Testing on my Mind

This week has been a little stressful for me. For the most part because I had two tests on Tuesday in both of my art history classes. So I had double the slides to memorize and double the articles to read. Despite my efforts I ended up studying for one test more than the other, so I'll just have to see how the grades turn out and adjust my studying methods accordingly.

Back in the First of February I took the entrance event for the art history program. This is a test to see where you are and assess your strengths/weaknesses. No one gets denied into the program however you need to do your best. Going into this test I was really nervous because I haven't had survey I and II in over a year and a half. I couldn't take the entrance event last semester however because I still needed to take art appreciation for art majors. Not to scare any art history majors out there, but it was probably one of the hardest tests I have ever taken. The essay questions were pretty difficult to answer in that format/time restraint (and some of them I didn't even know how to answer.) Needless to say, I have been less than excited to go over my results. Yesterday I received an email from the professor who assessed my Entrance Event and she said that I did well, so it doesn't look like I will be the first one denied into the program like I was afraid of.

My health psychology professor posted our first test grades on webCT after telling the class that we all did terrible. Luckily he had mercy on us and granted the class a 17 point curve. He did say that not all of the bad grades were due to the test being too hard and that we needed to study harder for the next test lol. When I went to check my grade after class today I knew that I had done poorly because I studied really hard and but still felt very unprepared. To my surprise I ended up getting an A on the test :) (with the generous curve of course!)

The first round of testing is behind me and I am still alive :)

Sarah