Got some unexpected results...

...from two of my exams.

One was the Sociology test that I took last Wednesday. I thought I had done pretty well but today I got it back and nope, much, much worse. I'd had my fingers crossed for a low A but had prepared myself for something in the mid-high B's but I was nowhere near prepared for a 76% (that's a C/C+ for those of you who haven't had to worry about grades for awhile)!

I have to wait 24hrs to see the test again but I'm going to made a point to review it to death so that I can see exactly where I went wrong. There were 50 1pt T/F or Multiple choice questions (I got 8 wrong) but there were also 5 essays worth a total of 25pts. I got 15!!! 15 our of 25? That's awful. Painfully, consumingly ... awful. I'm going to meet with the gal who graded it to see what she was looking for and see if I can't eek out a few extra points (maybe a low-low-low B - I mean, 10 pts off is like saying I didn't do 2 out of 5 of the questions). Even if I can't, at least I'll have some notes to make sure I do it right the next time.

And then, right after I took that very painful grade-dagger to the chest, I went to my Spanish class to find out that the grades for the Spanish test we took yesterday were in (yes, he has very quick turn around). Spanish has been (by far) my easiest class, so I wasn't thinking about it too much until I saw the red inked 91.5% scribbled across the top. 91.5%!?! But that's...so much worse than last time. That's almost (gulp)...a B!

So now, I'm a tad worried about the Mass Communication test I took on Tuesday. I haven't been worried at all but now, seeing as I, unknowingly, went into the other two with blinders on, I am definitely going to be squinting at that upper right hand corner when she hands it back - just in case (kinda like the whole 'cover-your-eyes-but-peek-through-your-fingers' bit).

No matter what grade comes back on the Mass Comm test, there are still two tests in a row I should have done much better on.

Yikes!

Overall, I have an A in my Spanish class, have no idea in two other classes (Interactive Media and Mass Communications), and a very painful 76% in Sociology (because all that counts in Sociology is the 3 tests that we take!!! He did offer us an extra credit assignment that's worth up to an extra 10 percentage points - I'm almost 100% that means a full letter grade - and I will be taking him up on that).

Geez. What a way to be brought down to earth, huh? Just goes to show, something's been off this quarter and I need to figure out what it is, fix it, and step up.