Exam postmortem

Does anyone else feel like jumping off a bridge after that paper.

HOLY CRAP!!! I confused myself so badly with all the curve balls it was ridiculous.

Oh yeah - I am jumping along! These derivations absolutely killed me -I'm sure it is all one big mess. I wish I studied harder ...
It covered everything - really good paper. I kind of don't like that, lol

Dude between working and studying I only had time on weekends and 1 day of leave a week. I felt it was enough but the paper was nothing like the assignments or any of the past exams.

It was all completely different in every respect.

That question with the grid u(x, t). t never terminated so how the hell do you write very U element? I just wrote the one row and left the rest.

I also never finished (and I got an A on Num Method 1).... someone hand me a gun. I feel like this is a sup for me....

Question 5 I skipped altogether - hopefully the rest will be enough for a pass or sup

Ok, I'm looking at the book and comparing what I couldn't write earlier so here's my feedback:
-there are no derivation in the book for most formulas used;
-what is this implicit method that was asked in Q5 - if it is ADI why wasn't it written as ADI
-we are CS students but being treated as applied mathematics students and a lot is omitted from assignment solutions. Lecturers also solve problems in ways different from those described in the book (not for everything but for a lot of the problems)
- Assignments don't cover most of the material asked in the exam - perhaps around 25-30 percent

Conclusion:

I am pissed off that I couldn't do more on the exam and I studied hard!

that bad?!

doing this next semester... GULP

It wouldn't have been that bad if we were provided with similar questions in the exam as in the assignments. The assignments are clearly not enough, plus they don't cover everything. If the lecturers think that more than 2 assignments is too much work for the semester they could do self evaluation and provide solutions like all other modules do. You can't ask the basics in the assignments and then have enormous derivations of formulas in the exam plus ask for a method that isn't even explicitly written as such in the book.

I invested in a second book (Burden R.L., Faires J.D. Numerical analysis (7ed)) in order to do better with this module and still did poorly on the exam - simply due to the type of questions asked and the not so good preparation from assignment work.