Biol10005 MST practice question help

[Starlight]

So I tallied up the marks from the practice exam, and it looks like Dawn's component is slightly less than 50%, and Rick and Theresa have about 25% each. Hopefully it stays that way on the real exam, but it seems like a fair division of content to me.

In terms of the written "essay" component for dawn it is likely to be from the material before the mid semester test than her stuff later, it was for our exam

[LeviLamp]

What about her dreaded case studies?

[Starlight]

What about her dreaded case studies?

I don't really remember those, can you provide an example?

[LeviLamp]

Cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease and beta thalassaemia.

[Starlight]

Cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease and beta thalassaemia.

For us, no

[hobbitle]

For us, no

What do you mean here El?
Confused by "for us".
Do you mean for B Sci students we don't need to know about the case studies for the exam?

[Starlight]

What do you mean here El?
Confused by "for us".
Do you mean for B Sci students we don't need to know about the case studies for the exam?

As sashimi said
Except it's still important to cover as much as you can even if I mention something was/wasn't on our exam.

The practice test paper was very similar to the real exam last year (esp. the zoology stuff)

[MelonBar]

How do you guys study for content heavy subjects like BIOL10005? This is my first taste of Bio since year 11 and the last couple of Dawn Gleeson slides are... incredible.

[LeviLamp]

Plow through while crying internally, basically.
Writing things down and revisiting your OWN notes helps a lot, just reading means a lot goes over the top.

[LeviLamp]

So the average mark for the assignment was apparently below a fail :/
Hooray? D:

[Belgarion]

The demonstrators are constantly criticizing you guys during our biomed tutes, saying "don't get this wrong like the science students". I think its just appalling

[vox nihili]

The demonstrators are constantly criticizing you guys during our biomed tutes, saying "don't get this wrong like the science students". I think its just appalling

Happened during ours too. "Well let's hope you can do your genetics better than the science kids..."

[LeviLamp]

11.5/20. Lost 2.5/3 for the copy+paste question (the article was fully relevant, my keywords were directly related, my authors etc. were all right and the only thing wrong was my source (which accidentally got clipped in half without me noticing), and 6/8 for the 9:6:1 question DESPITE GETTING THE CORRECT ANSWER (but I had a margin ruled full of scribbly messy working separate to the question so maybe my self-confessed neat freak demonstrator decided to try and read that too?). My friend sitting next to me did the same things and also got 11.5/20. There seems to have been a lot of variation between demonstrators; apparently Michelle Lupton was very forgiving with her marking while other demonstrators were really harsh.

[LeviLamp]

Roslyn Green. She's really nice and helpful but I suspect she took the marks of because she's really anal-retentive and pedantic (she keeps telling us this in tutes/pracs) but it doesn't justify losing  6 marks out of 8 for a correct answer (my friend who has Michelle as her tutor wrote almost the same thing and only lost one mark, for not putting down that the trait in wheat was autosomal (which was the only actual mistake I made as well)) and also doesn't explain why my friend, who had a much tidier answer, only got an extra 1/2 mark for having almost exactly the same (correct!) answer. I've heard Ian's a pretty bad demonstrator, let's hope he's a generous marker
And I had Trisha last semester, I feel your pain; she found the most minuscule things to penalise for that silly assignment it was ridiculous (and she does it in Flora/Fauna and Genetics too, according to people I know who have her), I thought my assignment was perfect (though it turned out spell check changed potometer to pedometer) after lots of rereading and she took marks off for using ml instead of mL (even though both are correct) and for not turning the 2 in CO2 into superscript, as well as not citing my opening sentence in the introduction.

[LeviLamp]

Got my results in the workshop, yeah And Ros seems to be a tighter marker than Trish, haha, going off my assignment >.>"
Good luck Remember, if your mark is below what you expect, other people are in the same boat or worse off (Michelle stressed that emphatically today, she sounded really sad for us  ). Hopefully the marks get standardised at the end.