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We got our grades today.
Last semester, everyone told me, "Grades are unpredictable because they depend on how you do relative to everyone else, not how well you do on some absolute scale. Don't try to game the system. What you think is your worst class probably won't be your worst grade."
And I scoffed, "Well, of course it won't be completely predictable, but surely you can have some sense of how well you did after the exam. I'm pretty sure I know where I did better or worse."
Well, now I believe them.
I expected my grades to be like this:
Criminal Law < Torts < Contracts < Civil Procedure
I felt pretty good about civ pro. Torts and contracts were kind of neutral, and I was pretty sure I did horrible in crim. I think it was mainly because it was the first final, and I wasn't quite sure what I was doing yet. And he had 5 short questions instead of the 2 or 3 longer ones in my other classes. And, it just felt like this year's questions were harder than any of the old exams I'd practiced on. *shrug* Anyway, I did relatively fine in all my classes, so I'm not going to dwell on it too much. Of course I will regret and think, 'I was this close to 3King that class!' even though it was second on my list, after torts. 'I should have followed the "3K your first exam to ease yourself into the ordeal" strategy!' Things like that. But yeah. That's just me and never being satisfied. As it is, I did better than I thought I would, so.
But anyways, my actual grades came out like this:
Criminal Law < Civil Procedure < Contracts < Torts
Man am I glad I didn't 3K torts. o_O I'm not sure how to react to getting my best grade in a class I never finished studying for. In fact, one of the questions was on something I hadn't studied, just printed out my class notes for. -_-;; Just goes to show how true people's advice was, I guess.
Now, I don't know what the grade distributions were in each class, so maybe what I got in civ pro is still relatively high or something. I didn't pay attention to who were "clumpers" or "spreaders", so I have no clue. I guess I just have to wait until they post model answers and hopefully grade distributions, too.
But I really shouldn't be obsessing. Yeah right. I've been telling myself that since frosh year at Tech.
Last semester, everyone told me, "Grades are unpredictable because they depend on how you do relative to everyone else, not how well you do on some absolute scale. Don't try to game the system. What you think is your worst class probably won't be your worst grade."
And I scoffed, "Well, of course it won't be completely predictable, but surely you can have some sense of how well you did after the exam. I'm pretty sure I know where I did better or worse."
Well, now I believe them.
I expected my grades to be like this:
Criminal Law < Torts < Contracts < Civil Procedure
I felt pretty good about civ pro. Torts and contracts were kind of neutral, and I was pretty sure I did horrible in crim. I think it was mainly because it was the first final, and I wasn't quite sure what I was doing yet. And he had 5 short questions instead of the 2 or 3 longer ones in my other classes. And, it just felt like this year's questions were harder than any of the old exams I'd practiced on. *shrug* Anyway, I did relatively fine in all my classes, so I'm not going to dwell on it too much. Of course I will regret and think, 'I was this close to 3King that class!' even though it was second on my list, after torts. 'I should have followed the "3K your first exam to ease yourself into the ordeal" strategy!' Things like that. But yeah. That's just me and never being satisfied. As it is, I did better than I thought I would, so.
But anyways, my actual grades came out like this:
Criminal Law < Civil Procedure < Contracts < Torts
Man am I glad I didn't 3K torts. o_O I'm not sure how to react to getting my best grade in a class I never finished studying for. In fact, one of the questions was on something I hadn't studied, just printed out my class notes for. -_-;; Just goes to show how true people's advice was, I guess.
Now, I don't know what the grade distributions were in each class, so maybe what I got in civ pro is still relatively high or something. I didn't pay attention to who were "clumpers" or "spreaders", so I have no clue. I guess I just have to wait until they post model answers and hopefully grade distributions, too.
But I really shouldn't be obsessing. Yeah right. I've been telling myself that since frosh year at Tech.
