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Otago HSFY chat - archive

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Basicly they went over the various stages you have to go through to become a junior practitioner/senior registrar. The stages include years of trainings (both in and out of the hospital), more than too many examination, lots of moving around, quite possibly failing a few times and having to repeat.

I remember her putting it into perspective by asking us to imagine working a full day, 9-5, after which you'd have classes similar to a normal day of uni (say 3 lectures and maybe a lab once or twice a week), having to study for any upcoming exams. And if you're really lucky, 2 kids and a partner to deal with.

Pretty much, you'd be in your early 30's before you begin to get anywhere.

Ha!! I'm being far to pessimistic.. Med definitely would be extremely rewarding. I guess it all depends on how much you value your social life compared to whatever reason it may be of you wanting to become a doctor
 
Basically med will influence your life


Notice epi discussion board is still down.......:lol:
 
sry for double post.

Just in case anyone else was wondering about this, I spoke to Otago's Liason Officer today... The Health Sciences faculty may also ask for an interview, in which they will also consider your cultural involvement and Maori heritage as well as academic performance.
 
What a load of **** bout UMAT coming out at 10am......it prob won't be out until next week or something. Anyway goodluck
 
Hey um, I know it seems a little minor compared to UMAT, but marks for the BIOC test have just been released on blackboard...

49/50 for me - I guess pretty pleasing, though I'm quite keen to learn what question I got wrong now... Good thing Tony is going to post the answers on blackboard as well.
 
Agreed. Remember that for the folks at ACER, it is only 9:45 right now. They've probably only been working at it for 45 minutes today.

I wouldn't give up just yet...
 
Well done greenglacier! I got 47/50, Im pretty sure I know which ones I got wrong. Not too bad considering it was worth 20%
 
Fellow Health Scis, there is exactly one month (yes, FOUR WEEKS!!) left until the HUBS192 Final. God help us all.
 
Oh dear haha, but HUBS will probably be the easiest exam......I'm dreading epi, and the fact that biochem, maori and epi are all in a row, its guna be so hard to study!
 
Otago HSFY question

Hi I am currently an year 13 NZ student.

I have read that there is an English Diagnostic Test for all HSFY students.
I am very worried about this because my english literature skills are .. fail.

What I would like to know is, what is this English Diagnostic Test?

Could anyone please help me out and tell me what this test is like, what it's about, the difficulty of the test...etc. and maybe give me a few example question:huh:?

I would appreciate it so much...
 
I see you're studying A2. 4th form NCEA english will be more than enough for this test. It's so incredibly easy, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. There are 3 or 4 sections (i forget) in total. First section you have to read through a passage and answer some multiple choice questions (very easy). Second section is called "dialogue" whereby they play a recording of someone speaking and all you have to do is transcribe/write down everything you hear (quite hard if you're a slow writer...be sure to jot down things v. quickly). Last section is probably the easiest and most enjoyable - mini essay. They give you a list of topics, you pick one and write about it. This is where AS/A2 english comes in handy. Make sure your tone is argumentative. Try to make convincing points. The option i chose was "Do health professionals need to have people skills or problem solving skills?" and I argued that they needed both - psychiatrists need more ppl skills and less problem solving and vice versa for surgeons. I can't remember any examples of questoins from first section, but they were so easy. It's a very easy hurdle to jump overall (ESPECIALLY if you've done Cambridge english) :)
 
It's to identify those who struggle with everyday English. You will be perfectly fine, serious. It's nothing to do with english lit, it's just basic English skills like comprehension and dictation.
 
How did you go GG? Sorry to hear about your result Sasol :(
I'm too overwhelmed to check my results. I'll leave it 'till after finals.
 
SASOL if you consider a postgrad attempt remember that you have 2 shots at UMAT and that you only need 25 percentile in each section to qualify, then it's ALL done on GPA (weighted more towards the later years of your degree).
 
Cheers koochkooch, Im gutted eh, can't believe I did so bad. Although I may have a slim chance if heaps do bad, which I highly doubt. Section 1 wasnt too bad, 85th percentile, which may help on Otagos way of using it but section 2 and 3 were really bad, so probably not.
 
Section 1: 84 (100th percentile)
Section 2: 50 (63rd percentile)
Section 3: 71 (96th percentile)

Overall: 68 (99th percentile), moving down to 67.4 after Otago weighting kicks in.

I'm pretty happy with my new UMAT score (given that I needed to improve from 96th percentile to make taking it a second time worthwhile), though my section 2 performance is once again slightly annoying.

I'm surprised to hear you can just hold off looking at your results until after finals koochkooch... Maybe wait a week, but I'd say you should check well before exams, just so you know where you stand. Yeah, results may be bad but they may not - a couple of people on my floor are now in a much better position for med (after getting 99th and 100th percentiles), and that was a real boost for them.

Oh, and yeah I was so gutted for you SASOL when I heard your mark... :( :(
 
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