88% Cursed

[blodeuedd]

To aid in my Japanese studies, I've been using a JLPT level 3 grammar review book, which includes practice tests after each section. I did one tonight, and ONCE AGAIN scored 88%. I've gotten the same result for every one of those practice tests -- save the previous one, which I did on an evening I was very tired and unable to concentrate, and on which I scored a dismal 80% -- and I'm beginning to get very frustrated. Not because it's a bad score, but because I scored higher than that when I did the actual level 3 test, in spite of not having done a proper grammar review beforehand. :P Can't I just ONCE get a perfect score?! This time was doubly frustrating because when I checked my answers, I understood my mistakes straight away, as opposed to a couple of times when there were sentences I didn't quite get (like one from the previous chapter, which even my [Japanese] boss said sounded weird).

This sort of reminds me of when I took an Old English class in university; my friend and I would compete with each other on the weekly quizzes to see who could get a perfect score. Each week one of us would manage 9/10 and the other would get 8/10, but I think we only once each got 10/10. This time I'm just competing against myself -- shouldn't I be coming out on top? .____.;