Results are in!

Both the assignment and test have been marked and returned. Fortunately I was pleased with the grades of both. They were both marked fairly and all questions were relevant to the given material, no surprises, which was nice. A cheat sheet was allowed, and I prepared one, for the test but did not need to use it at all. The greatest part of the being allowed a cheat sheet is the process to preparing one. When writing out the cheat sheet, by hand, you are forced to sit down and figure out what is important. After writing it all done in a precise and neat manner, the information just stays in your head. The cheat sheet functions as more of a tool to learn than one to aid yourself during the test.

Last week I blogged about difficulties when it comes to proofs. Fortunately this is becoming more and more clear due to continuous examples both in the lectures and tutorials. The tutorial exercises are a great way to increase your understanding and improve your speed on lecture material. Definitely something that should not be forgotten.

After working on more proof problems, reading through course notes, online websites, and aid provided during the tutorial, proofs are not so foreign anymore. The proof structure has been described in a great manner by Professor Heap: Like dominoes falling inwards. Simply complete one step from both sides and you are eventually left with some blanks to fill in. Unfortunately there is no one set plan to get past this final hurdle but a lot of the work has been done and the groundwork has been lain if the proof structure is applied. I will continue to practice proving more statements in hope of improving my speed to fill in the blanks.

There was one slight problem with my test where the answer that I had crossed out was marked instead of the one I meant to be marked. Due to limited time, I was not able to erase my incorrect answer and simply created a new box and wrote the correct answer in that area. After doing so, the old answer was crossed out. The line may have been too faint which led to a TA marking my old answer. Immediately after spotting this error, I took some pictures as proof (best I could do) and emailed the Professor as soon as possible. Hopefully after taking a look at the test, Professor Heap is able to resolve this issue. If not, I'd better get used to crossing out answers in a more obvious fashion.