Foreign Perspectives

This is the first course where I’ve had an iCMA to do. In principle they’re the same as CMAs but, if the first one is anything to go by, they’re much shorter (only four questions), you have to do them whilst you’re online and you can’t print them out to mull over.

Shorter is certainly good. There are five iCMAs and an EMA for this course which looked like quite a lot of work. In practice it took about 10 minutes to do this one so hopefully the remaining four will be of a similar length and be equally easy to fit in.

Doing them online is a bit of a pain as is the inability to print them off (or at least to do so easily). That ties you to the computer while you’re doing the questions although you don’t have to do them all at once. Not being able to print them off is probably the biggest nuisance though as you’ve no record of what you’ve put in unless you  type them all out separately (which I’ve done).

The format is not fantastic this time around as all four are multi-part questions of various types. For instance, this time around two were “select one or more of”, one was “complete the following sentences” and the final one was “select two options”. One answer seemed decidedly iffy (definitely wrong in fact) but there’s no “unsound question” option on the iCMA.

Anyway, that leaves the road clear for the chemistry TMA which I will be starting on during the week.