UoM General Chat

[cassiecate]

I saw what I assume to be jaffies wearing their lab coats and safety goggles on the way home today. I could understand it if someone wanted to put that stuff on while on the tram if they were cutting it close to making the lesson on time, but it's definitely not appropriate to be wearing those things on the way home. They were probably excited and wanted to look cool, but I'm not sure they realised how silly they looked. Facepalm.

LOL did exact same thing with my classmates in high school. Guess the lab coats made us feel a little bit closer to doctors somehow.

[heart]

I saw what I assume to be jaffies wearing their lab coats and safety goggles on the way home today. I could understand it if someone wanted to put that stuff on while on the tram if they were cutting it close to making the lesson on time, but it's definitely not appropriate to be wearing those things on the way home. They were probably excited and wanted to look cool, but I'm not sure they realised how silly they looked. Facepalm.

damn lmao

[cosine]

Can someone please explain to me the formula/process to WAMs and GPAs? I really don't know how it works, and I am slipping because I do not have a set goal to be working towards, simply because I don't even know what I am working for. Is the WAM just simply the average score of all your assessments for all the subjects or is it per subject? (already considering the 5% ILT, 10% assignment etc..). Does it depend on the cohorts performance too?

How hard is it to get a 80+ wam? How many marks can you drop all over the board for this?

Thank you

[cameotodd]

Another noob jaffy question here... just wondering what it means by 'peer-reviewed academic journal article' and 'scholarly book, or book chapter'.
I need these for my assignment.

[spectroscopy]

Can someone please explain to me the formula/process to WAMs and GPAs? I really don't know how it works, and I am slipping because I do not have a set goal to be working towards, simply because I don't even know what I am working for. Is the WAM just simply the average score of all your assessments for all the subjects or is it per subject? (already considering the 5% ILT, 10% assignment etc..). Does it depend on the cohorts performance too?

How hard is it to get a 80+ wam? How many marks can you drop all over the board for this?

Thank you

your wam is your average OVERALL score for ur subjects. so basically you do your    OVERALL score for a subject x the amount of credit points its worth, then PLUS that number by your OVERALL score for the next subject x the amount of credit points its worth, and so on and so forth.
then you divide this figure by the number of credit points you've done

so if you have done 8 subjects worth 12.5 credit points each, and you got a 75 overall for 4 of them and an 85 overall for another 4 your wam would be 80 LOL

its your average overall mark weighted by subject

Another noob jaffy question here... just wondering what it means by 'peer-reviewed academic journal article' and 'scholarly book, or book chapter'.
I need these for my assignment.

i feel like the last two are self explanatory (though they must be published books etc. and generally not editions from magazines(depending on subject)). a good example of one of these would be a textbook. something like a biography would most likely not fit the bill. if you have a question about a particular book you are best off asking your tutor. basically any book written by a specialist in a certain field about the field in which they are a specialist, counts.

peer reviewed academic journal articles are pieces of writing that are referee'd by academics before they are published so that the factual accuracy of it (or its empirical validity if its regarding a study) is ascertained. if you need examples youll have to google around to see what they look like but if you go to a library and ask them this question they will explain it in great depth and will show you how to use library.unimelb.edu.au to find scholarly articles. the uni pays a very very very large amount of money every year so that students can access pretty much all academic databases for free as long as we search through the universities library website.

go to a library and ask them this question and they will talk to you for like 30 minutes about it all such that you are ready for the assignment. the university also quite frequently runs lectures on all of this stuff and usually individual subjects run workshops on this (at least in commerce they do)

[Escobar]

what is the deal with plagiarism forms?
i vaguely remember one of my lecturers saying we had to do one for each subject
are we supposed to do them now? where do we find them & how do we submit them?

[Alter]

Hi, quick question. I'm currently in the standard stream for Biomed, but I've been contemplating doing Health Informatics in the future and therefore enrolling in its respective stream. Is it too late to change into this now? Could I replace Maths for Biomed or Physics for Biomed with Foundations of Computing in Sem 2? At the moment it seems like the only option is to get rid of German 6, which isn't very ideal if I eventually want to do a Diplang.

As a side note, it seems bizarre to me that the most relevant subject in first year to Health Informatics (EDDA, which I'm enjoying a lot) is the one that is removed in order to fit in Computing in the sample structure for the major.

[Rod]

rip lecture capture

so frustrating

[asianguy22]

rip lecture capture

so frustrating

What's happened? What are you referring to?

For one of my subjects there is only one lecture time. Wednesday 11 am - 1pm. Unfortunately i missed the lecture. I wish to watch the lecture via lecture capture. However it is now Friday afternoon and the lecture has yet to appeared on Lecture capture (the previous lecture from last week is on there). Should i e-mail the subject coordinator? Or is this a system wide error of some sought?

[Rod]

What's happened? What are you referring to?

For one of my subjects there is only one lecture time. Wednesday 11 am - 1pm. Unfortunately i missed the lecture. I wish to watch the lecture via lecture capture. However it is now Friday afternoon and the lecture has yet to appeared on Lecture capture (the previous lecture from last week is on there). Should i e-mail the subject coordinator? Or is this a system wide error of some sought?

Last year for all my subjects the recordings would come out during the day the lecture was held.

Now it's taking days. Not just for me but other friends from other undergrad degrees as well. I think there is a system wide error it should not take this long.

[Rishi97]

Last year for all my subjects the recordings would come out during the day the lecture was held.

Now it's taking days. Not just for me but other friends from other undergrad degrees as well. I think there is a system wide error it should not take this long.

It's taking ages!!! And some subjects aren't even recording properly sometimes it's just audio -.-

[cassiecate]

I was thinking it's a they-would-fix-it-in-one-or-two-day problem, now 2 weeks has passed

[Stick]

I'm just waiting on one lecture recording. I've done absolutely everything else that I can at the moment and now I'm at this awkward stage where I can't do anything until the recording drops. :/

[Mieow]

MCB lecture recordings have worked fine for me...every time I needed them they were uploaded about an hour after the lecture ended

[Gentoo]

Hey, just to clear up some slight misinformation I gave earlier when someone asked about the selection process for Finance honours (I went to an information session a few days ago). While your marks in DS/Corp Fi/Investments are predominantly what they look at, apparently they also consider your mark in Econometrics/Basic Econometrics, because that's a pre-requisite to get into honours too. They also say that they do to some extent consider 1st/2nd year marks, although from what I gathered that's only really for assessing/discriminating between people on the borderline (kind of like tiebreakers in sports); what they first look at are the relevant 3rd year subjects.