M255’s out of the way now, and I’ve just submitted TMA04 for T224. Since the T224 exam’s not until mid-October & my next SSC (S199 Modelling the Climate) doesn’t begin for another month, I’m at a loose end for a month. This is a new experience for me – although I suspect someone [...]

Curious things you notice when reading exam feedback and such. In the case of M255, it appears that 2 people turned up for the exam, filled in their names & PIs to register that they were actually there, and then didn’t bother answering any questions (724 students “took” the exam, 722 gained a score [...]

Well, that came back better than I thought it would:

I hadn’t been at all sure about my exam performance in this one, it being the first “real” exam I’d done since my GCSE’s (1988), but it turns out I needn’t have worried – the exam score was actually better than my OCAS. Go figure. [...]

M255 results are due next Wednesday (1st July) – this is my first Level 2 course, and the first that will count towards my honours classification, so I’m understandably nervous about the result. Already. Strange how the mind will fixate on little things like that, even though you know you can’t get the [...]

The last exam I sat was way back in 1989, when I did my GCSEs.  On Tuesday, I had the joys of sitting the M255 exam – and after checking out the past & specimen papers for the course, I wasn’t hugely confident.  Having to wade through Belfast’s flash floods to get to the exam [...]