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So, you failed the BOC exam. Now what?
Maybe you felt confident walking into the exam room.
Or maybe you knew your chances were slim.
Either way, you failed the Board of Certification (BOC) exam. Let’s talk about how to bounce back from that failure.
In my opinion, everything I’m going to talk about here revolves around two main points:
- We all fail at some point in our lives; it happens to everyone.
- Resilience, learning from failure, and retrying are essential skills
Failure seems monumental and terrible mostly because nobody likes to talk about it.
We don’t want to put ourselves in a vulnerable position by revealing our failures, so we tend to focus on our success instead. The result is that people are often left alone to deal with their failures. I’m going to share a few of my own failures in order to show you that you’re not alone — that we’re both on the same playing field.
To begin with, I was definitely not a perfect student. Despite doing well in college, I struggled in our required Systemic Anatomy and Physiology class and Exercise Physiology class. I failed a few tests and barely squeaked by with a passing grade.
I was completely unfamiliar with the terms and concepts in that second class. As a person…
