Failure is a crushing defeat that we all experience at some point in our lives. As students, exam failure often causes us to question our intelligence and capabilities, whilst we shamefully contemplate what others will think of us. But through this whirlwind of emotions, one singular question resonates within our mind. “Why?”. In some cases it may be obvious and very fair; “I just didn’t put the work in”. But in other cases, the inability to find a sound answer can be torture. We often resort to blaming our intelligence and inability. However, that is far, far away from the actual truth. In this video, I introduce my framework of the most common reasons that cause people to fail, splitting them up into controllable and uncontrollable factors affecting us either in the preparation phase or performance on the exam day. Answering the “why”, will be the first step to recovery and success.

All schools and universities have shut their doors in a large-scale attempt to delay the spread of COVID-19 or coronavirus. Whilst this has freed up a lot of time for us students, we have the responsibility to not treat this as a holiday. I’m going to be running through 3 steps we can take to stay productive during these uncertain times to minimise the disruption to our education.