Weird Dilemma: Advice Desired

I have a rather odd and embarassing dilemma- I seem to have done too well for myself on the Talmud placement test. I.e. from my test (and maybe from other factors? If I know that, I'd know a bit more about how trustworthy this placement is), they want to put me in Talmud 4. This year I was in mechina talmud- and I rather expected to make it to at least Talmud 2, and more likely Talmud 3, which seemed more reasonable. The thing is, the piece of tosafot on the placement exam was well, easier than the piece of gemara itself, so while I've done very little tosafot, I probably did pretty well on that section of the placement test. So I imagine I could spend the first part of the summer finding someone to do a little bit of tutoring me in gemara and tosafot and relevant skills, and make a stab at 4 next year. Or I could be more reasonable and go for 3. Or I could put in some work over the summer, try 4, and swap to 3 if it seems over my head- which, from what a few folks mentioned about the course this year, I'm rather sure it would be, especially if its the same teacher: but I have no idea about that. So- how unrealistic do I feel like being? Maybe this at least means that someday I'll manage to be competent at Talmud though...

(Also oddly, a classmate mentioned that he didn't think most people took Talmud 4. This seems odd, as many folks skip Talmud 1 from mechina, let alone folks with prior experience with Talmud, at least from what I've seen/heard, and you need at least 3 years of Talmud in rabbinical school...)

Weird Dilemma: Advice Desired

I have a rather odd and embarassing dilemma- I seem to have done too well for myself on the Talmud placement test. I.e. from my test (and maybe from other factors? If I know that, I'd know a bit more about how trustworthy this placement is), they want to put me in Talmud 4. This year I was in mechina talmud- and I rather expected to make it to at least Talmud 2, and more likely Talmud 3, which seemed more reasonable. The thing is, the piece of tosafot on the placement exam was well, easier than the piece of gemara itself, so while I've done very little tosafot, I probably did pretty well on that section of the placement test. So I imagine I could spend the first part of the summer finding someone to do a little bit of tutoring me in gemara and tosafot and relevant skills, and make a stab at 4 next year. Or I could be more reasonable and go for 3. Or I could put in some work over the summer, try 4, and swap to 3 if it seems over my head- which, from what a few folks mentioned about the course this year, I'm rather sure it would be, especially if its the same teacher: but I have no idea about that. So- how unrealistic do I feel like being? Maybe this at least means that someday I'll manage to be competent at Talmud though...

(Also oddly, a classmate mentioned that he didn't think most people took Talmud 4. This seems odd, as many folks skip Talmud 1 from mechina, let alone folks with prior experience with Talmud, at least from what I've seen/heard, and you need at least 3 years of Talmud in rabbinical school...)