Mid Exams Update

I am now about halfway through my exams with three of the five exams completed. I'm happy to say that the exams have all been a little easier than I had been expecting which could go either way in terms of results to be honest. I have also had two of my assessed essays back and got mid 2-2's on both of them which isn't so bad considering I hand't done an essay subject since year eleven up until this year.  So overall everything seems to be going ok.

On receiving my essay back and getting a solid 2-2 of 56 marks, a girl I know on my course who got 57 remarked that it "wasn't good enough". Now I understand that other people have different levels of expectation to me but I always assumed it would be general common courtesy to keep thoughts like that to yourself or at least only divulge those views to people who have either done as well as you have or better. It was a bit of a demoralising comment to be honest. I had just got a mark that I was happy with and was quite willing to sit on but the comment caused me to get a bit self-conscious, which I know I probably shouldn't have, I mean why should I compare myself to others?

However at GCSE level I was getting A's and A*'s and I would only utter my displeasure at getting a B or lower to friends who had got higher or to those that had specifically asked me that question. However at A-level I started getting terrible results. I remember getting a Facebook  message that really annoyed me from a guy in my physics class asking how I did. When I replied UDCC he said that I must be "more than disappointed" which to be fair was true and then when I asked him what he got he told me "ABBC" and said that he was also disappointed and probably would have done better had he started revising earlier than two days before. I however had been doing work (not enough work however) for a good few weeks and that made me feel a bit crap again. 

Anyway, now that I'm halfway through my exams I feel like I've been doing enough work on the whole and that the rest of the exams should go alright so long as the questions aren't too awkward...