Failed my practitioner 1 exam and re-taking it in a month but feeling discouraged

[wesker53r86]

hi, i took a P1 exam back in march and i failed. i was the favorite of my instructor for my class and always did the techniques correctly (according to my instructor) but when exam day came, i failed miserably with 11 mistakes. im taking a P1 "crash course" and im getting positive feedback from my current instructor (he sometimes says that im ready but surprised that i failed) but i cant help feeling that im gonna fail again in the exam on august. :( can anyone help me out?

[Don]

A lot depends on why/what you failed. What did you or didn't you do that resulted in you failing? What were the 11 mistakes, exactly? Did you fail to execute the techniques properly because you didn't know them? Did you fail to execute the techniques under stress? Did you fail to execute the techniques due to fatigue? Did you fail to execute the techniques because of lack of concentration? Etc. (those are rhetorical questions)

Review your mistakes with your instructor(s). Do more reps. Do more reps under stress. Get a good night's rest and hydrate before the next exam... Don't worry about whether you pass or not - every day, every week, every month that you are training, you're getting better...

[unstpabl1]

What Don said.

Failing something isn't a catastrophy or even a problem. It's how we learn. YUP we fail our way to success. Only you know the truth about the test.If you do as Don suggests and look at the whys then you'll come up with a plan to do better

Many would quit after failing the test. you admiting it publically and asking for help sounds like a guy who won't take no for an answer. Those are the guys who succeed

Truth is we learn more from our failures than we do from success.

if you feel you simply choked the test....for some reason I get the feeling it was part stress and fatigue which is total conjecture on my part there are tools that will help

First you already know prety much what to expect so the fear of the unknown is eliminated
2nd Know the material. rehearse it like an actor rehearsing a play. Imagine the audience and opponent
practice the moment before and after the technique. Using the image of a WARRIOR and presenting that nomatter what happens good or bad will carry the event because preseption is reality.
remember to breath fully and explore the breath in the technique during rehearsal. How you practice is how you play
Have a FOCUS, of which the wARRIOR image is a part, but I would personally use "I move with a feeling of EASE" or a radiating image of fire(passion). rehearse using the feeling of Ease Focus because all great actors and athletes make it look easy. Use it as an affirmation. FOCUS on that and let everythibng else fall by the wayside. It takes the FOCUS off passing or failing a test, which is out of your control because your not the judge and puts it on whats important doing the work. If you work with the FOCUS and trust , it will carry you to amazing heights.

Some of this is high level actor craft which is my background but Olympic athletes use it as well.

hope it helps

[bear34]

IKMF I'm assuming? Did you complete all of your techniques? For instance, and pardon me if I don't remember the P1 syllabus, if you did a back brakefall did you also get up and throw some punches? When you did the front choke defense did you stop right at the pluck and kick or did you finish with more strikes and scanning for other attackers? This might be what your testor was looking for.