Summer 2015 progress overview

My review on what I completed over the summer:

I certainly used my planning review as a guide to what I had to get done for my EPQ, however I was definitely too optimistic with the time scales for each of the tasks I had to get done. For example, I said that I would have contacted an expert during the summer, however that wasn't possible as finding people  to contact took much longer than I had anticipated, and getting hold of a couple of people proved difficult. Similarly, I had to think about what I was going to ask each of them - so I decided to put this off until I had created a list of questions and had a feasible amount of time in which to conduct and interview.

Despite this, I believe that I allowed myself enough time to look at the research which I had collected and order this into a brief essay plan to set out how I would answer my question, yet by doing this I realised that more research would be needed to create a full balanced argument.

Overall I believe I was too over ambitious with my planning review as I did not take into account my busy summer. In addition to this, I wrote that I would have started writing my essay during the summer, whereas in fact I decided to focus more on the planning stage of the EPQ and ensuring that I have supplied good evidence towards answering my essay title before I went anywhere near writing it.