Last week I was trying (not very hard, admittedly) to remember how I’d done in the examination back on 21st October. I couldn’t (and knew I wouldn’t be able to do so!), so immediately after I’d finished the exam I wrote down how I thought it had gone. Apparently, this was really well on the seen question (Q7), pretty well on gender (Q4) and not so well on executive functioning (Q6). I realised after the exam I’d left out a really good piece of evidence and hadn’t been evaluative enough on the question on executive functioning. But my hand was really tired by then (well, that’s my excuse!) So I’d already resigned myself to having not done quite enough to get the 85% needed for a distinction in the examination but was reasonably confident I’d done enough to get a pass 2.
And that was the way it turned out. But the really good news today was that I’d done well enough when combined with my TMA scores to get a distinction overall for the course. Yay! I obviously benefited from the ‘Examination and Assessment Boards have limited discretion to set these thresholds slightly lower‘ clause than the 85% OES /85% OCAS guidance as my examination result was below 85% this time around. A similar thing happened to me on DSE212 – except that time around it was my exam result which lifted my overall classification upwards rather than the TMA scores. The other bit of encouragement was that my self-assessment of how I’d done on the individual questions was right too, judging by my exam feedback. If nothing else, it means I appear to have figured out what the examiners were looking for, even if I couldn’t deliver it to the standard I’d wanted to!
So well done to everyone who passed and for those either taking the examination in April through deferment or because they achieved a bare fail on this paper, all the best.
It’s DD303 for me in January. I’m intending to carry on blogging in the same vein as I did for ED209, so perhaps I’ll see some of you then. In the meantime, once the event I’m currently attending in London for work finishes at around 9pm tonight, I shall have a glass or two of wine to celebrate. And there’s also the little matter of my BCS chartership examination to get through on 5th January before DD303 starts …
Congrats on ED209. I was way out in my own estimate of how well I was going to do as I was seriously pessimistic about this one… net effect, is that I picked up over 10% more than expected.
Good luck for the BCS. I have managed to sail on through all the new things they bring out thanks to good timing at the off donkeys ago. With any kind of luck this one’ll get you on that track too and you’ll be able to add letters every few years as they come out. Best one so far is Eur Ing which has a really, really nice certificate and is the only one that adds all your letters on everything they send out which means my name spreads over three lines and thoroughly confuses the postman.
Cheers Arnold,
If you want to add even more post nominals to your name and annoy the postman even more, there’s always membership of the Royal Institution available too (you become an MRi then) – and it looks like the only thing you have to do to get that one is to stump up a few pounds every year!
Good luck with your future OU courses – you seem to have a fairly ambitious programme underway at the moment.
Tim.
Well done on your overall course result. You must be very happy with that. I hope this time next year I’m equally pleased!
I’m also glad to hear you’ll continue blogging throughout DD303. I’ve enjoyed reading your updates over the past few months, knowing that ED209 was on my horizon, and I’ll enjoy watching you progress through DD303 for the same reason.
I got a really good result and I think it may be partly due to the great revision notes!! I can honestly say your blog was a great help over the last few weeks.
Really pleased at how well you did on the ED209, it was not the best course i have ever done and it was honestly down to the great revision notes that you did that got me through this. So thanks for that I am just glad it is over and I can get on with some thing I understand EK310 for me this year looks much better than ED209. thanks again and good luck with DD303
Hi Amanda,
Thanks for the comments and glad to hear you got through ED209. All the best for your OU studies this year.
Tim.
[...] ED209 result – I’m just hoping that my DD303 result is as good! [...]
I am wondering how you know, or rather thesite knows, I am a visitor from Rossendale! Anyway you did really well on your ED209 I am sure I will do no way nearly as well. I am revising like mad and it seems to goin one ear and out the other. Even though I am using Erika Cox’s notes and writing out answers to her questions.
Hi Hazel,
It does it from working out where in the world your computer appears to be connected to the Internet from, using your Internet address. All of this is invisible, so you don’t need to worry about it! It’s not 100% accurate though – for example, if you log on using the wifi network at St Pancras in London it thinks you’re in Aberdeen, and quite often it thinks I’m in Coventry or Leicester – even though I’m in Derby!
All the best for the ED209 exam.
Tim.