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Whitney
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Date Posted: 20:26:58 11/23/04 Tue
Hi... I'm a freshman at Brown University this fall, and I've lately noticed that i'm having some problems regarding testing. I went to talk to my chem professor, who knows that I fully understand the material as i've visited him during office hours. However, i'm completely failing my exams, and he suggested that I may have dyslexia, which was something that i've never considered until I went to a few websites today. When I was three, I had many language processing problems and I was "speech impaired", although they dropped this diagnosis in 4th grade and I was placed into the "talented and gifted" program in 5th grade. It appeared that I had grown out of this problem, although I had many testing issues - discrepencies between my test grades versus what i actually "know" ... especially on the SAT verbal section (although my math score was pretty high since that's always been my strong point). But during tests, I have a lot of trouble comprehending the questions or even just thinking - my thoughts become very fragmented. I've also noticed other symptoms such as zoning out, sometimes being seen as hyper, mixing up letters within words as i read, write, or speak, and other things as well. I've just always scored relatively high academically, although I still thought that I knew even "more" than what those high numbers revealed. For a long time, i've felt that grades don't reflect my knowledge, and now it's causing problems for me in college, especially in chemistry and I plan to be pre-med and my grades aren't going to be sufficient for my future. This whole situation has just been very upsetting and frustrating for me since I can't understand exactly what is "wrong." Does anyone have any suggestions about how I should go about this issue since I don't want grades to be the downfall of my existence!! How can I accomodate to this problem within a college atmosphere? Feel free to email me at WRM9286@aol.com
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