Even then you don't if you get it signed off by the health sciences admissions office.
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Otago HSFY chat - archive
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noblelady777
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Ahh, thanks so much! I was starting to worry that I had to change my tickets! 
Nimbus2000
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At the time, yes I did... but I've just realised that the answers are no longer there :/ I know for SURES that I got the answers off the library website before (ages ago - during course approval week) but I can't find them there anymore :/
To give you background information so you really understand what's going on when they say stuff in the lecture.
That's HUBS 1 and 2... Which occasionally ask the odd MCQ that isn't in the lectures anymore - I hear it's because they have a pool of questions they select from, and they're from a while ago and haven't been updated. I know they say they examine on everything including readings, but the fact of the matter is the vast majority of questions are covered in the lectures, so it's your choice whether to spend tons of time (the least available resource in HSFY) doing the readings to get a mark or two when you can be memorising lecture material to secure all the rest of the marks.
As I've said the idea of the readings is to help you understand the lecturer's content, keeping them in the back of your mind is optional. They aren't exactly "not super relevant" - they may well be relevant for the topic but the lecturer decided they're not the focus of their lecture, i.e. they're not the focus of this course.
Because it's actually possible to learn from reading a book rather than having to have someone tell it to you in a lecture?
Sigh, I have no idea what you mean by "do plussage actually help".
All that plussage is, is that if your final exam results are proportionally better than your mid-semester test results, they will boost your mid-semester test results to match it. So if you got 15/20 in mid-semester, but got 50/55 in the finals, they will boost your mid-sem to 18.18/20 to match the finals. If you're asking whether this is applied for everyone, then the answer is yes, as long as your final exam result is proportionally better than your mid-semester results then it WILL apply.
By "relying on plussage" it means you pretty much don't study for physics mid-semester, and get a bad mark, then try to boost it with your final exams. But I tend to think that if you put in solid work to get a good mark in mid-semester, you will then *understand* and *know* the first half of PHSI191, which will make it easier for you to get high marks in the final exam. So that's presumably what they meant by "don't rely on plussage".
Caesar
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[OFFTOPIC] LOL [/OFFTOPIC]
Sam
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If it ain't on the lecture slides it ain't worth knowing!
Caesar
Regular Member
I call troll.
Sam
¿umm?
No troll, just truth
While in a general sense I disagree with 'If it isn't on the slides, it's not worth knowing'... This is HSFY, so it's a fair call
I believe the point of tertiary education is 'Learning' So really, learn as much as you can (god knows you are paying for it)
HSFY is *not* the same as most other uni courses. I'm afraid that if you don't get into the course you want for second year, then the fact that you'd 'learned heaps' would be pretty poor consolation. HSFY really isn't about getting the most out of your learning experience, it's about memorising a butt-ton of little facts (assuming you've got the basics, which are pretty, well, basic).I believe the point of tertiary education is 'Learning' So really, learn as much as you can (god knows you are paying for it)
So while I'd agree with you were you talking about any uni course which wasn't a competitive first year, I'm afraid when it comes to HSFY, all these ideals about 'learning heaps', and 'having good study habits' go out the window somewhat.
Well thats all nice and well to say that, you are missing the whole point of education then. Sad but true.
Think of HSFY as a stepping stone into proper education... Use more specialized methods to unlock access to such things as dentistry and medicine, THEN learn as much as possible...
Admittedly I'm being a hypocrite arguing with you here muse, I was very much against the "I only want to learn what I need to learn" attitude in health sci, and froot still fails to understand why I learned so much about the biochemistry of tanning (which is very interesting) when the BIOC GLM only involved a few questions in the terms test... Still, I can appreciate why some see it as a "learn what I need to learn to get into what I want to get into" exercise...
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