it's to see if you can read and spell. Basically if you know some english you will will get 90%+ It's a screening test to pick up people who are very poor at English and could do with additional help.
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it's to see if you can read and spell. Basically if you know some english you will will get 90%+ It's a screening test to pick up people who are very poor at English and could do with additional help.
DELNAs a complete waste of time for most students. When I did it my goal was to be the first person to finish and leave the room. And win I did, yay! It involves things like, identifying a random wrong word placed in a sentence. Or, choosing from a list, the word that most closely matches the meaning of a particular word.
Sounds easy enough. I was thinking they might ask us to write an essay etc to explain why we are here studying Biomed in Auckland!!
[offtopic] i do miss the intensive essay writings on Shakespeare during A-lev years lol. Sadly there isn't a general ed paper on Shakespeare
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[offtopic] i do miss the intensive essay writings on Shakespeare during A-lev years lol. Sadly there isn't a general ed paper on Shakespeare
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[/offtopic]If you want to record lectures, every time you get a new lecturer just ask them if they mind you recording their lectures. Generally they will say yes. Personally though, I think its far more efficient just to pay attention and make a good set of notes during the lecture.
You dont really need to read reference readings before the lectures. In the end, I don't think i read the reference readings AFTER the lectures. The stuff they test you on in exams is nearly always from the lecture itself. The textbooks are mostly there to help you if you dont understand something in the lecture notes.
You dont really need to read reference readings before the lectures. In the end, I don't think i read the reference readings AFTER the lectures. The stuff they test you on in exams is nearly always from the lecture itself. The textbooks are mostly there to help you if you dont understand something in the lecture notes.
You will use cecil quite a lot. The most useful thing about it, is that lecturers put the lecture slides on it afterwards, so you can download them. So during the lecture itself, you should just write down what the lecturer is saying, that is not covered on the slides.
If you're confident with your chemistry, I would probably not bother with the practice questions on bestchoice, and only do the assignments that count for marks.
With mastering biology, I don't know what that is. But I would probably concentrate most on the courses that count for getting into medicine, before worrying about doing extra things for Biosci 101. Population health is probably the paper you will want to work most on, seeing as it is the hardest to get A+ in. Good marks in poplhlth will be a real advantage, seeing as many people seem to do badly in that paper.
If you're confident with your chemistry, I would probably not bother with the practice questions on bestchoice, and only do the assignments that count for marks.
With mastering biology, I don't know what that is. But I would probably concentrate most on the courses that count for getting into medicine, before worrying about doing extra things for Biosci 101. Population health is probably the paper you will want to work most on, seeing as it is the hardest to get A+ in. Good marks in poplhlth will be a real advantage, seeing as many people seem to do badly in that paper.
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Hey Lordgarlic. Which textbooks would you recommend us getting?
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Yea I got Moores and Netters too. I also got Kumar's pathologic basis of disease. I'm also gonna get Talley's clinical examination (waiting for its 6th edition).
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I was having trouble deciding Kumar or Rubins. One 4th year told me to get Kumar and some of my friends also got Kumar. There are copies of Rubins available in the anatomy place.
Other med students didnt use Kumar or Rubins so who knows...
Other med students didnt use Kumar or Rubins so who knows...
apologies for the late reply. Anaesthetics has had me a bit busy lately
In terms of textbooks in year II
1 of Gray's Anatomy for Students (drakes et al.) or Clinially Oriented Anatomy (Moores)
that is essentially the only book you need. if you want to spend however
robbins and cotran pathological basis of disease by kumar and clark is a good buy
guyton and hall's textbook of medical physiology is useful in 2nd semester
talley and o'connor is useless in year 2. Wait till year 4 to buy it. I had it for year 3 and barely opened it
In terms of textbooks in year II
1 of Gray's Anatomy for Students (drakes et al.) or Clinially Oriented Anatomy (Moores)
that is essentially the only book you need. if you want to spend however
robbins and cotran pathological basis of disease by kumar and clark is a good buy
guyton and hall's textbook of medical physiology is useful in 2nd semester
talley and o'connor is useless in year 2. Wait till year 4 to buy it. I had it for year 3 and barely opened it
Just visited the otago forum and found out POLHLTH is a real deal (skyglow1 even said that it is much worse at Auckland). Oh my... the first test is in 10 days and i am seriously freaked out! Now i am basically doing what skyglow did for HUBS, and started memorising notes word for word. But the problem is that Pr. R.J can be so vague sometimes and it is so hard to grasp what he wanted from us! Any advice from his past students who have survived?????
Er not sure if that approach would work for Auckland papers lol. I know they work for the pure rote-learning papers at otago (for example it would be dumb to do it for the chem paper cause that doesn't have as much focus on memorisation), but it seems like you need to have a really good grasp of the material beyond just memorisation to do well in pophlth. Toaster got 100% in that test so ask him lol.
Remember triangle, circle, square, triangle, circle, square, triangle, circle, square...
you'lll do fine.
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