I have been extremely busy lately trying to revise for my further mathematics exam this Friday. I understand all the concepts completely however tackling some of the exam questions prove far more difficult. Before any kind of exam on any topic going through past papers is imperitive as the majority of question-types are reused for future exams; the steps you have to take to solve the question are standard and have to be learned by working through past papers. This is why using the answers for past papers is foolish — only the method matters and people have to figure that out themselves. I wish I could concentrate on my exams instead of wasting time working on side-projects; I know they are important yet I still neglect revision until the last minute.
Engaging distractions instead of revising is intuitive to me. Recently I made a C application designed to approximate roots of a supplied real function with the intention of revising linear interpolation; of course this is not as useful as real revision but at least it is topical. I am going to upload the sources to my creation library whenever I have the time to update the creation database. My graph generator is going to have a number of improvements to its fundamental design to improve the appearance of asymptotes however that is on hold at the moment — as it would take a lot of thought away from my exams.
Recently I have taken quite a shine to writing tutorials and documents about mathematical or scientific topics — including calculus, mechanics and statistics. I would really like to do this later in life as it feels fulfilling when you know your work is used and respected. These will also be uploaded whenever possible to increase the amount of content I have online. Now back to revising; I am planning to post more often and increasingly interesting articles to this journal in future so return soon for some hopefully useful content.
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