I just finished my Earth Sciences final exam for this semester at St. Petersburg College. As expected, it was a tough one. The content wasn't so particularly hard, but the test itself was 100 questions that covered essentially one half of the textbook. I plowed through it as quickly as I could, but I only had 100 minutes to complete the exam, and I just don't like to take multiple choice, true-false tests under those circumstances. I've always been the student who likes to take his time and consider the questions carefully, then choose the best answer, and finally review each question a second time before submitting my test to the instructor.
Well, in this instance you can forget that completely.
So I did the best I can under the circumstances. I'm betting that I missed a couple of questions because I didn't have time sufficient time to answer them. I left them unanswered and planned to go back and think about them a bit and try to provide my best response, but I ran out of time before I could do that. So, instead, I just clicked on any answer I thought that seemed close to correct.
When it was all said and done, I was unable to take this test in the manner that I'm accustomed to, and consequently I ended up scoring a middle "B" on the final. Yeah, I guess it sounds like a lot of excuses, but I'm not meaning it that way. In the overall scheme of things, I earned the grade I deserved to earn.
Right now, that score gives me a high "B" overall for the class. The instructor curved the grade on the midterm, so perhaps he'll do the same for the final, and that could potentially bump me up enough to just barely squeak into an "A". I really, really don't like getting less than an "A" in any course, but realistically I don't think I'm going to improve on the "B". I guess when I take a step back and consider that I wasn't comfortable with the test format, and when you consider that science isn't one of my best subjects, I won't object too much.