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There's a bit of me that's thinking, "bit late now". In the sane bit of my bonce I know that this isn't true. In fact it's rubbish.

Some work on surfaces tonight and a lot of practice questions tomorrow will be worth ten to fifteen marks.

I did a few old TMA questions today at work [actually I've been doing this for the last few shifts]. Not too bad. I ran into a few issues: dense? nowhere dense? what does that mean? Still, my speed and, surprisingly, accuracy were good for some types of question.

Unless the paper sucks I see three questions in part A and one in part B that I should be able to answer in three-quarters of an hour—40 marks. There then should be a fractal question that I should be able to do in about a quarter of an hour—another 8 marks. Remove 6 marks for sloppiness.

Then, I'm guessing that there will be two part A questions on surfaces that will be a bit fiddly—but possible. These I'll practice hard tomorrow, let's say three-quarters of an hour and 12 marks with sloppiness tax.

Where are we? Time left: an hour and a quarter. Marks got: 54. Marks left: 32.

Now I need to tackle the second part B question. I'm either going to have to show that something is a metric space, or it's a topological space [alongside stuff about compact/connected/complete], I'll practice this tomorrow. Say three-quarters of an hour and 8 marks.

Then I have half an hour to tackle two questions worth sixteen marks with 6 marks required for 70. And a grade 2!! Surely I can muddle through...?

I'm going to, for once, be firmly disciplined about this. The exam is going to be tackled in exactly the above way. What we don't want is a repeat of last year's panic. I need to tackle the questions that I know that I can do before I move onto anything that can trip me up head-wise.

The above seems very rational, did I write it? [And it could all fall to bits if lots of questions that I don't expect appear.]

Time for some surfaces methinks...

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