Results are in! A respectable 90%, silly mistakes as ever to lose the marks, will I ever learn?! One thing I have learnt is to go by your instincts, if you believe the logic in your answer is right go with it! (Unfortunately due to not trusting myself I have amended answers only to lose marks).

The second bit of good news is I have a completion date of Friday for my new house which is quick so I'm going to have a busy christmas break.

I have also tried the 'Blog readability test' which was brought to my attention by Simon Knights and Ian Macey which rated the education level required to read my blog as High School.... so your all safe ;-) ..... for now.

Merry Christmas

Simon

I have finally got my TMA01 Results for MU120 with a score of 97%. I am really pleased with this score and hopefully I can keep it up. Just need to find out the results for CMA42 now which was submitted last week and went quite well.

Incase I dont get the M263 TMA01 results before the christmas break may I take this opportunity to wish you all a merry christmas. Put your feet up and make sure you enjoy your break from studying!

Simon

I have been hard at work on my MU120 TMA01 PT1 which I have completed today, I must admit this was more of a pain than I thought it would be! All was running well until I hit question 2 part D, where I got stuck on something which happened to be straightforward but took me a fair amount of time to solve. I can't discuss the question at the moment as the TMA deadline has not passed but section 1.7 in the calculator book should give people a good grounding in tackling the question.

Now the TMA is complete I have two gripes. The first is that I cannot submit it electronically, which isn't a massive issue but it is an annoyance as up until now I have submitted all my TMA's in this way. The OU put it down to Maths being much easier to work with on paper than on the PC, which after spending a good 5 minutes trying to find out how to use superscript for the squared symbol in Microsoft word I realised is probably true. My second gripe is that you cannot search the PDF texts for this course. I know a lot of students like to work from textbooks but I personally enjoy the freedom of PDFs and the ease of reference come TMA time. Unfortunately as I learned today the old nose in the book and search method has to be used now and again, this is because the MU120 texts are written using a special piece of software to deal with all the mathematical characters which when converted to PDF, is unsearchable (Arrgghh!).

My M263 TMA was handed in earlier last week and I found it fairly straight forward however some of the information in Unit 1 threw me a bit as they were using operators without fully explaining them. The text does stress that it will expand as the course continues and I hope it does, seems a lot of effort learning a new language for a year, you'd think they would continue using javascript which is used in other OU courses including the M150 course which so many people start there computing degrees with.