With mathematical precision

As part of my gap year before I go to university, I'm doing a maths course online, for which I have to complete eight tests and upload the results so that they can be tracked and I can get a nice shiny (well, maybe not) certificate at the end of the year.

"The end of the year" being June 30th, and this being me we're talking about, I just today started looking at my final topic (differential equations). After bemoaning the fact that I've largely forgotten my differential equations from last year—except that second-order ones were much easier than first-order, for some bizarre reason—I set to looking through the notebooks and revising my knowledge.

A little way in though, I wondered just what percentage I needed to obtain in this test in order to get my certificate. A little internetting and algebra later, it seems that I'll need to get between 0% and 100% to pass the course and get my certificate.

So yay for that, I don't actually need to do anything. And given how much time I've spent resenting how much of my precious free time this course takes up, the logical thing to do would be to disregard the notes and practice tests, and just go straight to the final test clicking on random answers (it's multiple choice, mostly). The annoying thing is that I can't bring myself to do it—I still have a compulsion to get a decent result.

Gah. Perfectionism sucks.