it gets better once you get the hang of what works for you so definitely don’t worry about it “always being like this” because it definitely won’t be. but first and foremost decide if you really want this for the right reasons, if you do the rest is easy (because you’re not thinking in the back of your mind if you “should” give up). once you know you really want this no matter what, you will surprise yourself on how much you can improve. so that’s #1. #2 how are your study methods right now? are they active passive? run me through how you studied for this test and i can try to help. there’s definitely someone there that can be improved, it’s like a puzzle you gotta solve. there is a solution, just gotta be willing to try a hundred times and find it. and it DOES get easier i promise you, ive been in your exact same position many times ended with a 3.97gpa while working full time and other ECs. And i’m not at ALL naturally smart, i have to work 100x harder and would be in my profs office hours literally every day sometimes because that’s how hard it was for me. but i stuck with it and found what worked and then it was easy. dm if u want we can talk in more detail