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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: seretide on May 06, 2012, 03:44:12 pm
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Hey guys!!
Just wondering if anyone has anything for biology exams? Like maybe an actual past exam? Or can give any advice on what might be seen on the exam - after all, they might have recurring questions from past years.
Thanks
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Isn't it still a month away??
Maybe i'd slowly start going over past lecture notes and then go hard out when they finished teaching the course
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Sigh.. no past exams available. Apparently they are putting up some questions on the discussion forum on the lms for bio, a trial exam will be released just before the actual exam for format as such. But for the moment, tutorial questions and lecture notes (also topic tutorials are good)
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Yeah i thought so... I guess the lecture notes and tutes will have to suffice for now.
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Memorize everything on lecture slide because they can only examine based on lecture slide content
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Memorise the GnRH/FSH/LH pathways.
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Memorise the GnRH/FSH/LH pathways.
already done ;)
What section would that be most likely for in the exam?
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Came up in the extended response section in 2010 from memory.
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oh ok, maybe they alternate but good to know anyway.
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Memorise the GnRH/FSH/LH pathways.
already done ;)
What section would that be most likely for in the exam?
D, or I wouldn't be telling you to memorise them.
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Memorise the GnRH/FSH/LH pathways.
what is that? :S
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It's to do with the control of spermatogenesis in males and the menstruation cycle in females. In 2010, we were asked to draw and explain the pathway in regards to the menstruation cycle.
oh ok, maybe they alternate but good to know anyway.
By extended response, I meant that it's in the part where you have to write an essay. I remember it well because I completely forgot to study it, and failed that question miserably.
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Female repro and GnRH etc is the worst :(
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thanks guys for these tips... things to study just keeping piling up! Good luck
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Female repro and GnRH etc is the worst :(
It's alright. There are worse things like the heart and stuff for me.
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Wut :O
I heart the heart, at least it makes sense. Far too much crazy stuff going on for me with the uterus and ovary, for no reason >.<
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^ i love the heart too :)
The reproductive system is alright too, i love biology it's my favorite subject ;D
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ewww menstrual cycle :(
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^ i love the heart too :)
The reproductive system is alright too, i love biology it's my favorite subject ;D
Bio is ok, better than yr 12 bio i think :P
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i think i enjoyed year12 bio more because we learnt stuff in detail. Uni bio is yr11 bio and yr12 bio except we only look at bits and pieces and don't necessarily look at it broadly, it's just a bunch of definitions and how some systems work but I think overall there isn't much applying...i don't know that's what i feel :)
can't wait till next year when we'll actually learn exciting stuff (i hope) :P
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What application did you have in year 12 that isn't present now?
But biology subjects will get better once you can take the specialized subjects like biochem/anatomy etc.
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^ i don't know it just feels we learn a bit of everything but nothing in detail, that's just what I feel
Yes the specialized subjects would be much better, really looking forward to it :)
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we learn a bit of everything but nothing in detail, that's just what I feel
Why i like it lol, hated application questions in year 12.
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But biology subjects will get better once you can take the specialized subjects like...anatomy...
Yeah, okay then #vomits
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Yeah the reason I told you guys about GnRH LH FSH is because it was the exam question for Sem 1 2010 and Sem 1 2011...but they have changed your course structure a bit I think so I wouldn't be sure it'll be on there, JUST A HUNCH. Also practice the question from tute (if it still is) on the transport of water and sugar in the plant!
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Yeah the reason I told you guys about GnRH LH FSH is because it was the exam question for Sem 1 2010 and Sem 1 2011...but they have changed your course structure a bit I think so I wouldn't be sure it'll be on there, JUST A HUNCH. Also practice the question from tute (if it still is) on the transport of water and sugar in the plant!
Yeah the tute person said that could be a likely question on section d too since there haven't been any plant questions there. Thanks for letting us know this stuff by the way :D
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thanks for the hints guys, really appreciate it ;D
we only have 2 extended questions this year :)
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we only have 2 extended questions this year :)
Yeah we had four, lmfao if it's those two.
