How do you feel when you get a bad gradeor think you did?

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I feel like my world has collapsed in on itself! At best. I feel like my world is askew and nothing is dependable or certain anymore. Even when I KNOW I got a good grade but it shows up as failure temporarily...because my exams grades come in later than the grades for the rest of the class because I write my exams in a separate room. I am still incredibly anxious until I see for sure that I have done okay. I get so upset that I can't study properly the night I find out even if I have to/ I don't want to eat much etc....it is really bad! Does anyone else feel like this? If so.....how do you deal with it?

I've gotten bad grades and even failed courses because of anxiety and shutdowns. Despite this I have gone all the way to completing a Ph.D. If I had it to do over again, I probably would have enjoyed things more and made more friends instead of being constantly overwhelmed, but hindsight is always 20/20 and you go through life with what you have.

Me too! In the beginning of my math semester, I was under 50%. I worked my butt off and now I have a 65% (not counting summative and exam). I freaked out for several days, but then I realized that it would stay that way if I didn't work on it.
Now I'm a bit upset because my Accounting mark went down by 6%, but it's still an 84%. I'm worried about the summative though, it is a week long and extremely hard sounding
At least Art is steady at 90%

Back in public school I got straight D's and F's because either the miterial didn't intrest me, I didn't understand it and I had bitchy teachers who would complain "I already explained it and if you weren't listning the first time, that's your fault, not mine!" or I didn't know how the answers were supposed to be written.

I needed a tangible reward to understand I did something right. I never understood the signifincae of grades until late middle school when I was homeschooled. I was also always told by my mom that it would be too hard for me to become a veternarian because I had trouble in math but maybe I could be a veternary technian (nurse). What kind of encoragement is that supposed to be? If I couldn't do what I wanted because I was too stupid, why should I bother being anything? Plus, my teachers hated me and treated me like s**t no matter how hard I tried to be good.

When my parents took me out to homeschool me, I started to understand the concept of a grade and I rarely got a bad grade but when I did I was always given the chance to correct my mistakes before the final grade was recorded. I think my worst grade ever in my history of being homeschooled was a C. I wined and asked my mom to contact the people who did the grading for me and make them let me take it again. She said it was okay because I C was passing and everyone gets a C now and then. Looking back on it, I actualy enjoyed the expirence because I finnaly understood what it felt like to get a poor grade and understand the signifinance of it.

My mom started to see how bad it was affecting me emotionaly that she did not believe I could be a vet so she started to encourage me and after she saw how well I was doing in school (on my own without her tourting) she said maybe I just needed to find a true motovation. I think one needs to get a bad grade now and then in order to fully appriacte good ones and like my mom said, find what truely will motivate you.

I started failing back in March. I don't get why. I didn't change any of my routines. Back a number of years ago, there was a time where I got 50% in something, I was fine with it, but I became outraged at the comment saying "Disappointment". Today, I'm still failing, but I've been noticing a slight improvement recently. I don't tend to get enough sleep, that started back in May last year. That might be part of why I haven't pulled up my grades back yet. I don't find myself studying much, either. It's been always like that. However, I started to feel a bit confident lately because my latest result in Maths didn't seem bad. If I study Maths enough for the rest of this year, I could find myself getting as high as a B again or even an A. I just need to spend some time studying though. That's the main reason of my failure.

In short: I've been slacking off this year, but grades improved slightly recently and if I study for at least two hours a day, I could find myself getting what I was getting before in Maths. In other subjects, improvements, but not as much.

I do sometimes tend to beat myself up if I get a bad grade in something, however, if other people in my class get a similar grade then I don't feel too bad about it. I've come to realise that my work won't be 100% perfect all the time, and that be3ating myself up over a low grade won't solve anything.

I try to think to myself, "You'll be fine" and "That grade is fine for now".

Grades once defined my sense of self-worth, as they were the only means by which I could interact favorably with my environment. I nearly fell apart when I brought home a report card with three Bs. Grad school has helped me to put that into perspective. Now, they are virtually irrelevant.