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Kiwiology [OFFTOPIC]Nobody likes an 'I told you so' but I do think it is important to point out that a bunch of people told you so. The reason why I point this out is because your behaviour suggests that you are ambivalent about whether you really want to do medicine.
For example, you were determined not to take the additional year to prepare for science at Auckland. You opted out of the Massey chem150 summer school program. You spent more time trying to convince me that you knew everything already than trying to see how much Biosci we could get through when I tried to establish a productive studygroup over the summer. You said to me (and your signature suggests) that you are full of plans to do things OTHER than medicine if this year doesn't get you into medicine.
I think you have a certain amount of arrogance when it comes to how easy you expect things to be for you. I'm pretty damned sure I couldn't go into final year Secondary School and do particularly well at final year Calculus, Physics, Chemistry. Not without having done the year prior to that. And even then... I have a very strong arts / social science background (and you may have a very strong work experience in the health system in management type roles) but both of these are very different (though overlapping in some respects) skillsets. I simply don't understand how you can feel confident about POPLHLTH111 without having your marks back. You are reminding me of those annoying people who are all about 'oh yeah, that class is so freaking easy' and then it turns out they only got a C or B pass (in other words vast tracts of the curriculum escaped them).
Fortunately, if this year doesn't work out for you, you still have 4 remaining pathways available to you with respect to studying medicine in NZ. If you decide that medicine is something that you really want to do, and you demonstrate that you are prepared to work for it.
Do you really want it, though? I really enjoyed the last lecture we had for POPLHLTH101 about the different players in the health system. About how different people naturally resonate with different roles insofar as the roles have different interests. Why do you want to be a doctor, in particular? Is it really something that works to your strengths?
I think a large part of why they let so very many people in to this year is because they are betting that a bunch of people discover that they resonate differently and they don't want to get people wasting more time (doing a year of science to prepare) when they can get them into allied health / management degrees. Some people... I guess it might be thought of as a form of self-stabotage. But, really, there isn't any 'self-stabotage' when it comes to finding your niche. Self acceptance can come harder... [/OFFTOPIC]
Can people give me an idea of what the exam timetable looked like for last year and maybe the one previous?