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^ I know that would be great :D
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how are you guys studying for the exam??
i don't know where to start, the amount you have to memorise is overwhelming
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how are you guys studying for the exam??
i don't know where to start, the amount you have to memorise is overwhelming
I started studying earlier, i can't cram.
Sample exam, tutorials, topic tutorials, lectures...
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How do you know how detailed you have to learn it??
i mean you could learn like every single terminology featured in the lecture notes but that'd be outrageous!
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How do you know how detailed you have to learn it??
i mean you could learn like every single terminology featured in the lecture notes but that'd be outrageous!
I don't know i mean if you look at the sample exam, it's not that bad at all. Look at what has come up in tutorials, ilts etc. I am pretty sure that some of the plant guys stuff wont be on there because a lot of the time he didn't finish the lecture notes. At the end of the day it would be much worse to have real short answer questions, but we get fill in the blank questions and multiple choice, and there's that tutorial on section D tomorrow.
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I don't know if this is the right way to think but.. I dont think everything should be in complete detail. If you have a strong general idea of everything I think it should work pretty well. After all, we have multiple choice, fill in the blanks, diagrams and 2 essays, 1 of which is data analysis. So, doesn't seem to require a strong in depth knowledge of all topics.
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Thanks! I've gained some confidence, seeing that we don't have to study in that much detail :P
Hate that first year subjects are so broad and general :( can't wait for second year....
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just looked through the biol uni exam. why are ppl saying section D only has 2 questions? there are 11 essay response questions on the sample exam?
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If you look at the announcements - they've changed it this year. We only have 2 rather than previously which had like 4 if I'm right. They just provided us with that many questions for revision
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hehe our lecturer got a nice haircut before deciding to teach us.
Saw this in the staff info section. that's mark elgar!
(http://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-656080-dt-staffinfo-rid-9207681_2/courses/BIOL10004_2012_SM1/mark-elgar.jpg)
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lol... random.
Haha that revision lecture was so pointless.
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Mark Elgar CBF with it, left after like 10 minutes of QnA.
Rick Wetherbee seems obsessed with the fact that there are no "trick questions" in his part of the exam. Fun hearing his voice break :P
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Fun hearing his voice break :P
Haha, it's so easy to impersonate.
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Does anyone else think that because Rick's questions where cut short, that there is a higher probability that one of the essay questions might be his?
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nope, i think the essay questions are going to come from the last section on animal behavior and probably either from the botany section and reproduction part. Because the practice one was on rick's about endosymbiosis i don't think they'll put his section on the exam, which is disappointing because his section was the easiest
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Yeah probably plants or reproduction..
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Does anyone know how many questions there will be for labeling the diagrams and the fill in the blanks questions?
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Wait so how many essay questions can we choose from? Will they only give us two essay questions or more?
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There is no choice for the essay questions. And they are only giving us 2 questions this year - one is just a question and the other is data analysis
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What exactly does "data analysis" involve??
There doesn't seem to be a data analysis question in the sample exam so i'm unsure about what to expect
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did you go to the bio section d tutorial? They gave a sample data analysis question to work on.
Basically data analysis is usually a question based on some sort of experiment that is conducted and results are provided. You must use your biology skills to relate the data to biology, draw conclusions, form possible hypothesis etc. :)
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Damn, knew i should've gone to that tute!
hmm sounds similar to what we do in our pracs :P
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How is the studying coming along for bio? I'm gonna memorise like 10 lectures tomorrow haha, then onto plants the next day. Except i've done about 5/6th of my revision prior, so most is just consolidating knowledge.
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I just started going over lecture 15 :( 19 more lectures to go whoopie!!
Hopefully get em all done by Saturday and then spend the last two days just doing questions/sample exam/tutes etc.
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I just started going over lecture 15 :( 19 more lectures to go whoopie!!
Hopefully get em all done by Saturday and then spend the last two days just doing questions/sample exam/tutes etc.
not looking over rick's stuff?
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I just started going over lecture 15 :( 19 more lectures to go whoopie!!
Hopefully get em all done by Saturday and then spend the last two days just doing questions/sample exam/tutes etc.
not looking over rick's stuff?
i already went over them earlier this week. Rick's stuff is relatively easy as cell division, photosynthesis etc is general knowledge.
