Mighty Blighty

I'm home for Christmas and New Year, and there's hope on the horizon of something in the bank before christmas holidays.

I have just received my score for the Open University T224: Computers and Processors course exam I took in October. 88%
That with my coursework score of 94%.

Both scores need to be over 85% to get a grade 1 or 'A' so I have nothing to complain about. What will be interesting perhaps is the statistics of other students. I think they will send some info with the result letter when it arrives but on the website I can see some statistics and it seems that I am perhaps among the top 7% who achieved 85% or higher in part one of the paper and roughly 30% who achieved 85% or higher in part two of the paper. There's no statistics available for the overall scores so it's hard to see exactly how well everybody did.

I don't know if I've mentioned it on here but I have subscribed to two new courses starting next year. MT262: Putting Computers to Work and M255: Object-Oriented Programming with Java Both are level 2 courses and like the T224 course I completed may count towards my final degree as the OU explains:

"The class of degree is determined by the best grades you achieve in 240 points from those courses above Level 1 listed above. At least 120 of those points must come from courses at Level 3 and will include the grade you achieve in the 30-point project course whether or not it is among your best grades at that level."

All my current level 2 courses are 30 points which means by the end of this year I'll have completed 30 points at level 1 and 90 points at level 2

So other than that news I am currently going through this web log from start to finish, carefully rephrasing certain things. This is because since this blog is far more widely read than I ever thought I am a little worried that I may upset some people that I may candidly write about when I naively thought they would never find out about it. [slaps head "IDIOT!"] I don't want to get involved in a political debate over it so I'm volunteering to clean up this page, also it may be paranoia but I get the feeling that I may have already upset some people. So from now on I will try to keep names of people and organisations out unless I know they won't mind, or if It's important to put it in.

Perhaps it's not as bad as it sounds, I've been thinking that if I make it more anonymous I can put a little bit more of my opinion on display than I would otherwise.