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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2011, 11:04:51 am »
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paulsterio, if that's what you think, why did you pick chem/phys then? I understand that chem may be a pre-req, but not so often for physics. if you had liked english, maybe you could have picked lit and english. likewise for maths, if you liked maths, it'd make sense if you picked methods and spesh

Yepp, I picked chem cause I need it for basically a lot of University courses - even though I really don't like it :)

Physics - Well, let's just say that it was a result of school/peer pressure (my school is a very science-oriented school and like most of the smarter kids do the "Asian 5")  hehehh :) - but in the end, I don't mind it - it's quite good in that there's not so many facts to remember as with Chemistry or Biology - but in retrospect - I think I might have wanted to pick English Language or Literature instead but I do admit I do enjoy Physics at times

And yeah, I did pick both Methods and Specialist Maths because I enjoy maths :):) - there's always the option of taking the easy way out (Further instead of Spesh - but nahh, I like Spesh more :))

I meant "people who like to have clear structures on how to construct sentences within the essay" rather than "people who like to write based on how the words seem to work together at the time" but that would have taken to long to type.

Oh right, I seem to get you now :) haha! :D

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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2011, 11:23:59 am »
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In Sciences and Humanities, there is undoubtedly a lot more memorising and rote-learning!

Wut.  I don't remember this...

I'd say there's much more overlap between maths and philosophy than maths and English.  The logical aspect of maths interrelates to English, but in English there's much more emphasis on understanding (in psychological and emotional terms) human nature and society, which maths is completely devoid of.  Speaking as somebody who likes maths a lot, I don't see English and maths as related disciplines really.
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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2011, 11:59:45 am »
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I'd say there's much more overlap between maths and philosophy than maths and English.  The logical aspect of maths interrelates to English, but in English there's much more emphasis on understanding (in psychological and emotional terms) human nature and society, which maths is completely devoid of.  Speaking as somebody who likes maths a lot, I don't see English and maths as related disciplines really.

Hmm, alright, I agree that Maths and Philosophy are much more related, but yeah, I agree that English goes beyond maths when it touches on issues of human nature and society :)

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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2011, 08:36:57 pm »
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I went to the vic uni free one today

I heard the lecturer was an English assessor. Was there any tips etc... that he mentioned that was useful? Would you mind sharing :) I was busy that day and couldn't go :( thankss !

uh well nothing really that special. Umm he mentioned like that you needed to think deeply, mention stuff about parallels, umm yea dont write about two films, umm if you write about a film mention stuff like shadows if its black n white... yeah

hope that helps... :)
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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2011, 09:41:27 pm »
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haha alrighty
thanks :D
ah lol I cbf studying ><

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Re: English Lectures - Helpful?
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2011, 10:44:24 pm »
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haha alrighty
thanks :D
ah lol I cbf studying ><

same english is my worst subject...
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