Retaking the test isn’t failing twice. It’s showing up to a rematch.

A second attempt reads as a second failure only if you decide the first one was final. It was not final, it was information, and you chose to go back in carrying it. Most people who stop after one score stop because of the story, not the number.

If you have something to sit again, prepare for it like a rematch. Find the two questions that beat you last time and work only on those. Walk in knowing exactly what you fixed, which is more than most of the room can say.