93 on TMAs, 64 in exam, Grade 3!

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“93 on TMAs, 64 in exam, Grade 3!”

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written by gps980 on 07/10/2013

Be warned. Open University give you the lowest of your two marks. You get 100% in the coursework and 69% in the exam you will get less than someone who gets 70% in both. This turns the exam into a horrific experience when all your work hinges on it. Furthermore the exam is a gruelling 3 hour experience with barely enough time to complete the paper. I would strongly recommend avoid the OU at all costs and seeking out a bricks and mortal uni, most of whom offer similar distance learning courses these days.

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Worn_Out's Response to gps980's Review

Written on: 08/01/2014

At a brick uni the exam often counts for 80odd % of the year so it's not that much different and you would often have more than 1 a day for a few days so it's stressful. However if there is a huge difference between TMA and exam some consideration must be used. But cheating and copying TMA is easier and generally they are easier as you have access to books, internet etc whilst doing them whereas in exam you are all alone!

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Rubyroo1's reply to Worn_Out's Comment

Written on: 06/03/2014

Oh god I am now confused!!! I am on the point of registering on the BSc Health Sciences course and am shocked by all the negativity about the OU. I am in my final year of a BA Humanities & Arts course at Leics Uni and I wanted to use the 120 Science credits I'd got from a few years ago, so it really appealed to me to be able to apply these credits. Am I making a mistake? I'm paying for this myself and its not cheap!

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Peony's reply to Rubyroo1's Comment

Written on: 21/04/2015

All i can say to you, talk to your current tutors. If I had my time over again, I would never had studied with the OU.

The words help you to 'become an independent learner' ought to have given me a clue, you are on your own with the OU.

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Peony's reply to Worn_Out's Comment

Written on: 21/04/2015

I do not accept the person has cheated. And tutors will pick up if you plagiarise other people's material and the OU have serious policies on this.

A student cheating and plagiarising will become banned by the OU.

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Worn_Out's reply to Peony's Comment

Written on: 22/07/2015

I'm not saying the person has cheated but that cheating does happen as the nature of the course is distance learning and you aren't as involved with a tutor like at a brick uni so cheating isn't always picked up on. There have been cases where TMA questions have appeared on online help sites etc. so exams have had to be reintroduced in subsequent presentations. So people could be using answers from there which aren't picked up my plagiarism detector when submit work especially if reworded or the TMA was done by hand (in the case of maths assignments). Also a TMA covers a brief sectionof the course wheareas the exam is supposed to test more of the course as a whole so good scores in one doesn't automatically indicate good scores in the other. They should reword the whole 50:50 thing as that peeves people off year after year.

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