Bad Faery

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Art of Self-Preservation OU style

Above: The gorgeous Mr Darcy with Elizabeth Bennett in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Still counts as studying! Honest!

Well I did something today that I really thought I wouldn’t. I decided to deliberately NOT to do an assignment for my current OU course. It’s all the assessment calculator’s fault (a doodah on my course website which allows me to work out my overall likely grade). Having had a play around with it yesterday I worked out that as long as I get a pass 2 mark in my exam, i.e. 70% or higher I will get a Pass 2 grade for the entire course whereas if my exam grade falls below 70% I’ll end up with a grade 3 mark for the overall course regardless of how well I do in my final two TMAS. 

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Decisions, decisions…

“We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.”
Douglas MacArthur

Yes, I have finally come to a decision regarding my future Open University studies and that’s to take a break.

I have decided to do U211 Exploring the English Language in February. As discussed in a previous entry this is a new course and by waiting until then it will have gone through two presentations which should, fingers crossed, mean that a lot of the early teething problems have been ironed out. The plan is to follow it up with A210 Approaching Literature in Sept 08 which, if things are going well, I’ll overlap with E301 The Art of English, a level 3 English language course, starting Jan 09.

So what to do in the meantime?