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[berley_girl]

I could just scream!

Trying to get stupid OU assignment done for stupid business studies course. I thought this one would be ok; it's an accounting exercise and I consider myself to be pretty good with numbers and financial stuff, so I was confident it wouldn't be too troublesome. However, I neglected to take into account the appalling standard of

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[toxicpixie]

However, I neglected to take into account the appalling standard of writing in both the course materials and the assignment questions themselves. It's so ambiguous, the chances of stumbling upon the answers they want are slim to none.

S'good practise for real life :S

Look at it this way - whatever a real client throws at you is likely to be tame in comparison!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

[berley_girl]

If it were the case that the questions were deliberately challenging I wouldn't have a problem; I'd be grumbling to myself, but working through them. However, when I've paid a not-insubstantial fee to be taking a course, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to have used that fee to employ somebody capable of writing in sensible English. Call me old fashioned...

[toxicpixie]

Sadly as much as the academic community decries the quality of the modern student, they ain't that much more cop themselves in many instances.

It's not limited to the OU :(

Still, it does prepare one well for dealing with morons people in real working life.

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Ps. it could be worse - you might have bought Scientology!