How am I going to pass boards?!?!

       Ok so this week has not been my week.  I seriously felt like everything I have learned has gone out the door today.  I was not feeling normal while I was scaling...my positions, my angles, everything just felt awkward and not familiar to me.  I felt like I could not get calculus for the life of me.  I could definitely feel it, and i tried hard lateral pressure and I still could not get it off.  I started to wonder if I had dull instruments so I hurried and sharpened them and still ....no luck.  I was getting so frustrated!!! I wanted to give up.  I asked Marilyn to come over and see what I was doing wrong and she says... well its not your instruments so just use more lateral pressure.  I seriously could not get it.  It was my class 3 but still.... I felt I should not have struggled that much.  So she sat in the chair and tried to get it... she made it look so easy almost just with one stroke!  She gave me some good advice one how to get it better and was like o duh why didn't I think of that!  I got thinking, uh o what if it is like this for boards, what will I do?  I guess I will just keep getting better and only hope for the best.  I think I was just exhausted and had not slept very much.  Lets hope next week is better and I will have better lateral pressure and the strength to get tenacious calculus off!