Foreign Perspectives

The problems that I have with chemistry in general is that it takes me ages to do the TMAs and that I generally have no idea at all what kind of mark I’m going to get either.

It’s different for other subjects – in most cases my in-exam estimate of my mark is generally within about 5% of the actual mark. In the extreme cases for chemistry, the actual exam mark has been as much as 15% out (fortunately higher in both cases). But whether the actual result is higher or lower than the estimate, it’s a bit disturbing that there’s so much variation from my predictions.

The course seems to be getting a touch more intense as the finish line is approaching. That seems to be down to a combination of two things mainly: 1) the tutorials are getting longer and closer together and 2) the TMAs are larger than the earlier ones. Also increasing the intensity is that the tutorial relevant to the TMA is only a matter of days before the TMA is due which reduces the amount of time available to do them somewhat.

Overall, the course content is quite similar in concept to that of S377 in that it’s a seemingly endless list of methods that don’t have a whole lot of connection between them but which seem to be coming together as the end of the course approaches. Hopefully, my understanding will also come together as the finish line approaches too.