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Why it pays to do work in advance
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Today, I am doing my entire project writup. This grade, if below 50%, may make or break my university application. The moral of the story? Do your work in advance!
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just keep goinmg and if you really run out of time bullet point things as you will still get some marks for them
good luck :thumb:
Hope you get it done ok.
I'm not sure how to go about it really, I know if I do it economically and cover all the points in mild detail I'll pick up enough marks (ive done the practical which gives me most of the 50% anyway, if not all of it). Im normally a perfectionist and would do everything in too much detail, so right now just trying to look at how I can do just a little bit.
Sigh.
when is the deadline?
tomorrow...
think about how crap you will feel if you don't make that deadline - that should give you some motorvation.
now... close your internet browser... and get started!
you mean do your work when you get in, NOT the night/morning before it's due? When I was doing Maths A-Level, I used to always do my homework the morning before it was due in - not recommeded...
That's very naughty. However, once or twice I'd done half of my Law homework and claim that I was only correcting my answers...
You should do the work. I didn't do much A-Level work (well, I did work that was set and sometimes did some reading) and am now paying for it...
I spose so... with work stuff that i don't enjoy I just tend to put minimum effort in and be content in the knowledge tham i'm capable of better ;p
Why are you doing something you don't enjoy?
I have a feeling I may be paying for this tomorrow... oh dear. But at least I've learnt my lesson!
well i didnt know i wouldnt enjoy it when i signed up to the course ;p
plus i don't think that much work is fun as such.. some of it's interesting but there are always more interesting things (ie drinking or competitive stuff
Have I learnt from that? No. :banghead:
Hey, I'm doing my ICT coursework
It was originally due in after February half term. I figured she wouldn't mark it for weeks anyway, so I was better off keeping it and finishing it than handing half a project in.
Then she demanded it before easter. So I handed in what I'd done in a last minute panic on the day we broke up (having done business coursework that morning). I would've got 21 marks for that, as had lost my user guide and testing, and only included half the first two sections. :rolleyes:
She rang my parents and said that because I work hard normally I could have easter to give it another go. So I had another go, on the day before we went back. And I didn't start it until 3pm-ish.
Why do I never learn? :eek2:
That is what I am doing right now. REgretting not doing it.
I had to do my Philosophy 4 hour timed essay (exam conditions, 4000 words plus, 4000 is MINIMUM) off the top of my head with little to no preperation.
I hope it is good enough. ;'(
I only need 12 marks. Why am I working so hard, I don't know. But my teacher is new and marks REALLY strictly. My last one would say 'there is evidence of annotated screenshots' and give me the tick. This one, says if I haven't annotated every single f*cking picture diagram to death then I cant have the bloody tick. Stupid in my book. I have the ability to do it, I can prove that easy enough, but not the motivation to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again.
This time he's lazy though and has asked us to fill in the page refs. so I'm just making sure the page refs. I give him are full of evidence
only need 12/24
My table of contents:
Design and Analysis 3
Identifying the Data 3
Entity Relationship Diagram 3
Normalisation 4
Entity and Attribute Descriptions 5
Database Design 6
Queries 6
Forms 7
Reports 9
Testing and Development Plan 11
Test Plan 11
Development Plan 12
User Documentation 13
Introduction 13
Starting up the Program 13
Main Screen 13
Adding a New Customer 14
Adding a New Stock Item 17
Issuing a New Loan 17
Return a Loan 18
Showing the Stock List 20
Printing a Membership Card 22
Closing Down the Application 24
Technical Documentation 25
Database Layout 25
Tables 26
Forms 28
Relationships 31
Database Operation 31
Adding Data 31
Deleting Data 31
Editing Data 31
Data Dictionary 31
Validation 31
Data Dictionary 31
Queries 31
Reports 31
Query Based 31
Grouping 31
Arithmetic Formulae 31
Test Log 31
Test Summary 31
Evidence 31
Development Log 31
Changes to Original Plan 31
And I've done everything in italics red. So not too much more to do, hopefully.
Reports 31
- Query Based 31
- Grouping 31
- Arithmetic Formulae 31
Test Log 31
- Test Summary 31
- Evidence 31
Development Log 31
- Changes to Original Plan 31
to go