Last Placement Exam... Ever

Placement exams are done.  I should find out results tomorrow.

I guess... this means I'm about to truly become a DMA student.  I'm ready.  I'm excited.

This weekend I have nothing I have to study, although my Choral Conducting professor said he will be e-mailing an assignment.  I may try to study some scores for fun, if I have time... it's kind of a big weekend.

I felt good about the theory placement exam.  I didn't know all the answers, specifically the last question of the exam.  But the rest of it should be right unless I made a dumb mistake.  But then again, theory has never been a struggle.  And it's undergraduate theory they are testing on.

And, I felt decent about the history placement exam.  I knew almost all the answers on the first two questions (related to early music).  And I knew most of the answers on the last two pages of the exam (believe it or not, 20th century history).  I may have gotten some things switched around.  For example, the person who brought Neopolitan opera to somewhere or something... I forgot the question, but I wasn't exactly sure of the answer, so I made an educated guess.  There was also a question that said, " Which of the following people did not compose music?"  It was between Cosima Wagner and Alma Mahler.  I did not know anything about Mahler's wife.  I know a little bit more about the history of Cosima and had never heard of her composing, so that sounded right to me.  I looked it up later.  That's right- she didn't compose.

The other thing that is tough: whenever I feel good about an exam, I second guess myself (does it EVER stop?).  Maybe I'm overly confident?  There is always that warning voice that says, "What if I just think I know but I don't?"  Anyways, I feel pretty good, for the most part, about both exams.  We'll see.  Tomorrow.