Otago HSFY chat - archive

[skyglow1]

Welcome gmck!

I had a similar GPA coming out of 1st semester, and decided not to take an 8th paper. Having only 3 papers to deal with means that you're timetable is down to only 2 lectures a day max, with tutorials for HEAL instead of labs. It really gives you a TON of time to study (if you don't succumb to being lazy like a lot of students did including me ) for those 3 papers.

If trends continue, the HEAL paper will get more and more strange. I was fairly confident in 2008 that with enough study and hard work I could guarantee an A+ in the paper, but I don't think it's so clear-cut nowadays. Have to agree that HEAL is intensely boring to study for. The actual science in HEAL, the epidemiology, I found really interesting. It's the public health part of HEAL that really sucks. All these random people come in to give you a lecture on their topic, and you have to memorise everything they are telling you. It's a huge bore and tedious. That's the endless graphs and lists that greenglacier is talking about. I agree that you can definitely brute-force HEAL. Whether or not you can endure the mind-numbing work is another matter lol.

 

[gmck]

Alright thanks a lot guys, think I will stick with PSYC112 then, if HEAL is boring to study then I don't stand a chance. Cheers

 

[the_international]

hey just wondering does anyone know how the maori 102 course is structured?
what internal assessments are there? are there speeches? how much is the final worth etc

 

[Kiwilander]

Public health is a bitch...'nuff said.

 

[gtr8]

hey just wondering does anyone know how the maori 102 course is structured?
what internal assessments are there? are there speeches? how much is the final worth etc

Final is 40% Internal 60%. Internals are comprised of two essays one of them is woth 10% and other one is worth 20%. There is a group presentation which involves speeches worth 10% and a midsemester test (which you sit online) worth 20%. Dont worry too much about the number of internals its not too hard getting a good mark on these. Likewise the finals are quite straight foward. You wont have to spend much time getting a good mark, but do go to the lectures and keep up with the readings.

 

[the_international]

Final is 40% Internal 60%. Internals are comprised of two essays one of them is woth 10% and other one is worth 20%. There is a group presentation which involves speeches worth 10% and a midsemester test (which you sit online) worth 20%. Dont worry too much about the number of internals its not too hard getting a good mark on these. Likewise the finals are quite straight foward. You wont have to spend much time getting a good mark, but do go to the lectures and keep up with the readings.

oh ok thanks
is the speech in maori or english? (as it seems like this is more of a maori history paper than a language one) and how long is it?
how long are we given on the essays?
and how many lectures are there ?

 

[gtr8]

You will have lectures two times a week and one tutorial per week. Dont worry you will have more than enough time on your essay and the speech is in English. Go to the lectures see how it goes if you don't like it you can always change your 8th paper (I think you have a week or so to do it).

 

[jeavey]

optional 8th paper

hi does anyone have an idea of good (slightly easy) 200 level paper as i wanna do an optional paper.

 

[patkirtan]

@_@

Crap, umat in a few days.... >______________________________________<

 

[the_international]

yeah this should be interesting..

anyway just wondering about epi is everything in the reading examinable? theres some stuff that strays away from the lecture completely. im finding epi real hard to study for.. any tips previous HSFY

 

[skyglow1]

The only one where reading has a chance of being examined is HUBS. Even then, I really don't think it's worth it putting that much time into the readings to gain such a small number of marks. Then again, a significant number of students find that doing the readings helps them understand the material etc. But yeah stuff in the readings beyond the lecture slides should not be examinable. There's enough to worry about in the lectures already lol.

 

[patkirtan]

Ugh, UMAT was blah!
:cry:


I just wish i didn't eff it up. =[

 

[Deleted member 4350]

Try to remain focussed on your papers this semester. I know of people who lost motivation after sitting this test which dragged their average down signficantly. Keep in mind that your grades are FAR more important than the UMAT and although UMAT has a heavy weighting, it's not the be all and end all that it's made out to be. So keep yours heads up, this semester won't be easy but try to keep it together!! I'm sure most of you will make it

 

[skyglow1]

Yeah SASOL is a great example of a guy who had a UMAT score which would've made most students give up, but he continued to work hard in second semester to get crazy good paper marks, and made it into med.

 

[ChickenPie]

I'm pretty sure UMAT went well for me. Will be looking forward to getting the results in september.

In the meantime I've done **** all work this semester! Woohoo.

 

[patkirtan]

Try to remain focussed on your papers this semester. I know of people who lost motivation after sitting this test which dragged their average down signficantly. Keep in mind that your grades are FAR more important than the UMAT and although UMAT has a heavy weighting, it's not the be all and end all that it's made out to be. So keep yours heads up, this semester won't be easy but try to keep it together!! I'm sure most of you will make it

Yeah SASOL is a great example of a guy who had a UMAT score which would've made most students give up, but he continued to work hard in second semester to get crazy good paper marks, and made it into med.

Thanks guys, yeah i'm still going to focus and try to get as many A's i can get this semester!!!! I'll see how the results are going to be like.

But it's the uncertainty of how well others are doing that's bugging me. With Study you know what level of grades you're gonna get after you come out of the exam.(n)

Anywho, I'm not going to give up just yet.

 

[luysion]

any1 have heal tut yet? how was it, curious

 

[squigglypencil]

Yeah SASOL is a great example of a guy who had a UMAT score which would've made most students give up, but he continued to work hard in second semester to get crazy good paper marks, and made it into med.

That made me feel slightly better about my UMAT. My exam was crap... I think I'm out of the running.

Does anyone know what sort of range I should get for my UMAT if I manage to keep up my average of 94.75?

 

[skyglow1]

Paging greenglacier to answer that one with the table he produced, while had the minimum percentiles required at different paper averages From memory it wasn't very high with a 90+ paper average. You could try finding his post somewhere in this thread.

 

[greenglacier]

Does anyone know what sort of range I should get for my UMAT if I manage to keep up my average of 94.75?

Last year a 94.75 average and Otago weighted UMAT of 43 (which equates approximately to a percentile of 20) would have got you in. Bear in mind that this would have only just gotten you in and the cutoff may well rise this year. Regardless, I would say it would take an absolute disaster in UMAT to rule you out if you can maintain your average.


EDIT - lol, just saw skyglows post above. We're both a little keen me thinks...