Otago HSFY chat - archive

[Pineapple]

i got 24...stupid cerebrospinal fluid qn...oh well. back to study. :l

 

[AmyT]

I know someone who took RELS101 out of interest. They were a very religious person themselves and really enjoyed it/found it worthwhile, but it was also their lowest mark for the year. If you take it, do so for interest, and in the knowledge that it's not likely to be that beneficial to your chances of getting into the course you want.

Thanks for that. I might have to reconsider my choice.
The HUBS average is pretty low.. Although it was quite a hard test.

 

[Paddaball]

I dunno about you guys but I'll definitely be waiting for 1st semester results to come out before I choose whether to do an 8th paper (if they come out in time that is)... 3 papers next semester would be an absolute [pun] godsend [/pun] - although having said that the ethics paper (PHIL something) looks interesting, maybe if the grades are good enough I'll do that out of interest and not worry about trying to get an A+ for a change.

 

[Pineapple]

They have to come out 2 weeks after our final exam i.e before the 4th of july. when/how do we apply for that 8th paper? i haven't been told that much about course approval for next semester

 

[greenglacier]

Just go to the information desk in the link telling them which paper you want to add. They'll give you a form which you have to take to health sciences admissions to get it signed, then you can take it back to the information desk to get your 8th paper finalised. You can do it up until the end of the first week of 2nd semester, though if you know what paper you're going to take I'd say add it before the break, that way PIMS will be able to factor it in when it works out your timetable. You can always pull out of the paper (with no consequences) in the first couple of weeks of semester if you decide your semester 1 results are good enough.

 

[AmyT]

When the HUBS department say that the final exam is weighted towards Immunology what percentage of the multi choice will this actually be?

 

[greenglacier]

Expect something in the region of 20 immunology MCQs



EDIT - Also, I've added 10 immunology MCQs to the pre-clinical question bank if any of you HSFYers want some practice.

 

[smile]

Just wanted to wish everyone all the best for exams! Health sci is almost halfway over!
Study hard, stay cool and make sure you enjoy your holidays!
Good luck!

 

[Cathay]

I left HUBS early (at 2 hours 36 minutes in), lol... There's a point where you've triple checked MCQs and SAQs, re-read the mini-essays and touched up details, and see no particular purpose in staying, nor wish to hear people discussing the exam content (because debriefing each other after an exam but before another exam is a bad idea - it will likely make you feel bad about what you can no longer change, and it'll bother you so you can't focus on upcoming exams), at which point leaving is the logical thing to do...

While I'm at it, may I ask that our health sci MSOers (who haven't got a mod to ban them until the end of exams) refrain from debriefing each other (content-wise) for the moment? There's no particular purpose other than making you feel bad about what you can't change, and it could eat away at your confidence for the upcoming exams (which you CAN still change)...

EDIT: For what it's worth, as I finish each exam I'll be clearing out all my stuff on that subject - paper/books into boxes, and digital stuff into backup drives and deleted from main drives, just so I don't suddenly see something and go "ohhh CRAP I got that wrong" and distract myself from the rest of the exams...

 

[kaixian0011]

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-Rips hair out-

 

[Cathay]

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-Rips hair out-

Um... May the Force be with you, I guess?

 

[kaixian0011]

If you see a chair breaking the glass falling down from the central library.
That would be me.

 

[Cathay]

I was... blatantly ignoring Lyall's advice, again...

 

[aaa24]

Yay! We are half way guys! Now that the 'easy' ones are over, only 2 more left and we are dooooone!

I have to say though, that cells test was harder than anticipated - harder than hubs anyway. Probably because i anticipated answering questions on Griffith's experiment, oh and i should have focused a bit more on the first few lectures. But overall it was pretty standard.

 

[Hinemoa]

I'm so worried about chemistry

 

[aaa24]

Well that was relatively insane compared to all the practice tests....

 

[Pineapple]

hmmm yeah it was harder. i wonder if they'll scale it much.

 

[aaa24]

Maybe, wonder if Bellamy will get 100% lol, prolly. I might scrape in an A+ hopefully.... 1-2 stupid mistakes from the MCQ that im regretting! Read the damn question and don't always assume that when they ask about configuration they are talking about chiral carbons.

Well, now im really relieved. Only 1 more to go and we are done!

 

[AmyT]

Do they normally scale the exams much? I thought Chem was pretty hard compared to previous years.

 

[greenglacier]

Normally only 1 or 2 of the health sci exams are scaled (and it's actually quite difficult to predict what will and won't be scaled). I've not seen the chem exam paper, so maybe it was unusually difficult this year, but most cohorts find the chem exam "unusually difficult" just because of the way that stuff which might be easy outside the exam room becomes difficult inside it. Nonetheless, people tend to get through it alright, and they definitely didn't scale in my year (2009).

I guess what I'm trying to say is don't dwell on the exam (and this includes speculating if there will be scaling) - I can 99% guarantee that results won't be out for a good two weeks, and you want to enjoy those two weeks. They don't tell you if your results have been scaled anyway (you can only find out by viewing your exam paper).