Open University Chat Thread

Very generic! Lol and believe me, I send emails for a living I would really try ringing them, its how I got my answers - and finally got a night's sleep!

I'll leave it til the end of the week, then give them a call. Cannot be bothered with it today lol.

Hi, welcome!

I got questioned over being sure I want to Study for 90 points during part of next year: I think so long as you know what you could be committing too, i.e, 30 hours studying a week and so long as you are happy to do so, then it's your call. But please, check you can commit to 120 points!

I work full time and undertaking 90points from Jan to June 2012 - I've warned my other half that he may not see me for 6 months!

Thanks for this. My tutor has already said that she thinks I should do the two and that she's not worried I will have any issues. I'm quite lucky in that although I work full time our setup means I get a lot of time to study. I do have to admit that AA100 has been far less work than I thought it would be but I am aware that L2 is a big step up.

My only worry is that I can't go to any tutorials or day schools so I really have to rely on the online stuff - which for my group for AA100 has been non existent! It's normally just me and one other chap on the online tutorials....

Two from A200, A218 and A207. Haven't decided which two yet! Will be doing all three but not sure in what order.

I'm doing my final tweaks to TMA05 at the mo....I've reached that point where words stop making sense.

I hate that my l3 courses are 60 pointers and start in Feb! Means I'll have to add another year to the degree, doubt they'd allow me to do 120 points at level 3 in one year.

One year i'll have 60 points @ L3 and 30 points @ L2 starting at the same time.

Can I do courses together if they both have exams? Are exams spread out or only over a few days, how likely are they to clash?

SK320 I can remove (takes my credits over what is required anyways) & SK277 I can change to K272 which has a diff start date.

Just received TMA03 back (for T175) 72%.

I'm happy enough with that considering how little effort I put into it towards the end. I've so little motivation for this module right now. But, the end is in sight and I've now scored enough on my TMAs to know that as long as I get the minimum 40% on the EMA I've passed the module.

With regards to committing to an L2 and L3 @ 120 credits and the exams, I would speak to either your current tutor, your learner support team or the OU's main helpline - they will be able to point you in an appropriate direction! I've been looking at K272 - let me know what its like!

Well if I do K272 it won't be till 2013-2014, you'll probably be on it by then. What modules are you looking to do?

Now having my long 3 week wait for TMA 03 results and our EMA has been released!!! So work to begin on TMA 04 and EMA, but first trying to get my head round quadratic equations and where do they get the b^2 from

It sounds like that may be from the quadratic equation? And obviously a quadratic equation is of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0.

I hate that my l3 courses are 60 pointers and start in Feb! Means I'll have to add another year to the degree, doubt they'd allow me to do 120 points at level 3 in one year.

One year i'll have 60 points @ L3 and 30 points @ L2 starting at the same time.

Can I do courses together if they both have exams? Are exams spread out or only over a few days, how likely are they to clash?

SK320 I can remove (takes my credits over what is required anyways) & SK277 I can change to K272 which has a diff start date.

Its from 'the solutions of a quadratic equation' I can kinda see why its there, but its still making no sense to me

Do either of these help?

No, but thank you Juno! A friend on FB sent me another link that has kinda got to the root of my query - I'm just looking into the topic a bit 'too' much I think

That can be a good thing, because you can either just accept stuff or try to understand it. It's easy for tutors to have brainfreezes (I'm not a tutor but often get words wrong, forget them, or just make them up) or for a textbook to have a printing error. So if you try to understand you'll know something is right rather than just blindly accepting it. You'll also be better equipped to tackle slightly different problems as you're not just learning and regurgitating.