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A slight rally to finish above 4.0

December 27th, 2007 by lynnylchan under School Life

GEK1542: Forensic Science

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B

Result: B+

Hey, not too bad! Not awesome like an A- would be, but I think this is an appropriate grade. Prediction-wise, within range.

PL4202: History and Systems of Psychology

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B-

Result: B

No surprises there. Also smack in the middle of my prediction.

PL4218: Psychological Assessment

Optimistic: A+

Pessimistic: B

Result: B

I have been cheated! I got full marks on the midterm and I can’t have done that badly on the final. Thus I can only conclude that something went wrong along the way, or the lecturer’s not such an open book after all. I could ask for a review, but those usually turn out to be useless. I guess I’m one of the guinea pigs for whom the experiment didn’t work, then.

GEK1046: Introduction to Cultural Studies

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B

Result: A-

Yay! And also my sole triangle for this semester, and it’s a “minus” to boot. That sucks, but it could have been worse. This upper-limit result makes up for the lower-limit one above.

PL4223: Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology

Optimistic: A-

Pessimistic: B-

Result: B

A solid performance in a non-examinable module! W00t (word of the year)! I pronounce myself pleased with this result.

Overall, it was rather a miserable performance with my CAP dropping even further, but still within range of my target. And with only one more semester to go, I don’t think I need to be unduly worried. Performance over the whole semester is a lot more consistent than last semester’s fiasco, since it’s mostly square letters and they’re all decent grades. No nasty round ones like last time, although the triangles are in scant supply as well.

The fact that all three of my Honours-level modules scored Bs should be reassuring, I suppose, since last sem I scored a C at the same level. I suppose I have the hang of 4th-year modules now, but there’s definitely room for improvement since I no longer have CCAs to get in the way. Sem 2 is always a killer though, because of Chinese New Year interrupting the momentum. Plus I’ll personally be busy hunting down jobs and sending out resumés. Bah! Looks like I’ll be grabbing easy Unrestricted Electives to boost up my grades, as usual.

At the beginning of 2007, the ol’ Chinese Almanac predicted a yucky year for Rat students. And yes, I know I said things would get better after the 2006/07 academic year concluded and I was no longer an ARS3. But 2008 is MY YEAR (as superstitious as that sounds), so I really don’t expect things to get worse.

Just to make sure, though, I’m rearranging my room according to Feng Shui principles.