TMA03 has been marked and returned. I won't lie, it's not the mark I was hoping for, but I think it was due to a combination of factors. I struggled a bit with this assignment. It was difficult in places and I never quite got a good enough grasp of some of the key concepts of the material that is was based on. A couple of the questions of the assignment were badly written and subject to interpretation, which the tutor themselves semi-admitted. I suspect the mark scheme provided by the module team was not easy to interpret either and all of the tutors might have been struggling with it. Looking at the comments made on the returned script, I don't think it was marked particularly well either. I was told that there was part of an answer missing from Question 4 (there wasn't), and I hadn't given a graph a suitable title (I did). All of the coursework marks on S283 are formative, so nothing seriously lost here, but it's just a bit annoying and potentially demotivating.
In other news, I found out the date of the MST124 exam. It's Tuesday 15 September, which is quite a while away, but it gives me something to aim for.
I attended about 15 minutes of an hour long student consultation meeting on Monday. That was enough for me. I felt there was a hidden agenda to it. The future of face to face exams verses proctored exams verses open book remote exams I believe is something that the OU have already decided on, so the OU Students Union asking for views on the matter is all well and good but I didn't want to get involved with the bun fight. There was another one on Tuesday on AI and student assessments but Microsoft Teams was playing up so I couldn't contribute even though I could hear the audio and see the slides.
I've registered to study S284 Astronomy next year which is the module I need to combine with S283 Planetary Science and the Search for Life to obtain the S10 Certificate in Astronomy and Planetary Science.