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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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this is the least prepared i've been for an exam for a long time lol. congrats on the medsci mark [MENTION=12709]AlteredState1[/MENTION]! :)
 
Is it....is it over? 'walks out of his door, only to be confronted with his Physics coursebook. He sighs, and walks back inside'

I think it went ok, although there were somethings that caught me out. Who here was surprised by Ejection Fraction making it into the exam? I guessed that it was Stroke Volume/End Diastolic Volume, which to my endless astonishment was right. Did anyone else get 0.5, if SV=60ml and EDV=120ml?

The respiratory physiology questions were a little strange, and I was three words short of a full answer to the breathlessness question when the time ran out, but other than that there were no problems.
 
Yup, I agree with both of your guys :) It wasn't too bad, was it?

I can't say for sure whether I put the correct numbers down for the pressure-volume loop, and I am obstinately not looking inside my medsci courseguide and busily worry about all the potential things that could have gone wrong, because I think that's pretty pointless xD

I think cardio and respiratory physiology will forever be the ones that catch us out.

Btw, did anyone else stare at that musculoskeletal table for ages. I was looking at the space underneath 'fibres' for an unhealthy amount of time before I realised my stupidity :P (and to think we learnt it twice and it still took me that long...) xD
 
AlteredState1 said:
Who here was surprised by Ejection Fraction making it into the exam? I guessed that it was Stroke Volume/End Diastolic Volume, which to my endless astonishment was right. Did anyone else get 0.5, if SV=60ml and EDV=120ml?
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I guessed the same, and those are the volumes I put as well. I used Riordan's graph as a reference, since he told us to commit it to heart.

I remember in Loiselle his final lecture, he made a casual comment in his cheery voice about this one graph and said, "if I were to ask you what the alveolar ventilation was at this point, what would you say? Well, you'd say 0 L/min, because there's no line there". And then that question came up about the alveolar ventilation at the extreme left and I loled.

I agree, though. Cardio and Respiratory will likely be the ones that catch you out.
 
two questions to put my mind at rest lol .. the short answer question for malpas was asking EDV right? not ESV (what some of my friends said)? and do you think theyd mind if i put nasal conchae, not concha? i hope that isn't too much of a dumb question lol.
 
Hey, Ok so I have a question. From looking at previous posts I see references of GPA's like 8.4 or 7.2 .... how do they calculate that? I thought it was based on the 9 point scale so I have no idea how they would get any decimal values outside of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 if we are dividing by the 4 core papers??????
 
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Hey, Ok so I have a question. From looking at previous posts I see references of GPA's like 8.4 or 7.2 .... how do they calculate that? I thought it was based on the 9 point scale so I have no idea how they would get any decimal values outside of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 if we are dividing by the 4 core papers??????
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Are you sure they are core GPAs? They maybe grad GPAs or based on semesters or years where more than eight papers were taken.
 
For the respiratory physiology in the Medsci142 exam, does any of the med students know if Dennis Loiselle gives marks for getting the units correct even if ur actual value was wrong? So for a 2 mark question would you still get 1 mark if u wrote the wrong pressure value but had the correct units?
 
Hey

Does anyone know if we need to get a certain grade in the Physics exam to pass? Or do we just need to pass overall including a pass in the labs?
 
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