OU - Exploring Psychology DSE 212 let's chat and worry over assignments!

[muppetgirl]

I?ll start off with an introduction.

I?m Muppet and I?m 32 and have 2 children ( 4.6 and 10 months) I used to be a teacher, early years trained but taught in yr3/4/5. I loved teaching but when I worked in a difficult school I knew I?d found my vocation so would really love to become an Educational Psychologist.

I started this course in Feb. 07 and completed 2 assignments but became pregnant with ds 2 and developed a serious case of baby brain so stopped with a view to re enrolling when I could.

Very excited to start!

The revision pack is this. I need to order it. I had an extension for TMA 05 too. I am really struggling to find the time to do studying. Hope I will find the time to do 06 without asking for an extension plus do some revision too! Think I will be glad when this module is finished. I've signed up for the summer school and then Applied Psychology.

Hello ladies
Hope all TMA05's are in now - it was an strange one wasn't it? Mine was in two weeks ago but still no mark yet...
Looking at TMA06. It sees such a huge topic, and while I know what I want to say, I can't get started, as I want to say so much that isn't specified in the text . The book doesn't give us that much info on the animal side of things imo, so it is hard to be balanced with any arguments I reckon.
Definitely worried about the exam now. I just don't know the stuff! It doesn't stick in my brain like it did when I was a student at 18
Best of luck to everyone

haven't done the gender reading yet, thinking I will tackle tma 06 next week.

Thanks for the revision pack link, MollieO. Has anyone bought it? Is the essay planner booklet thingy useful?

cocodrillo - I have the revisions pack. Have not looked at the essay booklet yet but the key terms cards are excellent - all you need to know on individual pieces of card. Definitely worth a tenner imo
Good luck with TMA06 - nearly there...

More importantly, how is life with your new babe?

Baby is lovely, I'm really in love with him but he is definitely my last!

Off to order revision pack now...

I quite liked TMA05, btw, and I got my best mark yet for it . Very pleased. Not looking forward to 06 though, especially as there's no way of getting an extension this time.

Cocodrillo you and me both. Not sure that my tutor will be ready for an on time submission from me!

Hi Cocodrillo and MollieO
I am part way through TMA06 now and it isn't that bad, you just need to get writing and I reckon it will come.
Well done on your TMA05 mark Cocodrillo. I still haven't had mine back yet . Tis bugging me a bit now!
Have you got your revision packs yet? The exam is my main motivation for getting TMA06 out of the way. The exam feels scary and I want to get a sense of proportion about it by looking properly at it all...

Hello! Anyone about?
Finally got my mark for TMA05 -
Am just about to submit TMA06, but procrastinating on here instead
How is it going?

Hi, I'm going to be submitting this essay right on the deadline, no chance of it going in early. Getting a bit worried (understatement) about the exam now... Have bugger all time to revise... and little motivation to be honest... Am so out of practice re exams, and I have always lacked discipline when it comes to revising.

Hi Cocodrillo
Hope it is going well. Despite me saying it was nearly done on Sunday, I have only just this minute sent TMA06. Glad to see the back of it, but suspect it is going to drag my OAS down quite a bit
Hope your TMA06 is going better, or hopefully, is already gone!
Revision is scary, especially as I have only read the topics I will be writing essays on once! Not conducive to recalling it under exam conditions. I have a lot of ground to make up I think.
Have you decided to only revise certain subjects, and if so, which? I am doing 3 out of 4 chapters for Part 2, and 2 out of 3 for Part 3, and only learning terms from 6 out of 9 for Part 1. Heeelp!!
Best of luck - you have your plate fuller than most

I've just submitted TMA 06.
No revision strategy as yet, but will report back over the weekend and let you know what I'm planning!

Hi all, good to see you are all still working away and getting through things. Still thinking of you all.

I am a bit at your achievements, although i now see that I was realistic to drop out, as it has been total chaos here with everything that's going on, and i think I might have cracked up.

Keep up the good work.

Have a small extenstion until tomorrow for TMA 06 and then into revision. Am looking forward to the end of this

God me too.
Am having nightmares all of a sudden arranging child care for the exam though. DH says he is really busy that day. GAH! Even though I gave him the exam date about 6 months ago and he simply forgot about it when he was sorting out his work schedules for the summer.

