I am having such a great time at the moment and I know you may wonder how that may be with all the studying I am doing but that is what I am enjoying so much - crazy? I must be ;O)
Well I went to my introduction meeting for my Law Degree and filled out loads of forms for the UNI of Glamorgan and for ELIHE. We was told about the course and what we have to do etc including how many lessons we have a week.
We are in twice a week for four hours a time - that will be taxing on my brain but I am sure we will have a couple of breaks. I know that most of the people on the course was lead to believe (like I was) that the course will be 6pm till 9pm twice a week but it is 5pm - 9pm now. A lot of people work so they weren't happy about that but hopefully they will be able to make it to class in time and not miss any.
There is about 20 in our class - maybe a few less - and there is equal amounts of females to males or there abouts and no one is over 40. Most of the class look to be around my age (I don't know for sure as I didn't go round asking peoples ages).
The course is four years long and it is about £650 a year which isn't too bad, would be a lot more if the course was full time though I wouldn't want to do it full time.
We have to pass 40% on all the assignments and exams otherwise it is a fail and you are allowed to re-sit the exams twice more to pass but after that you can't really carry on with the course. So I am hoping and preying I can get over 40% on everything. I should be able to do so but I won't know until I get my first assignment.
We have our first lot of exams in May and we sit two - WOW! That is really early on in the course but I guess that is the way it works.
You can take up to 6 years to do this course but of course I want to do it in four but there is always that option there if something happens - you can take a year off.
I couldn't even get a grant to help pay the course fees either because I am a Open University student so the course had to be paid for by my dad and I have to pay at least half back to him in monthly amounts. I am so glad he paid for it as I want to do a Law degree so much. I did however tell him that if he didn't think I could do it not to agree to pay for it. He said his only problems is he thinks I have taken too much on and I agree with him there. It isn't the law that is too much, it is what I have taken on with the OU. I have taken on 120 points and the Law course is 80 points a year so I will be doing 200 points which really isn't recommended.
At the moment I am revising for A207 which is driving me round the bend - my exam is in 3 weeks today and I haven't learnt anything from the revision even though I spend up to 5 hours a day revising.
I start DD100 when my course material arrive and that carry's on till June next year but I am hoping to get it all into the next four months - well all the course material and at least 4 of the TMAs for now.
Then in Feb next year I start A217 which is Religion which I think I should be ok with as I have done Religion twice now with two courses so I am hoping I can get away with an hour a day on that. That course carry's on till October 2006 when it finishes with an exam.
The Law Degree course finishes in June-ish time and I am hoping there is no study to do for that over the summer holidays so then I can concentrate on A217 and revise for the exam before starting my second year of the law degree.
I know I am taking too much on and something will give but I am hoping that if I study hard and long that I won't need to quit any of the courses because I really want to do them all and wouldn't be able to pick which one to quit.
It wouldn't be the Law degree for the fact that my dad has paid for it and I have to pay him back and it probably won't be the religion course because it goes towards my Humanities degree and is my last level 2 course (if I pass A207) and I can then carry onto level 3. I am hoping I don't have to quit Social Sciences either as I am paying for a third of the course and because I am doing the certificate in Social Sciences.
If I make it through them all next year I will be doing 90 with the OU instead of 120.
Anyway I think I have gone on enough here for now so I am off to revise!
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