Last week was the mid-term exam for the Pharmacy Technician Course that I’m taking.  I was really worried about how well I was going to do.  It was largely a test where we had to memorize a bunch of measurement conversions, like how many milliliters in an ounce, and a lot of math.  I was worried that I was going to have a brain cramp and forget my conversions.  So I spent several hours the day before the test writing my own conversion chart over and over and over again.

When the test was passed out I asked the teacher if it was ok if we used a blank scrap piece of paper to write on, to do the math, etc, and he said yes.  So I took out a blank piece of paper and as the test started I wrote down the chart that I had been memorizing.  What a HUGE HELP that was!  I got an “A” on the test, but I KNOW that if I had NOT written down that chart I would not have done as well!  The panic factor/brain cramp would have hit and I would have forgotten many of the conversions!