Exam post mortems are always difficult so I won't attempt one. Like a lot of exams, there were some questions I could answer, and some that I couldn't, but luckily there was an element of choice so I think I managed it OK, without excelling myself. On Friday I received an email from my tutor telling me the answers to the exam questions have now been put on the forum but concluded with the line 'bear in mind I don't have a formal role with you
now and that questions should be directed to Dave and co.' That really sums up my tutor at lot better than I could manage. I'll wait until I receive the result on or around 21st July before making any further comments, suffice it to to say that I have no interest in the answers whatsoever. I will however be writing a review of the module at some point in the future and will be putting a link to it in this blog. On an even worse note, I've unfortunately
been 'invited' to a 'post-exam verification meeting' on Tuesday 16th at 11.30am. I say 'invited', I mean 'required to attend', and for 'post-exam verification meeting' I assume is a sort of viva voce.With the exam nearly out of the way I can now concentrate on MST124 Essential Mathematics, and work towards TMA03 which is generally accepted as being the most difficult of the four TMAs because it assesses the hardest two out of the three calculus units. It also has a 'mini exam' which counts as one of the questions covering a selection of everything the module has contained so far. There were only 8 questions in this online quiz but they were quite tough.
I've had a couple of maths tutorials this week. One was very good. It was a two-hander which went over the very important 'integration by substitution' part of the module. The other was billed as 'the students take turns at being the tutor' and was as dire as it sounds. I lasted all of ten minutes.
I'm going on holiday towards the end of next week, so that will be a few days off from my studies.
