The chart shows I gained a total of 86% overall – meaning I miss an ‘A’ by 1%. Rats!
As always, the questions I answered on the final exam seemed fairly straightforward and the ones I didn’t attempt seemed impossible! Even if I’d not made a silly mistake on one of the parts of the questions I did answer, I’d have still been short of the 87% mark by around 0.2% – and there definitely wasn’t another part question anywhere on the paper that I could have answered.
As the exam doesn’t formally close for some late starters until 1200 GMT tomorrow (11th June) I’ll leave my post-mortem until a later post. I’ll also reflect on the course as a whole. One of my original motivations for taking 6.002x in the first place was that I wanted to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the MITx approach as applied to teaching and having survived the experience over the last 14 weeks I think I’m in a much better place to write about that now.
All the best to anyone still grappling with the exam; congratulations to those who have passed and commiserations to those who have just missed out.
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I bumped into your post while googling MITx. The moment I saw your post on mid-term, I could not believe what I was reading and seeing.
Not only are your grades exactly similar to mine, but your journey through MITx is similar to how I felt it.
Now that I look at your final grade, you’d be surprised to know that I am stuck on 86% too! I do however have a bunch of attempts left, and hopefully i’ll get some questions right.
But if history is some guide, I suspect, i’ll end up with the same grade as yours. Although I’ll try not to.
B is a good grade too.
It’s difficult if not impossible to replicate in campus environment with this online initiative (this was not the purpose anyways) but I loved the course. It gave us a chance to see what MIT courses look like. That’s something nobody from Africa would expect
. There are still many improvements that we can think of, hopefully Edx will learn from mitx first experience to leverage the content, the pace of the course,…etc.