Genes and Environment - Biomed

[Belgarion]

Hey guys,

Those out their who have done this subject, any tips for the Mid Semester test? Do they heavily focus on technical stuff like specific names, identifying what something is if given a picture, lifecycle, etc

Thanks

[kaybee94]

yes i would also like to know! am i the only one that think what we're learning at the moment is sort of boring? 

[vox nihili]

yes i would also like to know! am i the only one that think what we're learning at the moment is sort of boring? 

Yes you are! Parasites are so exciting!!!! I just love figuring out the differences between different types of arse worms and learning how many different ways we can be infected! YAY!!

I was actually just doing Biol, so I'm a bit delusional...

[Shenz0r]

^You are being a little sarcastic right

[golden]

GENES AND ENVIRONMENT:
To be honest, I cannot completely remember the test that well, but here goes. Hopefully you haven't already done the test.
Do you guys have Ross and Rob?
Ross tends to put very broad questions so you don't need to memorise detail. Like even his exam questions were very broad. He might tell you that during the SWOTVAC tutorial.
Rob tends to make a combination of both general questions and some detailed questions. If the tests are similar, then I would say know the life cycles of the few key ones (off the top of my head - Ascaris, Taenia); if there are the ones that were not covered at all or in detail, then it would just be one of those questions that you could cross all the other ones or something and deduce whether it was correct. I actually enjoyed that component so could better relate to the questions. Just to make things clear, Rob has a tendency to pull random questions as well. Maybe he has changed it for this year, but the end of year exam had questions relating to topics that I thought honestly wouldn't be tested.

The MST was about par with the exam.
At the end of the day, you'd get through it well learning the concepts, because that's what first (and second year to a large degree) are all about.

Edit: Italicised the genera.

[vox nihili]

^You are being a little sarcastic right

Yes. It's ironic, the topic parasites is honestly parasitising my will to live.

[duckydo5]

do you guys reckon there will be only a few questions on evolution/human evolution?

[vox nihili]

do you guys reckon there will be only a few questions on evolution/human evolution?

There were none on the practice, which is odd...

[Belgarion]

they did that last seem as well for lecture 13 and 14, didnt put any practice questions on. The practice seems to be favoring Ross's lectures

[vox nihili]

they did that last seem as well for lecture 13 and 14, didnt put any practice questions on. The practice seems to be favoring Ross's lectures

I have a distinct feeling that the practice was written by the tutors and not by the lecturers. Hopefully the MST is written by the lecturers, because the tutors tend to have a horrible time having any clue what it is we've actually learned unfortunately.