Results!

Just got my results for my second year, don't really know whether to feel happy or disappointed! I got three firsts (for post 1945 fiction, realist fiction and poetry), two high 2:1s (for German for academic purposes and my music module !!), two average 2:1s (for cinema and medieval) and a 2:2 for language. The firsts were in all the subjects I was banking on, which is good, and I was pleasantly surprised by the 69 for my music module - that's only one mark off a first, even though my essay was the most appalling piece of crap I've ever written! I was hoping to have dragged my marks up a bit for cinema and medieval, because I felt I did quite well in the exams and I thought with cinema I might have managed to push it up to a high 2:1, but obviously it wasn't enough. The exam was only worth 40% though so I suppose that was a bit of a tall order! The 2:2 for language isn't as bad as it sounds - 59, which is only one mark off a 2:1, so it's not awful, and to be honest I didn't really do very well in the aural (ie, I made it up as I went along).

The funniest thing is that I worked out the average for the whole year, and it comes to 67.5 - exactly the same as last year, I believe! Oh no, wait, I've just checked - last year I averaged 67.25, so I have improved! I think at this rate I am heading for a 2:1 overall, not a first, unless I can really pull a big ratio of firsts out of the bag next year and in my fourth year. Oh well, I'll do my best.