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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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[MENTION=14740]hca12[/MENTION] - Man, you remember chem so very clearly! :p

[MENTION=13819]Rotors[/MENTION] - Second what hca12 said. He has it pretty much down pat.
 
So from back-reading, the general consensus is that the past MCQs released on Piazza are probably the easier ones?

'Cause I am worrrrrriieeed.
 
Ah, thanks! I read back through them just now, and it's mostly just 'guessing around'/suspicions (not solid evidence :P). We can just consider the questions on Piazza as a prelude to the real thing then :D

[OFFTOPIC]Btw, is it wrong that I haven't done Piazza questions yet??? >_<;;[/OFFTOPIC]
 
Rotors said:
Can anybody help me out with a syllabus or list of lecture topics or textbook chapters used from CHEM110? I am not asking you to distribute anything copyrighted to the University but "... [explores] the diversity and reactivity of organic compounds. A systematic study of reactivity focuses on the site and mechanism of reaction including application of chemical kinetics. A quantitative study of proton-transfer reactions features control of pH of fluids in both living systems and the environment." to me don't mean a lot, chemistry was not my strong point at school, I can't do CHEM150 beforehand and 110 is a core paper .....
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110 is really not a bad paper, you just have to practice questions, especially the maths ones for kinetics. Most of the stuff presented in lectures are easy enough to grasp assuming high school chemistry.......

All that being said, I am slightly bias in saying its straight forward as I tutored chemistry during my biomed degree and didnt attend many 110 lectures last semester.......i hate 8am lectures haha

oh and as [MENTION=14740]hca12[/MENTION] already said, spectroscopy is reallllllllll good fun, by far the most tricky section of the course I reckon
 
Hopefully said:
Ah, thanks! I read back through them just now, and it's mostly just 'guessing around'/suspicions (not solid evidence :P). We can just consider the questions on Piazza as a prelude to the real thing then :D

[OFFTOPIC]Btw, is it wrong that I haven't done Piazza questions yet??? >_<;;[/OFFTOPIC]
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I think that it's a waste of time to do past questions if you don't understand the course material. And if you truly understand the course material, you should be fine :)

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Thanks guys, no damn chemistry is going to stand in my way of being teh doktah! :D
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As well as what other people have said, if you look at the past papers, you'll see that the general formats are the same, and many of the general concepts behind what the question is asking you are the same (esp. for those short, half mark first questions).

There is a new lecturer though, so beware of changes.

Oh, and INTERPRETTING NMR SPECTROSCOPY IS CRITICAL THIS IS IN CAPITALS BECAUSE ONE PERSON SCREAMING IT IS NOT ENOUGH o____o
 
Lemons said:
I think that it's a waste of time to do past questions if you don't understand the course material. And if you truly understand the course material, you should be fine :)
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That's true. I was just saying that it could be a way of getting a feel for the type of questions that they have written before, and see where we stand in terms of understanding the content, though in the end we may end up getting a different impression from the actual test itself. :)
 
I was in the same situation as you Rotors, but I still managed to get an A+. I found that there was very little conceptual understanding required for the paper, with the emphasis being more about rote learning (I don't know whether you count that as a good or a bad thing).

And I agree with what has been stated above: Do not under-estimate spectroscopy, or else it will destroy you (and by that I mean take 10-15% off you final exam mark). The questions that they give you in the tests would be easy in a normal circumstance, but the time pressure tends to get most people as spectroscopy questions require you to be methodical as the answer is not obvious straight away.
 
Good luck for Medsci y'all!

The answer is simple squamous epithelium or if its not that its mitral valve stenosis :D
 
Hm, I thought that cardio anatomy was slightly trickier than the physiology side of it, but yeah, cardio was hardest :O

At least they attempted to make the questions engaging (some of them were haha) :P
 
I hear ya. Man, Cardio was hard. None of the options seemed right to me, for some questions, which threw me right off. I'm happy that I left that section for the end, though :P.
 
lab was a nightmare for me too......."a student cuts through the heart ventricle, what structure did he cut?" do you know how many bloody ways there are to cut through a heart??? anyway......results out tomorrow..... no mercy..... (n)
 
BC mso said:
lab was a nightmare for me too......."a student cuts through the heart ventricle, what structure did he cut?" do you know how many bloody ways there are to cut through a heart??? anyway......results out tomorrow..... no mercy..... (n)
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I found the ones about cutting and slicing in blah direction and "what would you see" quite confusing. I feel like they could have worded it better.

I'm sad that they're discounting the Cardio question with isovolumetric written twice. I found it to be one of the easier, guaranteed marks D: now I'm just freaking out about aortic valve stenosis and afterload and coronary arteries and pretty much the rest of cardio xD.
 
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