Profiterole
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BLOODY LEGEN....... wait for it.........DARY
thank you so much!!!!
just wondering, is there any prelab prep needed for the first chem lab?
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BLOODY LEGEN....... wait for it.........DARY
thank you so much!!!!
just wondering, is there any prelab prep needed for the first chem lab?
There's the best choice thing
Hey guys! I haven't been on mso for exactly two days just because I have been so busy! A question- is it normal to be feeling this busy at this time of the year? Because we're not really even that much into the year (before the work really piles on) and I feel like I'm studying all the time. At Carrington, some people are studying hard, some taking it easy, and I don't know which is the right way to go about it. Like frootloop said, health science is all about stamina- a marathon, not a sprint. I hope I don't have a breakdown, or something similar throughout the year.
Sam
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Personally, I study a fair bit (I'm pretty useless at physics so it's mostly that lol), however I'm going full into it yet. Most stuff except physics has hardly needed much study. I feel like the workload will increase a lot from how it is now as we start to learn new concepts which weren't covered during HS. Try not to burn yourself out, take some breaks to just relax sometimes IMO.
I give you... @Cathay , who did exactly that (for semester one
)That said, 95%+ (overall average) is really, really uncommon (it's quite a bit more common if you just look at semester one averages, because they're subjects that heavily overlap with high school (CELS, CHEM, PHSI)), and while it's a good goal, don't beat yourself up too much if you don't manage it. I only know of 4 people in my year who managed it (which means there were probably 10-15 others that I haven't heard of. But still, that's sort of 20 out of 1300. It's a pretty small number of people getting marks like that).
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*ahem* my overall was 93.4 for the whole year. But yes, if you did in fact understand and remember everything there is on the slides (which I didn't - got lazy eventually) you're looking at a very good chance of getting 95+
By this I mean: the faculty will very literally give you everything you need in order to get full marks. This is university, and the difference from NCEA/Cambridge is that the exams are written by the people who taught you, so they know what you're taught, and they will only draw on that knowledge base.
Every now and then you might find it helpful to seek other resources to help you understand something, but it's not required - you don't *need* outside resources to get 95.
By this I mean: the faculty will very literally give you everything you need in order to get full marks. This is university, and the difference from NCEA/Cambridge is that the exams are written by the people who taught you, so they know what you're taught, and they will only draw on that knowledge base.
Every now and then you might find it helpful to seek other resources to help you understand something, but it's not required - you don't *need* outside resources to get 95.
Profiterole
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Just wondering, how does the exit tests work towards contributions to the final grades?
I presume this is CHEM.
There are 6 tests, each is scored out of 6. At the end of the semester they take your best five, and get a score out of 30. If your worst exit test is lower than the number of Bestchoice pre-lab sheets you've handed in, then the higher one will count.
You get a final score out of 30, and if chem191 works like it did, then they have that score because exit test count towards 15% of your final mark.
There's 6 exit tests, and best-choice. Each one is worth a maximum of 3% toward your final mark. They take your best 5 (best-choice being counted as an instant '3%', pretty much, meaning you only need to get the full 3% in 4 of the exit tests to get the full 15%)
ETA: Beaten to it.
Sam
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I imagine dent would be around the same as med? So like 90+? Pharmacy maybe a bit lower.
Pharmacy is traditionally around 70%. Dentistry you'll realistically want to be around the 85% mark (the admissions office last year told me a 'low A-' was the lowest mark in from the 2010 HSFY cohort to get a dent offer, dunno about last year), but the fact that there's an interview and a UMAT threshold kind of make it difficult to work out exactly what marks you need for dentistry. Ask @bobby190 , or @epikness re: dent cut-off, they might have an idea from talking to people in their class?
Nimbus2000
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hey guys, do you guys know for the CELS GLM... Section 1, Activity 1, Question 4 - do you guys know whether we just assume for everything they want to see the internal structure unless they explicitly state that they want to see the "external surface"?
