7-6

My female owner had a mini-disappointment on Tuesday. She received an email from her course coordinator regarding her exam results.

Reading the email (pasted below), my female owner’s first thought was “oh no! I got a 6 (distinction) coz I couldn’t find RCTs, Cochrane review and meta analyses for my specialised topic”.

Hi everyone
Congratulations on completing the Clinical Health Psychology course. I will be forwarding the tip sheets in due course.

A couple of comments regarding the essays; the standard was high and the assignments were a pleasure to mark. Highest marks went to students who drew on RCTs, Cochrane reviews and meta analyses to create an evidence-based tip sheet.

Exam marking: Higher marks were given to students who prepared treatment programs that integrated more complex issues (eg collaboration with other members of the health team, principles of promoting adherence/MI, and resolution of grief/stress/relationship distress) with standard principles of CBT.

True enough, when she opened the excel file containing everyone's marks, she saw that she received a “6”. What she didn’t expect was that if she had gotten another mark (i.e. 84 instead of 83), she would have been bummed up to a “7”.

So near yet so far. A miss is as good as a mile. She would be lying if she said she wasn’t disappointed. Especially when she saw that people who scored in the 70s also received a “6”. It was like she worked so hard but just couldn’t make the cut…. by one mark. And she kept wondering where she could have scrapped together another mark.

Wednesday came and she found out that she got a “7” for her counselling module (thankfully). Hence, it was like a bitter-sweet conclusion for her first semester. A 7-7 would have been perfect. A 7-6 acceptable. A 6-6 devastating.

Although she couldn’t understand why this happened (she prayed for a 7-7), my female owner made the choice to find her comfort in God. So she prayed about it and asked God to show her learning points about this incident.