A couple of months ago I did a post commenting on how, for the first time in my life, I had read a textbook from cover to cover. Well, that might not have been the best thing to brag about at 29 years of age, but this sure is:
For the first time in my life I SET THE CURVE ON AN EXAM!
I just finished my History and Systems of Psychology class and we went over the test from last Friday. Now, when I finished that test I did not feel confident about my score at all, and it was the first time I finished a test this semester not feeling good about my performance. There had been 64 questions, 2 of which I didn't remember the material at all, and about 12 of which were familiar, but I didn't know for sure what the answer was. As we sat down in class today the professor states that as a class we did good, and that he had adjusted the scores so that our raw scores would be out of 52 questions instead of 64 to set an accurate distribution. So I sat there in agony as they handed out our tests (waiting for a graded test to be handed out is one of the areas of my life where I have no control whatsoever over my internal stress and anxiety). Low and behold, I got a 53.
It turned out that my own personal assessment following the test was pretty accurate, I mean I did get 11 wrong, but fortunately for me the test was hard enough that no one else did better than that.
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