Making me Crazy

Its always a nerve-wracking experience getting your grades in law school, because sometimes the grades can be unpredictable. Case in point, this last semester my first final exam was for Wills & Trusts. It was a time crunched final, we only had 2.5 hours to complete the test in, which is extremely short for law school exam standards. During the exam, my computer turned off, and I had to wait for a proctor to turn it back on and re-start the exam software. I had a mini-meltdown, and it took me a while to collect myself and focus on the exam. The test was a total disaster, I felt like I didn't even answer half the questions on the test, and I honestly thought I failed the exam.

The day after this final, I took my Insurance Law exam. This was a completely different experience. I felt one hundred percent alert and perceptive, I felt like I saw every single issue and knew exactly what to write the moment I saw it, I even felt so confident and in control that I literally wrote a few "asides" during the exam, talking about different policy implications and rationale behind some of the legal rules I was putting down. I felt like I was writing a completely perfect exam, even in retrospect I really don't know what more I could have written about that would have improved my answers.

Suffice to say, I received my grades for both of these classes, and basically got the same grade for each class, a "B". What? On one exam I seriously didn't even answer about half the questions and felt like I completely failed the exam, the next exam I felt like I was sailing towards possibly the highest grade in the class. It just doesn't make sense.