I cant pass any HISTORY TESTS!?

Question

I HAIL EVERY SINGLE HISTORY TEST I TAKE. I STUDY HARD. I MEMORIZE MUCH OF THE STUFF. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE TEST I DO FINE( OR SO I THINK) AND WHEN I GET IT GRADED I FAIL! WTF? WHAT CAN I DO?

Answer 1

I do the same as you, and I think I do good, but when I get the grade back, its a 70 or 67 : (

Answer 2

History can be a confusing subject as you've seen for yourself and actually back in my middle school days it was commonly the subject that kept me off of the honor roll even so I'm familiar with this problem.

#1: Study with a friend. When you study by yourself you don't have any changing ideas, everything just stays the same and you have no outside input. By studying with a friend you get a different mind going and they also probably have a different studying habit which could also be beneficial like maybe one of you has it right but the other doesn't.

#2: I don't mean to point fingers but I've repeatedly found problems with the teacher. Different teaching studies have found that female teachers who speak in soft voices won't have their classes retain much information (sorry I don't have sources, I saw it a while ago online). I remember this one history teacher I had in 8th grade who was a soft-spoken woman and I probably missed more homework assignments than I remembered. But now as a junior in high school I have a vocal female teacher of about the same age as my 8th grade teacher but I've only missed 1 or 2 homework assignments for the whole year so far (with not much to go).

3. History is a strange subject.  It's not like math where if you know one thing you can get another from it; for example, it'd be great that you know how the Tet Offensive worked in the Vietnam War but then it doesn't provide any substance for knowing the overall tactics of the conflict (there never was a formal declaration of war in Vietnam so it's often refered to as a "conflict"). I remember complaining about this lack of support constantly to my parents whenever they would ask why an errant C had gotten into another straight batch of A's. All you can really do is understand how things in one time period link together but that's where it stops, there's no firm connections between things that happened in different decades and so this could be another source of some of your problems.