UoM General Chat

[Rumena]

Hey everyone!
So I got offered a place in Uom for biomedicine. My goal is to do the best I can so that I can get into graduate medicine, however I'm quite worried about how hard it will be to maintain a 75% WAM. I got a 95.7 atar, which isn't pretty good compared to other students in biomed. So I just wanted to ask how hard is it to maintain a 75% WAM in biomed? Is it achievable?
Thanks in advance!

[Orb]

Hey everyone!
So I got offered a place in Uom for biomedicine. My goal is to do the best I can so that I can get into graduate medicine, however I'm quite worried about how hard it will be to maintain a 75% WAM. I got a 95.7 atar, which isn't pretty good compared to other students in biomed. So I just wanted to ask how hard is it to maintain a 75% WAM in biomed? Is it achievable?
Thanks in advance!

Quite easy if you get into the habit of consistently studying and not cramming for exams during SWOTVAC. Virtually everyone who did consistent studying got 80+ WAMs, let alone 75

[heart]

Yeah just pick a major you enjoy and it will help. I had like a 72 wam when I finished and wouldn't say I worked hard at all for it at all crammed for most of the degreel. Also for post graduate medical entry they use GPA not WAM and also the GAMSAT. Read the medicine admission guide here for the best understanding http://www.gemsas.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2017-Medicine-GEMSAS-Admissions-Guide-v1.2.pdf

[wyzard]

For the electrical systems major, is it recommended you take real analysis then complex or is Eng maths enough?

For electrical engineering, you don't really need Real or Complex Analysis. Those subjects are more on the side of pure math, meaning you'll be diving really deep into math, and examine proofs and how the nitty-gritty of calculus works They're great subjects to train your mathematical thinking ability which is undoubtedly useful for an engineer, but the concepts learned aren't that directly related to engineering. It has definitely sharpened my mind and helped heaps doing my physics major.

If you're more interested in the practicality of applied math rather than pure math, I'd recommend looking into Discrete Math, Differential Equations, or Probability and Statistics

[Rumena]

Quite easy if you get into the habit of consistently studying and not cramming for exams during SWOTVAC. Virtually everyone who did consistent studying got 80+ WAMs, let alone 75

Okay that's a relief, thanks for the motivation!!

[Rumena]

Yeah just pick a major you enjoy and it will help. I had like a 72 wam when I finished and wouldn't say I worked hard at all for it at all crammed for most of the degreel. Also for post graduate medical entry they use GPA not WAM and also the GAMSAT. Read the medicine admission guide here for the best understanding http://www.gemsas.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2017-Medicine-GEMSAS-Admissions-Guide-v1.2.pdf

Yeah I thought I read something about the GPA being used and not the WAM and yea I would definitely have to sit the gamsat Thanks for the site!

[vox nihili]

Hey everyone!
So I got offered a place in Uom for biomedicine. My goal is to do the best I can so that I can get into graduate medicine, however I'm quite worried about how hard it will be to maintain a 75% WAM. I got a 95.7 atar, which isn't pretty good compared to other students in biomed. So I just wanted to ask how hard is it to maintain a 75% WAM in biomed? Is it achievable?
Thanks in advance!

I think one of the really critical things to keep in mind about your ATAR is that it's not necessarily an accurate reflection on your abilities, particularly if you've faced circumstances that may have made it harder to achieve a good ATAR.
Personally, I felt little overwhelmed coming into Biomed with an ATAR lower than the clearly-in (the clearly-in was a bit higher back then). I constantly felt like the dumbest in the room. After time though I started to see my own value and stopped worrying about my ATAR, at which point things really started to fall into place.

