Echoing what GG has said...lecture material is your number 1 priority. If you have time, then you can do a bit of reading in HUBS. For the other papers, I wouldn't bother reading the textbooks themselves. The amount of material in the lectures will be hard enough to cover and memorise, so you'd have to be doing pretty on to it and up to date if you were spending time reading textbooks!
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You never know what MCQs could be about. That's Rule#1. If that paper has MCQs you should be prepared for anything.
My approach would be to prioritise how I'm going to spend my time. Realistically there's a lot of other more relevant stuff that you have to learn, so I'd learn that first and then I'd learn the microscope stuff just in case if I had time. I think you have to be careful in HSFY not to waste hours upon hours doing irrelevant or relatively unhelpful things. There were many students who were doing more hours of study than me, but I can nearly guarantee that I was achieving more in less time than they were. Always question yourself every hour of the day, and think if what you're doing is really necessary or helpful, or if there's a faster or better way to get the job done.
[MENTION=10309]Twads[/MENTION]: Starting off with atomic/mass numbers and the like first of all. Yeah, I know. Going to try for a pass and take up an 8th paper to make up the grade, I think.
[MENTION=8308]Ben[/MENTION]: Lol. I'll take it as a compliment. My pills are better though, which is why you may frequently witness me
a) walking into things clumsily
b) staring into space with a vague grin
[MENTION=8308]Ben[/MENTION]: Lol. I'll take it as a compliment. My pills are better though, which is why you may frequently witness me
a) walking into things clumsily
b) staring into space with a vague grin
Just to make 100% sure that everyone is aware of the rules, for the 8th paper to count you need to have gotten at least a B (which is 70%) in the standard 7 papers. Otherwise you're out of the running automatically for med. That means you're aiming for a B or higher brin in chem.
It would appear that PASS is about study skills, rather than course content, which pretty much kills it for me. My opinion is that if you can study effectively yourself (or learn how to do that via HUBS GLM1, lol), then it might not be hugely worthy of your time (and perhaps money).
Personally, the biggest thing I've always worried about was motivation (which was the one and only thing that killed my results consistently), but now, spending 8am (HUBS starting) to 6pm (PHSI ending) on campus (and not being in a college), having no company (all my friends seem to disappear off to their colleges), and carrying a laptop with nothing that could be used to pass time, the only logical thing to do (especially for someone like me who can't stand boredom) is to go to the library and work on something, or read ahead. And the good thing is that I'm getting used to it, I think. (I'm amazed that the isolation isn't chewing away at my sanity - but I guess I've always been an introvert outside of school and this is really just an extension...)
Back to OUSA tutorials - I looked at the schedules, found that chem ones all clash with my chem lectures, and since I was really not sure about chem tutorials anyway (chem being my strong side and I've done some, let's just say casual learning of chemistry beyond school level, for the sake of anonymity), I decided to flag instead of trying to change lecture streams.
The physics, though, I'm really in a dilemma about - the physics department say that the last hour of labs are "tutorials", and there is a physics helproom staffed by the textbook authors 3 days a week, so help isn't exactly far away (although understanding concepts in physics and applying them to problems have never been a problem for me) and there's always practice questions from the department's past exam questions page, so I'm not entirely sure it'll really be worth my time...
[offtopic]Speaking of tutorials, I came across something on a noticeboard *at an unspecified location
* where there was an offer for tutoring in *unspecified HSFY papers*, the tutor claiming to be a 3rd year med student with A+ average in HSFY and 98th percentile UMAT... Probably just a coincidence but, could that happen to have been greenglacier? lol it certainly sounded like GG's results.[/offtopic]PS: Sorry for the wall of text - I have a tendency to ramble on.
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Lol, stalkerish much
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Seriously though, that's nothing more than a coincidence. I do do some tutoring, but I don't advertise. I pretty much get friends-of-friends asking me, and that's more than enough to keep me occupied. I could make an educated guess as to whose ad you might have seen, but won't comment any further on it.
Oh, and my UMAT wasn't 98th percentile.[/offtopic]
Speaking of tutorials, I came across something on a noticeboard *at an unspecified location
Lol, stalkerish much
.Seriously though, that's nothing more than a coincidence. I do do some tutoring, but I don't advertise. I pretty much get friends-of-friends asking me, and that's more than enough to keep me occupied. I could make an educated guess as to whose ad you might have seen, but won't comment any further on it.
Oh, and my UMAT wasn't 98th percentile.
[/offtopic]Does anybody wanna form a study group? especially people not living in a hall.. I am living at home and have little chance of forming study groups with people living in halls coz they have tutorials and etc in their hall. so anyone keen?? oh and also can u sign up for ousa tutorials now??
[offtopic] Oh geez, sorry gg I have you mixed up with ChickenPie (yeah, had to actually search the other thread to find out who DID get 98th percentile)... Sigh, my attention must've started slipping as I neared the end of the thread back in summer... [offtopic]Coincidentally enough, I happened to have ended up in the 98th percentile last year (64.75 in Otago's apparent 45/45/10 weighting), so I think I'll avoid the stress and drama of UMAT this year... Thankfully the person I know who got 100th percentile went to Australia [/offtopic][/offtopic]
EDIT: @above: I'd be keen for some study group type thing - perhaps not too often, I mean my current solitude seems to get work done, and the once or twice I went to study with a friend it just ended up becoming more socializing than ideal - maybe solitude results in the tendency to turn "group work" into socializing? lol
[/offtopic][/offtopic]EDIT: @above: I'd be keen for some study group type thing - perhaps not too often, I mean my current solitude seems to get work done, and the once or twice I went to study with a friend it just ended up becoming more socializing than ideal - maybe solitude results in the tendency to turn "group work" into socializing? lol
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[offtopic] Oh geez, sorry gg I have you mixed up with ChickenPie (yeah, had to actually search the other thread to find out who DID get 98th percentile)... Sigh, my attention must've started slipping as I neared the end of the thread back in summer... [offtopic]Coincidentally enough, I happened to have ended up in the 98th percentile last year (64.75 in Otago's apparent 45/45/10 weighting), so I think I'll avoid the stress and drama of UMAT this year... Thankfully the person I know who got 100th percentile went to Australia
Subtle, lol.
Yep, just head on in to their office (opposite SJS) and ask for a tutorial sign up sheet.
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