I'm upto the plant now and it's stuff i've never heard about :(
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Yeah I guess.
Plant hormones are the worst, so many functions! Everything else is ok.
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Gibberelin is my fav bio word :D
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i'm going back and forth as i feel like it lol!
i was doing reproduction yesterday, but then got sick of that section so i'm doing evolution now and then i'll go back to digestion and stuff on saturday :)
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Yeah I think you know you've reached the end point of studying, you feel as though your head's memory is 5/6th about biology and just can't wait to write all this stuff on paper and get it over with.
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Digestion is the worst. Did a "quick" summary this afternoon for my notes, I'm up to my sixth page and I'm nowhere near finished yet :(
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Digestion is the worst. Did a "quick" summary this afternoon for my notes, I'm up to my sixth page and I'm nowhere near finished yet :(
errr nice signature baby spicee!
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I think the hardest part is cutting out what you think you won't need to know, and then you see it on the exam.
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Digestion is the worst. Did a "quick" summary this afternoon for my notes, I'm up to my sixth page and I'm nowhere near finished yet :(
errr nice signature baby spicee!
It's a social experiment
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Digestion is the worst. Did a "quick" summary this afternoon for my notes, I'm up to my sixth page and I'm nowhere near finished yet :(
errr nice signature baby spicee!
It's a social experiment
I've seen the emo, the macho one, any others?
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You'll have to ask nina, she changes them without warning and doesn't let me change them back :(
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You'll have to ask nina, she changes them without warning and doesn't let me change them back :(
LMAO!!
Anway just wondering if you guys actually memorise what Protandry, Protogyny, Heterostyly, Distyly, Tristyly, Cleistogamy, Apomixis are in plant fertilisation.
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You'll have to ask nina, she changes them without warning and doesn't let me change them back :(
LMAO!!
Anway just wondering if you guys actually memorise what Protandry, Protogyny, Heterostyly, Distyly, Tristyly, Cleistogamy, Apomixis are in plant fertilisation.
Haha I did but forgot, will brush up on that on saturday
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I am so happy I don't have to remember those names anymore :)
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gahh we have to memorise these ridiculous terms that we will never ever use after the exam -.-
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I am so happy I don't have to remember those names anymore :)
I will be too :D
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Protandry, Protogyny, Heterostyly, Distyly, Tristyly, Cleistogamy, Apomixis are in plant fertilisation.
i "revised" plant stuff a few days ago, yet i can't recall any of these terms :'(
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Protandry, Protogyny, Heterostyly, Distyly, Tristyly, Cleistogamy, Apomixis are in plant fertilisation.
i "revised" plant stuff a few days ago, yet i can't recall any of these terms :'(
lol i don't blame ya :P
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okay i'm confused.
The lecture notes says:
WOOD - everything inside the vascular cambium
BARK - everything outside vascular cambium
But that doesn't make sense because in the summary it says "and together (Cork) with the
secondary phloem (Which is wood) it is commonly referred to as “bark”".
If bark is wood + cork then Bark should be everything inside and outside the vascular cambium?? not just outside it?? I also don't like how it says "everything" when wood is only the secondary xylem :S
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okay i'm confused.
The lecture notes says:
WOOD - everything inside the vascular cambium
BARK - everything outside vascular cambium
But that doesn't make sense because in the summary it says "and together (Cork) with the
secondary phloem (Which is wood) it is commonly referred to as “bark”".
If bark is wood + cork then Bark should be everything inside and outside the vascular cambium?? not just outside it?? I also don't like how it says "everything" when wood is only the secondary xylem :S
Don't get too stressed about it, it's probably unlikely it will be on the exam but probably just base what you know off lecture notes, like bark is everything outside vascular cambium etc. Sometimes the notes/summaries can be pretty ambiguous.
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So in the fill-in-the-gaps section, do they always give you a list of answers that you pick from??
