Can I go home now?

Ok this is NOT fun. I went into this finals week with such high hopes. I went in COMPLETELY caught up on my grading and attendance (we're required to do that here) Heck I even had the spreadsheet written to calculate their grade all I have to do is enter their scores for the scantron and the essay and BINGO there's their grade. I wrote what I thought was a thorough and thoughtful final exam. And... Despair. Apparently I killed them. The average so far is somewhere around a 60 and only one person has made an A. Oh I'll curve it. but I'm not real comfortable blaming all this on them. There's going to need to be some changes made in my approach to this.