TL;DR: relax, ur gud..smash it

[lzxnl]

Also, another thing you'll notice quickly is just how inaccurate VCE is of your ability. It tests things quite differently to that in uni; in maths subjects, at least, you're exposed to a lot more problem solving than in VCE, which consists chiefly of exhausting all of the available past exam questions available. You're quickly forced to make some effort to actually learn the content (unless you want to get by on cramming; not advised, but it's worked for people)

[Orb]

This might be a little late to reply, but is this generally applicable to all uni subjects? I'm doing the actuary major and need 73 WAM. I know I'm going to work hard and consistently, but I'm a little worried as every post about this generally says you need 42/43+ in specialist to be capable. I got 39 (worked my absolute hardest, but also made some very stupid exam mistakes, at least 2 basic maths errors in exam 1)

Yes lol. You'll be surprised how many people procrastinate the entire semester away. Just stay consistent (do like 1-2 hours max of study everyday, not too much just keep it up) throughout the semester and you'll defs get 73+ wam.

[spectroscopy]

This might be a little late to reply, but is this generally applicable to all uni subjects? I'm doing the actuary major and need 73 WAM. I know I'm going to work hard and consistently, but I'm a little worried as every post about this generally says you need 42/43+ in specialist to be capable. I got 39 (worked my absolute hardest, but also made some very stupid exam mistakes, at least 2 basic maths errors in exam 1)

yeah actuarial studies is one of the hardest majors in the uni as the math is fkd apparently but if you consistently study and do your work you should be fine.

i know it must sound really obvious to all the incoming first years that you should 'consistently study' but you would be surprised by how few people do consistently work hard in university. especially with so many distractions around/having your first real freedom/lots of days off/working/extra curricular commitments etc.

[Mieow]

Hello, for MCB,how do the practicals work. I'm trying to plan my time table, but it seems confusing. There is practical 1, but then there is also practical 2. t thought that there is suppose to be only one practical.


Also are the intra-semester test done in classes/exam style, or can be done at home on a computer like they were in first year.

The practicals in MCB can barely even be called that because the only wet work you actually do is for the 4th practical (in the Infection&Immunity topic which is Practical 2). The other 4 "practicals" are just 3 hour long tutorials in a computer lab and these are Practical 1. You should timetable Practical 1 and 2 in the same time slot - Practical 2 runs for 1.5 hours over the course of two weeks, so you need to decide if you want to do the first or second session of Prac 2 in that time slot. For example if your Prac was scheduled on Mondays 9-12, when you timetable in for Prac 2 you choose if you want the 9-10:30 session or 10:30-12 session

Hope that helped

[Rumena]

I think one of the really critical things to keep in mind about your ATAR is that it's not necessarily an accurate reflection on your abilities, particularly if you've faced circumstances that may have made it harder to achieve a good ATAR.
Personally, I felt little overwhelmed coming into Biomed with an ATAR lower than the clearly-in (the clearly-in was a bit higher back then). I constantly felt like the dumbest in the room. After time though I started to see my own value and stopped worrying about my ATAR, at which point things really started to fall into place.

TL;DR: relax, ur gud..smash it

Yeah that's how I'm feeling atm, but you're right I shouldn't worry about my atar cuz it could definitely bring me down. Hopefully it all works out for me too! Haha thanks for the motivation, I really needed it!

[yeahm8]

 hey guys, does anyone know if there is any benefit in satisfying the quantitative component of BCom through the maths breadth pathway rather than the traditional pathway? I have already done both Calc 2 and Linear Alg last year (transferring from BSci) so completing either pathway will only take 2 subjects regardless. Also I will major in finance/economics if thats relevant.

[spectroscopy]

hey guys, does anyone know if there is any benefit in satisfying the quantitative component of BCom through the maths breadth pathway rather than the traditional pathway? I have already done both Calc 2 and Linear Alg last year (transferring from BSci) so completing either pathway will only take 2 subjects regardless. Also I will major in finance/economics if thats relevant.

eh, either or really. if you want to take a really quantitative path towards things you could do the math pathway but i think in general doing qm1 and qm2/econometrics is still a very very good path to take as you learn lots of really relevant stuff. im not too sure what sort of things you learn in the more mathsy pathway, but i dont think it will be as commerce oriented as the examples and formulae you learn in the traditional pathway.

either way is fine

[sjayne]

Anyone have past educ10057 wellbeing motivation performance recordings???

im in hospital and trying to complete it but they aren't recorded aaah makes it so difficult