Semester One Timetable Thread

[hobbitle]

That is a damn rough timetable. Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll be fine though.

It's a lot of hours but it's still good - no big gaps and solid blocks of afternoons or mornings for study and assignments.

[Shenz0r]

^Yeah just sleep in at home and listen to lecture recordings.

[Hancock]

EDIT: ^Yeah just sleep in at home.

[vox nihili]

You're all terrible influences! I was fully intent on going to all my classes like a good little student before this

Some people do. Personally, I only missed one lecture all year

[REBORN]

You're all terrible influences! I was fully intent on going to all my classes like a good little student before this

In university, attendance doesn't correlate to marks. Not for lectures anyway. I went for 1/36 MBB2 lectures; it ended up being one of my highest subjects. Sometimes, pausing and restarting at home is beneficial too!

[hobbitle]

Sometimes, pausing and restarting at home is beneficial too!

This. I could never take notes fast enough in the Biology lectures so I stopped going to them and I watched at home.  Took me 2 hours instead of 50 minutes but at least I had proper notes by the end.

[hobbitle]

I've heard that some lecturers like to write on the board a lot, which doesn't get put online, though. I'm guessing that doesn't happen often?
I'm probably gonna have the same problem! Notes notes notes. Thank god for recorded lectures. I can imagine it already... Going to every single lecture, then realising I'm gonna have to rewatch it all at home anyway...

How long do the lectures stay online? Forever?

I found that the maths lectures were hard to watch online because some streams would use the white/blackboards and it wouldn't be recorded. But I found maths stuff to be better paced in the lectures.
Biology and chem all run off slides that are recorded with audio so they are fine.
Definitely go to the first few lectures and check how the recordings turn out. Also remember you take the risk that there could be an error with the recording.
They stay online for the full semester until the subject is removed from your LMS page.

[Limista]

This. I could never take notes fast enough in the Biology lectures so I stopped going to them and I watched at home.  Took me 2 hours instead of 50 minutes but at least I had proper notes by the end.

question: aren't the lecture notes enough to supplement theoretical understanding? Or do you recommend spending additional time on making your own notes?

This sort of question is probably going to warrant a 'it depends on the person' type answer, but I'm just wondering about the different study methods used in uni; they must be quite different to the most efficient methods used to succeed in VCE...

[charmanderp]

Some people do. Personally, I only missed one lecture all year

I was like this too. Except I probabyl missed all but one lecture.

[hobbitle]

question: aren't the lecture notes enough to supplement theoretical understanding? Or do you recommend spending additional time on making your own notes?

This sort of question is probably going to warrant a 'it depends on the person' type answer, but I'm just wondering about the different study methods used in uni; they must be quite different to the most efficient methods used to succeed in VCE...

Negative. The lecture slides themselves are rarely enough for understanding the content.
eg in Biology or Physiology there might be a lecture slide with a graph, or an unlabelled diagram. Explanation of said diagram happens verbally by the lecturer. The diagram itself you could probably spend time googling it's meaning or doing further research but really it's quicker to listen to the lecturer for 5 minutes to grasp the idea.

[Shenz0r]

Making your own notes is probably efficient if you're rewriting/reorganising the lecture slides in your own words.

Of course some people can just read over the lecture slides but I find that I have a tough time recalling information if it's not written in my own words. When I summarised the lecture, everything became more clear.

[charmanderp]

question: aren't the lecture notes enough to supplement theoretical understanding? Or do you recommend spending additional time on making your own notes?

This sort of question is probably going to warrant a 'it depends on the person' type answer, but I'm just wondering about the different study methods used in uni; they must be quite different to the most efficient methods used to succeed in VCE...

It really does depend on the person. In VCE doing well is mostly about doing the exam well, a skill in and of itself, which comes down to practice exams/essays. In uni there's a lot more of higher level understanding required on a theoretical level because you don't have the opportunity to bust out heaps of practice exams and understand it just in a practical sense. So for most of us mere mortals this does require you to reconfigure the lecturer's notes into an interpretation of your own that makes sense based upon how you think.

[Limista]

It really does depend on the person. In VCE doing well is mostly about doing the exam well, a skill in and of itself, which comes down to practice exams/essays. In uni there's a lot more of higher level understanding required on a theoretical level because you don't have the opportunity to bust out heaps of practice exams and understand it just in a practical sense. So for most of us mere mortals this does require you to reconfigure the lecturer's notes into an interpretation of your own that makes sense based upon how you think.

any methods of keeping the notes together, so we don't have papers flying around? Like, should we file them away in a folder or something or... [based on your experiences of course  ]?

[charmanderp]

any methods of keeping the notes together, so we don't have papers flying around? Like, should we file them away in a folder or something or... [based on your experiences of course  ]?

I computerise everything - so basically copy and paste from lecture slides/academic articles/type my own notes into Evernote. Have individual folders and then files for each subject, major, etc.

[Starlight]

any methods of keeping the notes together, so we don't have papers flying around? Like, should we file them away in a folder or something or... [based on your experiences of course  ]?

Depends on the subject Starfish.. If it's one with no exam- keeping all your files on the computer is useful for assignments. If it's one with an exam I tend to use binders.