Otago HSFY chat - archive

[marsupial]

I was originally assigned to St David but looking at the cramped it was for cels compared to quad, i think i may as well endure 50 minutes of quad 2 from now on.

I did that last year You'll find that when there are two lecture theatres video streaming and one of those happens to be St David- EVERYONE will try to get a seat in St David. It becomes a bit of a hassle having to look up and down St D for a seat, so if people don't go to their theatre, you might as well go to theirs! This becomes especially true for chem lectures! At least last year it did anyway.

 

[Nimbus2000]

I was originally assigned to St David but looking at the cramped it was for cels compared to quad, i think i may as well endure 50 minutes of quad 2 from now on. In quad 2 i get a whole row to myself and i can stretch without hitting the 2 people beside me and blocking the view for the person behind me

Lol ur kidding! What so people have already started stream jumping, it was the first day of uni!

 

[noblelady777]

Do we need to remember everything that is included in the readings for HUBS or is remembering only the slides sufficient for the exams? The readings for HUBS are so detailed and I can't even remember half of what I read.:cry:

 

[Nimbus2000]

Do we need to remember everything that is included in the readings for HUBS or is remembering only the slides sufficient for the exams? The readings for HUBS are so detailed and I can't even remember half of what I read.:cry:

Hey happy belated welcome to Mso! Unfortunately, from what I've read/ heard from the mods, most departments don't test based on readings but apparently for hubs, they have been known to examine what does appear in the readings... Apparently they've done it before... Shoot. I havent even started reading the material for hubs :s

 

[Profiterole]

ah crap... hubs reading... need to find my old notes x.x

oh well, have all afternoon to do so (and.... cue procrastination!)

 

[Sam]

I don't think the mechanics lecturer could have gone through that any faster! I pity the people who haven't done the basics before haha.

 

[Profiterole]

Well, if you read the pre-reading and did the problems, you'll find that although he did go the through the slides quickly, he actually didn't go through much :/

 

[Sam]

Well, if you read the pre-reading and did the problems, you'll find that although he did go through it fast, it actually didn't go through much :/

Yeah I agree. I think keeping up with the pre-readings regarding physics will help a lot.

 

[Profiterole]

In my opinion, I think for all the lectures, its teaching yourself with the prereadings/reading ahead and then only using the lectures as revision or to add things you may have missed out.

 

[alice]

So the general consensus is that everything on lecture slides is what you need to learn - but how necessary is some of it? For instance from today's CELS lecture, is it really necessary for us to know the dates/history/people involved with the development of new microscopes or is it ok if we just know the way each type of microscope works?

 

[Sam]

So the general consensus is that everything on lecture slides is what you need to learn - but how necessary is some of it? For instance from today's CELS lecture, is it really necessary for us to know the dates/history/people involved with the development of new microscopes or is it ok if we just know the way each type of microscope works?

I was wondering that as well, I sort of took it as just a bit of background on the subject. Maybe information regarding how much x type of microscope can see.

 

[skyglow1]

So the general consensus is that everything on lecture slides is what you need to learn - but how necessary is some of it? For instance from today's CELS lecture, is it really necessary for us to know the dates/history/people involved with the development of new microscopes or is it ok if we just know the way each type of microscope works?

Use common sense. How likely do you think they are going to test on it?

You have more important things to worry about. Let's just say that in a month's time, if you knew all the details on nearly every slide of every lecture, you'd be doing rather well. Only then would you consider learning something as insignificant as dates, and or that matter, pre-reading. And that is a huge "if".

Because you guys have only just started, you have the luxury of contemplating learning things like dates and pre-reading. That luxury will not last very long.

 

[juna]

I am really struggling with physics (no surprise there), and the problems on the back of each chapter for our pre readings are quite difficult, and I can't do them. Are we expected to be able to do all the problems? And I am even more worried, because the past papers that frootloop mentioned- I can't do them either. I can't fail physics......

 

[Sam]

I am really struggling with physics (no surprise there), and the problems on the back of each chapter for our pre readings are quite difficult, and I can't do them. Are we expected to be able to do all the problems? And I am even more worried, because the past papers that frootloop mentioned- I can't do them either. I can't fail physics......

