u/Ambitious_Olive5944

Hi everyone,
This is my first post on reddit ever, so bare with me plssss. For context, I (19f) am currently a first year university student studying mathematics and science. In high school (im trying not to talk myself up too much here), I always found mathematics to come to me easily, requiring not much effort to do well in. I studied the highest level of mathematics that was available to me, and competed in many maths competitions (nerdy i know). I was ranked 7th in my area for maths. Due to this I was lucky enough to land a scholarship, which i need to maintain a high gpa for. The university I am at do 2 seperate mid semester style exams. It’s confusing for me to word so everything in brackets is just me explaining how it works. (For each of the 2 exams you get to have 3 sittings of it. As in exam1 you get 3 goes and exam2 you get 3 goes. In order to pass you must get a mark of 16/20 - and if you don’t after 3 attempts, you fail the entire course :( :( It’s quite harsh) Long story short, I failed the first 2 exams I’ve sat, only getting 15/20. That means I only now get 1 more attempt at not failing basically my degree. I’ve talked to my university regarding my scholarship, and yes I need to pass this to maintain it. I’m so insanely stressed about what to do - they want me to resit it in approximately 2 weeks, and while that sounds good, I have 2 physics and 2 chemistry exams between now and then, weighing 60% for each of the courses. I’m now having an existential crisis, questioning if I can even do the degree i’m doing - I can’t even pass the first exam of the first course ughhhhhh. As I have always found maths to be not too bad, I also have no real clue how to study, or how to deal with stress. Unless you can’t tell from this post, no, I am not taking failing this exam well. Please please please, if you know any ways of managing stress, or studying - besides the just do practice questions - please do share with me. Or if you can even just tell me i won’t fail, just so I have someone believing in me lol, it would mean so much to me. Sorry for the huge ahh essay everyone!!!