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Yeah they do.. from what I've heard
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PM me your email if you want a past paper with answers (2008)
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So much memorisation I think I may go crazy
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Here are some more to help you out :D
Lepidophagy
Mucophagy
Ophiophagy
Xylophagy
Geophagy
Osteophagy
Trophallaxis
Oophagy
Paedophagy
Granivore
Insectivore
Myrmecophage
Mycophage
Frugivore
Piscivore
Folivore
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Haha those ones are okay! Looked them over today :P
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We don't need to learn all of those ones do we? Like do we need to memorise the 'unusual' ones or just the ones that got their own slides?
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I probably wouldn't be too concerned about the 'unusual' ones maybe just know a couple like oophagy and osteophagy because they are easy to remember and paedophagy, that's the easiest one!
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I'd look at the ones with their own slides- and examples of them, like mymercophage- echidna, frugivore- orangutan etc.
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LOL at PaedoPhagy
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Do you guys think we need to know the structure of the kidney? And about the digestive tracts of the male toad,male mouse, male reproductive tract, female urogenitial tract, female mouse urogenitial tract and human female reproductive tract? I think I'm about to die...
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^ unfortunately we do :)
the reproductive system stuff is easy, the structures are pretty similar except for the toad
i have not looked at kidney yet doing that today :)
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C'mon guys, we can do it!! It'll all be over soon!
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i don't understand how gastrulation occurs, can someone explain?
I understand the outcomes and stuff but not the actual process of it :(
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Do you need to know the actual process?
Not sure how much of this you already know, but here's my understanding:
It's when the epiblast (that specific half of the inner cell mass) gives off the three fundamental germ cell layers. The epiblast develops something called the primitive streak, which is just thicker cells than usual. These cells then invaginate and descend towards the hypoblast (the bit behind the epiblast). This folding gives rise to the primitive groove.
Cells migrate into the primitive groove and take up residence in the space between the epiblast and hypoblast; the first ones become the endoderm and the later ones become the mesoderm. What's left in the epiblast becomes the ectoderm.
That's my understanding of how it occurs, hope it helps/
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i don't understand how gastrulation occurs, can someone explain?
I understand the outcomes and stuff but not the actual process of it :(
If you had to know what it is, i'd just know something two lines worth like: single-layed blastula is reorganised into a trilaminar (3-layered) structure. For the purpose of this course i'd say just know the diagrams (labelling) and the outcomes.
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Ignore everything Russ just told you.
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check out that tutorial thing on the last preprac (on the development of the toad) if it is still up, it has a part on gastrulation
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Ignore everything Russ just told you.
Probably a little too in depth, thank god!
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Do you need to know the actual process?
Not sure how much of this you already know, but here's my understanding:
It's when the epiblast (that specific half of the inner cell mass) gives off the three fundamental germ cell layers. The epiblast develops something called the primitive streak, which is just thicker cells than usual. These cells then invaginate and descend towards the hypoblast (the bit behind the epiblast). This folding gives rise to the primitive groove.
Cells migrate into the primitive groove and take up residence in the space between the epiblast and hypoblast; the first ones become the endoderm and the later ones become the mesoderm. What's left in the epiblast becomes the ectoderm.
That's my understanding of how it occurs, hope it helps/
wow!
you explained it so well, i understand it now :) Thankyou so much!
i don't think we need to know this but it helps me when i know what is going on and not just the labeling and outcomes, then i just get confused so i like to know exactly whats happening-helps me understand :)
edit: @ El2012 i love how you summed up grastulation, it sounds so simple in those terms : single-layed blastula is reorganised into a trilaminar structure :)
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Ignore everything Russ just told you.
If I have to know it, other people have to share in the misery that is embryology
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Has anyone else done the sample paper edmund gave us? would you say some of it we haven't looked at in lectures? :S
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Is the fingers and sexual attraction thing real??? Lol does he expeect us to learn that?? -.-
my 2D:4D ratio is pretty good..
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Is the fingers and sexual attraction thing real??? Lol does he expeect us to learn that?? -.-
my 2D:4D ratio is pretty good..
Hahahah, according to 'studies' conducted. I just learnt the advantages of low 2D:4D ratio, what it's correlated with etc.
