4everAlone
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Actually the EXACT same thing happened last year too. For test 1. They pulled the marks and rereleased them a few days later if i remember correctly =)
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Actually the EXACT same thing happened last year too. For test 1. They pulled the marks and rereleased them a few days later if i remember correctly =)
italianopalo
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Brain Lab
Can anyone please give me the page references for the required reading of the medsci brain lab in Tortora 11th edition?
Never mind all sorted now
Can anyone please give me the page references for the required reading of the medsci brain lab in Tortora 11th edition?
Never mind all sorted now
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Hi there, I'm sorry if I'm not posting this in the right place, it's actually about 2012 OLY1 but I wasn't sure whether I could make a new thread about it!
I was originally going to go down to Otago next year to do HSFY however I've changed my mind and am now going to go to Auckland to do OLY1 with Health Science papers. I was really looking forward to taking the Bridging Chemistry course down in Otago as I really need a good refresher for Chemistry to get me up to the right standard but I just realised Auckland doesn't really do an equivalent! I see they do a 4-day Preparation Course but this doesn't seem nearly as intensive as the Otago bridging course (https://www.chemistry.auckland.ac.n...study-options/foundation-options-in-chemistry). Would the Auckland course be sufficient? Are there any other options? Could I go down to Otago to take Bridging Chemistry and then come up to Auckland? If anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it
I was originally going to go down to Otago next year to do HSFY however I've changed my mind and am now going to go to Auckland to do OLY1 with Health Science papers. I was really looking forward to taking the Bridging Chemistry course down in Otago as I really need a good refresher for Chemistry to get me up to the right standard but I just realised Auckland doesn't really do an equivalent! I see they do a 4-day Preparation Course but this doesn't seem nearly as intensive as the Otago bridging course (https://www.chemistry.auckland.ac.n...study-options/foundation-options-in-chemistry). Would the Auckland course be sufficient? Are there any other options? Could I go down to Otago to take Bridging Chemistry and then come up to Auckland? If anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it
Hi Alice, I did the auckland uni 4-day preparatory chem course this year. I did NCEA level3 chemistry 4 years ago, so I had forgotten lots of chemistry.
I found the prep course extremely beneficial, although I suspect not everyone will.
why?
The course is QUICK, it's basically a crash course on chemistry. For me it was FANTASTIC because although I have a good memory, after 4 years of no chemistry I had lost a lot the 'connections' to the material. After taking the course I was reminded of all the chemistry I had once done and it all came flowing back to me immediately (it was actually quite fascinating how it all came back). The course essentially covered everything in level3 chemistry
Now, I don't think this course would be that good for someone who wants to learn all the content - its simply too fast paced for that.
I found the prep course extremely beneficial, although I suspect not everyone will.
why?
The course is QUICK, it's basically a crash course on chemistry. For me it was FANTASTIC because although I have a good memory, after 4 years of no chemistry I had lost a lot the 'connections' to the material. After taking the course I was reminded of all the chemistry I had once done and it all came flowing back to me immediately (it was actually quite fascinating how it all came back). The course essentially covered everything in level3 chemistry
Now, I don't think this course would be that good for someone who wants to learn all the content - its simply too fast paced for that.
hey,
does anyone know how many people get a core GPA of 9 each year??
the past years cut-off for interviews was around 7.5. in 2010 there was about 150 general entry interviewees. how would you distributes this 150?? for example more with GPA above 8.5
or like downhill slope,
or an uphill slope etc etc?
anybody got any insight??
does anyone know how many people get a core GPA of 9 each year??
the past years cut-off for interviews was around 7.5. in 2010 there was about 150 general entry interviewees. how would you distributes this 150?? for example more with GPA above 8.5
or like downhill slope,
or an uphill slope etc etc?
anybody got any insight??
