Last TMA out of the way.

I sent TMA04 off last week and it was it marked and returned 10 minutes after midnight on the day of the cut-off. That's very impressive. My tutor must mark them as soon as they arrive and the system must return them automatically after the deadline. The mark of 99% for this assignment means I have accumulated 19.638% towards my final module score. This takes the pressure off the final exam a bit. I only need 25% to get a Pass 4, 44% for a Pass 3, 63% for a Pass 2 and 82% for a Distinction. 

We are firmly into the revision period now. I had a timed mock exam on Wednesday. It was much harder than I expected, but revision has only just began so I'm not too bothered at the moment. I completed this afterwards and went over the questions that I either got wrong or missed out. I'm happy that I have a reasonable grasp of it.

There was a pre-exam briefing by the module chairs on Thursday. As always with these type of things, there was nothing that I didn't know and a lot of it was stating the obvious, but there are students on this module studying with the OU for the first time, so I can understand why they did it. I've felt well supported and guided on this module and my tutor has been terrific, in fact most of the tutors and tutorials on this module have been above average.

My previous blog entries have moved

I've archived my previous blog entries and they can found in the following locations:

S283-25J (Planetary Science) & MST124-26B (Essential Mathematics 1) 

SM123-24J (Physics and Space)

This blog will be used to document the last knockings of MST124-26B Essential Mathematics 1 and the next stage of my OU journey, which is S284 Astronomy starting in September 2026.