General personal anguish, you can ignore this.
WHY did I choose to study Physics? It certainly wasn't so that I could waste my entire life writing about latent heat, free fall acceleration and bloody bifilar suspension. I ache from numbers and words. They disturb me and frighten me and blur my vision. I wake up sweating at night, haunted by giant adiabatic expansion graphs and walking talking calorimeters. I have three weeks to hand in enough practical write-ups to stop me failing the IB. And three months to learn all the Maths I should have spent two years learning. And I haven't started my TK essay, or my maths coursework, or my French oral. In fact, just kill me now. Or kill my soul at least.
That's enough angst and self-pity for now.
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2 Comments:
I was in exactly the same situation as you with the physics practical write-ups, but I managed to get a very high mark for them in the end even though about half of them were completed from notes the weekend before the due date.
Don't panic; bear in mind that the quality not the quantity of the write-ups is most important - you can write up some in quite a skimpy way, but the marker will be looking for good conclusions, good evaluations of your experiment and a clear presentation of your results; particularly the first two of those.
So make it clear what you did in the experiment, but in particular ensure you have a section where you say what could have been better, note things that made your experiment less fair, etc, and a section where you say what you think you've learned, compare your results to the theory you (should) have learned, and questions about where this experiment might lead will go down well too.
Also it is a practical write-up, not an academic paper - note forms rather than essays will be fine, as long as you are making lots of good points about your method and conclusions.
Does that apply to Standard Chemistry? I would love to not be doing anything on them.
Mike xxx
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