Open University Chat Thread

i need advice please. EMAs due in 17th and 19th not started yet due to an exam on the 12th,

I decided its best to focus on the exam so won't start EMAs till the 12th please can someone advise me how long I should spend if i want to get a grade 1 in the EMAs? BTW these are my extensions so I can't have anymore.

So much on my plate but needs to be done please help me!

Spent so long on my topology TMA it's due tomorrow. Set off on a 50-mile round trip to hand deliver it and my car is now outside a local shop refusing to start.
Marvellous

You could always email or phone and ask for an extension I had to do that for my last assignment about 12 hours before the last post went, but fortunately my request was heard.

o.O just bought a Canon EOS 600D and signed up for a photography course with the open college of the arts :l i should REALLY be crackin on with my TMAs bah!

o.O just bought a Canon EOS 600D and signed up for a photography course with the open college of the arts :l i should REALLY be crackin on with my TMAs bah!

I've posted it (with a cert) and emailed my tutor.

Are you doing the MST209 resi this year? It doesn't sound like my cup of tea but I've decided against waiting until MST209 expires and hoping for a non-resi replacement.



If you're scoring in the nineties you might not need much for 221 TMA4 to get an 85%+ OCAS. I need 62 and I've skipped a lot of mathcad tma bits.
But it's a sweetie with zero mathcad and right in my zone so I'm going to go for the max.
I've looked through a few past papers and I have no idea why they let you take a calculator in, it's not like you really use it for anything.

I did exactly the same thing, except I bought a 550D. Which are you doing, the introductory photography one? Be quite nice to know someone else doing it.

Yeah I've went for the "Photography 1 - The Art of Photography". I was gonna do the painting courses but thought this may be more useful, and I really wanted a nice camera I toyed with the idea of the 550D as they're pretty much the same thing by the looks of it but thought I may as well just go for the newer version.

When did you sign up? Want my materials NOWWW so that I can get started :P haven't even had my camera delivered yet - should get it next week some time.

I've no worries about the TMAs as with them we have all the time in the world to do them, and have text books to hand. The exam I am worried about, got the black badge press past exam paper answers to run over once I finish block 4 (which I haven't even started yet) so hope to learn a lot with them. From what I can gather there is a pattern in the exam papers so as long as I can learn line for line how to do what tends to come up in the exams then I should be OK. I think I'll struggle to get 85% in the exam tho which makes me sad .. I'll be over the moon with 75% tho, as long as I can get a 2:1 overall I'll be happy.

I was quite excited for MST209 in Oct but since Moggs had done nothing but slate it I'm a bit apprehensive now

I've had the stuff for a week or so; I just haven't actually done anything with it yet. It came jolly quickly (and via a courier who aren't totally pants, so one up on the OU there). A book of history-of-photography type stuff; and a folder of exercises, and a few bits and bobs. From what I can see on their forums, people doing it seem to say that even if you think the initial exercises are basic, it's worth doing them as they help you to get to grips with your camera, and technique, and whatnot. The first set of exercises are literally a 'getting to know your camera' sort of thing.

The only thing that's a bit odd is that, because people can start whenever, it's not like OU stuff where everyone is doing more or less the same things at more or less the same time - which is why it'd be quite nice to know someone else doing it. Have you got your login stuff yet?

Don't let my incessant complaining put you off Bear in mind I didn't do MS221, so that's no doubt making things more challenging.

o.O just bought a Canon EOS 600D and signed up for a photography course with the open college of the arts :l i should REALLY be cracking on with my TMAs bah!

I did exactly the same thing, except I bought a 550D. Which are you doing, the introductory photography one? Be quite nice to know someone else doing it.

I'm still scared It's just such a big module! Just want my MS221 exam out the way!! Bricking it - not even gonna lie.

I've no worries about the TMAs as with them we have all the time in the world to do them, and have text books to hand. The exam I am worried about, got the black badge press past exam paper answers to run over once I finish block 4 (which I haven't even started yet) so hope to learn a lot with them. From what I can gather there is a pattern in the exam papers so as long as I can learn line for line how to do what tends to come up in the exams then I should be OK. I think I'll struggle to get 85% in the exam tho which makes me sad .. I'll be over the moon with 75% tho, as long as I can get a 2:1 overall I'll be happy.

I was quite excited for MST209 in Oct but since Moggs had done nothing but slate it I'm a bit apprehensive now

Don't let my incessant complaining put you off Bear in mind I didn't do MS221, so that's no doubt making things more challenging.

What's all this about then?!! Moonlighting with another distance learning institution! Is the OU not working you hard enough? Some people have too much time on their hands!!

Can't wait to be honest Think I'll make a little website out of it too, have had a domain for a month now and don't know what to do with it! www.seancharlton.com

Well, speaking for myself, it's not so much having too much time on my hands as being an idiot...