past biomed students pls help :)

[Whynot123]

thank you for the advice

1) i read somewhere that if I need extra assistance in chem there are sessions held at 1 - 2 daily? where?

2) and also do they have something similar for other subjects like biomolecules and cells/experimental design and data analysis?

3) chem pracs dont operate like the biomolcules prac where they start off with a tute first so i have to come to that time slot every week, right?

1) Yep, at the Chemistry Learning Centre. First floor of the chemistry building. When you enter the building (main entrance) turn right and you'll see it.

2)Yes they do, for Biology and Data Analysis tutors will have consultation times. Just pop into their office at those times for 1 on 1 help. (A timetable of these times should be posted on the LMS or they will be given to you when semester starts).

3) For chem, you will be doing a prac for the whole 3 hours, no tute.
For bio first you have a tute (1 hour, every week) than a prac (2 hours, every 2 weeks).

[sparked]

In the Handbook for MAST10016 (Mathematics for Biomed) the "Core Requirements" box is empty.

Do lectures for biomed core subjects take attendance? For example, there is one lecture that was preprogrammed into my timetable and is at 5:00PM on a Friday (two other classes early in the morning) and I'm thinking of just doing the lectopia. Is that okay?

[Shenz0r]

All lectures in Biomed are recorded so attendance is never recorded. The only things you ever need to go in for are practicals and tutorials.

[sparked]

Cheers Shenz0r, thought as much.

I wonder what the least amount of time is that someone has invested into biomed and passed...

[Shenz0r]

Should be surprisingly low actually, you would have to slack off big time (I mean, big time) to actually fail a subject at uni.

Unless your definition of pass = getting H1 of course.

[Special At Specialist]

A lot of my friends have failed subjects at Melbourne/Monash. Two of them got the "at risk" status, one of them took a leave of absence voluntarily, and another got kicked out for not showing any signs of improvement.

But the thing that all of these people had in common is that they skipped a lot of classes (in most cases, their attendance was below 50%) and didn't hand in a lot of work.

As long as you attend all the classes and do all the assessed work, you will almost always pass.

EDIT: Most of these people were Science students, not Biomed students.

[Shenz0r]

Yup, always keep a mind on when assessments are and make sure you listen to all lectures - if you don't attend some, always try to catch the recording ASAP, get it done and dusted so you don't fall behind. Do this and I guarantee you will pass with flying colours.

[Mieow]

If you had to take a guess at the average amount of hours biomed/science students dedicate to private study, what would it be?

[Shenz0r]

First year I definitely put the most time to because I experimented with different study techniques (ended up finding a lot of inefficiencies which I got rid of in 2nd year, saving more time).

Hmm, so for Bio I would take like 2-3 hours to summarise each lecture (sometimes longer because it took a fuckload of time to decipher my handwriting and rewatch the lecture for things I missed), then I'd do the necessary exercise questions for Physics, Maths and Stats, Chemistry I sorta crammed from what I remember. I don't really remember how much time I invested per week because I've always concentrated on knocking off my "to-do-list" of work.

I think most weekdays I stayed in the biomed library from like 12-6pm and then did a little bit more study when I got home. In SWOTVAC there was a day where I studied continuously from 8AM-2AM. Which is NOT NECESSARY AT ALL, this was very excessive and I was pretty insane to think it was.

In second year I got it down to maybe 2-4 hours (excluding lectures) per day which was quite manageable.

[Stick]

In second year I got it down to maybe 2-4 hours (excluding lectures) per day which was quite manageable.

You just made someone squeal with joy inside. :3