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I appear to have become better at critical social psychology (orange line) and worse at biological psychology (blue line) as the year has progressed! However, if I somehow manage to end up with EMA and examination marks in both similar to the last TMA scores, I’ll be very happy indeed. There’s nothing like an OUPS revision weekend to reignite my enthusiasm for psychology and focus my mind on the task in hand – the exam on the afternoon of 13th October. When I got home on Sunday evening, I decided that this week needed to be ‘mopping up week’. My list of tasks was/is as follows: 1. Decide which three of the four blocks from the course I’m going to revise. That task was easy and I’d already come to the conclusion that the block on social selves (2) was going to have to go, as it has four chapters . . . → Read More: Mopping up week My attempt to complete DD307 TMA06 and the SD226 EMA in a bank holiday weekend has now finished. Strictly speaking, it’s ended in failure, but only just. At the end of the weekend I now have a complete DD307 TMA06, a complete Q1 for the SD226 EMA, as well as draft answers and notes for the remaining two questions and experimental project writeup. A couple more evenings work this week should get me there I think. Which should leave me in a more relaxed mood for the OUPS DD307 revision weekend at Warwick University on Friday and give me a . . . → Read More: Mission improbable – the end of the beginning Setting stretch targets(*) obviously works for me! While I don’t think I will have completed both the DD307 TMA06 and the SD226 EMA by the end of tomorrow in a form I can submit, I do at least now have a complete draft of TMA06 and a set of notes for the first question of the EMA. My TMA has turned into a bit of a rant at the end and it’s also too long at the moment (2,273 words). I think I therefore need to take some calm down tablets and then, just like Procrustes, lop some bits off . . . → Read More: Mission improbable – day 2 progress report Not great, if I’m honest. I have around one-third of my DD307 TMA06 essay in the bag, plus loads of random paragraphs that I need to organise in such a way that the rest of it forms a coherent whole. No progress on the SD226 EMA to report. I have resolved to get up really early tomorrow morning (well, really early for a Sunday!) and make more progress. I will prevail! But now, it’s time for an Indian takeaway. Nom nom nom, etc. One of the things we’re encouraged to do at work is set ourselves stretch targets. Originally, I decided I was going to aim for completing the final DD307 TMA this weekend, but as I’ve been sat at St. Pancreas waiting for my train to Derby to arrive, I’ve hatched a mad plan. Why shouldn’t I attempt to do both the TMA and the EMA for SD226 over what looks like a pretty soggy bank holiday weekend? The positive aspects of such a plan is that it will give me more time to revise for the DD307 exam on 13th October . . . → Read More: Mission improbable – DD307 TMA06 and the SD226 EMA in one weekend Although I made a brief foray into the final TMA for SD226 while I was on holiday, it’s only really been today that I’ve finally managed to get my teeth into it. I think it’s gone all right – I’ve managed to complete both questions and submit my responses to the eTMA system as well! That’s definitely a record for me – starting, finishing and submitting a TMA in a single day. The TMAs for SD226 have certainly been much more straightforward than for DD307. I need just 71% on this final TMA to ensure a continuous assessment (OCAS) score . . . → Read More: The SD226 TMA04 scavenger hunt is over!  |
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