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[appleandbee]

it really depends. I've done heaps of group stuff and it's very hit or miss. Often one person takes the lead and others follow, but sometimes there's a couple of people who are very slack and refuse to do their part. If that happens you can complain to your tutor though and it gets resolved pretty quickly through the marks given.
Every time I've done a group project we've been marked individually which was partly determined by an evaluation we had to do of ourselves and the group members

Doesn't matter if you aren't friends, I have made some friends through group projects. Not every time but it is possible. Most people are very compliant and generally want to do well/don't want to intentionally stuff up others
Just make sure your group is organised and everyone is clear on their tasks from the beginning. Finish the work early then go over it

Sweet, thanks for that! I'm ok taking the lead if needed, so hopefully it will be fine.

Also, one of the other subjects I'm looking at has a 5% peer assessment (no group work). Does anyone know how that works by any chance?

[spectroscopy]

Thanks for the reply man. Did you have experience with supplementary exams or special exams?

(A supplementary exam is when you fail the hurdle exam by a tiny amount, but since you're close to graduating they give you another exam; and a special exam is when you miss your exam or were sick on the day and are allowed a resit.)

I did the ones you re-sit because of sickness, so I dont know first hand about the ones that are just there to allow you to graduate, but i know a couple people who did them last year and said they found it slightly easier than the original one they sat.

[tashhhaaa]

I did the ones you re-sit because of sickness, so I dont know first hand about the ones that are just there to allow you to graduate, but i know a couple people who did them last year and said they found it slightly easier than the original one they sat.

I've also done the special exams and in my experience they are the same difficulty as the actual exam, sometimes easier. The supplementary ones are probably easier or similar

[cosine]

Hey guys. Does anyone know which Maths breadth subject I can do while studying third year Biomed please?

[lzxnl]

Hey guys. Does anyone know which Maths breadth subject I can do while studying third year Biomed please?

Maths isn't a breadth for biomed

[alchemy]

Thanks for the reply man. Did you have experience with supplementary exams or special exams?

(A supplementary exam is when you fail the hurdle exam by a tiny amount, but since you're close to graduating they give you another exam; and a special exam is when you miss your exam or were sick on the day and are allowed a resit.)

Adding to what others said, my one and only experience with a special exam had very similar questions to the original exam but with a few of the hardest questions removed and easier ones to take their spot.

[Alter]

Thanks for the reply man. Did you have experience with supplementary exams or special exams?

(A supplementary exam is when you fail the hurdle exam by a tiny amount, but since you're close to graduating they give you another exam; and a special exam is when you miss your exam or were sick on the day and are allowed a resit.)

I've had the unique experience of sitting down to do a special exam and be given a supplementary exam for the same subject, lol.

I've only sat two exams in the supp/spec exam period, but my experience is that the special exams are very, very similar in difficulty to the actual exams. Some questions are repeated, and others are modified only slightly. At the end of the day, they emulate the actual exam quite well. Supplementary exams, on the other hand, seem to be a lot easier. They basically check whether or not you get the 'main ideas' and general skills of each part of the subject. This makes sense given that they are pass/fail instead of aiming to give you a certain score.

[alchemy]

Did anyone do the paid voluntary Economics Experiments over the last week? I'm wondering about what people's thought processes were for the third question...

Found the experiments more interesting than I expected (was expecting them to be open ended type stuff), but when I learnt that your decisions could affect your payment, I was hooked. Also got pretty lucky they chose to base the payment off Experiment 2, which IMO was the easiest to choose an optimal scenario for.

For anyone who's interested, here's the question:
You are matched randomly and anonymously with a person in the room. You have to decide how to split $300 between yourself and them. For example, you choose 150 to keep to yourself and 150 to give away, and they pick 180 to keep and 120 to give away. The computer decides who's selection is executed (e.g. if your partner's decision is chosen you get to keep 120 and they get to keep 180).

I chose to keep 300 and give 0, and luckily my decision got chosen by the computer...now I feel sorry for my partner who got nothing out of this, besides the base payment for rocking up to the experiment.

FYI: $100 in the experiment is equal to $10 in real life.

[Orb]

I chose to keep 300 and give 0, and luckily my decision got chosen by the computer...now I feel sorry for my partner who got nothing out of this, besides the base payment for rocking up to the experiment.

If you've studied microeconomics, that's what we call the classic "Prisoners dilemma"

The optimal outcome here is 300-0 (because if they pick yours, you get $30 and if they pick your partner, you'll get what you'll get anyway), so technically individual-optimising payoff is to pick 300-0 for yourself.

Would've been cool to see them implement something like "you know your partner" rather than having the game anonymised (i'm assuming). Would that impose an incentive for you to be fairer?

Thanks for sharing though!

[RKTR]

 

Did anyone do the paid voluntary Economics Experiments over the last week?

i signed up but reached there late so did not get to do it. 

[tashhhaaa]

Thank you for all your insights regarding supplementary and special exams.

When you guys said they're very "similar" to the original exam, what does that actually mean?
Do you mean the same question is asked but different numbers? Or just the same concepts tested, but questions are quite different?

I meant the difficulty and question styles were the same. Same concepts tested, same style questions but written differently and therefore should be answered differently
If the lecturer said 20% of the exam would be on X topic, the same would be true in the special exam

[alchemy]

Thank you for all your insights regarding supplementary and special exams.

When you guys said they're very "similar" to the original exam, what does that actually mean?
Do you mean the same question is asked but different numbers? Or just the same concepts tested, but questions are quite different?

For me, it was the same questions for some of them, but different numbers...

[Maths Forever]

Thank you for all your insights regarding supplementary and special exams.

When you guys said they're very "similar" to the original exam, what does that actually mean?
Do you mean the same question is asked but different numbers? Or just the same concepts tested, but questions are quite different?

I think the difficulty of special exams differs between departments and faculties compared to the original exam. I've found some to be slightly easier and some to be slightly harder than the original exam in my own experience. For example, in one special exam for a maths subject we were asked to give a full proof of a relatively detailed theorem, which was something the lecturer said we wouldn't have to do in the main exam. I think on the whole you can expect the special exam to compare to the main exam in difficulty and length.

[esile52]

Is anyone doing Earth Processes or Engineering Materials and had their WAM change ?

[Escobar]

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