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Yay me!
I got an A in Japanese!
I'm happy, and slightly stunned. After getting only 75.5 (out of 100) on the final, I was sure that there was no way I'd do better than a B, and I wasn't very sure I'd get that. I was hoping I would, because my attendance was near-perfect, and I did reasonably well in class discussions, and my homework was usually good, but my final and midterm scores were much worse than I'd expected.
Both the final and the midterm were just...different from anything we'd done before. There wasn't anything I could say was unfair, or that we hadn't covered, but the material was presented differently than it had been in class, and I think that may have thrown everyone off. At the end of the first class of the new term, Sensei passed out marked-up finals to everyone who'd been in the fall class, and said that we should correct them and hand them back in at the next class. This meant that some of us were comparing answers before the next class started, and that's when I found that other people whom I knew were doing pretty well had also found the final to be confusing. Which made me feel less stupid, but I was still worried about my grade (mostly because I wouldn't get reimbursed for the class if the grade was lower than a B.)
I'm happy, and slightly stunned. After getting only 75.5 (out of 100) on the final, I was sure that there was no way I'd do better than a B, and I wasn't very sure I'd get that. I was hoping I would, because my attendance was near-perfect, and I did reasonably well in class discussions, and my homework was usually good, but my final and midterm scores were much worse than I'd expected.
Both the final and the midterm were just...different from anything we'd done before. There wasn't anything I could say was unfair, or that we hadn't covered, but the material was presented differently than it had been in class, and I think that may have thrown everyone off. At the end of the first class of the new term, Sensei passed out marked-up finals to everyone who'd been in the fall class, and said that we should correct them and hand them back in at the next class. This meant that some of us were comparing answers before the next class started, and that's when I found that other people whom I knew were doing pretty well had also found the final to be confusing. Which made me feel less stupid, but I was still worried about my grade (mostly because I wouldn't get reimbursed for the class if the grade was lower than a B.)