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El2012 i felt the same about that exam, i don't think all of it is relevant, but most of it is useful :)
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Has anyone else done the sample paper edmund gave us? would you say some of it we haven't looked at in lectures? :S
I think that's from before the new melbourne model started isn't it??
so differentt study design probably
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Uni study designs go along the lines of "how much content can I reuse from when i previously taught this subject last year"
If it's on the 08 exam but wasn't taught in '12 you don't need to know it.
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yipee!! just finished "briefly" going through all the lectures this semester.
i am the world's worst crammerrrrrrr :(
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^ trust me your not, i did the same i have finished going over all of the lectures briefly, tommorow would be spent trying to memorise everything from lecture 1-33 :-\
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^ trust me your not, i did the same i have finished going over all of the lectures briefly, tommorow would be spent trying to memorise everything from lecture 1-33 :-\
haha we can do this!! :D
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hopefully :)
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I remember that the exam a few years ago had a relatively confusing question/s in the long answer on thermoregulation/osmoregulation that was difficult if you weren't completely confident with the terminology -
I can only recall the key being to recognise that some ectotherms thermoregulate behaviourally (unable to physiologically influence body temperature), whilst some can only thermoconform to their environment (aquatic animals).
And it also included something about adaptive hypothermia that expected you to know that 'bears' aren't true hibernators or something to that effect. I can somewhat remember hummingbirds being in there too.
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Anyone else kinda think that the tute/theory worksheets are a bit too over the top??
More in depth than the exam will require you to be or am i just dumb?
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Anyone else kinda think that the tute/theory worksheets are a bit too over the top??
More in depth than the exam will require you to be or am i just dumb?
Like the kidney one? I'm just going to do a brief overlook
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Did anyone check out the 2008 sample exam from Edmund? Do you think its going to be like this? In comparison to our sample exam - ours looks more deceiving in terms of difficulty, or its just me...
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what do you mean more deceiving?
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Like to me it seemed more difficult in comparison to the sample exam that we have. So, if we just had the sample exam they gave us and not the 2008 one - we'd think the exam is sort "easy" in terms of difficulty
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i don't like the fill in the blanks part of the exam, it's harder then i had anticipated :(
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Yeah they were pretty weird
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i don't like the fill in the blanks part of the exam, it's harder then i had anticipated :(
IKR!
man hate the fill the gaps questions :(
Like to me it seemed more difficult in comparison to the sample exam that we have. So, if we just had the sample exam they gave us and not the 2008 one - we'd think the exam is sort "easy" in terms of difficulty
Probably because some of the stuff in 2008 is stuff we never learnt??
It's a different study design
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If its like the 2008 exam - I know where I am going afterwards... the pub - drink away my sorrows
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Like to me it seemed more difficult in comparison to the sample exam that we have. So, if we just had the sample exam they gave us and not the 2008 one - we'd think the exam is sort "easy" in terms of difficulty
Agreed. Why do they do this to us? I asked my tutor, and she said that the difficulty of this exam should be the same as the sample one though, well we'll find out tomorrow!
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If its like the 2008 exam - I know where I am going afterwards... the pub - drink away my sorrows
lmao. Maybe wait till after the exam period
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Does any past student know how many fill in the blanks there would be? I hope not much...
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I think I might leave fill in the blanks last. They require patience, you can't just rush them.
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I'm finding the 2012 sample exam harder than the 2008 -.-
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I'm finding the 2012 sample exam harder than the 2008 -.-
Really? I was the complete opposite - I could barely get through the fill in the gap section. Almost cried T_T
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I am just wondering did we ever learn what "Purkinje fibres" are??
That's quest 8 in the MC 2012, never ever even heard of it in my life
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Yep we did with Geoff Shaw - I think that's his name - its about the heart
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The purkinje fibres are found in the heart. The atrium and the ventricles are separated by a band of muscles so the signal has to travel via AV bundle and purkinje fibres to the ventricles. It;s in lecture 18 :)
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Allows the ventricles to contract
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Anyone know the distribution of marks? E.g. 2/3 for MC and 1/3 for short answer? Something like that?
