S283-25J Exam resullts

Students logging on to the student homepage on Monday 20th were met with a timeout message and looking at the IT System Status page gave this warning message. The same thing happens every year when lots of people log on to get their results and the website crashes because it can't cope with demand. Although the official results day was advertised as Tuesday 21st, the OU are notorious for releasing them a day early, so it explains why things went a bit Pete Tong with the servers on Monday 20th.

After logging on, I was met the news that I had passed. I'm very happy with this result, because I thought I had either failed or possibly just scraped a pass. Grade 3 (55% - 69%) is a lot better than I thought I would get. The lowest grade of pass is Grade 4 (40% - 54%), and Grade 2 (70% - 84%) would have been totally unrealistic, so a managing to get 60% was a really nice surprise to me when I saw it. My opinion of the module hasn't changed though, and my review of it, which was written before I got the result, can be found here.

Looking at the student performance statistics, 196 students sat the exam. 11% got a Distinction, 40% got a Pass 2, 35% got a Pass 3, 9% got a Pass 4. 4% narrowly failed and entitled to resit, 2% failed and not entitled to resit.

This is the current state of my (second) OU journey. That's all of the 'level 1' modules listed, even though some of them are level 2. This anomaly occurs because I'm on the advanced start of the diploma, and a select number of level 2 modules can be taken instead of level 1 alternatives. I particularly wanted to avoid S111 Questions in Science, the trendy name for the science foundation course which is on the standard start of the physical science pathway. It's really aimed at people who have no or very little previous science experience. Some students in the past have described it as 'GCSE level at best', and 'incredibly light for a 60 credit module'. The other alternative to avoiding S111 would be to opt for the basic maths start. This option includes MU123 Discovering Mathematics, but this is also GCSE level. I think I have gone for the best option (for me personally) but I haven't made it easy for myself academically.