Despite getting a horrendous 50% for my glaring inability to make genders agree, I still got 80% overall for the assignment I wrote in a few hours last Tuesday.
I am gutted.
To explain, the simple effort of more checking/dictionary use would have meant 85% and an A. I'm really angry with myself about this - I have even almost cried. I wish I didn't work - the actual deadline was midday on Wednesday so if I hadn't had to be at work at 8am I could have checked it in the morning. Of course it is also possible that I would have just not started the thing till the morning, in which case I wouldn't even have finished it properly. At times like this I really hate the way my assignment writing works.
'Advice' to start assignments earlier is irrelevant, so don't give it. It is impossible that I wouldn't have thought of this solution. I sit down with the books a week or more in advance but my brain won't engage because I'm not in imminent danger of failing so the most I achieve is a few lines of notes. This just seems to be how I work. I already despise this about myself and I haven't the energy spare to go through the process of entirely changing my approach so it's best you don't bother suggesting it.
I'm really really annoyed about this.
P.S. It is also not advisable to inform me that 80% is a good mark. I know this - cf the title of this post. The issue is that with maybe 15 minutes' checking I could have got an A.
I am gutted.
To explain, the simple effort of more checking/dictionary use would have meant 85% and an A. I'm really angry with myself about this - I have even almost cried. I wish I didn't work - the actual deadline was midday on Wednesday so if I hadn't had to be at work at 8am I could have checked it in the morning. Of course it is also possible that I would have just not started the thing till the morning, in which case I wouldn't even have finished it properly. At times like this I really hate the way my assignment writing works.
'Advice' to start assignments earlier is irrelevant, so don't give it. It is impossible that I wouldn't have thought of this solution. I sit down with the books a week or more in advance but my brain won't engage because I'm not in imminent danger of failing so the most I achieve is a few lines of notes. This just seems to be how I work. I already despise this about myself and I haven't the energy spare to go through the process of entirely changing my approach so it's best you don't bother suggesting it.
I'm really really annoyed about this.
P.S. It is also not advisable to inform me that 80% is a good mark. I know this - cf the title of this post. The issue is that with maybe 15 minutes' checking I could have got an A.
I wrote an essay way ahead of the deadline in June. The feeling of submitting it early and having it off the to do list was pretty good. However, I am now rewriting a chapter that I've had four years to work on three weeks before the final submission date, having not felt the need/pressure to do this before last week. We're just fly by the seat of our pants gals (you get extra eggs if you can name the film I'm quoting there) and I think we manage ok overall.
ReplyDeletePS 80% is a mark all, and I mean ALL, my students would kill for. I know you said not to say it but it had to be said.
OU marks are out of 100 like American ones, not 75/85 like at normal UK universities. I got 94% for the Spanish assignment, though that wasn't an essay.
DeleteFor extra eggs it sounds like Pretty Woman, in which it was about as accurate a description as it is in this case. When are these mythical eggs coming to Stoke?