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Man you guys are gonna ace the exam for sure.
fmllllll
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I heard something about more in multiple choice but that might have been for Chem? :/
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More multiple choice i'm pretty sure, i think 40 something
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More multiple choice i'm pretty sure, i think 40 something
who said that? do you know how much fill in the blanks there are?? I hope only two (i knw this is probably unrealistic though :'( )
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Well basically 85 marks for multiple choice question alone - half the exam right there ... mother of god
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I'm definitely sure more than 2 - although unsure if its less than 10 - as some said
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More multiple choice i'm pretty sure, i think 40 something
who said that? do you know how much fill in the blanks there are?? I hope only two (i knw this is probably unrealistic though :'( )
I don't know I asked my tutor how many there would be, but that was before they said 'more' so it's probably changed. Lol it won't be two
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I'd say 7-11 for fill in the blanks, just guessing according to past sample exams
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Section A (multiple choice) 85 marks
Section B (fill-in the gaps) 47 marks
Section C (label the diagram) 28 marks
Section D (short essay) 20 marks
Since C/D are between 7-10 marks.
I'd say somewhere between 8-12 questions for C/D?
nvm El2012 beat me to it :)
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^ shit that's a lot of filling in and labeling diagrams, i should probably study some more :-\
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^ shit that's a lot of filling in and labeling diagrams, i should probably study some more :-\
How much study can you do in 13 hours? Just sleep!
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LOL yeah., i'll probably just skim over diagrams now and go to bed early so i'm fresh for tommorow :)
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yeaa these ambiguous, fill in the gap questions suckk!
I miss VCE exams :(
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yeaa these ambiguous, fill in the gap questions suckk!
I miss VCE exams :(
HAHAHAH if it were applications like vce biology, I think we'd do much worse!
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If I'm a UMEP student now how would they calculate the average for the increment; would they average my grade for Sem 1 and 2. Also is 80% all that's needed to get H1 or watever for this subject?
Sorry if this doesn't make sense! I'm new to these uni stuff!
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If I'm a UMEP student now how would they calculate the average for the increment; would they average my grade for Sem 1 and 2. Also is 80% all that's needed to get H1 or watever for this subject?
Sorry if this doesn't make sense! I'm new to these uni stuff!
Sorry not so sure on UMEP programs :S H1 is over 80% but I don't know if our marks for exams are in relation to what everyone else got like vcaa.
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Hi!
Could someone please send me the 2008 exam? Or where can I get it from?
Thank you!
would really appreciate it :)
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Hw93 - we got it from edmund, but if u pm me your email ill be happy to send it
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Ignore everything Russ just told you.
If I have to know it, other people have to share in the misery that is embryology
It reminds me of all the things I don't know for next Tuesday's exam. Back to the books!
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Hw93 - we got it from edmund, but if u pm me your email ill be happy to send it
Seretide- did you get my PM?
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wow Royal exhibition building is spectacular!!
can't believe we get to sit our exams there :P
any other unis sit there exams there?
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wow Royal exhibition building is spectacular!!
can't believe we get to sit our exams there :P
any other unis sit there exams there?
It looks so nice, it's such a shame it has to be thought of as that awful exam place
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Yea it's going to be so busy tomorrow. 2500 people congregating in one building :O
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It reminds me of all the things I don't know for next Tuesday's exam. Back to the books!
Aww you have exams. Undergrads are sho cute
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It reminds me of all the things I don't know for next Tuesday's exam. Back to the books!
Aww you have exams. Undergrads are sho cute
Why is it only cute that I have exams and nobody else in this thread >: I had one today! D: I got so drenched.
You guys had better wear a lot of layers tomorrow, having exams in REB isn't exciting, it's just cold. Very cold.
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Some how I don't think my long sleeve top and hoodie will suffice
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REB is a horrible place, yes :(
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Aww you have exams. Undergrads are sho cute
Hey Russ, out of curiosity, what sort of things do med students have in terms of assessment...?
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Dissecting humans!
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Half a dozen tests throughout the year. We have one next week I refuse to think of it as a proper exam. The main challenge in these tests is the amount of content...first one was on 100 lectures and this one is on 70 or so.
There's prac material as part of the tests and we have a couple of assignments and essays due. There are OSCEs for testing clinical skills and examination procedures. End of year there's a 3 hour exam and a 2 hour exam, one is mcq and one saq. We have student conference soon, where we will have to write an essay after.
