UoM General Chat

[Ballerina]

^ Definitely outdated, but the olive green is accurate ;c I want petunia even if they hand me the wrong certificate.

:O Do we have to dress up in those colors or something?

It's the colour of the academic stole, but I am okay with head-to-toe petunia ♥

[Stick]

I remember in first year I was able to balance note summaries & revision, i'm sure it's entirely possible.

That makes one of us.

Read notes on the train if you can - I find I have nothing else to do.

And also mix things up - write your own MCQs and get friends to quiz you.

(That said I write my notes and then neglect to read them until like maybe a week before an MST/exam)

Leaving revision until SWOTVAC is still okay though. You have an entire week to revise for your exam, which is plenty of time in first year. But if you're only learning the course for most of that week then it's going to be pretty tough

My first exam isn't until the 12th/13th (Italian exam date yet to be decided) so I get a slightly longer SWOTVAC too. I think I should probably make a start this coming weekend though. What tips do you guys have for exam revision? Obviously, there are no longer endless amounts of trial exams out there, but I don't want to just spend the time passively reading notes either. I've got some ideas, but I'm not sure if they're particularly effective:

BIOL10002: Use the sample Biology "essay" feature on the airport website and complete the sample exam.
CHEM10006: Repeat the MSTs on the LMS over and over, re-attempt the tutorial questions and also complete the trial exams.
MAST10016: Repeat the exercise sheets/assignment sheets/tutorial sheets (which one contains the most exam-like questions?) and complete the sample exam.
ITAL10001: I have a textbook and a student workbook for this so there's plenty that I can do.

Anything else you'd particularly advise? Should I focus more on the "passive" revision (i.e. going over notes) now and leave the more question-based stuff until SWOTVAC, or make a start on the practice questions now?

lol I thought I managed to settle into university study quite well but I'm a bit stumped for exam revision. XD

[Belgarion]

That makes one of us.

My first exam isn't until the 12th/13th (Italian exam date yet to be decided) so I get a slightly longer SWOTVAC too. I think I should probably make a start this coming weekend though. What tips do you guys have for exam revision? Obviously, there are no longer endless amounts of trial exams out there, but I don't want to just spend the time passively reading notes either. I've got some ideas, but I'm not sure if they're particularly effective:

BIOL10002: Use the sample Biology "essay" feature on the airport website and complete the sample exam.
CHEM10006: Repeat the MSTs on the LMS over and over, re-attempt the tutorial questions and also complete the trial exams.
MAST10016: Repeat the exercise sheets/assignment sheets/tutorial sheets (which one contains the most exam-like questions?) and complete the sample exam.
ITAL10001: I have a textbook and a student workbook for this so there's plenty that I can do.

Anything else you'd particularly advise? Should I focus more on the "passive" revision (i.e. going over notes) now and leave the more question-based stuff until SWOTVAC, or make a start on the practice questions now?

lol I thought I managed to settle into university study quite well but I'm a bit stumped for exam revision. XD

BIOL10002 should be a breeze, many people last year got a H1. But just a tip, pay careful attention to the sample exam. One of our questions on the real exam was the exact same as the sample
For chem, our exam was completely different to the MST and i personally thought the MST was ridiculous anyway. I dont know if it was the same, but ours was a lot harder than what we were expected to do in the exam
For maths, cant help you much there because i was in the first cohort of the new subject last year and they made the exam too easy (good for me, bad for you  ) but generally the tute qns are the easiest you can expect, the exercise sheets given is the hardest (thats what we were told anyway)

[Russ]

TIL there is a colour called cardinal and I will apparently be wearing it at graduation

also learned things about medicine but pfft, we all know that graduation robes are the important things

e, if you're revising bioscience, just a) rote learn everything from the lecture notes and b) write your own questions based on your understanding of the course and answer them in 2 weeks time

[mark_alec]

TIL there is a colour called cardinal and I will apparently be wearing it at graduation

Mine is cardinal too, but rather atrocious (http://www.capgown.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1234&Product_Code=Complete_Stanford&Category_Code=Stanford). I'm sad I won't get to wear the floppy red hat UoM has.

