Given that it was the first assessment submitted for the course so I didn't know how my tutor thinks, and I wasn't at all certain of a couple of my text answers, I'd convinced myself to expect about 78%. As it was, the problem wasn't the text answers; it was a couple of my hallmark silly mistakes in things I knew well. Those moments of what-was-I-thinking drive me almost as mad as they have driven many teachers and tutors over the years; and I never seem to find them when I'm checking over my work.
Still. I really want to get a good grade in this course, given how much I have always loved astronomy. And maybe I can