Dude, if it makes you feel any better, I'm highly educated in screenwriting with a degree in it from a top-tier UK university and the highest I've ever scored on the Blacklist with multiple screenplays is 6. They are notoriously harsh on screenplays over there, only scoring stuff highly that's Hollywood-level perfect, which I guess kind of makes sense given it's essentially a US-focused producer's database. 6 is a good score from them, trust me. The vast majority of submissions get below average scores in the 4 or so range, from my research in to it. Stung a bit when I got low scores on there too. Feels bizarre in a way because my score on the Screenplay Readers was so much higher and way more positive than the Blacklist, but I guess one is just a coverage service whilst the other is a professional directory.
Scullibundo might be much more versed than I on the Blacklist to talk about it. He helped me significantly with it in the past. All I'd say is try not to be discouraged. Screenwriting is arduous, dedicated, iterative work, where something may only become super good at like draft, 5 or 6 after several sources of feedback and thus takes effort and time. Sometimes I think it's the most challenging thing to do (or at least do exceptionally well) in the universe. My plan at the moment was and is to get as much coverage/professional feedback as possible, and then take time on my next draft that addresses the most pressing, critical feedback. Try to focus on the positive things they've said, and then concentrate on the general focal point of where they thought your screenplay needed work (weaknesses section).
I'd recommend as much feedback as possible, and then probably taking a lot of time to nail the story, as inspirational ideas take time to accumulate. Hope this helps dude.
