“I’m just bad at math” is a story you told yourself so often it started believing you.

Repeat a sentence about yourself often enough and it stops being a description and becomes an instruction. Once it is settled, you stop trying in the moments that would prove it wrong: you skip the question, you skip the extra session, you decide before the test how it will go. Then the results agree with the sentence. The loop closes quietly.

Try swapping it for something smaller and testable, like not having learned this chapter yet. Then give it four honest sessions with help, and judge afterward. You might still find it hard, but you will know the difference between hard and decided.