The teacher explained how the placement exams work. They're given four times a year in and two of those exams are used to decide whether you move up a year from 1 - 3. The other two test are more like "displacement" exams. They're cumulative reviews of the material covered for your grade level A - F. During any of the four exams you can bomb and drop down several grades but only during two of the exams can you actually advance to a higher grade and level.
Okumura-sensei emphasized how we were really struggling with material she thought was too easy for us. I swear, when she was reviewing the test she was intentionally trying to make us feel bad. She told us that she was busy so she gave us the same test as her 1D class so she thought it would be too easy for us. She must have said simple, easy, and lower level at least twenty times in five minutes. But on the bright side I'm not at the bottom of the class. She gave out the results of the last test. The lowest grade was a 53 and the highest was a 91, the class average was 73.6 and I scored a safe 79 which isn't much to brag about but it's above the curve.
She said that people who get over an 80 can safely expect to move up to second year students. I'm not quit at that level and with the recent topic really kicking my ass I'll have to pull some long study sessions this weekend and next to get ready. At any rate, I can't possibly score lower than the 27/200 that I got on the original placement exam. How's that for positive thinking?
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