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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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hca12 said:
Ok thanks for the advice :) are the labs for 142 tricky/difficult to do well in?
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Depends on your learning style in my opinion. If you're a rote learner who memorizes everything and understands nothing then you will struggle, if you learn concepts and actually understand what you remember than you will do fine. Just make sure you pay attention for the whole lab and don't doze off and you should be ok.
 
Wow it's been a while since I've been here.... Good to see you OLY1ers doing well :) To add to what 4everAlone said, do the prereadings because there's usually one or two questions relating to them in each lab
 
[OFFTOPIC]Ok, so I will see those of you who confirmed outside the Subways near Grafton campus tomorrow at 11.30am! Be there ;)[/OFFTOPIC]
 
Donald said:
Does anyone know what proportion of OLY1 kids are likely to have A+ for all 3 cores so far?
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In my year apparently <40 people got A+ for poplhlth so it follows that less than 40 people got A+ for all three. I'd say it would be similar for your year.
 
Donald said:
I am! And thank you. I was thinking that as the marks for the first two tests in pop111 were higher than usual this year, there might have been a higher proportion getting A+ than previous years. Anyone know for sure?
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Hi Donald, welcome to MSO!! i've been trawling through the OLY archive on MSO (350 pages, don't ask how long it took to read lol). Two or three years ago the average for the first test was 8/14, and the average for the second test was 84%. These are slightly lower than this year, but not by a significant amount so i dont think there will be a great difference in the number of people achieving a+ in pop health. Hope this helps :)
 
Donald said:
Does anyone know what proportion of OLY1 kids are likely to have A+ for all 3 cores so far?
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I don't think it's terribly high. I've got 3 A+s in core, but haven't actually talked to anyone else that has (though I haven't asked everyone I know or anything, maybe like 7 people).

If you're at 8.3 or 8.7 in core that's pretty comfortable from what I've heard.
 
Just wondering for the physics prelab (newbie question ahead :p): in the graph, can we have error bars that go both vertically and horizontally from each plotted value?

EDIT: For future reference, yes, there can be, according to my demonstrator.
 
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Hi Rubin, I have too and I know of two others who also have a 9 which seemed like a lot out of the small pool of people whose marks I know. That's why I was wondering if proportions are higher this year. I guess we'll never know for sure!
 
Don't worry too much about other peoples grades. I found many people exaggerated their grades/UMAT scores last year. Just focus on doing the best you can by starting work/revision/lab reports EARLY.

The biggest regret I had last year (apart from cramming :D) was not enjoying the year itself. I got to learn from some amazing academics, industry officials and post-grad students but I was too busy being "competitive" to enjoy the year.
 
Hey, I havent gone through the physics prelab yet, but I assume that if there are uncertainty values for both x and y values that there can be error bars that go both vertically and horizontally. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Just a question regarding medsci. Im having a bit of trouble gauging the extent of knowledge we are expected to know. After today's lecture, I pretty much just focused on the points he made and read up stuff I was unclear on. But there are a lot of referenced pages. Does anyone know if the referenced pages are assessed?
 
in previous years between 25-30 have got a 9 gpa (in core alone). i agree that this year it seems a lot have gotten 9 (so far), but i see no reason why it would be more than the previous years (in 2010 they actually raised the grade thresholds for biosci from 85 to 90 which should theoretically have decreased the number getting a+'s ...)
 
CapitalG said:
Hey, I havent gone through the physics prelab yet, but I assume that if there are uncertainty values for both x and y values that there can be error bars that go both vertically and horizontally. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Ok, so I just had my physics introductory lab today. Yes, there can be error bars that go both vertically and horizontally.

On an aside: why is there so much stats in physics?
 
Stats makes a lot of sense in physics. Physics deals with the real world, via measurements. These measurements have errors, and stats primarily is a method of mathematically approaching error. It's all pretty neat IMO, if only I could stay awake in 160 haha
 
Rubin said:
Stats makes a lot of sense in physics. Physics deals with the real world, via measurements. These measurements have errors, and stats primarily is a method of mathematically approaching error. It's all pretty neat IMO, if only I could stay awake in 160 haha
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Oh, I see. Yeah, it's pretty nice how it all fits together.

Haha, the air track was...a little different to what I had expected :p
 
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