UoM General Chat

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This general thread is starting to remind me of facebook lol -.- Too much whining over petty stuff.

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That's meta...

[Oilerian]

Guys I just want to ask on what our final exam (mid-sem, final) grades are based, or in other words, how the H1 H2.. etc is determined. Is it based directly on the examination raw mark? Or is it based on some kind of distribution?

Say if in one examination, the highest raw marked attained by the class is 50/70, which is about 70%, then one student got 45/70 (60%). What grade will he get afterwards in terms of HX scheme?

[lzxnl]

It depends if the subject employs moderation of exam grades; some subjects do, some don't.
If they don't, the H1, H2A etc scores are based upon your performance in all the assessments.

Let's assume that a particular subject has an 80% exam and two 10% tests. If you get 100% in the exam but get 50% in each of the tests, your final score would be 1*0.8 + 0.5*0.1 + 0.5*0.1 = 0.9, or 90%, which would give you a H1.

[vox nihili]

Hey, do any of the biochem students from last year (El2012, simpak, Sinner, jinny etc.) recall how maths-y their MST MCQs were? I'm not sure what I really need to take away from Alana Mitchell's graphs and kinetics.

If you want a different approach as well, I have some of the stuff from maths from biomed, which is exactly the same enzyme kinetics stuff but just makes more sense. It explains it a little more mathematically and a little less enzymey

[Hancock]

If you get 100% in the exam

lol.

[simpak]

I have very extensive summaries for biochem which simpak graciously sent to me. pm me or her if you want them They probably have more words than all the summaries i've written for the past 20+ subjects so far lol

Hey jinny1 I have no issues sending my notes out to people but please don't distribute them without me knowing/confirming first - just like to keep track of where my stuff goes.  Thank you

[simpak]

PS: Congrats hobbitle, when will the interview be!?

[Shenz0r]

Why didn't you just go straight to flinders st and get a #6/ANY SWANSTON ST TRAM or #19 tram?

I would've gotten there at around the same time anyway - the tram going up Swanston would take the same amount of time just to get to MC.

How was the MCB test by the way?

It wasn't bad, if you studied for it then I don't see what would make the test so hard. It was literally all just recall. Robb and Terry got pretty pissed off though because feedback slides for the 2013 MST were posted on Facebook and so he thought it constituted unfair and unequal access - we just got told that because of this, they're going to analyse some of the results and they may alter the contribution the test makes to our final mark. I think Trent went through a similar sort of developmental question in one of his lectures. But all in all, as long as you knew your stuff, you were well-set and I don't think people who had access to the 2013 MST had much significant advantage at akk,

Got a UROP interview! Excited.

Congratulations! Still waiting for a notification on mine. :/

[hobbitle]

PS: Congrats hobbitle, when will the interview be!?

Cheers simpak, it's on 1st May. Absolutely not expecting to be accepted this time around but I'm pleased to have been given the chance to show my face for future applications.

[Oilerian]

It depends if the subject employs moderation of exam grades; some subjects do, some don't.
If they don't, the H1, H2A etc scores are based upon your performance in all the assessments.

Let's assume that a particular subject has an 80% exam and two 10% tests. If you get 100% in the exam but get 50% in each of the tests, your final score would be 1*0.8 + 0.5*0.1 + 0.5*0.1 = 0.9, or 90%, which would give you a H1.

Ok thanks for your explanation. Do science subjects usually employ this kind of moderation?

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Ok thanks for your explanation. Do science subjects usually employ this kind of moderation?

Not usually. It is usually the Arts subjects that run on a bell curve. But subjects like Physics Fundamentals I believe have scaling involved. Subjects like chemistry and calculus don't as far as I know.

[LeviLamp]

I am going to fail biochemistry.

[charmanderp]

Intermediate Microeconomics during summer had something like a 45% H1 rate. Not sure if that was to do with the quality of students dedicated enough to do a summer subject or because of some kind of scaling.

[alondouek]

I am going to fail biochemistry.

You and me both :/

[scribble]

I am going to fail biochemistry.

You and me both :/

woo /joins the failing biochemistry tomorrow boat

(tomorrow i also have a techniques mst that i literally have done 0 study for and a prob assignment that i have no clue how to do due :'D )