Someone mentioned that the ones in the book are A LOT harder than the actual exam ones. Have you looked at the previous exam papers on the physics website? They're much easier, largely just require plugging a few numbers into a formula and you're done.

If you're really struggling check out: Khan Academy - I watched those videos over summer and it helped a lot!

 

[Voldemort]

Do we need to remember everything that is included in the readings for HUBS or is remembering only the slides sufficient for the exams? The readings for HUBS are so detailed and I can't even remember half of what I read.:cry:

Once again, it is only really what is in the lectures that is important, which is why they give it to you in the lectures XD. I didn't do any of the readings and still managed to do pretty well in HUBS, as did the majority of post health scis on here (if not all). If you want to do the readings, I suggest you do them after the lecture for reinforcement. Focus on knowing the information from your lectures really well and you will be fine. Refer to the textbook for things you don't understand. If there are questions from the readings, it will probably be like 1 MCQ, which is not worth memorising your textbook.
In fact, I had meddies tell me that you can get straight A+s without using your textbooks at all...

I am really struggling with physics (no surprise there), and the problems on the back of each chapter for our pre readings are quite difficult, and I can't do them. Are we expected to be able to do all the problems? And I am even more worried, because the past papers that frootloop mentioned- I can't do them either. I can't fail physics.....

To reiterate what previous quotes have said (I think it was Froot), the textbook questions are quite a bit harder than exam questions, and are really good practice. On the note of exam questions - isn't it just the first day of real lectures? Don't get stressed already!!! As the lectures start coming out, they will become clearer. Terry Scott also runs the ECG (exam coaching group) lectures throughout the course, which help.
First and most vital step to aceing Health Sci: Calm down!

 

[Sam]

Heh, I think peoples stress is coming from the fact that we really have nothing to do at the moment. I've personally had 2 lectures with actual content and they've all been really basic stuff, hardly anything to revise! Plus I've heard that health sci is "insanely hard" about 10 times now xD

I'm sure everyone will be alright a week or two down the line

edit: Has anyone done the HUBs lab yet? What does it involve? I've got it tomorrow morning @ 9, looking forward to it.

 

[frootloop]

In my opinion, I think for all the lectures, its teaching yourself with the prereadings/reading ahead and then only using the lectures as revision or to add things you may have missed out.

If this works for you, you'd be the first person I'd ever heard of doing it. You have quite a lot on your plate in HSFY, if you can keep so up to date that you have the luxury of understanding everything before the lectures, then you're nothing short of a superhero... Personally I was really, really happy with myself if, by the end of a night, I'd written up everything from that day's lectures. Usually, it wasn't till the weekends that I caught up.
Trust me, give it a week or two and you'll realise just how unnecessary/impossible it is to 'use lectures as revision'

 

[Voldemort]

Heh, I think peoples stress is coming from the fact that we really have nothing to do at the moment. I've personally had 2 lectures with actual content and they've all been really basic stuff, hardly anything to revise! Plus I've heard that health sci is "insanely hard" about 10 times now xD

I'm sure everyone will be alright a week or two down the line

Yeah I think you're right. So what you guys should do is actually learn those slides really well, even though they're basic. Use peerwise, make some questions. My experience (and that of some of my seniors) is that the content in Health Sci isn't horribly complicated, but learning it, time management and the pressure is. Master that, and you are the master of Health Sci. Therefore the universe.

 

[Wongtong]

I agree with lulwut. For me, I'm just worried about knowing what is going to be examined. From what netpat2 said, I'm going to take it that lecture slides will be examined along with labs but not much of the pre-reading(?).

 

[Voldemort]

I agree with lulwut. For me, I'm just worried about knowing what is going to be examined. From what netpat2 said, I'm going to take it that lecture slides will be examined along with labs but not much of the pre-reading(?).

You've got it. They say GLMs as well, but in reality a lot of what is in the labs and GLMs are in the lectures. Spend most of your time and effort on your lectures, and a bit on the labs and GLMs.