “how to prepare yourself for exam”
8.A Student May Have A Problem Of Time Management For Studies Before And During Examination:
Many students face problem of managing their time for studies. Students have many activities other than studies as well, i.e. games, hobbies, watching movies, listening to music, hanging out with friend at various places e.t.c. A brilliant student knows what to do first and what to be done next so that he may give proper time to his studies to complete his course in time.
If you have 60 minutes to answer 60 questions and you spend 2 minutes on each question. Mathematically, you will only answer just 30 questions and that spells failure.
9.Laziness:
One of the biggest reasons why students fail examination is laziness. A lecturer once said “we don’t have dumb students, but lazy students.” When a student is lazy, he finds it difficult to read, attend classes, do homework, and make researches and other things that can ensure examination success. How is it possible to successfully sit for an exam you virtually know nothing of? Exam success doesn’t work like magic, it involves hard work and diligence.
“we don’t have dumb students, but lazy students.”
10.Over-Confidence:
Some students are too confident of themselves that they overlook those tiny things that count. Over-confidence could lead to under performance. Nobody said a little self-confidence in your abilities is wrong but being Over-Confident could be dangerous. Just because you have an idea in a topic does not mean you should go sit for the exam believing that reading such topic would be a waste of time. No matter how simple or small something or somebody may appear, don’t be too sure that you don’t need them. Over-confidence kills.
11.Bad Reading Habits :
Most students don’t know how to read and the conditions that best suit their body system. It baffles me how students who haven’t read throughout the semester would want to cover every topic in just one week prior exam. How will that sink in?
12.Mind-set:
Many people don’t really know what the mind-set is one of the reasons why students fail exam. Everything in life lies in the mind. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right” (Henry Ford). If you have the mind-set that you will fail, no matter the effort you put in it, you will end up failing.
If you have poor attitudes toward school and studying, it can result in getting poor or failing grades.
There are also some miscellaneous poor attitudes that can affect your grades. They include when you:
Want to punish your parents
*Fear success
*Don't like the subject
*Don't like school
*Are bored
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right” — Henry Ford
13.Too Engaged:
Some students are just too engaged in one activity or the other that they have no time to figure out why they are too engaged. They have virtually joined all the organizations on campus in such a way that today’s lecture collides with rehearsal class. On returning from the rehearsal, he or she is too tired to study for tomorrow’s text — Failure starts.
14.Friends:
If you keep friends who don’t mind failing, then you are not far from failing. These friends would make sure they discourage you from studying hard for exams, see to it that you join them in skipping classes and change your orientation that you can never pass. Since you can’t beat them, you join them.
15.Finance:
One of the reasons why students fail exams is their financial power. Poor financial status can hinder students from buying materials that would enhance exam success. They find it hard to get good meals, resourceful materials for studying, and gadgets to make their research works and assignments easier. Paying for excursion to different educational places would also be pretty difficult. A student with very low financial power would be forced to look out for alternatives which are a distraction to their academics.
16.Bad Teachers/Lecturers:
Bad teachers make bad students. Some lecturers are just out and out terrible. These set of teachers need to go back to school to begin learning from the scratch. Some teachers have taught their students errors and these students are suffering for it in their respective colleges and institutions. Some campus lecturers are rude, sadists and cruel to students and this has made the students to lose interest in their subjects.
17.Lateness:
Not only does late coming to the exam hall make you disorganized, it makes you feel like you have missed out on some very vital things. Imagine you having a 2 hours exam by 8:00am, you arrived the exam hall by 8:45am, you have the following to do: Explain yourself to the supervisor the reasons for coming late, locate your seat, collect your question paper and answer sheet and try to put yourself in one piece. You have just wasted more minutes. Now your brain have to do two things at a time: answer the question and calm your nerves. You end up writing poorly under a very short time.
18.Family problems:
Family support is very beneficial while in school. On the other hand issues at home often lead to stress and loss of focus.
Students who belong to broken families or families with problems often find it difficult to transform their hard work into solid results. The emotional instability around them often has a direct bearing on their well-being in terms of psychological health too. So even though the student might be working hard trying turning a blind eye to all that is disturbing around him/her; his/her subconscious mind might take over and hinder desired results.
