test+1+-+reflection

====I did very badly for the first science test of the year and both my parents and I were very disappointed. For this test, I scored merely a B4 which is considered very badly done when most of my friends were getting As.====

====For the test, the tested topics were atomic structure, periodic table and equation writing. I think the reason for the bad result was because I did not really understand the whole concept of atomic structure and also some very careless mistakes. I was very confident that I would ace in the test because I thought I had already fully understand all the topics tested. However, only after I got back my test paper, I found out that the topic of atomic structure was not as simple as I thought. Some of the concepts were totally unknown to me. For example, there was a question that asked which compound is ionic in nature. My answer was carbon dioxide and the correct answer was sodium chloride. I did not know what is ionic in nature and that's why I got this question answered wrongly.====

====Also, I was very careless in this test. There was this question that asked what the electronic configuration of Sodium is. I wrote 2.8.6 instead of the correct answer 2.8.1 because I thought that the symbol S represents sodium in the periodic table. I actually did memorize the periodic table because the test but I still mistaken sodium as S instead of Na. This was a very careless mistake.====

====I know that I did not work very hard for this test and that's why I flunked my test. I will learn this mistake and always work hard for tests. I must try to understand each and every bit of the topic and always ask question to the teacher to seek better understanding so that for the next tests I can score well.====