It was the first time I applied for the provincial examination. There were two positions available. I suppressed my excitement and prepared to wait until the last day to see how many people there were before applying.
In the last three hours of the last day, there were 126 applicants for position A and 182 applicants for position B. Of course I chose position A.
After reviewing for two months, I am very confident and feel that I will definitely pass the exam.
When the results came out, I scored 71 points in the practical test, 69 points in the essay, and a total score of 140. It was neither very high nor low, but I ranked fourth and did not enter the interview.
What I regret deeply is that when the interview list was announced, the highest score for the original position B was only 138 points. That means that if I applied for position B, I would be the first. name.
I can only blame bad luck for my first failure.
It is the second time to apply for the national examination. This time there is only one position in our local area. There are 276 people who applied for it, which is a large number of people. Although there seems to be no chance, I still want to give it a try.
After several months of review, the day of the exam finally came.
Since the exam was far away, I got up at six o'clock, but it rained heavily that day.
I went out with my admission ticket and test materials and prepared to take a taxi to the examination room, but after waiting for half an hour, I still didn’t find the bus.
In desperation, I had to call a friend nearby and ask him to pick me up. It took him 15 minutes to get to my side. It was already 7:30. There is still an hour before I enter the examination room, and one and a half hours before the exam time. It only takes 40 minutes for me to go from here to there, which should be enough.
On a rainy day, we were stuck on the elevated highway, unable to get up or down, so we could only wait. At that time, I comforted myself that there was still an hour and a half, and it didn’t matter.
But when I entered the examination room, it was already ten minutes late. The examination time had already begun, and everyone had already answered about 20 questions.
In the end, I was left with 10 multiple-choice questions on data analysis.
When the test results came out, the first place was 143, the second place was 142.9, the third place was 142.7, and I was 142.6. In other words, if I had not been late, I could have answered any of the 10 multiple-choice questions on the data analysis questions. , then I am number one.
I can only blame the second failure on the bad weather.
This is the third time I applied for the provincial examination. This time I applied for a remote place with only 132 people based on the experience of the previous two times.
Because I was late on a rainy day last time, I checked into a hotel near the school the day before the exam.
I am really confident about this exam because there are few people and they live nearby, which eliminates objective reasons.
This time I finally entered the interview. I was in second place, 0.5 points behind the first place.
I was very confident about entering the interview. The 0.5 point difference was not very big. As long as I prepared carefully, I could definitely surpass her.
In the interview room, I was wearing formal clothes and felt confident. However, while waiting, I suddenly had a stomachache.
After I raised my hand to indicate that I wanted to go to the bathroom, a teacher followed me to the bathroom. I don’t know whether it was because of the breakfast issue or because I was too nervous, but I went to the bathroom three times within an hour of waiting.
When it was my turn for the interview, I obviously felt that I was not breathing enough, so I came first in the interview, but lost the selection after a total score difference of 0.1 points.
I can only blame the third failure on the poor quality of the breakfast.
The fourth time I took the exam, I don’t know if it was because the position was not popular. There were only 98 applicants. At that time, after seeing the number of people, I thought, this should be my chance.
In response to the previous failures, I first booked a hotel next to the examination room and also booked breakfast in a restaurant.
On the morning of the exam, I finished breakfast and read in the room for a while, because if I went there too early, I would have to wait anyway.
At 8:30, I took the elevator down from my room. Suddenly the lights in the elevator flashed and the elevator shook and stopped.
We rang the conversation bell and the hotel staff said we had to wait for the maintenance man to come and fix it.
Time passed minute by minute, and we waited nervously, but 55 minutes passed before the elevator opened. I hurried to the examination room, but I was late and was not allowed in.
I blame my own carelessness for this failure. I should have taken the stairs.