Sam
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Idk, seems like the average I've picked up from everyone's results etc. We can't all get 100% like you.
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Idk, seems like the average I've picked up from everyone's results etc. We can't all get 100% like you.
But aiming for anything less than that is silly. Just like aiming for a specific rank score.
Sam
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Have to be semi realistic though. However, obviously you go in with the intent of getting 100% on every test.
Semi-realistic sure. "From memory of what meds have said on this forum" is a bit misleading lol. I don't think any of us have said that's what you need to get in those papers. Those numbers are just averages you might have seen.
Sam
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Seen, heard. Same thing xD! Such a pedant.
I don't think any of us aimed for those marks, tbh, we ended up with those marks.
As sky and gg clarified before, aim for the sky (unintentional pun >.>) and nothing less.
EDIT: I'm not too fond of this whole "yeah but we can't be like you" business. If you work hard enough, it's very realistic that you'd get damn near 100. If you think you can't be like past students, you're already putting yourself down tbh.
As sky and gg clarified before, aim for the sky (unintentional pun >.>) and nothing less.
EDIT: I'm not too fond of this whole "yeah but we can't be like you" business. If you work hard enough, it's very realistic that you'd get damn near 100. If you think you can't be like past students, you're already putting yourself down tbh.
informedconsent
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I'm still at a hall, so I see 12984729867532985984325 Health-Scis running round saying this to pretty much every med student they come across. Just work a little, play a little and you'll be ultra-mega-surprised at your results. When I got my first-sem marks back I was absolutely amazed to see what I had ended up with.
Haha I HAD to drag this up from a couple pages back, classic.
Nimbus2000
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[MENTION=9869]Hari[/MENTION],
I'm a new hsfy-er, and i've experienced like 10 lectures from every course... so my "thoughts/thinkings" may not be completely accurate, but i'll tell about what happens for the first 10 lectures or so anyway
like the others said it's all rote learning for HUBS and CELS and for HUBS, barely anything is actually on the slides (except for like the first 4 lectures, where everything is written down on the slides, in not too much detail, but detail enough for you to recall phrases that the lecturer may have said that relates to what's been written down. HUBS, so far, is the biggest ***** of a paper, in terms of the fact that they don't release lecture slides early, and yet expect us to write down tonnes and tonnes of info, all whilst listening to the lecturer --- there really isn't much time (IMO) to actually think about what's being said/link between the slides as you progress through the lecture. CELS, most of the stuff is on the slides (and they release them early... YAY) but the lecturer's do have a habit of saying extra stuff but not to the extensive amount that HUBS likes to do. CHEM, everything is on the slides, i absolutely force myself to write down extra stuff... but that's just rephrasing the stuff that's written in technical terms into like understandable language so that I remember it better... chem lec's u can study of the lectures its all good, that's all they're going to give you
PHSI. i'm not going to say anything abt phsi, because i am horrendously behind, but for the first topic (mechanics), the lecturer says what's on the slide, maybe a few extra illustrative everyday examples... but you don't want to write those down... waste of time, they're not going to ask you that stuff... just TODAY, our lecturer said 'If it's not on the lecture slides, don't learn it, you don't need to know it' and like the other guys said, just take in a sheet, write whatever you can't remember on it, and don't bother "learning" unless you're left with spare time. 
