OU Students Past, Present and Future

juno

mum2one wrote: »

One of the ladies on B201, said exactly the same thing........HELP!!x

If you look on Open Learn, you can find a sample of BU130 and there's also bits of some of the other courses on there. So you could have a look and see if either seem more appealing.

Or just start BU130 this autumn, and we can suffer together

juno

justpaper wrote: »

are you advising me .ME to do MST121? , my brain is hurting just thinking about it, :eek:

You can if you want, but I mean that's my current plan!

I've definitely decided to do MST121 and BU130 now, but I'm waiting to see how I get on with those before deciding whether to start B201 in Feb, or having a gap and doing B203 in October instead and then doing B201 at a later date.

mum2one

juno wrote: »

If you look on Open Learn, you can find a sample of BU130 and there's also bits of some of the other courses on there. So you could have a look and see if either seem more appealing.

Or just start BU130 this autumn, and we can suffer together

Don't, I finish B201 in Oct, as I start B203 in Oct, then got DB234 money related course, new one, follow on from Db123 u + ur money

Think I've got enough there!! x

justpaper

juno wrote: »

You can if you want, but I mean that's my current plan!

I've definitely decided to do MST121 and BU130 now, but I'm waiting to see how I get on with those before deciding whether to start B201 in Feb, or having a gap and doing B203 in October instead and then doing B201 at a later date.

I looked at MST121 and getting the Cerf would be a nice touch to the cv, but i would do it after next year, just as im starting my last course for the bizz diploma,

Alot of people are saying BU130 is easy studying, that would be down to the tma count, 3 tmas are nothing when you just done 5 for b120

Ames

Can anyone give me advice on how best to study? I've done two level 2 courses now and my TMA scores aren't what I'd like or what I'm capable of. I have a tendency to leave things to the last minute, which I know doesn't help, but I think I'm approaching things the wrong way.

I've been doing the module and then reading the TMA question and going back through it. Should I be reading the TMA question first and making notes on it as I'm going through the module?

Does everyone do the exercises and write the answers down? I tend to just do them in my head.

Any other tips would be great!

Floxxie

Hi Ames,

What courses are you doing/have you done?
I also leave everything to the last minute due to having very little time but that hasn't affected my scores too much. I do the units (including the exercises), do notes, then do the TMA but others will do things differently.

I understand that there are really good study guides on the OU site so perhaps you should have a look there and do some of the tutorials on there. In addition, your tutor will have been giving you feedback on your TMAs; that should assist you in understanding where you have lost marks.

HTH
Floxxie

juno

mum2one wrote: »

Don't, I finish B201 in Oct, as I start B203 in Oct, then got DB234 money related course, new one, follow on from Db123 u + ur money

Think I've got enough there!! x

I hadn't seen DB234, and now I want to do that too! I really don't think it will fit in with my plan, though.

Ames

I've done A200 and A207, now I'm about to do DD306.

The info from my tutor for A200 was really bad, I'd get a low score and all she wrote was how good the points were. I put down in the survey at the end that I didn't think her feedback was useful.

A207 was the other way round, I'd get higher scores (low 70s) even though I'd made big mistakes - one of my highest marks was for an essay where I wittered on about the significance of Notre Dame in the background of the painting only to find out from the feedback that it was set in Lyon! One of the things I got wrong was not stating that the pieces of writing I was analysing were different, ie one was a poem, one prose etc. Apparantly that was what would have pushed me into a first, whereas I'd assumed it was so obvious it didn't need mentioning. So I know in future to always state the obvious!

giggles_alot

Yet again I've left my TMA to the last minute and was starting to fret.
Just spotted this on TGF from my tutor,
"Please note that I will be working away from sat 25 Jul until Wed 29 jul. Today is the cut off for TMA 03 - so, I will be down loading TMAs today. If it helps anyone stuggling to get their TMA in today, next downloading will be on 29 Jul."
Do you all read the same as me, that it will be okay to submit TMA late as long as tutor has it waiting to be downloaded on 29th?

welshmoneylover

Ames wrote: »

Can anyone give me advice on how best to study? I've done two level 2 courses now and my TMA scores aren't what I'd like or what I'm capable of. I have a tendency to leave things to the last minute, which I know doesn't help, but I think I'm approaching things the wrong way.

I've been doing the module and then reading the TMA question and going back through it. Should I be reading the TMA question first and making notes on it as I'm going through the module?

Does everyone do the exercises and write the answers down? I tend to just do them in my head.

Any other tips would be great!

An experienced OUer who was getting good grades gave me a big tip and it has helped to improve my TMA scores as well by about 10 percentage points.

First off read the tma questions before doing anything with the course material so you know what to keep an eye out for.

When reading the course material, write notes in the margins when you come across relevant material for the tma. Then you can refer back to them when it comes to writing tmas.

Don't leave it too late to write tmas, in fact, spend more time on them than you would reading the course material.

hth