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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 06:01 AM   #61
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God Tallybee!! sounds like a lot of work! And people seem to laugh when I say I'm doing an OU degree cause surely it must be 'easy' - if they saw what you've got to do.... they'd be eating their words!!


 
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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 09:18 AM   #62
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my ECA is going to be huge too; we have 4 pieces of work to perfect for our portfolios and an essay - it's a ton of work.
I can't believe that people think the OU is easy - it's at degree level


 
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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 09:59 AM   #63
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God Tallybee!! sounds like a lot of work! And people seem to laugh when I say I'm doing an OU degree cause surely it must be 'easy' - if they saw what you've got to do.... they'd be eating their words!!
I know! It really pisses me off when I hear people belittling OU degrees. It's a bloody lot of work, all done by self-discipline with very little input or help, and all squeezed in between a mass of other commitments!

I really respect anyone who can do it, I find it incredibly tough to motivate myself at times and have almost given up before now.

Honestly guys everyone who manages to get ANY assignments in on time deserves a medal in my book, the qualifications are a bonus!
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my ECA is going to be huge too; we have 4 pieces of work to perfect for our portfolios and an essay - it's a ton of work.
I can't believe that people think the OU is easy - it's at degree level
Yup. SOme people really do think it'll be a walk in the park. I went into my current course with my eyes wide open, knowing it'd be a lot of hard work, but the national course forum is full of people bitching about the course, clearly having gone in thinking there would be tutors holding their hand every step of the way It's final year Uni level material guys!! There is a fair whack of prior knowledge and understanding expected

At the end of the day if it were easy then a degree would not be worth having at all


 
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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 10:43 AM   #64
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Exactly!! I went to uni for nearly 2 years, and the OU degree is a lot more effort and work and commitment! And all the course material you have to read/listen to/watch - it's a miracle anyone can get it done when they have a young family at home too! I was in about 8 hours a week at uni.... I end up putting in all my free time when S has gone to bed!


 
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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 11:16 AM   #65
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some of the people on the forums for my course are like that. the latest one is complaining that they are not getting relevant feedback and that is why they got lower grades OR that their tutor marks differently from everyone else's. It's actually ridiculous - no-one got extremely high grades on this TMA, it was a group work one and it was hard. I was pleased to come out with 91 (i got 94 in the one before that) - but others are coming out with 80-87(ish) and they are not pleased. It's sad that some feel they have to blame everyone else.


 
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Old Jun 15th, 2011, 11:50 AM   #66
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some of the people on the forums for my course are like that. the latest one is complaining that they are not getting relevant feedback and that is why they got lower grades OR that their tutor marks differently from everyone else's. It's actually ridiculous - no-one got extremely high grades on this TMA, it was a group work one and it was hard. I was pleased to come out with 91 (i got 94 in the one before that) - but others are coming out with 80-87(ish) and they are not pleased. It's sad that some feel they have to blame everyone else.
Eeeeehhhh that's daft. Some people are silly!

91 to me IS an extremely high mark hon, so's anything near it tbh

Tutors don't just mark TMAs randomly either they have marking templates so it's actually pretty standardised. I do think some people on those OU forums are full of crap, some of them on my course have been explicitly rude and bitchy to the forum mods etc, like as if it's their fault?!? They're only moderating the forum not writing the textbooks

It's a level 1 your course isn't it? The marks/grades at L1 don't actually count to a final qualification grade anyway (this peed me off actually back when I started out cos my S103 marks were always high), and once u get to L2 when they do count, anything above 85 is a distinction so anything above that would be on track for a first

You should be very proud of getting such high grades


 
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Old Jun 17th, 2011, 10:30 AM   #67
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i know i said that on my forums, but people are still going on and on about how hard done by they are...... it's ridiculous tbh!!


 
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Old Jun 18th, 2011, 03:42 AM   #68
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i know i said that on my forums, but people are still going on and on about how hard done by they are...... it's ridiculous tbh!!


Some people eh! If they spent more time on the work and less bitching on the forums they might do better


 
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Old Jun 19th, 2011, 05:36 AM   #69
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Ahhhhhh motivation, motivation....... where are you? Please come back soon



 
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Old Jun 19th, 2011, 07:15 AM   #70
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just think if you do it you're one step closer to finishing!!

I'm happy - got my tma04 back and got 65% which it good considering I was stupid and did it the night before it was due!! if I can get a 2.1 overall I'll be so happy!!


 
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