Mature open university student (best decision ever - late nights in the local library and lying on the grass in the sunshine at residential school chatting with new pals, with my brain full. I started crying when I thought I was nearly at the end but hoping to do another one when I retire so that's ok)
I'm on with the basics for my dissertation module - have my title worked out, seems to be enough material for critical analysis (compare and contrast) and I think I'm ok with the theory.
I seem to have got good grades on my modules so far, but everyone is telling me it's very, very hard to get a first class on a dissertation? I think I'll be ok getting a decent 2:1 but I want those magic extra marks to go past the 85 mark....
My last "writey" module I was 85 at maximum effort so I'm pretty borderline. I checked and re-checked 20 times and literally couldn't see how I could have done better at all? But some were getting higher marks so clearly it is "do-able".
Any tips? It's engineering. I also have social anxiety and ASD and am not sure how to do the whole "build a relationship with the supervisor thing" when I get allocated one - I don't want to piss them off by being too needy or intense but equally I do want to do well.
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TimeOutandCake · 13/11/2018 21:33
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