Wednesday, April 20, 2005

TMA02 - A207

I managed to get my second TMA sent in the day before it was due in.
Gosh that was a really hard TMA. I thought the first question was the harder of the two so I started to concentrate on that so I got a massive shock when I looked at the second one.
I had to rush through the TMA yet again just like my last one.
I am going to have to try to keep up with the course work from now on as I have the time to do so but I get lazy and side tracked at times.
Once I have caught up this time I am going to try my hardest to keep up and even get a little ahead.
This block (block 3) I only need to do the first two units of it in order to do the next TMA, TMA03, so when I have gotten through the first two weeks of it (which I started today) I will be doing my next TMA which should be finished 1-2 weeks before it is due in. That is unless I get really stuck on it. I looked at the question today and I really don't have a clue what to do or what to write for it but then again I only started the first of the two units today. So I am hoping that once I have done those two units,even if I need help, that I have it finished at least a week before it is due in.
Then I will carry on with the rest of the block.

I haven't received my results back from the last one, TMA02, and I am dreading it a little as I failed my first one. My tutor is a little harsh with her marking but there is nothing I can do about it. I know that I did a passable TMA but she is marking it from the level of being a doctor so it was marked unfairly. I got 35% and I need 40% for a pass and everyone kept saying it didn't matter as it only contributed towards 10% of the overall score for the course but I needed the extra five incase I didn't pass further on down the line in a even harder TMA.
I really don't know what I will do if I don't pass this TMA. I really was hoping for 45% to make up on the 35% so my scores then are 40% each but I don't know if it is doable. I know what I wrote wasn't as good as my first TMA. I can say that because it is so true and now knowing what I got for a better TMA is worrying me a little as I may only get 30%. That will mean I will need to make up 15% over the next 5 TMAs in order to pass the TMA part of the course. I then need to also get 50% in my exam in October to be able to pass the course.
If I pass TMA02 I will be so happy about it and so knuckle down to my course. I need to be doing that anyway and have started on it today. I really want to pass this course so I will be working a lot harder on it than what I am doing now.
I am at the point that I don't know if I want to look at my TMA results when I get them. Last time I didn't but I opened them when I got them thinking I couldn't of failed and was in for a little shock when I got 35%. So maybe it is a good idea that I don't open it till I have done my TMA. But I don't know if I really could do that. It would be like coming down on Christmas day and not being able to open my presents till New Years Day. I just wouldn't last an hour. I would maybe last a couple of hours by keeping myself busy but then I would just have to open them.
So I will see what I do.

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