Saturday, 31 October 2026

TMA01 (almost) ready to go

I've had TMA01 more or less ready to go for the last few days but I'm a bit reticent to say it's complete and that I'm happy with it. There's a few calculations which have all the usual pitfalls of significant figures, unit conversions and the like but there's also quite a bit which involves pasting screenshots of activities into a Word file or pdf. Nothing wrong with that in itself, it's easy marks if you get it right of course, but typically there are six marks available for each screenshot, which seems like a lot or marks for not very much effort. Let's assume there is one mark available for the actual picture, another for a caption, and another for a reference, there's still three marks up for grabs. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I'm not too sure exactly what. The wording of each sub-section of the question is a bit vague and open to interpretation, which isn't helping. I uploaded a draft of TMA01 to the website which should automatically be forwarded to my tutor on the deadline if I forget to do it manually beforehand.

I also heard about my MST124-26B Essential Mathematics 1 results on Monday and I've put full details here.