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Oct. 3rd, 2001 08:25 pmI am *so* never doing a straight maths degree. Just spent a couple of hours on some perfectly trivial maths because I kept being swamped in all my stupid calculation errors. Grr. (Still haven't finished it - I gave up when I started crying and worrying my parents. I guess it'll get done (badly) on the train to school tomorrow - that's stupid of me too, but I don't care right now.)
I just don't know what to *do* about all these silly errors - after all, proofreading your own maths thorougly is impossible as proofreading your own typing for errors, at least it seems to be for me. Then again, it *isn't* - it's just these two questions I was trying to do tonight really that I managed to fill so full of errors I just couldn't seem to catch them all. But as that's the latest bit of maths I've done, and I can think of a few examples of similar from the past, of course I consider it to be an example of all the work I've ever done, despite the fact that if I was *that* rubbish at addition and multiplication I'd never have got A* at GCSE (although remember, I didn't actually get that by a lot...).
I guess it just frustrates me that everyone else has lots of trouble grasping the concepts, which I normally do pretty easily, but they still get better marks than me because they can add. Not being able to add (well, I can normally spot addition errors in the kind of numbers we're using, it's the multiplication and division with fractions in it that I think I know well enough to do automatically and don't) would be a really dumb reason to fail (where fail = get a B in a module).
I just don't know what to *do* about all these silly errors - after all, proofreading your own maths thorougly is impossible as proofreading your own typing for errors, at least it seems to be for me. Then again, it *isn't* - it's just these two questions I was trying to do tonight really that I managed to fill so full of errors I just couldn't seem to catch them all. But as that's the latest bit of maths I've done, and I can think of a few examples of similar from the past, of course I consider it to be an example of all the work I've ever done, despite the fact that if I was *that* rubbish at addition and multiplication I'd never have got A* at GCSE (although remember, I didn't actually get that by a lot...).
I guess it just frustrates me that everyone else has lots of trouble grasping the concepts, which I normally do pretty easily, but they still get better marks than me because they can add. Not being able to add (well, I can normally spot addition errors in the kind of numbers we're using, it's the multiplication and division with fractions in it that I think I know well enough to do automatically and don't) would be a really dumb reason to fail (where fail = get a B in a module).
