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Number Theory and Cryptography tomorrow.

Partial Differential Equations on Wednesday.

Help me!

sorry, I'm the one that neds help adding 1+1. Ask me about history and I can go on and on but math stumps me

(I don't see how I can be much more use than that )

All you could do is now to SLEEP WELL

I had a good sleep and now I have a few hours before my first exam this afternoon. Luckily I find Number Theory and Cryptography quite easy, and I know more-or-less everything I need to, so this exam shouldn't be too bad. It's the one on Wednesday that we're all dreading!

Well since I am -8hrs GMT time I guess those exams are now over and I hope you did well on them.

Wednesday is still a couple of days away. Hope the Number Theory and Cryptography exam went well anyway.

Hope today's one went ok.

As for the partial differentials, just practice, practice, practice, and

The exam today went well There was one question that went horribly wrong, but only the best 4 questions out of 5 are marked anyway, so it doesn't matter

PDEs will be horrible, as none of us understand any of it, due to rubbish lecturers who assume we know things that we don't, and assume we've all done other modules that aren't compulsary. It's gonna be a fluke if I do well in that one!

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/AllBrowsers/2415/PartialDerivsIntro.asp

Have a look here and if you're still having trouble have a hunt on the internet for other such sites.

Or get a book from a library, they are fairly straight forward once you've got your head round the basics, it's just getting them to click.

Thanks, but that site is about partial derivitives, rather than partial differential equations. And books won't help if the exam is set by the same lecturer who wrote the module (which it is) as I know people who've used books that taught a different way of doing things, which they used in the exam and then they didn't do very well at all because the lecturer wanted the method from the course used.

I'm just gonna do my best and keep my fingers crossed!

It'll all be alright in the end, it always is

OK, in that case just keep doing the past papers if they've given you any!

I never do actual questions the day before an exam as I always get them wrong and it makes me depressed!

I'm just trying to learn all the horribly long equations and remember when you use each one...

Right, well, the PDEs exam lived up to all my worst fears. It was hard, but I think I could have done OK except for...

The mistake in one of the questions. I spend 30 mins trying to do a question which was actually impossible. Then the lecturer came round and corrected the question on all our papers. We didn't get any extra time, and it affected all the other questions I did because it had completely thrown me

I got 87% in the Number Theory and Cryptography exam! It was the second highest mark (my housemate got the highest - 92%)! Go me!

Well done!

Thanks

Now I just have to hope that I passed PDEs...

Well done

I meant of course Well done (tired after return from holiday&gt

I got 59% for PDEs! I'm soooo relieved!