Bohemia Bunny

Have I reached the bottom yet?

May 25th, 2007 by lynn under School Life

PL3241: Personality and Individual Differences

Optimistic: B

Pessimistic: C

Result: C+

Uh, yay? One grade above the pessimistic prediction. Lynn 1, exams 0.

PL4207: Social Psychology: Theories and Methods

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B-

Result: A-

Yayzors, I scored for this one. Proof that I can swim in the big kids’ pond - as long as I like the lecturer and the subject material. Lynn 2, exams 0.

PL3238: Social Cognition

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B

Result: B+

One grade above the pessimistic prediction. Strangely enough I scored worse for this than for its close relative PL4207 even though that is a level-4000 module. Lynn 3, exams 0.

PL3239: Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B

Result: A

W00t I outdid myself. I’m pretty pleased about this grade, considering that I wasn’t entirely sure how my final essay turned out. Midterms helped to pull up the grade though. Lynn 4, exams 0.

PL4214: Evolutionary Psychology

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B-

Result: C

Ack, ack ack ack. Much much worse than expected - this is what happens when you have a foreign lecturer who places great emphasis on class participation. Speak up or sink, and I sink sink sink to the bottom of the pond. At least I hope this is as low as I ever get, if I fall any lower it’ll be a fail grade. Seriously. NUS has no C-, it’s straight to D which is “acceptable for graduation” with certain conditions, if I recall correctly. Anyway I have no wish to explore the depths, I’m afraid of the nasty things down there in the dark. The result is 2 grades below the pessimistic prediction (I have truly overestimated my psychic abilities) so the final score is Lynn 4, exams 2. Which shouldn’t be that way, since I should be able to predict with 95% confidence at least. Tsk tsk tsk.

Future plans:

Thanks to the generous buffer I built up in early semesters, not to mention my low expectations for myself, I still have a little bit of wiggle space despite the horrendous performance this entire academic year. 2006/07 was a real annus horribilis, and I hope I’ve truly seen the back of it.

Now I have to concentrate on acing my Honours-level modules and pulling my grades up so I can graduate without too much disappointment. When I checked my GAPS, it informed me I had another 16 MCs of unrestricted electives yet to take. I was a bit surprised, I thought I had only 8 MCs’ worth. So that means I can take all the easy-peasy modules and pull up my grade a bit, which is good because I was getting a bit worried over the Honours-level modules available to me.

Secondly, since I’m such a genius and have spent all my Programme points bidding for stupid Evolutionary Psychology which bankrupted me, both points-wise and results-wise, I shall have to spend General Account points instead to bid for non-Faculty modules, which means it’s back to the ol’ Science faculty to do GEMs. I think I shall take “Inside Your Personal Computer” after all, except that since it’s so easy I’m afraid it might turn out to be a trick module. GEK 1542, Forensic Science looks like fun too - is it going to be like real-life CSI?

Oh, and I’ve finally figured out why 2006/07 was such a shitty year. It was because I was an ARS3. Hur hur hur.