That's about it from memory, can't think of anything else. Mostly just the stupidly large amount of stuff to learn that makes it hard, its not that different assessment wise other than the OSCEs
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Gee that sounds really tough russ...
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It is, but there's a reason its postgraduate. I'm way more prepared for it now than I was a couple of years ago
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OSCEs sound fun though :P
You get to play as a doctor!
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Half a dozen tests throughout the year. We have one next week I refuse to think of it as a proper exam. The main challenge in these tests is the amount of content...first one was on 100 lectures and this one is on 70 or so.
How have you guys had so many lectures? :O We've only had ~120 for the first semester!
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Our year starts early and finishes later and has less holidays in between. Possibly also more lectures per week. Bear in mind that our year is 2 compressed into one. Also having had three previous years means they don't have to teach basic chemistry again etc
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Shite, how many pages were there for question 1 of section D? Was there only one? I'm worried I may have left out something..
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WOO I THINK I DID GOOD! I so predicted that question on solute and water transport HOW DID YOU GUYS GO?
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Shite, how many pages were there for question 1 of section D? Was there only one? I'm worried I may have left out something..
10 marks data analysis (1 page) 10 marks sugar/ water transport on the next page
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I don't think it was THAT cold in there as everyone says :P My house gets worse in the winter lol
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That was a pretty good! I was totally expecting a different exam
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Pretty hard but straight forward exam, I left 20 minutes early :P
The 2 mark MCQs were kinda confusing and the section C where you had to label reproductove tract!
I only knew the penis and testes, had to guess the rest lol.
Yea but the rest seemed alright
Good job guessing the section D El2012!
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That was a pretty good! I was totally expecting a different exam
I'm glad you don't have to drink away your sorrows then, that was a baby exam compared to the 2008 paper.
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I found it easy too, but there were a few questions i guessed here and there, overall satisfied though :)
now for chem tomorrow :-\
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Pretty hard but straight forward exam, I left 20 minutes early :P
The 2 mark MCQs were kinda confusing and the section C where you had to label reproductove tract!
I only knew the penis and testes, had to guess the rest lol.
Yea but the rest seemed alright
Good job guessing the section D El2012!
haha thanks, our tutor kind of hinted it to us though lmao, I think I did ok on the reproductive tract part surprisingly
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And there were hardly any plant definitions and no plant hormones either wooO!
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That was a pretty good! I was totally expecting a different exam
I'm glad you don't have to drink away your sorrows then, that was a baby exam compared to the 2008 paper.
Yeah lmao ! But there is still chem - and who knows how that is going to turn out
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I was surprised that the students don't start reading at the same time though. I walked in and see everyone already looking through the exams lol
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I was surprised that the students don't start reading at the same time though. I walked in and see everyone already looking through the exams lol
really? I heard the guy say to start reading time, most people started but their microphone is really bad and some people didn't realise. I finished like an hour early, it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
Hah. Did you go all right?
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some of the multiple choice questions I was unsure with, the mouse question was pretty bad for me, but the rest I was pretty good with dude, you?
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some of the multiple choice questions I was unsure with, the mouse question was pretty bad for me, but the rest I was pretty good with dude, you?
The mouse was pretty bad too, probably got 4 out of it. Everyone seemed to have hated that one, it's not exactly fair to have been given that though since we only saw a picture of the mouse. Yeah probably a few multiple choice, i'm not too concerned with that though. I was really surprised that there was like 1/4 of the plant stuff we had learnt that was actually on there, happy about that.
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How did you guys present your graph, I just did a bar one
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You did a bar graph? Hmm... That works to - I basically did a line graph
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You did a bar graph? Hmm... That works to - I basically did a line graph
Yeah I don't know why I did a bar graph, but I guess they explain the same concepts. I included my key, title, axis so hopefully its good enough.
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Oh god... forgot the title. eternal shame
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I did that in one of the pracs and I promised myself I would never forget again!
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I literally sat down for 10minutes thinking about what graph i should do, i started doing a line graph but then i ended up sticking to a bar graph, i think i hated that question the most!!
