Nowadays

All my hard work proved to pay off when we got our exames back from the British literature class. After writing the test I had felt terrible, like I'd missed a million things and just rambled irrationally in the essay questions. When they were returned, however, it turned out I did great. First of all, I got an A. And then, when I looked at the example-answers for the essays, my teacher had picked one of my answers as a "perfect score". How cool is that?!