Well you kinda do both. The first part of the HEAL192 paper is epidemiology, where you learn about study designs and so on. The second part is more about the major issues in public/population health like diabetes etc. The pop health paper at Auckland has a larger focus on public/population health than the HEAL192 paper at otago.
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Sort of. The first half when you're learning about types of studies and how to calculate some figures is memorisation. Whereas in 2nd half of epi it's more general knowledge and things that you probably already know because you've seen it before i.e. population health so it would've applied to you and you'll have been exposed to all the alcohol/smoking is bad stuff. There's lots of graphs and figures in each pop health lecture so knowing the general trend is enough, don't need to memorise numbers or anything like that.
First part is way less memorisation than second part. First part if you understood the study designs you could work out the advantages and disadvantages and stuff without having to memorise them. Second part I just crammed in as much as possible into my head and it worked out good lol. The exam was really hard and it was my worst mark but I'm not complaining 
Cool. I was weighing up different methods and how to best maximise my effectiveness.. and i was wondering what did you guys do as the semester progressed? (i realise everyone would do it differently) Did you work on understanding the material that you learned each day or begin remembering details progressively or i dunno anything.. Just so I can see how other people have done it and compare it with how im currently doing it
What I feel is the optimum method is to get all the concepts and understanding fininshed as soon as possible by listening carefully in lectures. After that you spend as many hours as possible memorising all teh facts relevant to the lecture objectives. I did that by remmebering paragraphs at a time word for word then writing them out in full (never summarise, the point is to retain detail and not to lose any of it), and repeating this process for all my notes multiple times. So basically whenever you have time to study, you'll be writing notes out as many times as possible.
You seriously memorised entire paragraphs word for word?
Well hats off to you! Funny sh*t though. I always thought that was hyperbole and people didn't actually rote learn like that. My eyes have been opened today.
To the best of my ability of course 
For papers like HUBS which is pure rote learning I think I could've recited about upwards of 90% word for word just before sitting the final. The approach worked really well for me in terms of results, but I dunno how applicable or practical it is for others. It's the only advice I can give cause that's what I did and it worked out good lol. Saves you time having to think about how to phrase something in an exam where the only thing you have to do is essentially identify what to regurgitate then regurgitate it onto the paper.
For papers like HUBS which is pure rote learning I think I could've recited about upwards of 90% word for word just before sitting the final. The approach worked really well for me in terms of results, but I dunno how applicable or practical it is for others. It's the only advice I can give cause that's what I did and it worked out good lol. Saves you time having to think about how to phrase something in an exam where the only thing you have to do is essentially identify what to regurgitate then regurgitate it onto the paper.
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Memorizing 90% word for word? thats impressive! and it obviously worked.
Are the final exams for hubs and cells 100% multichoice?
Are the final exams for hubs and cells 100% multichoice?
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