Ben
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Cool, ty.
[OFFTOPIC] Gratz on the 500th btw gg, even if you did deliberately do nothing spectacular for it
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Cool, ty.
[OFFTOPIC] Gratz on the 500th btw gg, even if you did deliberately do nothing spectacular for it
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I'm happy to admit getting a bit OTP many times during the year and having a good time in general - please don't study all the time, it's not fun and mostly counterproductive. Study technique is the most important thing!
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kaixian0011
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None,
Take what you like.
Enjoy your years =]
You already have all the recommended subjects.
If its compulsory, something you like, or just easy credits for the residential college to look at.
Take what you like.
Enjoy your years =]
You already have all the recommended subjects.
If its compulsory, something you like, or just easy credits for the residential college to look at.
Ben
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Take a study/free period? I don't know about P.E (as you asked on a different thread) as a foundation for HSFY since I didn't take it while at school.
Or you could try and keep your options open since you're only in year 12 and take Art/History/Anythingelse.
Any help it gave you would be minor. If you enjoy PE and want to take it on its own merits, then by all means do. If you don't enjoy it, it wouldn't be worth it.
Ben
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Like I mentioned on the other thread you posted this exact question, you could take a subject you think will give you a relaxing time or maybe even a subject you haven't really considered (see: Art/History) to keep your options open, after all, you're in year 12 and a lot can change in the 2 years before Uni.
peterpanda
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Could you tell me how did you study in HSFY? your study techniques, how you make notes etc? I second 'Study technique is the most important thing', I'm trying to find out what study techniques suits me the best. Can people post up what study techniques got them though the first year? thanks
This was my study technique for the rote learning-heavy papers (HUBS, CELS, BIOC, HEAL etc.), which is what I had been fine tuning throughout highschool, with some modifications for HSFY. It worked for me, but it definitely isn't for everyone. Use ideas from what other people do in order to improve your own. Never blindly adopt a study technique (like all those students in HUBS or CELS or whatever with that Cornell method lol). Figure out what works for you.
-In lectures, note down anything that lecturer said that isn't on the slides. Make sure I understand all concepts presented in the lecture fully (which was the case 99% of them thanks to seeing them before in Cambridge), otherwise ask the lecturer/friend/discussion board/textbook etc. There would be no point in memorising something if you didn't first understand it.
-Print off the slides when they become available, and annotate notes taken in the lecture onto the lecture slides.
-To memorise the material, read all the text on one slide of a lecture slowly whilst trying my best to memorise it, then on a new sheet of refill try and reproduce the text perfectly, word for word, from memory. If I fail, I do it again. If I did it right, I'd repeat the same process for the next slide. I would do this until I got through the whole lecture. Some slides are longer, some slides are shorter, but I'd always use this method. For diagrams, I'd try reproduce the important bits of the diagram from memory.
-Next step is to reinforce the material as much as possible by repeating the whole process for every lecture whenever I had the time. I'd modify the notes too each time with corrections/additions. The final 'version number' I got to was irrelevant...I just aimed to get as many done as possible.
The number one danger that everyone can probably see is that if you don't concentrate with this method, you could easily end up just mindlessly copying notes from one version to the next, without doing any actual memorising. For the method to work, I had to be strict with myself, allowing only one read of the material, and no looking at the original whilst I tried to reproduce the whole slide on the new sheet. It can be very easy to zone out and not accomplish anything. It's also mindnumbingly boring I spent nearly all of my time doing this way of memorisation and it worked out well. No time spent on reading chapters and chapters of textbooks, no time spent on prereading, no time spent on making summaries (kinda defeats the purpose...HSFY is about detail not the big picture), no time spent on making cue cards, no time spent listening to hours of lecture audio etc. Just pure memorisation and some time looking at past papers.
The key questions I would ask myself every moment of HSFY are..."is what I'm doing beneficial, and if so how?" and "is there a better way I can do what I'm currently doing?" and "is there something better I could be spending my time on?"
-In lectures, note down anything that lecturer said that isn't on the slides. Make sure I understand all concepts presented in the lecture fully (which was the case 99% of them thanks to seeing them before in Cambridge), otherwise ask the lecturer/friend/discussion board/textbook etc. There would be no point in memorising something if you didn't first understand it.
-Print off the slides when they become available, and annotate notes taken in the lecture onto the lecture slides.
-To memorise the material, read all the text on one slide of a lecture slowly whilst trying my best to memorise it, then on a new sheet of refill try and reproduce the text perfectly, word for word, from memory. If I fail, I do it again. If I did it right, I'd repeat the same process for the next slide. I would do this until I got through the whole lecture. Some slides are longer, some slides are shorter, but I'd always use this method. For diagrams, I'd try reproduce the important bits of the diagram from memory.
-Next step is to reinforce the material as much as possible by repeating the whole process for every lecture whenever I had the time. I'd modify the notes too each time with corrections/additions. The final 'version number' I got to was irrelevant...I just aimed to get as many done as possible.
The number one danger that everyone can probably see is that if you don't concentrate with this method, you could easily end up just mindlessly copying notes from one version to the next, without doing any actual memorising. For the method to work, I had to be strict with myself, allowing only one read of the material, and no looking at the original whilst I tried to reproduce the whole slide on the new sheet. It can be very easy to zone out and not accomplish anything. It's also mindnumbingly boring
I spent nearly all of my time doing this way of memorisation and it worked out well. No time spent on reading chapters and chapters of textbooks, no time spent on prereading, no time spent on making summaries (kinda defeats the purpose...HSFY is about detail not the big picture), no time spent on making cue cards, no time spent listening to hours of lecture audio etc. Just pure memorisation and some time looking at past papers.The key questions I would ask myself every moment of HSFY are..."is what I'm doing beneficial, and if so how?" and "is there a better way I can do what I'm currently doing?" and "is there something better I could be spending my time on?"
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Depends entirely on the paper... in BIOC you get epic lecture handouts that summarise most of the lecture content and in PHSI the textbook was written specifically for the course (so it's essentially one huge lecture handout). In other subjects this is minimal, such as CELS and HUBS, where you really just get the lab book (which isn't that helpful) - the lecture handouts have hardly anything on them.
Of course, for every paper you get the ultimate resource - lecture slides!
Of course, for every paper you get the ultimate resource - lecture slides!
kaixian0011
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I supposed quite soon.
Results are coming out in a few days time.
Results are coming out in a few days time.
2011 FYHS Text Books
Hey guys, i was just wondering if text books are worth buying and studying for health science, i have a couple of friends who got into med from health science last year and they all pretty much told me not to buy the text books as they are not worth the money as most if not all of the material tested is from lecture notes. What are your opinions?
Thanks
Hey guys, i was just wondering if text books are worth buying and studying for health science, i have a couple of friends who got into med from health science last year and they all pretty much told me not to buy the text books as they are not worth the money as most if not all of the material tested is from lecture notes. What are your opinions?
Thanks
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