Those doing OU courses, tell me, do you do ALL the activities?

[Yanda]

I am currently doing my first OU and really enjoying it, however, some of the activities have struck me as not being particularly useful and I have skipped a couple. So tell me, do you religiously do every activity or only those you feel relevant or you think will help you understand more?

I must confess that I have skipped activities in the past if I have been pushed for time. It hasn't affected my marks so far - this is my 3rd year of studying with the OU (5th course) now.

From speaking to other students on my courses I have found this is common especially if a tma is coming up. I do try to go back and recap on the activity and what it demonstrated during my revision though.

I always read the TMA as early into the course as possible, as I've done a couple of course where activity work was part of TMA, then I just do enough of the activities to ensure I pass.

Noooooo. I've recently finished my fifth course. I do the work for the TMAs, and that's about it. I then revise/do the rest of it for the first time like mad for a month before the exam.

I'm doing my first ou course at the moment and I must say my current strategy is identical to that of the fallen madonna.I have skimmed the books then basically done the TMA's by looking up the relevant information, haven't really done many of the activities will probablly fall down when the final TMA is due and be furiously reading 8 books in a week lol. But to look at it a different way I'm erm efficient, no point in going over the same ground twice