MollieO, you and me both lol! Although I have enjoyed the last two months more than the rest of it. Hope you've got your TMA06 sorted now
Ihhb - how is life with mad goings on and potential move?
Cocodrillo - nightmare about childcare. How old will your DS be at the exam? Can you get any special dispensation having such a young baby? I think you are amazing for keeping it all together

I am now procrastinating madly with my revision, which I really can't afford to do. Give me a kick up the bum please!

KICK!

I have read the exam booklet and listened to the CD tonight, am starting my revision tomorrow (honest).

I'm going to learn two Book 1 chapters really well, and skim another, learn one Book 2 chapter, and skim another (plus Commentaries). Then try and learn all the definitions (45 in total I think).

Basically that means swotting up on a chapter a week, plus 15 definitions...

This is the theory at least. I think RL may get in the way. Especially since it is half term now and I have all three kids around, and we're going away...

DS will be nearly 4 months by the exam date. Going to see if PIL can cover that afternoon, but they are in France at the moment...

IHeart hope everything's going ok.

Very glad that TMA06 was submitted late last night! Revision will start at some point this weekend.

What is everyone doing next? I'm doing the DXR222 residential week in Bath. Did think of transferring to the online version but am away for half of October which ruled that out. Am then doing DS232 applied pyschology and then ED209 Child development starting next year.

Cocodrillo I like the sound of your revision plan, I may do the same!

Hello
Hope the revision is going ok and your procratination abilities are less well developed than mine
MollieO, I am intending to do the online course, as don't feel comfortable leaving the children for a whole week. I hope to do Child Dev next Feb too. Unless I bomb on the exam, that is!
Coco- hope you get some revision done this week. I am in the same position as you, but with slightly older little ones! Lovely, but play havoc with studying sometimes...
Been playing with the assessment calculator on the OU site. I am hoping to scrape a distinction for the OAS, I think. Shame the exam is going to drag it down, but I feel proud of what I have achieved so far, especially as I haven't enjoyed the course as much as I'd hoped.
Right, back to the books - good luck everyone!

Procrastinating again (and spelling it right this time .
I have revised my revision plan! I am only doing 2 chapters for part 2 and 1 chapter for part 3. I don't feel I will get enough depth if I try to do other chapters. I just hope 'nice' questions come up, or I am stuffed. Gulp!
How is every feeling?

Have decided on my revision plan - Chapters 3 and 5 from Book 1 and Chapter 1 from Book 2. They seem to be the only ones that I remember other than the ones we covered in the TMAs. Plus of course 45 definitions. Was reading the exam prep book today and a bit concerned at the level of detail we need for the definitions.

Am off to the revision day in Oxford tomorrow (well today, looking at the time). Is anyone else doing a revision day?

Hi everyone.

Sounds like we've all got similar revision strategies, I'm also revising 2 chapters from Book 1 (6 and 9) and one from Book 2 (3). I did have grand plans to revise 5 topics in total but soon realised I was being naive about what I'd be able to manage. I'm revising 6 out of the 9 short answers, perhaps risky too but feel this is all I can manage and am a bit shocked by the in-depth answers that seem to be required for this part. Gulp.

Went to a revision day in London on saturday which I found useful. I am still panicking though and will be glad when it's all over.

Mollie, I am doing the residential week in Bath as well, first week in August, which one are you dong?

Can't make it to a revision day cos of the babba, but have now started revising. My chapters from Book 1 are 9 and 5, and I'm doing chapter 1 from Book 2. They're the ones I found most interesting, so hopefully they will stick...

Did NO revision at all last week... started last night, but I've always been a last-minute swotter so hopefully it will work out.

Cocodrillo, can I ask - how have you found combining studying with a new baby? Am expecting number 3 in December. I had been planning to start Child Development in Feb but don't know if I'm being hopelessly naive. How do you fit it all in?!!

Hi docket, how old are your other children? I think it is doable fitting in around a newborn as they sleep in the day... Try and get ahead if the course materials arrive early to spread the work out... It has been hard to be honest, I'm so looking forward to the end of the course, but at the same time I have a massive sense of achievement for keeping up with the course work and doing well despite the demands on my time (we'll see re the exam!).

My 2 yr old goes to a CM from 9 till 3 2.5 days a week, and my 4 yr old is at school, so I have had the opportunity to do some work in the day when DS is asleep. I'm also planning to do the child development course next year - it sounds really interesting, and our interest in our own children has got to work to our advantage surely? Sorry, I'm waffling now.

Congratulations on your pregnancy!