Some are multi-choice, some short answer.
italianopalo
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Hopefully I'll get a 8.5 gpa for core by the end of the year, but my UMAT is 56% :/ Should I give up trying for medicine? :unsure:
I'd just like to point out that our mid-semester exams tend to be mostly multi-choice, but the finals (which are worth by far the largest part of your grade) are usually only half/slightly less MCQ, with SAQ's and 'mini-essays' as well.
4everAlone
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Quite a few? I can't give you numbers but quite a few people in our class would have had a gpa around there. Doesn't mean it's necessary though. But obviously the higher the better...
[OFFTOPIC] Lolol at all the trolling of first years on their facebook page
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[OFFTOPIC] Lolol at all the trolling of first years on their facebook page
[/OFFTOPIC]Oh okay, frootloop. But that's for Health Science topics that aren't included for getting into med?
Papers like Medsci, Chemistry of the Living World... they're all multichoice aren't they?
Also, 'mini essays' are they quite hard to write? If you can get excellences in English Level 3, would that be enough essay writing skills required to get good marks?
Papers like Medsci, Chemistry of the Living World... they're all multichoice aren't they?
Also, 'mini essays' are they quite hard to write? If you can get excellences in English Level 3, would that be enough essay writing skills required to get good marks?
i personally know two people in med who got 50%tile. So, no, def don't give up!
[OFFTOPIC]It's really quite variable. In first semester, our physics final was fully MCQs and the other finals were roughly less than half MCQs and the rest SAQs with 3 'mini-essays' for HUBS (equivalent to medsci i think). This semester: our biochemistry final is going to be fully SAQs, the 2nd HUBS paper will have roughly the same structure as the first (except 5 mini-essays and less MCQs) and our epidemiology final is a mixture of MCQs and SAQs. There's also an optional 2nd sem paper which has widely varying final exam structure depending on the one you choose (Only the psychology paper has a fully MCQ exam but has lab reports + a lab every week during the semester which is a lot of work compared to the others)
However, the midterm tests and various intra-semester tests and assignments have been fully MCQ (except for certain optional papers which make you do essays). The only core one that wasn't was the CELS (cell and molecular biology) midterm test in first sem.
The 'mini-essays' are not at all hard to write. The structure you have to use is pretty much thrown at you in the question and even if you got merits in english L2, you should be alright. If you did NCEA, these 'mini-essays' are comparable to E questions in L2/L3 bio and L3 Chem except with better (more specific) questions being asked rather than airy fairy "Discuss life" NCEA questions.[/OFFTOPIC]
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In all honesty, don't compare this with English, compare it with L3 Biology, L3 Chemistry or L3 Physics - you're not writing essays to convince people, you're not analyzing a novel, you're describing and possibly explaining some science. In fact, it's still a bad comparison because you're not even writing an explanation to show your depth of understanding of the principles behind chemical reactions or physical phenomena. Instead you're writing to demonstrate your knowledge (show that you know) of the structures involved and their functions, and the key thing looked for here is not even a quality explanation - as long as you can link bits of anatomical/physiological detail together roughly in a way that makes sense, they really don't care how well-written your 'essay' is, and your mark is really only dependent on whether or not you can provide them with all the details they wanted.
Now I should say that I didn't do L3 English and was fairly useless at L2 English (because literary stuff, and artsy crap in general, is not for me), so chances are I don't have an appreciation of the kind of skills needed to get Excellence in L3 English, but I'm pretty confident that they aren't exactly the same skills you need to remember and recall all the details of the neuro anatomy and physiology in a short time and arrange the details in some vaguely coherent order. I'm not even sure that last bit is strictly necessary - given what the HUBS paper coordinator said, most people don't write very much in the essay boxes, so I'm pretty sure as long as you give them the key bits of anatomical details they wanted, they'll quite happily give you marks without much nitpicking on your writing style.
4everAlone
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[OFFTOPIC] HSFY domination of the Auckland thread now...you guys are everywhere *runs and hides* [/OFFTOPIC]
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