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[silverpixeli]

HAHA I've managed to memorise lyrics to so many songs the past few days, but as to my subject content... XD

Theeeeeeeeeeeeres,

Antimony arsenic aluminum selenium and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
and nickel neodymium neptunium germanium and iron americium ruthenium uranium
europium zirconium lutecium vanadium and lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium and gold and protactinium and indium and galliuuuuuuuuum, and iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

yttrium ytterbium actinium rubidium and boron gadolinium niobium iridium
and strontium and silicon and silver and samarium and bismuth bromine lithium beryllium and barium.

there's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium and phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium
and manganese and mercury molybdenum magnesium, dysprosium and scandium and cerium and caesium
lead praseodymium and platinum plutonium palladium promethium potassium polonium
tantalum technetium titanium telluriuuuuuum, and cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

and sulfur californium and fermium berkelium and also mendelevium einsteinium nobelium and
(this bit is super hard to sing fast)
argon krypton neon radon xenon zinc and rhodium,
chlorine carbon cobalt copper tungsten tin and sodium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
 

[Stick]

Unfortunately that won't help me this time around. That being said I generally don't learn too well with these parody songs... I get too caught up in the music to actually be paying attention to the lyrics.

[silverpixeli]

Unfortunately that won't help me this time around. That being said I generally don't learn too well with these parody songs... I get too caught up in the music to actually be paying attention to the lyrics.

oh this isn't to help with chemistry, the elements aren't even in order

learning this is just the result of my procrastination

[hobbitle]

Do you guys think it's enough to revise off lecture slides? Say, for biology. The textbook seems to go into a lot of detail, and I'm not sure whether we're meant to know it with that much depth.
Thanks!

It really depends on the subject and even the lecturer. In Biochem we have some lecturers whose slides are wholly comprehensive, but others are sparse and require watching the lecture as well to take notes on the slides. From memory, I learned most of first year biology from the slides and a bit of Wikipedia-ing if I felt like a topic was kind of vague on the slides. Textbook is more just another way of hearing about the concepts, so maybe it explains it to you in a way that works better than the notes. Sometimes not.

[Whynot123]

Do you guys think it's enough to revise off lecture slides? Say, for biology. The textbook seems to go into a lot of detail, and I'm not sure whether we're meant to know it with that much depth.
Thanks!

It's enough to revise off the slides if you can make sense of what's on it.
If not, first reference should be the lecture recording. If that doesn't work you can try the textbook or wikipedia for clarification (or any other resource).

For biology, you only need to know the information that is presented in the lectures. The textbook goes into waaay more detail than is assessed, but it usually has more diagrams and the extra information can help you clarify what's on the slides.

[Jawnle]

Someone please clarify this

For QM1 it's 30% assignment and 70% exam

If I got 23/30 for my assignments (did the calculation already), and the final exam is out of 70 marks (so 1 mark = 1% to aggregate score), then does that mean I only need 27 marks in the final exam to get an aggregrate score of 50 and pass the subject even if I failed the exam?

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Someone please clarify this

For QM1 it's 30% assignment and 70% exam

If I got 23/30 for my assignments (did the calculation already), and the final exam is out of 70 marks (so 1 mark = 1% to aggregate score), then does that mean I only need 27 marks in the final exam to get an aggregrate score of 50 and pass the subject even if I failed the exam?

Assuming yo did your calculations correctly that would be correct. However, you need to make sure whether the exma is a hurdle or not (i.e. you may need >50% on the final to pass the subject).

[Shenz0r]

My SWOTVAC is now pretty much me lying down on couch/bed reading my lecture slides for hours and hours over and over again. This is the life guys.

[spectroscopy]

Someone please clarify this

For QM1 it's 30% assignment and 70% exam

If I got 23/30 for my assignments (did the calculation already), and the final exam is out of 70 marks (so 1 mark = 1% to aggregate score), then does that mean I only need 27 marks in the final exam to get an aggregrate score of 50 and pass the subject even if I failed the exam?

yea thats how it works because in qm1 the exam isnt a hurdle, but in qm1 you cant get an overall score higher than 50 without getting at least 50% on the exam.
 so any score you get between 27/70 and 35/70 on the exam will lead to an overall score of 50

[Stick]

I've pretty much devoted all my time to BIOM20001 so far during SWOTVAC and will probably continue to do so for the next 5 or so days until I sift through all the content, and I'm starting to feel that maybe I'll be OK in this subject. Only thing is that I'm pretty sure I've just significantly compromised myself for my other two subjects (I haven't even looked at UNIB20007; and have only awarded brief transient glances at GENE20001 - I haven't even done any problem solving). Now I get why people drop their study loads this semester. :/

[Shenz0r]

Stick you're going to be fine for MCB haha.

You can probably cram GENE20001 in two or three days by just doing all the past exam papers in that time. The UNIB20007 exam was pretty tough given that it was a breadth subject lol

[Stick]

UNIB20007 is the least of my concerns because I have almost a week to study for it alone (it's my last exam) but I'll admit GENE20001 has got me a tad shaken up. I know it's not difficult, but I'd like to get some practice in, and let's face it - BIOM20001 has to take priority. Thanks for the vote of confidence - it's very off-putting when all your friends are doing one less subject haha.

EDIT: Ugh now the lecture recordings aren't working for me anymore. >_<

EDIT EDIT: THANK GOD IT'S UP AGAIN

[notveryasian]

Pro study tip: make a schedule of what you're gonna do for every day up until your final exam. Keeps you motivated to stick to your plan and breaks down the whole study process so things don't get overwhelming. Only problem is that things get pretty bad when you fall behind on your schedule....

[spectroscopy]

Pro study tip: make a schedule of what you're gonna do for every day up until your final exam. Keeps you motivated to stick to your plan and breaks down the whole study process so things don't get overwhelming. Only problem is that things get pretty bad when you fall behind on your schedule....

this is the best advice
I did this and just wrote down "watch 4 qm lectures and do 2 weeks of tute questions" for each day and it works because it makes the task that more easier to accomplish!
except now im behind and I have to watch 6 today LOL

[Mieow]

Pro study tip: make a schedule of what you're gonna do for every day up until your final exam. Keeps you motivated to stick to your plan and breaks down the whole study process so things don't get overwhelming. Only problem is that things get pretty bad when you fall behind on your schedule....

I put a sticky-note on my table with a list of things to do for each subject each day. It feels really good to see all the things ticked off at the end of the day, makes me feel productive and even more motivated ^^

Still don't understand shit in Chem tho