I'm scared I'm not going to pass my Algebra EOC

[MusicAndFruits1092]

I know I made a post about this before, but I felt like on the other post I didn't really get an answer that helped me and this is the only reason why I'm posting this. I mean please understand whoever responded to my original post I truly and am so thankful for your responses but I just want to see if other people may have some more answers that may help me.

In two more days I have to go take my Algebra EOC (a test all students in my state are required to take and must pass or else they won't be able to graduate high school.) The thing is I only started doing better since the past three to four months, and that's probably only like 20% of the information that may be on the EOC. I'm scared because I don't know much at Algebra, and like I didn't really understand it in the first few months. My teacher said if we don't pass it this year we'll keep taking the class until we pass it. And we'll either get him again or another teacher (which are the only teachers that teach Algebra in my high school.) It'd also be embarrassing because I'm in the IB program which is a college preparatory program and students like that are expected to be at the top of the top in academics. But I'm like behind, I'm still in Algebra and in intensive math. I'm scared that if I have my same teacher again that it's going to be extremely embarrassing because at the beginning of the school year I was kind of disrespectful towards him because like one time he was taking an hour to lecture us and I just got tired that we could've been using that time to learn so I just pulled out my textbook and started trying to teach myself, and another time I just pulled out my phone and started watching lessons from KhanAcademy like kind of in his face because I kind of got tired he wasn't really teaching us in a way that really helped us. But after complaining several times to the principal like by the third quarter (which was like the past three or four months) he started teaching better and I started to enjoy him more as a teacher and started respecting him more because he was teaching us better. But I also felt bad that we had to get the principal on his case like two or three times. And I didn't really put in that much effort at the beginning of the school year, and I'm scared that he won't have any sympathy for my next year if I have him. I mean like yes, he doesn't have to have any sympathy for me but I just don't like want him to hate me or anything like that. Plus sometimes when I ask questions he doens't really answer it in a way that helps me to understand it, and instead he sometimes makes it more confusing. So I'm scared if I fail the EOC and have him next year as a teacher, I might struggle again in Algebra.

I know it's my responsibility that I should've learned it, and that I should've done better but I mean I'm a freshman right now. I didn't know anybody at my high school, I was so lost because high school is a different environment.

Thank you for reading this.

[SoulRiser]

For some reason I only saw this now... I guess my reply is a bit too late. How'd it go? And if you really want to learn it and the teacher's not teaching you in a way that helps you... look for other places/ways to learn the stuff.

[MusicAndFruits1092]

(05-04-2016 11:03 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  For some reason I only saw this now... I guess my reply is a bit too late. How'd it go? And if you really want to learn it and the teacher's not teaching you in a way that helps you... look for other places/ways to learn the stuff.

It's okay, and you were just a day late. I think I probably only did good like on ten or fifteen questions on the first section, and the other section maybe I just got five right out of sixty eight. I hope I pass it. :(

[SoulRiser]

I hope so too...

[MusicAndFruits1092]

(05-09-2016 06:31 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  I hope so too...

Yeah, thank you.