2nd year Maths 2hr Exam Duration. Not enough time?

unseenfootage

I just sat the repeats and although I knew the work I ran out of time and could not complete a couple of questions.

Previously one could finish in good time and still have enough time to complete an extra unneeded question, for good measure.

Even practicing at home I found that 2hrs is not enough.

Anybody have the same experience.

Blackpanther95

Done in like 1 hour so...
I think its hard for the lecturers though. The exam office put pressure on them I think to make the duration 2 hours. It really a matter of putting the right amount of questions on the paper. I'd say if a good few people obviously ran out of time they would scale back the exam but I don't think thats happening tbh.

An old maths teacher of mine once said you'll always have enough time to write down the answers, that takes a couple of minutes, the hard part is figuring out what to write, and if you take a minute or two before writing to figure out the best way you might actually save time. Particularly applies if you're doing a lot of scribbling and tippexing.

unseenfootage

Was that the MA2101/2 exams that you wrote ?

wmirl

Email the lecturers about this. They may be more lenient towards marking if enough students thought the questions were too long-winded or there wasn't sufficient time. Given that MA2101/2 are new courses, the content was just taken from the combined applied maths and maths modules from previous years, which had more lectures and separate exams. Just another reason to love academic simplification!

Blackpanther95

Which exam was it? analysis or linear algebra or discrete maths?

unseenfootage

MA2101 is Calculus and Applied maths
MA2102 is Linear Algebra, Dimensional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.