[Shenz0r]

My first exam isn't until the 12th/13th (Italian exam date yet to be decided) so I get a slightly longer SWOTVAC too. I think I should probably make a start this coming weekend though. What tips do you guys have for exam revision? Obviously, there are no longer endless amounts of trial exams out there, but I don't want to just spend the time passively reading notes either. I've got some ideas, but I'm not sure if they're particularly effective:

BIOL10002: Use the sample Biology "essay" feature on the airport website and complete the sample exam.
CHEM10006: Repeat the MSTs on the LMS over and over, re-attempt the tutorial questions and also complete the trial exams.
MAST10016: Repeat the exercise sheets/assignment sheets/tutorial sheets (which one contains the most exam-like questions?) and complete the sample exam.
ITAL10001: I have a textbook and a student workbook for this so there's plenty that I can do.

Anything else you'd particularly advise? Should I focus more on the "passive" revision (i.e. going over notes) now and leave the more question-based stuff until SWOTVAC, or make a start on the practice questions now?

lol I thought I managed to settle into university study quite well but I'm a bit stumped for exam revision. XD

If you want to switch around from passive learning to active learning, make up some of your own MCQ questions. Write solutions for them, make them tricky purposely. For BIOL10002 you can also practise responding to your own Section D questions, which will help a lot since you'll have to have a good recall of all the processes/details for a topic.

For Chemistry, personally I didn't redo the MST on the LMS over and over, I just did tute questions and the 09-12 exams. The exam wiki really helped - try to answer with as much detail as possible, say why a particular answer is right or wrong. And of course jot down your mistakes, and logbook it. Not too different from VCE. 

For the Maths exam, our tute questions were rather similar to those found in the exam. That said we were guinea pigs so they may have changed it. From what I remember the sample exam was just tute questions...lol. But yeah your approach there sounds fine.

For the time-being, I would just focus on passive revision and then in SWOTVAC go more into the active/application side of things, but also make sure you fill in the gaps in your knowledge though, so you'll still have to go over your notes. Personally I would leave practise exam questions/redoing tutes+assignments until SWOTVAC.

[Stick]

Thanks so much, Belgarion and Shenz0r! (And also Valjean for the Italian tip.) You've definitely made me feel back on track once again.

[Starlight]

Yayayayayayayayayayayaayayayayay
44/45 for my muscle & exericse midsem! That's the highest mark i've ever received EVER.

[scribble]

thats amazing!! <3

[Starlight]

thats amazing!! <3

Thankyou!  I just hope to god it's not an error.

[vox nihili]

http://www.budget.gov.au/2014-15/content/bp2/html/bp2_expense-09.htm

I'm glad they aren't reducing the payback threshold to minimum wage/~32k.

I also hope that the CSP student contributions for a JD don't go up a ridiculous amount... 

http://www.budget.gov.au/2014-15/content/glossy/education/download/Budget_Glossy_education_web.pdf

"The interest rate applied to HELP loans will be changed from an interest rate equivalent to the inflation rate to an interest rate that broadly reflects the cost of Government borrowings, with a maximum rate of 6 per cent."

This would be better summarised "look guys, we're fucked"

[vox nihili]

I guess Ballieu is out of the question for studying tomorrow. The Marxists are going to be relentless!

I'm glad I'm not going in tomorrow; I'd almost be tempted to join them.

[Hancock]

http://www.budget.gov.au/2014-15/content/bp2/html/bp2_expense-09.htm

I also hope that the CSP student contributions for a JD don't go up a ridiculous amount... 

I'd be surprised if the JD fees didn't go up by a significant amount.

[chysim]

Yeah it's inevitable that they will, I just wonder how much and when it will be announced.

I believe any post-grad Melbourne degree will now cost both your soul and your first born child. But it's okay: you don't have to pay upfront.

But seriously, Hockey's justification he gave in the budget speech for deregulation was a joke. "We don't have a university ranked in the top 20 in the world, and we want to change that". I – and I'm sure most university students – care far more about availability and equitability than "international recognition".

Point A: be honest and just say that deregulation is required after the enormous funding cuts to tertiary education.
Point B: the hypocrisy of the notion that the Government wants to improve the international sitting of Australian universities after said cuts is a joke.

[Russ]

I guess Ballieu is out of the question for studying tomorrow. The Marxists are going to be relentless!

Eventually you get so good at ignoring them and their antics that you don't even notice them