Why did helen feel that examinations were the chief bugbears?
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While hellen Keller had a sincere and lifelong love of learning instilled in her by Miss Sullivan, she did find test-taking at Radcliffe challenging. This caused her to muse on her exam experience in her memoir. Like many students before and since, Helen would study diligently and cram her head with knowledge, feeling confident she knew her material. However, once an exam was in front of her, she would panic and blank out. A bugbear is a torment or thorn in one's side, and because of her test anxiety, Helen found the exams a constant irritant or bugbear. As she writes:
The facts you have garnered with such infinite trouble invariably fail you at a pinch.
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