I labelled all my axis and put a title :)
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I literally sat down for 10minutes thinking about what graph i should do, i started doing a line graph but then i ended up sticking to a bar graph, i think i hated that question the most!!
I labelled all my axis and put a title :)
Haha I don't really like data analysis, I kind of mentioned aerobic respiration in there somewhere, don't know how...
there was hardly anything on blastulation and those sorts of things
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A friend of mine was telling me that exam marks are scaled. Is that true?
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Haha I don't really like data analysis, I kind of mentioned aerobic respiration in there somewhere, don't know how...
there was hardly anything on blastulation and those sorts of things
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aerobic respiration? :-\
maybe my hypothesis was too simple...but in pracs we get full marks for it...
A friend of mine was telling me that exam marks are scaled. Is that true?
I hope not!
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Haha I don't really like data analysis, I kind of mentioned aerobic respiration in there somewhere, don't know how...
there was hardly anything on blastulation and those sorts of things
aerobic respiration? :-\
maybe my hypothesis was too simple...but in pracs we get full marks for it...
A friend of mine was telling me that exam marks are scaled. Is that true?
I hope not!
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Yeah we did a similar one to that data analysis in the prac of the heart and she said to mention aerobic respiration in that so I did, but I tend to write too much than is required
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^ LOL your tutors tend to tell you a lot -xylem question, aerobic respiration
my tutors don't tell me anything, they always give me full marks and i don't put in that much detail (just mention what is predicted really), i guess we'll just have to see :-\
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I lost a few marks in prac work though because as you can tell she's fairly strict, I couldn't get my microscope to work one time so I got like 50% on a prac
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so when do we get our results guys???
i'm nervousss :(
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so when do we get our results guys???
i'm nervousss :(
Calendar says 6th of July
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@El2012 you bet me to it!
LOL 6th of July :)
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Haha, I seem to be doing that a lot lately...
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So peeved. I spent the entire time learning plants and gametogenesis/fertilisation/development and NONE OF IT was on there. FAR OUT.
So many pointless questions about animal behaviour. If I wanted qualitative memory questions I'd have picked Psych.
That said I still think it was a very easy exam.
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So peeved. I spent the entire time learning plants and gametogenesis/fertilisation/development and NONE OF IT was on there. FAR OUT.
So many pointless questions about animal behaviour. If I wanted qualitative memory questions I'd have picked Psych.
That said I still think it was a very easy exam.
Yeah, i think it's just a matter of studying early to cover all concepts.
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
I almost forgot to put the 000 before my student number of the sheets. PHEW.
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
I almost forgot to put the 000 before my student number of the sheets. PHEW.
wat
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
I almost forgot to put the 000 before my student number of the sheets. PHEW.
I did that too, I don't think it matters (one of the examiner walking people told me) but I ended up fixing it just in case.
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i didn't put any 000's in front, but i don't think it matters :)
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
I almost forgot to put the 000 before my student number of the sheets. PHEW.
wat
On the computer mark sheets, there were 3 extra blocks where you had t out 000 before your student number. Like EL and anon said it probably wouldn't matter in the end as they would just check it anyway or the computers are programmed such that they can interpret the blank spots as 'nothing'. But I just did it to eliminate any worries!
Edit: Changed was for were.
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You guys should have made a separate thread called forgetting the triple 0 - am I going to die?
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When the computer marks your MCQ answer sheet it will refuse to allocate it to a student since the number doesn't exist. That just creates an error and an examiner has to manually check your paper and do it. Other than annoying the examiner, you'll be fine :)
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You lose your right to complain about results being delayed too, cause it's partly your fault! :P
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
are you the guy walking around uni with the FOB hat who knows a guy called ashley? Because if so you're probably at his party right now posting stuff on his wall and I can recognize the face from facebook.
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it's annoying that we have to write our student number like 1000 times
no way that was my favourite, I actually knew how to do that part
are you the guy walking around uni with the FOB hat who knows a guy called ashley? Because if so you're probably at his party right now posting stuff on his wall and I can recognize the face from facebook.
What is going on?
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Waiting for Nirbaan to reply
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cool it Baxter
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so it is you? :P