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Re: UoM General Chat
« Reply #1500 on: February 12, 2013, 04:04:20 pm »
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Quote from: nubs on February 12, 2013, 03:21:19 pm
Apparently 30% of students fail chemistry 2? Does anyone want to confirm or deny this?

I don't think that's true. It's probably more a case of failing the exam. It's not worth worrying about though.
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Re: UoM General Chat
« Reply #1501 on: February 12, 2013, 04:20:21 pm »
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Well, I don't know exact percentages but I'd estimate that a H1 average is around top 5-8% probably? I know USyd scales their HD's so that only that top 3% can get one.

A hard statistic I have is that a 91 in ESD1 was in the top 1.4% of students and an 86 was the top 6%. So, take what you will from that info. 
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« Reply #1502 on: February 13, 2013, 01:34:44 am »
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Depends on the course.

In my course I know that (for the exams that is) top 30% is 68-69.

As for year level average I think 85 was top 5% around ish.
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« Reply #1503 on: February 13, 2013, 06:19:04 pm »
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Hi guys just wonder if there are any tute/practical workbooks that we have to buy from the bookshop for ANAT20006 and other second year subjects.

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« Reply #1504 on: February 13, 2013, 07:54:05 pm »
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They post the prac stuff on the LMS and you just print it off!  Same for all of the 'tutorials' which are just like workbooks - self printing as they're released so don't worry about buying any books :)
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Re: UoM General Chat
« Reply #1505 on: February 13, 2013, 10:20:22 pm »
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Quote from: Hancock on February 12, 2013, 04:20:21 pm
Well, I don't know exact percentages but I'd estimate that a H1 average is around top 5-8% probably? I know USyd scales their HD's so that only that top 3% can get one.

A hard statistic I have is that a 91 in ESD1 was in the top 1.4% of students and an 86 was the top 6%. So, take what you will from that info. 
Hancock, just out of interest where did you get these stats?

And I have heard that Calc 2 and Chem 2 have significant fail rates. Not sure on the exact figures but seriously, the majority of people here are probably at least above average academic achievers, so if you look at this site regularly you could be tricked into thinking that very few failed.

I've definitely heard of several people failing Calc and Chem 2. Not to mention second year physiology and anatomy.
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« Reply #1506 on: February 13, 2013, 10:28:19 pm »
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I got an email for the 91 and my brother got the email for the 86.
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« Reply #1507 on: February 13, 2013, 10:43:09 pm »
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Quote from: John President on February 13, 2013, 10:20:22 pm

I've definitely heard of several people failing Calc and Chem 2.

Chem 2 was hard, students definitely had their work cut out with them. However, if you were prepared to get help and practice heaps of questions there was no reason you could not H1 the subject.
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« Reply #1508 on: February 13, 2013, 10:56:29 pm »
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I know of two people that failed Calc 2 personally. One got a 41 and the other got a 49 (ouch). If you don't know/can't understand the material about ODEs (which make up half the course), you are kinda screwed for the exam.
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« Reply #1509 on: February 15, 2013, 02:19:02 am »
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A mate got 47 in Calc 1, then 27.

Somewhat hilarious.
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« Reply #1510 on: February 15, 2013, 03:02:46 am »
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So glad I changed my mind about taking Calc 2 this upcoming semester.

For biology or biochemistry-oriented subjects, which method of studying and notekeeping do you guys find more efficient and effective? Printing out lecture notes and then adding additional notes on them, or copying (with understanding of course, or summarizing) them onto a seperate notebook or laptop of your own formatting?
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« Reply #1511 on: February 15, 2013, 12:34:10 pm »
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« Reply #1512 on: February 15, 2013, 12:50:52 pm »
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I'm an official Uni melb student!
Currently enrolled in: Chem 1, Biology and some other things that are not very interesting but important for chem, Creative writing and Calculus 2.
Planning on majoring in chem... any advice guys?
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« Reply #1513 on: February 15, 2013, 12:54:32 pm »
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Major in Engineering ;)
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« Reply #1514 on: February 15, 2013, 03:55:47 pm »
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I once thought of that but gave up when I found I didn't really enjoy chem that much as other fields :P

Would you also be interested in Medicinal Chemistry? If so you might wanna think about choosing some pharmacology subjects as well for 2nd and 3rd years.
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