WEEDING CERTIFICATE 🌿 📖 ✏️

What is Weeding Test Certification?

Weeding Test Certification is a “qualification” for doing jobs in the world of Chiikawa. In the world of Chiikawa, there are various jobs like subjugation, but also jobs (part-time work) aimed at collecting various wild grasses and weeding. To take on such a job, a qualification in knowledge of wild grasses is necessary.

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First Attempt

When Chiikawa (they/them) was preparing for the weeding certificate exam, it felt too hard at first, so their self-efficacy and expectancy for success were low. Then they pictured themselves passing; that success imagery boosted perceived control (self-efficacy), raised expectancy (“I can do this if I keep working”), and increased motivation to study, plan, and persist.

Chiikawa (they/them) sat the weeding-certificate exam alongside Hachiware (the blue cat). Just before entering, intense nerves and self-doubt (“Can I pass?”) depressed self-efficacy and expectancy for success. 
 
Hachiware social persuasion (encouragement) and vicarious experience (a peer tackling the same test) boosted Chiikawa's perceived control, lifting self-efficacy. With higher expectancy, Chiikawa managed arousal more effectively, chose problem-focused strategies, persisted through difficult items, and reframed mistakes as “not yet” rather than “can’t,” sustaining goal striving throughout the exam.

 

However, Chiikawa failed the weeding-certificate exam, whereas Hachiware passed. The social comparison briefly lowered Chiikawa’s self-efficacy and expectancy for success, increasing disappointment and self-doubt. 

After a night of disappointment, Chiikawa sought help from Hachiware and requested brief practice quizzes. These low-stakes mastery experiences and Hachiware’s encouragement and vicarious modeling, help Chiikawa rebuilt self-efficacy, increased expectancy for success, and strengthened hope. 

Second Attempt

On their second attempt at the weeding-certificate (weed-pulling) exam, Chiikawa left the test feeling disappointed, suggesting their self-efficacy and expectancy for success remained fragile.

Although Chiikawa failed the second weeding-certificate exam, their mood was noticeably better. Recent mastery micro-experiences (Hachiware’s practice quizzes), encouragement, and clearer pathways (a study plan) kept self-efficacy and expectancy from collapsing. 

With a growth mindset and a controllable, unstable attribution (“I need more practice on X items,” not “I’m incapable”), they preserved agency, reduced helplessness, and stayed motivated to refine strategies for the next attempt.

Third Attempt

By the third attempt, Chiikawa’s self-efficacy had recovered enough to drive sustained effort: they studied from morning to evening and refined pathways (targeted drills, timed practice). With higher expectancy for success and stronger agency (“my actions matter”), they persisted more effectively and regulated anxiety better going into the test.

And finally!!! They passed the weeding certificate test!!