What was the big hurry?
I don't know why I wanted my CivPro grade back so bad. It wasn't as low as my predicted "not lower than" score, but it certainly wasn't as high as I had hoped. I knew it would be my lowest grade....I knew that right after taking the test. I guess I shouldn't freak out too much.
I predicted I wouldn't get lower than a 50. That was correct. The professor said that the class average was 61.2. I did better than average. And 65 is considered passing. I passed. But that is about all. :( I got a 68. So much for ranking 5th. So much for working at the small claims advisory this semester. So much for feeling like I had my s*&% together.
Maybe I should just not worry about it too much. Maybe I should say, "Hey, you still don't understand any of this, so 68 is a great score for someone who doesn't really know what she is talking about!"
I don't know what else to say. I'm just disappointed in myself. I know 68 isn't really bad (at least at my school, which doesn't grade on a curve), but to me it is. I need some good news now. I hope I get a decent grade in Contracts. Of course, I'll need a fricking 87 to make my weighted GPA an 80. :( (As of now, I'm sitting at a weighted 77 GPA.) Even if I got a 100 (which there is NO way that will be happening), I would only have a weighted GPA of 84. This is depressing!
posted by BlondeLaw @ 6:24 PM
1 Comments:
Don't forget we have the February 28 midterm in Civil Procedure. If you score there is higher than 68, the 68 disappears.
Since you got the grading matrix back with your exam, you can go through it and find every little thing you missed. Do like Rich said—see which category it falls into:
Did you just not see it?
Did you not know the law?
Was your analysis incomplete?
Each of those alone is relatively easy to fix. The trick, I think, is not to let the point losses hit you en masse—that can only result in an emotional reaction that will keep you from succeeding. Pull them apart and address them one at a time, rationally and methodically. If you can do some practice before the next midterm, you can probably pull your score up 10 points. Shoot, that's just four lines on one of Rich's matrices, and you can miss three lines—like I did—by simply missing one issue like Erie!
All is not lost.
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