good luck
I'm a new hsfy-er, and i've experienced like 10 lectures from every course... so my "thoughts/thinkings" may not be completely accurate, but i'll tell about what happens for the first 10 lectures or so anyway
like the others said it's all rote learning for HUBS and CELS and for HUBS, barely anything is actually on the slides (except for like the first 4 lectures, where everything is written down on the slides, in not too much detail, but detail enough for you to recall phrases that the lecturer may have said that relates to what's been written down. HUBS, so far, is the biggest ***** of a paper, in terms of the fact that they don't release lecture slides early, and yet expect us to write down tonnes and tonnes of info, all whilst listening to the lecturer --- there really isn't much time (IMO) to actually think about what's being said/link between the slides as you progress through the lecture. CELS, most of the stuff is on the slides (and they release them early... YAY) but the lecturer's do have a habit of saying extra stuff but not to the extensive amount that HUBS likes to do. CHEM, everything is on the slides, i absolutely force myself to write down extra stuff... but that's just rephrasing the stuff that's written in technical terms into like understandable language so that I remember it better... chem lec's u can study of the lectures its all good, that's all they're going to give you
PHSI. i'm not going to say anything abt phsi, because i am horrendously behind, but for the first topic (mechanics), the lecturer says what's on the slide, maybe a few extra illustrative everyday examples... but you don't want to write those down... waste of time, they're not going to ask you that stuff... just TODAY, our lecturer said 'If it's not on the lecture slides, don't learn it, you don't need to know it' and like the other guys said, just take in a sheet, write whatever you can't remember on it, and don't bother "learning" unless you're left with spare time. good luck
informedconsent
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PHSI. i'm not going to say anything abt phsi, because i am horrendously behind, but for the first topic (mechanics), the lecturer says what's on the slide, maybe a few extra illustrative everyday examples... but you don't want to write those down... waste of time, they're not going to ask you that stuff... just TODAY, our lecturer said 'If it's not on the lecture slides, don't learn it, you don't need to know it' and like the other guys said, just take in a sheet, write whatever you can't remember on it, and don't bother "learning" unless you're left with spare time.
I never paid too much attention to the slides for PHSI, if you have the book you could try doing notes from each chapter as you complete the lectures for them... although there is some extra information in the book I found it easy enough to select what I needed to know from my few minutes awake of each lecture.
keypadlocked
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Hey,
Does anyone know what the HUBS Lecturer was trying to get at today when she was saying that the joint cavity is not an actual cavity? At first, I thought she meant that it was like the plastic bag. It has the potential to open up, when you cut the joint open (like, in a lab or something), but otherwise, the 'plastic bag' remains 'empty'... Sorry that wasn't very well articulated (Oh, I'm funny). From reading the textbook, though, I get the impression that, depending on how the joint moves, the cavity opens up...?
Any clarification would be much appreciated.
Does anyone know what the HUBS Lecturer was trying to get at today when she was saying that the joint cavity is not an actual cavity? At first, I thought she meant that it was like the plastic bag. It has the potential to open up, when you cut the joint open (like, in a lab or something), but otherwise, the 'plastic bag' remains 'empty'... Sorry that wasn't very well articulated (Oh, I'm funny). From reading the textbook, though, I get the impression that, depending on how the joint moves, the cavity opens up...?
Any clarification would be much appreciated.
It'll be retaught in HUBS192 as well because that's a bit like how serous membrane-bound cavities (around various organs) work.
Essentially, it's a bit like two sheets of plastic sealed at all edges, with some fluid in between but no air at all. No matter how you try to pull apart the two sheets, because you can't just "stretch" the fluid inbetween, it won't open up. But if you cut the plastic open, then you can peel them apart and open up that cavity.
Obviously the joint is more complicated because there's bone and cartilage in the cavity, but as far as I'm aware there's no air, so it's a potential space but you'll have great difficulty trying to open it up without cutting open the joint capsule to let air in first.
Sam
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LOL are you the one that kept turning his head around while doing the strange face? If so, you are a champion.
Caesar
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Aye, that were me.
Sam
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You sir, are a ****ing hero. Had the entire St Davids laughing bahaha
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Caesar
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Cheers lol.
Hey srs question now, I just did my first GLM, and found it incredibly easy and got 10 out of 10 in like... 5 min. Are the exams anything like this? Now I'm just getting worried that the exams are going to be extra hard and they're trying to woo us into a false sense of security. Paranoia level >9k.
Hey srs question now, I just did my first GLM, and found it incredibly easy and got 10 out of 10 in like... 5 min. Are the exams anything like this? Now I'm just getting worried that the exams are going to be extra hard and they're trying to woo us into a false sense of security. Paranoia level >9k.
Ben
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I'm pretty sure CELS will be just as easy, but remember the amount of content will be far more vast for the final exam.
Hey guys, just making sure I got this right - the HUBS lecturer told us that we don't have to know anything about diabetes for the upcoming term's test right (I think he said it was only there to help with our understanding and that we'll learn it in detail later in the course)?
Sam
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I'm 99% sure this is the case. I remember him saying this and I haven't seen any reference to diabetes in the old terms tests. However, knowledge of body heat control and glucose regulation would be a good idea to have- it's what Lab2 is based on and they said that was examinable.
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