Dear Alison...

Last night, while grading my advanced students' midterms, I realized to my horror that two of them had indeed failed and the other two had not done particularly well. I addressed this issue with my course director who suggested that I have them write a letter explaining what they thought was difficult, how they went about studying and what I could have done to help them prepare me for future exams.

In descending order of grades, here is what Oanh, Ai, Trung and An had to say.