is it possible to defer an OU course if i got full financial support for it?

[juicychops]

im struggling so much with TMA02. its already 2 weeks late (extension has been authorised) i was meant to finish it by this evening and ive just found out there was another load of stuff i just cant do and dont understand

its my 6th and final year and ive just had enough. part of me has already given up. i have no ounce of motivation left and i HATE it now.

ive sent my tutor about 15 emails over the last 2 weeks about various difficulties so im probably doing her head in too. i just feel so stupid and thick and feel like im wasting everyone's time.

i have a summer school home equivelant that i haven't even booked my place on as its been the last thing on my mind. ive been so stressed ever since i started this course with moving house, my computer breaking and having to be replaced, money issues and having to give up my car. so i can't even go to tutorials to help me. im so behind

ive asked if this TMA is one that can be substituted, although i dont think it is. the next thing to ask tomorrow is whether i can defer until a later date when im more prepared.

i would rather not, but just dont see how im going to catch up from this.

but the thing is i get it all paid for me and a student grant too so i don't know how this will affect me if i do defer. i thought i would ask here first before i ring up tomorrow

thanks

Not so sure, but last year when my dad died, i was half way through a course and just really didn't have the motivation for it at the time, i called up my local OU offices and explained and they said i could leave the course then and there and re-apply the next time it was offered or when i felt ready and still receive my financial support (I'm disabled so get this too) i re-applied this year and got it again :)

do you have to start from the beginning again? do you keep all the same text books and just get a new assignment booklet for the course?

i don't even feel i have a good enough reason to have it deferred, not like yours. but i just dont know what else to do

don't worry about it, they are very helpful, you don't need any other reason other than you are struggling, i did have to start from the beginning again but since i'd kept everything, i breezed the first few months, they do send you new textbooks, but i kept mine just incase :)

is it DD303? if so there are some good facebook groups, TMA02 seems to have got everyone on that course, apparently it gets better!

hi lisa thanks for your help the other day.

ive had a think about it and spoken to my tutor about it and ive decided im going to just try and struggle through. i think if i defer it until next year, come next year when im starting it again i will regret not just getting it done this year. This time next year i will be free of studying FOREVER!! my tutor has assured me that once this TMA is done it gets a bit easier until TMA05 so that should hopefully give me a chance to catch up a bit.

ive got today off work to get this TMA02 finished and submitted - its such a stress having it hanging over me. its already over 2 weeks late. the more extensions i keep asking for the less time i will have to do the next one which is due in only 4 weeks.

thanks again for your help