P4

[chess]

P4 was apparently awful, according to everyone else who took it. (Too much alliteration!). I didn't think it was that bad, probably because I had a fairly low expectation of my ability to do it anyway. I think I probably got a B, or maybe a C; I know that I lost at least 5 marks out of 60 (through not answering questions fully), because there was a 7 mark differential equations question I couldn't finish because I couldn't do the trig integration in the middle (which was annoying 'cos I knew how to do the last part, I just couldn't get there; I suspect the integrating factor bit probably got me two marks out of seven, though). I probably lost some more because there was another 3 mark question for which I just wrote something down that was obvious and couldn't see what else they wanted, and I always lose some marks for mistakes I didn't spot (usually in arithmatic).

Of course, just to round things off nicely my period has indeed started, so I'm not sure whether to attribute my considerably better mood to that or to the exam being over. (Being in pain certainly didn't help the exam itself, though. Thankfully I'd remembered to put a towel on this morning just in case, but I didn't remember to check that I actually had painkillers, which predictably I don't. At least the first day isn't as bad as the second or third, generally.)

Comments

[passage.livejournal.com]

Assuming they haven't changed the system you need 80% for an A, which gives you 12 marks you can lose, so by that count you've got a fair margin of saftey (and it's 80% off the adjusted mark, and I've never seen them adjust the marks down but several times they've adjusted the marks up, I have at least 2 100% results on exams on which I knew I had a question that was just plain wrong or even unanswered. If everyone else found it tough then the marks will probably get adjusted up).

Sounds like you did okay.

Neil

[naath.livejournal.com]

yeah, they allways adjust up... I know this because they gave me 100% on a paper where I got all of what was probably a 10 mark question wrong...

And for furture reference, if you can do the last bit, you make up something in the middle and then use it to get an answer... but yes trig calculus == hell.

[chess]

I thought of doing that, but couldn't think of anything convincing enough.