UoM General Chat

[Stick]

Yes!!! Haha didn't end up tying it to a pole but it was better than a bag!

Saved you a lot of time, didn't it?

omg I got totally owned by the Biomed genetics exam. Didn't think we'd need to know all those parasites by name and their entire life cycle but we did ;_;

Yeah, unfortunately that is the expectation. Oh well, onwards and upwards (and you perhaps know to avoid microbiology subjects in the future - although I must say they are all taught extremely well!). How did you go for time?

You made the right choice.

Thanks, Starlight! I actually intend to take all the subjects you took as part of the major!

[Shenz0r]

Death is tomorrow with Frontiers. Wooo. Fuck this subject so much.

This is also the most unproductive SWOTVAC I have ever had.

[Kalopsic]

lol i feel ya..things aren't exactly working out for me this sem either

Chem demoralised me so hard then with another exam the day before bio, I pretty much burnt out and ran out of time to study for it. Have never been so unprepared in my life but it wasn't as bad as chem weirdly

[Rishi97]

Chem demoralised me so hard then with another exam the day before bio, I pretty much burnt out and ran out of time to study for it. Have never been so unprepared in my life but it wasn't as bad as chem weirdly

Chem was an utter disaster for me as well omg I swear if it doesn't get scaled up and I have to do it as a summer subject, I'll be so angry urgh
Anyways, we just have to keep being positive and try to forget the exams that we've stuffed up and just try our hardest for the remaining ones...it's really hard to keep motivated after chem and bio but just keep swimming... good luck

[uoiea]

Yeah Chem was a bitch, honestly I probably failed.

Bio was okay but.. did anyone else get a question (46) where 3 answers were correct and 1 wrong in the MC? or was I smoking something?

[Mieow]

Yeah, unfortunately that is the expectation. Oh well, onwards and upwards (and you perhaps know to avoid microbiology subjects in the future - although I must say they are all taught extremely well!). How did you go for time?

I managed to finish the exam on the dot, which is way better than last semester when I had to cut my last Section D question short. I still don't know how they expect us to write a full essay-like long response in 10 minutes, like um hello it takes me 30 minutes to text my friends back.

Btw is it true that further reading from the textbooks is assessable in 2nd year? 

[Rod]

Yeah Chem was a bitch, honestly I probably failed.

Bio was okay but.. did anyone else get a question (46) where 3 answers were correct and 1 wrong in the MC? or was I smoking something?

Which one was this exactly?

Chem demoralised me so hard then with another exam the day before bio, I pretty much burnt out and ran out of time to study for it. Have never been so unprepared in my life but it wasn't as bad as chem weirdly

Chem was an utter disaster for me as well omg I swear if it doesn't get scaled up and I have to do it as a summer subject, I'll be so angry urgh
Anyways, we just have to keep being positive and try to forget the exams that we've stuffed up and just try our hardest for the remaining ones...it's really hard to keep motivated after chem and bio but just keep swimming... good luck

Yeah problem with chemistry was that so many of the questions were new/unseen. Memorizing how to do questions wouldn't have helped for this exam like it did in CHEM 1 where like all the questions were a direct copy of previous years.

Hoping it scales! Does anyone actually know how scaling works? Friends in 2nd/3rd year just tell me ''yeah they scale'' but how does it actually work?

Semester 2 syndrome.

Every year.

I feel as if to do extremely well in uni you need to sacrifice everything you have (so for me work, cricket, social) which is depressing. I really don't want to sacrifice everything I have for an undergraduate course. Does it get better second year/third year? How's post grad? Lol

Just staying up to date for 3/4 content heavy subjects, several assessments through the semester, revising  through absolutely everything again, doing practise exams, familiarising yourself with all the questions they can give you in 13 weeks is too hard. There's really no room for anything else. How do you guys do it?? Help us jaffys out

[sjayne]

I feel as if to do extremely well in uni you need to sacrifice everything you have (so for me work, cricket, social) which is depressing. I really don't want to sacrifice everything I have for an undergraduate course. Does it get better second year/third year? How's post grad? Lol

omg yes. I had no life this year and I'm still struggling to pass

[Rod]

omg yes. I had no life this year and I'm still struggling to pass

And they said after year 12 it would get better.... seriously this year has probably been more packed.

[Rishi97]

Yeah Chem was a bitch, honestly I probably failed.

Bio was okay but.. did anyone else get a question (46) where 3 answers were correct and 1 wrong in the MC? or was I smoking something?

sounds like that dna code degeneracy question loool

[heart]

Frontiers in Biomedicine exam tomorrow whole subject got me like 

[Rod]

sounds like that dna code degeneracy question loool

What's worse is for one of the genetics questions towards the end of the MC section, I think it was 48?, can't remember, spent about 4 minutes doing it, and found all A, B, C and D to be incorrect (I obviously did incorrectly lol). Had to guess - 4 minutes for a guess. RIP.

[Russ]

And they said after year 12 it would get better.... seriously this year has probably been more packed.

Adjusting is quite hard but there's a lot of time to be spent doing what you want once you streamline your approach, unless you're aiming for the absolute highest marks.

[Yacoubb]

sounds like that dna code degeneracy question loool

Yes this question ugh! I ultimately chose A; B sounded like it said that any time you changed the third base, there would be the same amino acid coded for.

Yeah Chem was a bitch, honestly I probably failed.

Bio was okay but.. did anyone else get a question (46) where 3 answers were correct and 1 wrong in the MC? or was I smoking something?

Chemistry was horrible; I felt ripped off. Is there any scaling mechanism?

I'm currently on holidays so I am just resting & been napping ALL day!

[Kalopsic]

Chem was an utter disaster for me as well omg I swear if it doesn't get scaled up and I have to do it as a summer subject, I'll be so angry urgh
Anyways, we just have to keep being positive and try to forget the exams that we've stuffed up and just try our hardest for the remaining ones...it's really hard to keep motivated after chem and bio but just keep swimming... good luck

I have a week break before my last exam so I'll try sticky tape the remaining microscopic fragments of hope that is left. Good luck to you too and everyone else. Sounds like everyone is taking a beating this semester