Exam feedback and nails

I went and collected my exam results and read my feedback. there was some helpful stuff, some things I disagreed with and then one comment in particular that really upset me. I happened to bump into my tutor and ended up crying in her room. I've not had this tutor long, and I'd not realised how good a tutor she was until that point. She was very encouraging and supportive and made me feel much happier about it.

The comment was that my work displayed "marginally" safe practice. To me, it seemed to imply that I was a barely safe practicitoner, and that is far from the truth. My Practice Based Assessments have always graded me very highly and I have very good reports from the staff I work with, my safety has never been in question. I was unhappy because it's not the sort of statement I want on my record. My tutor told me that I should be proud of myself for passing first time, as many poeple on the course don't do that, and that I shouldn't worry too much about the wording one person (who I have had a persoality clash with) chooses to use. She said she'd read my file and that I get good results but that sometimes I expect too much of myself and I need to relax and focus on the positive things, Im starting to wonder what exactly they've got written about me!

I don't deny that it wasn't a good exam answer, and I often feel that my written work lets me down. But I don't think that's a matter of not knowing the theory, I think I'm fairly knowledgable, but it seems more to be that I can't "talk the talk" - I can't write things they way they want me to. I've become a bit of a cynic, but my mother (who is a headteacher (and come to think of it also a cynic)) agrees with me, that these days education has become more about "playing the game" and saying right things, the way they want you to, than actually knowing your stuff and being an individual. It comes back to the thing I mentioned previously of my opinion only being valid if someone else has said it already.

Enough assignment grumbling before I become too disheartened!

Completely off the topic, I had acrylic nails put on yesterday. Never again, the woman was a sadist!