I took my psychology final today, and I literally JUST realized that I wrote the completely wrong thing. It’s not that I didn’t know the material or anything like that - I memorized everything I needed to know and was actually feeling pretty good about my essay until I got home and skimmed over my study guide…which is when I became aware of my huge mistake.
(Basically, I somehow ended up writing an essay that answered a completely different prompt from the one that was given.)
Anyway, I wanted to know if it was acceptable to email my teacher right now and explain the situation to him. I highly doubt I’ll be allowed to re-write the essay (because that would be completely unfair to my classmates), but I was thinking it would be a good idea to let him know what happened. Do you guys think that this is okay to do?
(I don’t know if this’ll help, but I’m a solid B student. I suffered from severe test anxiety as a freshman/sophomore, but I received therapy and felt just the right amount of stress during my final today.)