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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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haha yea when they said no calc I was like "wa??". :)

I was talking to this person about the med interview and they said interviewers look at how active you are outside academic life (extracurricular activity). I am new to this system (recently came down from aussie). So what is it exactly that they look at? Do you need to be like a proffesional at a particular sport? Involved in a lot of ex. activities?

Like I have a life, I play sport e.t.c and have hobbies outside school, but I am not like a pro. I play just for the fun of playing it.
Sorry for the dooby question guys, I am just not aware of what happens here. :p
 
no calculators were allowed
although dont worry too much about it
I don't think I had trouble answering a question because I couldn't calculate something (rather I just didn't know the material)
 
vamsiaus said:
haha yea when they said no calc I was like "wa??". :)

I was talking to this person about the med interview and they said interviewers look at how active you are outside academic life (extracurricular activity). I am new to this system (recently came down from aussie). So what is it exactly that they look at? Do you need to be like a proffesional at a particular sport? Involved in a lot of ex. activities?

Like I have a life, I play sport e.t.c and have hobbies outside school, but I am not like a pro. I play just for the fun of playing it.
Sorry for the dooby question guys, I am just not aware of what happens here. :p
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Well you certainly seem ahead of most of the med students i already know. Dont stress EC activity all that much; it's definately good to have something to talk about in the interview, but dont look any further than volunteering or something like that. Personally I didnt do anything, but it certainly wouldve given me something to blab about in that half hour
 
vamsiaus said:
haha yea when they said no calc I was like "wa??". :)

I was talking to this person about the med interview and they said interviewers look at how active you are outside academic life (extracurricular activity). I am new to this system (recently came down from aussie). So what is it exactly that they look at? Do you need to be like a proffesional at a particular sport? Involved in a lot of ex. activities?

Like I have a life, I play sport e.t.c and have hobbies outside school, but I am not like a pro. I play just for the fun of playing it.
Sorry for the dooby question guys, I am just not aware of what happens here. :p
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Bro, the reason they want you to have "extra curricular activities" is simply to assess whether you are a well rounded person or not. If you play social sports, or like playing an instrument etc, then you can have casual conversation and relate to patients - its that simple. Don't think about it in a legalistic sense; they might not even ask you about it in your interview - I know heaps of people in my year who volunteered for St John's etc just for the sake of the interview. It saddens me that the whole process scares people into doing things like volunteering and sporting for the wrong reasons,
but hey, if you think it will help you then go for it mate! Do things outside of study that you enjoy doing, but you don't need to take it very seriously, otherwise you are missing the point :lol:
 
Hey thanks guys, appreciate your comments. Its a really nice community you have on the net here.
to my fellow uni mates, is it just me or are you guys too having like a lot trouble remembering and using those massive words in 107 and what's up with the teachers, they are all so fast and quick paced.
 
Hey guys i know you say not to stress about whether you get a 2 or 3 in chem lab, but what if you get lower than that? ive been doing pretty crap in labs...(like compared to other ppl in my group!):blink: is it still possible to get an A+ for the paper even if you get like 4s and 5s for lab?
 
@jh12: Well, obviously higher is better. But dip said he got 3,3,4,5,2, n, for his labs, so its still possible to get A+ as long as you perform awesomely in the tests and exams. Good luck.

@vamsiaus: I think most people will feel like that too. Just keep at it and when you think you've got the gist of it, try some past papers, and you'll find that the words will just flow from your pen.
 
To jh12-->I really suck at Chem labs too, but I think we will be ok.

Have any of you kept up to date for all the lectures?
I haven't even started looking over biosci101 or chem110:blink:
I realised that in a few weeks that we're having the equivalent of half our "NCEA " exams and that I'm probably not gonna get what I aimed for at the start of the year.

So the question is, have you guys experienced panic attacks yet?
 
Scones2 said:
To jh12-->I really suck at Chem labs too, but I think we will be ok.

Have any of you kept up to date for all the lectures?
I haven't even started looking over biosci101 or chem110:blink:
I realised that in a few weeks that we're having the equivalent of half our "NCEA " exams and that I'm probably not gonna get what I aimed for at the start of the year.

So the question is, have you guys experienced panic attacks yet?
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Yes, except for NCEA didn't count for twiddly twod did it...
 
Scones2 said:
To jh12-->I really suck at Chem labs too, but I think we will be ok.

Have any of you kept up to date for all the lectures?
I haven't even started looking over biosci101 or chem110:blink:
I realised that in a few weeks that we're having the equivalent of half our "NCEA " exams and that I'm probably not gonna get what I aimed for at the start of the year.

So the question is, have you guys experienced panic attacks yet?
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Tell me about it...i tend to freak out about everything
I can't even bring myself to think about anything but population health until the test is over and done with!
 
Hey guys

With the first poplhlth test, are the questions similar in difficulty/style to the module 1 section of the final exam? Or are they way harder?
 
alright back from holidaying, I am back into studying.

Are the practice tests on cecil the only way we can practice the kind of questions on the tests coming up? What do people do? How do you study and cram everything in?

@atpno1: I thought the test was alright and doable. just 2 or 3 q's that sort of had similar answers.
EDIT: I think dennis said "mid-holiday period", but I reckon they will be out like later next week.
 
I vaguely remember reading somewhere we can get past tests from the library...but not sure if that was for these tests or final exams...

Im rereading heaps of notes then doing all the practice questions on those sections...not really getting anywhere with that at the moment though and starting to stress!

I found the test a little confusing and the longer the wait for results...the more i convince myself i screwed up! ohh well
 
Good thing about pophlth tests is that everyone screw up. I remember i got 8/14, the class average was 8.04/14, but we had plussage although i dont think it made much difference.
 
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