Also, I need some advice ---> How on EARTH do you keep up with the load, I found it cope-able-ish last week (as in, i had my notes done for most subjects, and was terribly behind in another, and sort of behind in another), but this weekend, i didn't manage to catch up with everything. Writing out notes, takes me ages, but writing out notes takes forever! [MENTION=10716]frootloop[/MENTION], i know you said that you wrote out all your notes, but would you have any clue whether ONLY annotating lecture slides will help? I still annotate lecture slides, but I also like to write out my own notes... is this wise? I'm more scared than anything - feels like if I don't do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure I know all this stuff, I won't be able to make it in
/depression.
podcasts, as of 2 seconds ago, all the ones that should be up are up, except for chem, but i recall one of the mods saying that they usually wait till the end of the week for those, so today's lecture will probably go up at the end of the week.
If you want to know how to find it: Go to blackboard,sign in then click on the following: *insert name of paper* ---> Lectures ---> Podcasts
note: lectures is a "tab" on the left-hand side, but the podcast link is under the main script of the page on the Lectures Tab
Also, I need some advice ---> How on EARTH do you keep up with the load, I found it cope-able-ish last week (as in, i had my notes done for most subjects, and was terribly behind in another, and sort of behind in another), but this weekend, i didn't manage to catch up with everything. Writing out notes, takes me ages, but writing out notes takes forever! [MENTION=10716]frootloop[/MENTION], i know you said that you wrote out all your notes, but would you have any clue whether ONLY annotating lecture slides will help? I still annotate lecture slides, but I also like to write out my own notes... is this wise? I'm more scared than anything - feels like if I don't do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure I know all this stuff, I won't be able to make it in
/depression.
podcasts, as of 2 seconds ago, all the ones that should be up are up, except for chem, but i recall one of the mods saying that they usually wait till the end of the week for those, so today's lecture will probably go up at the end of the week.
If you want to know how to find it: Go to blackboard,sign in then click on the following: *insert name of paper* ---> Lectures ---> Podcastsnote: lectures is a "tab" on the left-hand side
, but the podcast link is under the main script of the page on the Lectures Tab
I don't know, I can't comment on 1) the effectiveness of a technique I didn't use, or 2) how well my technique would work for anyone else. But what I will say is this: test yourself on it. When you're done studying for the night, test yourself to see if you can cover up bits of your notes and remember everything about that particular bit. Or get people to write you questions, and test yourself using them. Yeah, I like testing myself when studying, applying something, in my opinion, is going to make it sink in better.@frootloop , i know you said that you wrote out all your notes, but would you have any clue whether ONLY annotating lecture slides will help? I still annotate lecture slides, but I also like to write out my own notes... is this wise? I'm more scared than anything - feels like if I don't do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure I know all this stuff, I won't be able to make it in
/depression.
Nimbus2000
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ohhh. so you're supposed to have done the lab to be able to do it. LOL i should probably wait till I have my lab then.
Voldemort
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@frootloop , i know you said that you wrote out all your notes, but would you have any clue whether ONLY annotating lecture slides will help? I still annotate lecture slides, but I also like to write out my own notes... is this wise? I'm more scared than anything - feels like if I don't do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure I know all this stuff, I won't be able to make it in
First of all, don't get scared. It is detrimental to your chances of getting in. Health Sci is mostly a mind game. Keep the pressure out and you'll ace it. So if you were truly scared about not getting in, the first thing you'd do is stop being scared... if that makes sense XD sorry a deliberate attempt to confuse you. But yeah, don't get scared.
I know this will sound cheesy, but I used to visualise Health Sci as a battle, and I was fighting through it, to get to my final prize after the war was won...
Getting to the matter at hand: Annotating my slides was the only thing I used to do (well, actually, I found a 1B5 lying around in my room yesterday. Turns out I wrote notes for 4 HUBS lectures! lol). I would annotate them and study straight from them. I still do that now. It is the most time-effective way. However, if you find making notes is useful, then go ahead and do it. Just make sure that spending your time writing your notes is more effective than using that time memorising slides. I personally thought my time was better spent memorizing slides than writing notes, so that is what I did.
Your slides have everything you need to know. It makes perfect sense that memorizing them makes you memorize everything you need to know.
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