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DifferentialGalois said:... if I can't attain a high distinction or even a distinction for science,...
Ok. I've read enough. This is just another case of "my life is over if I don't get a perfect score in physics, how am I going to be a professor and win the Nobel Prize by age 30...". We've seen these threads numerous times over the years here.
I suspect that your problem is that you don't take tests well. First of all, slowwwwww dowwwwwn and do the problems correctly in a methodical fashion and then go on. Most likely you are trying to get all 25 of the problems done in as fast a time as possible when you are sitting taking the test. The last course I sat in on was fluid dynamics. I did about 3/4 of the problems on the final exam, still good enough for an A. Sure, it was a graduate course, but I didn't make one mistake on any problem I finished during the exam period. I looked at a problem, if I couldn't start it right away, I skipped it and went on. That is the way to take a test. If I skipped a problem, chances are I went back to it a couple of problems later because subconcuiously I solved it while working on another problem.