19.Has problems taking tests:
Although grades are usually based on test scores and sometimes on homework grades and class participation, there are reason behind the fact that those scores may be poor or less than desired.
Not being good in taking tests or being shy about class participation can affect your grades, but they also can be corrected, and teachers usually realize that your performance is not from lack of trying.
Jin Yee always handed in excellent homework, but when it came to tests, he did not fair very well. In fact, he failed the final exam.
His teacher could see that Jin Yee knew the material and was a hard-worker, but he just wasn't good in taking tests. After thinking it over, the teacher still gave Jin Yee a top grade in the class.
Doing poorly in tests because you did not pay attention or study is inexcusable and is just setting yourself up for poor or failing grades. Perhaps something is missing in your self-esteem, because it indicates you really don't care about your grades. Or, it could be that you don't have a clue that you need to work to get rewards.
20.Test anxiety:
Sometimes when the moment of truth comes students freeze due to fear or anxiety. Yes, test anxiety is very common in students. Nervousness, nausea or just uneasiness might take over once in the examination hall. At that moment no amount of hard work comes to the rescue and things eventually go down the drain. Perhaps in such cases a psychological consult to deal with such fears must be brought in the picture else their dreams and aspirations might remain unfulfilled.
21.Studying Techniques:
Sometimes the technique of studying might directly result in unfavorable scores. It is seen that students who depend on cramming everything in their syllabus from an early age find it increasingly difficult to attain good grades as years pass by. Cramming might be an easy option when in junior classes beyond a point it becomes useless. With increase in the complexity of course materials, understanding the concepts becomes necessary to fare well. But often letting go of the habit becomes too difficult leading to constant disappointments.
22.Wrong Course:
Sometimes students are forced into a particular discipline by parents or at times they make the wrong choice due to peer pressure. Whatever might be the reason, a student who does not have the aptitude for science cannot really do well in it no matter what lengths she travels. Careful choice of course is very essential in ensuring that a student’s hard work is rewarded.
23.Low self confidence:
We can do all the preparations and turn through every page in every book but without confidence they amount to nothing. Confidence building is very important to give a student the belief that she can get through any exam in her life. It might be fear of the subject or just lack of faith in their own abilities; but it does affect the outcome of exams inspite of the best of preparations.
24.Bad writing and presentation skills:
Most of the tests and assessments comprise of written examinations where every question needs to answered carefully. We all would have come across friends or acquaintances who were not only intelligent but hardworking too. But due to their bad handwriting or presentation skills they failed in securing good grades. So yes what a student puts in the answer papers is very important for translating hard work into equally deserving marks.
25.Missing on preparing the important topics:
Students often leave out sections from their syllabi either due to lack of time before exams or just out of a gut feeling of what is most likely to come in the question papers. But that doesn’t mean that they do not work hard. They might labor on hundreds of other topics but as luck would have it only the ones they leave out might come in the test or assessment. So yes at times selective studies might result in failure.
26.Improper revision techniques:
Revision before exams is very important. But it is also essential to have a proper and well thought out revision strategy. Managing to go through the whole syllabi the night before exam is vital to good preparation. It is never a good idea to study something for the first time just before exams for there might be too much to retain in too less time. A haphazard revision technique no matter how elaborate could result in bad results in exams.
27.Getting stuck with one question:
Sometimes a student might be prepared to solve every question that appears in the paper but just then emerges one deal breaker. Yes, a question that comes into view out of the blue and just doesn’t seem to get solved. It is at such questions that students get stuck at, till it gets too late to attempt the rest of the paper well. So that one question and the time spent on that hinders the prospects of good results for students.
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Summary
Reasons students get poor grades include external factors, such as the subject matter is too difficult, the teacher is hard to understand. Other reasons have to do with poor attitudes, such as didn't do homework and goofed off in class.
Finally, there are reasons related to personal issues, such as test anxiety and problems concentrating.
If you have been getting poor grades and you see the reason for it, you can try to rectify the situation and get back on the right track.
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