Reflecting on your experience – Post Hoc Reflection

The Post Hoc reflection is the third and final reflection you are expected to complete during the Tripos process. As the title suggest this should only be completed once you have submitted and completed your essay, role and challenge. The purpose of this reflection is for you to evaluate your Tripos experience as a whole and to see what went well and what you have gained that you will apply to your life in the future. You may wish to read back through your proposal and Midpoint Review to compare the outcome with what you had planned and how the process turned out.

Ensure in your overall reflection, you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your performance in each element of the Tripos. Include successes of the Tripos experience, this may include: did each element of your Tripos go to plan? Why was that? What preparation and organisation did you to ensure this? What did you learn that will be valuable for the future?

Equally also try to include in your evaluation challenges you faced or weaknesses of your process. If things did not go to plan, why not? What problems or obstacles did you struggle to overcome? What mistakes did you make that you have learnt from that mean you will do things differently next time? Were there any unexpected lessons from the experience?

Combined with the other reflections we expect to see evidence of how you have demonstrated all of the six Learner Qualities of the Tripos. You must have shown evidence of all of them through the three elements you have undertaken. In reflecting on what you have gained from the Tripos experience you may wish to state which Learner Qualities you think you have particularly developed and examples you can provide to illustrate this.