Overlap between academic years is here again

M363 exam preparation is draining my forces but I'm happy with my revision progress, the exam will be on 12 October.

M263 will officially start on 29 September. They opened the module website today and (horror!) M263 cut-off date for the first part of TMA01 is on 15th Oct. I will need to study for my M363 exam at the same time I read the first block of M263.
:-(

Second year this happens to me as last year M257 iCMAs 1 and 2 appeared into scene at the same time I was studying for the exams of M256, M359 and M364.

Does The OU realise this can happen or is this a self-inflicted punishment I have being up to for being so brave to follow a crazy plan to take the years with (almost) even distribution of modules?

After 12 modules I have never asked for an extension in a TMA so I will try to do my best again, instead of breaking that record.

Distinction opportunity in M363 remains!

For some reason August is always a very busy month for me so I pushed myself to have my TMA03 done, spell-checked and have it "perfect " before15th August because I was afraid of not having enough time if I would delay its completion, but being a perfectionist I wanted to be sure that it would be a very good TMA and not one just done rushing due to time constraints so I finally submitted on 17 August after I was happy with the result and all the revisions I did to my answers, cut-off date was 5th Sept.

My teacher's feedback is fantastic and - for the first time in my OU experience - he marks my TMAs almost as soon as I upload them, it was "marked on 20th August and waiting to be released" since then, so it has been a long waiting time, an experience almost identical to when one expects an exam results. Today I was very nervous, 40 minutes ago I visited the page to see my results.

I needed a minimum of 80% in this TMA to have an overall OCAS equals to 85%, so keeping my opportunity to go for a Distinction on M363.

I have worked very hard in this TMA, seeing his feedback it seems to be that the points I lost where due to my perfectionism, (over)trying to secure a good score I lost the point here and there, giving too much explanations sometimes and taking a different path to the requested due to it.

I scored an 80%!!

It's the first time in my life that I pass a threshold so near I could have failed in my goals but I'm over the moon with this.

Just the exam now, I have past the last week revising already and 7 out of 14 units are already reviewed. I have bought all the past exam papers and I'm already refining my notes while going through the Units.

It's true people normally do worst in the exams than in the TMAs but there is still hope here. Fingers crossed  and hard work is the road to take now.