Jule Tovar

Summary

At the beginning of the story "Proficiency" the author felt confident in her writing, but as time in high school went, she fail the writing exam two times, she than later on felt disappointed and doubt her self as it was one of the strength she was good at. The author felt carless about her standardized test. " I stopped taking English seriously, perhaps because of that lack of seriousness, I earned a 2 on the Advance Placement English Exam". The author Shannon Nichols was a smart kid she was on honor roll during elementary and middle school. As the test was a challenge she has pass everything but her writing, she was in disbelief. The second she took it she has fail it this time she cry and went to her teacher and ask why she fail, she never got her answer. By the third time she pass her exam but she no longer felt the love she had for writing. She felt like a failure, if she knew what she did wrong maybe she would have not give up. If I was Ms. Brown I would of told her (to not feel discourage we could learn from our mistakes and learn from them and make them better). There was a time where I had trouble writing, I didn't know how to grab a reader attention, or how to write a very good intro. I feel okay with my writing abilities just need to update my vocabulary and make less grammar mistakes.