[UoM] 2014 Semester 2 Results Thread

[Tadpole]

cos it drops my GPA by 0.02.

haha the horror
in the same boat, bit annoying with the 79 but all good, would have taken that at the start of the semester if you had offered me (although my worst subject was my best mark and my strongest my worst  )

[Renaissance]

I know right! I didn't even think I'd get a H1 and I got 89.

I am now tempted to do more difficult subjects that scale well in second year because my marks in first year have been much better for subjects that scale well although they are more difficult. I don't know if this is a good idea as I don't know how scaling works in second year, it might not be directly proportional to difficulty. I planned to study so hard for physics 2 advanced but then I pretty much did none of the things I planned to do, like I didn't do that many practice problems, didn't attend so many lectures, didn't go to most tutorials etc. I really need to stop doing that shit in second year...

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

I am now tempted to do more difficult subjects that scale well in second year because my marks in first year have been much better for subjects that scale well although they are more difficult. I don't know if this is a good idea as I don't know how scaling works in second year, it might not be directly proportional to difficulty. I planned to study so hard for physics 2 advanced but then I pretty much did none of the things I planned to do, like I didn't do that many practice problems, didn't attend so many lectures, didn't go to most tutorials etc. I really need to stop doing that shit in second year...

Probably not the best idea. I heard MIIM20001 doesn't scale and from my short experience with it I found it bloody hard. Genetics is supposedly scaled and it is apparently ridiculously easy to study for but that is just hearsay anyway

[Starlight]

Probably not the best idea. I heard MIIM20001 doesn't scale and from my short experience with it I found it bloody hard. Genetics is supposedly scaled and it is apparently ridiculously easy to study for but that is just hearsay anyway

Genes & genomes is definitely more difficult than principles of genetics though

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Genes & genomes is definitely more difficult than principles of genetics though

Yes sorry I was referring to GENE20001 (Principles of Genetics).

[Renaissance]

Probably not the best idea. I heard MIIM20001 doesn't scale and from my short experience with it I found it bloody hard. Genetics is supposedly scaled and it is apparently ridiculously easy to study for but that is just hearsay anyway

Are there subjects that are known to scale well? In first year it is known that accelerated maths and advanced physics scale like crazy.
I heard that stochastic processes scales very well, but don't know any other subjects.
I think I will do just what I am interested in and not worry about scaling.

[Fantasia94]

Are there subjects that are known to scale well? In first year it is known that accelerated maths and advanced physics scale like crazy.
I heard that stochastic processes scales very well, but don't know any other subjects.
I think I will do just what I am interested in and not worry about scaling.

Wait, so you're saying that it's the subject's coordinator's choice to decide whether a subject will scale or not? Seems a little unfair if subjects are either too hard or too easy :/

[Renaissance]

Wait, so you're saying that it's the subject's coordinator's choice to decide whether a subject will scale or not? Seems a little unfair if subjects are either too hard or too easy :/

No, it is mostly how the grades of the students doing the subjects compare to students doing other subjects etc. like in year 12.

[LeviLamp]

SO MANY UPS AND DOWNS, IT'S A ROLLERCOASTER
Good job to everyone this year You're all doing wonderfully. HSF marks are insaaaaaane, I heard the physiology exam was soul-destroying.

GERM20005 - German 4
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 75 Grade: Second Class Hons A (H2A)

I'm relieved this mark wasn't lower, really, and it doesn't bother me much (a 75 is still a good mark!, and it's somehow my lowest mark after a 63 in Calc 1), but I could rant for days about this subject, and I feel like I really need to, I'm so mad at myself for putting effort into it. BUT APPARENTLY MY GERMAN 3 AND 4 MARKS DON'T EVEN COUNT TOWARDS MY SGPA AND I'M QUITTING THE DIPLOMA, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHHA

WARNING: CATHARTIC SELF-INDULGENT VENT

I studied so much more for this than German 3, which was no easier, and I got a mark 6 points lower despite understanding the entire course far better. I lost 3% by changing two true/false answers on an MCQ test with dubious lost-in-translation passages that were supposed to be extremely easy to understand (they were) at the last minute (the test was 10 MCQ, 6 were true or false and it was worth 15%). I lost 5% on the writing test because there was no time, and the last six answers of over twenty (forty-five minute test) were worth 40/100 marks on the test - I lost 24 marks on questions I was able to answer because the test was so short, and got 14/20. The oral (which I spent far too long preparing for) in which I answered everything confidently and got open praise from the tutors in, I ended up with 1 mark more than last semester, where I broke down crying and was unable to speak for three minutes due to hysteria. The exam, which I studied the whole course for as advised, covered almost nothing I studied except for the basic grammar, and had no opportunity to show understanding, only a blank space to write a sentence (some of the English I had to translate also didn't make grammatical sense in English @_@) or fill in a single word or ending. The assessments for this subject are terrible, and work and understanding do not correlate to your final mark. I definitely understood everything better than last semester, and I managed to answer things consistently correctly in class and while practicing at home. I put so much more effort in, when the concepts were not much harder to grasp, and got a mark 6 points lower. Lots of other students have suffered the same fate (some of them in the reverse direction, which I guess is good for them). The coordinator's changing back to normal again next year (she was on maternity leave this year), so I hope the subject returns to a stable grading structure. I'm really glad I'm quitting the diploma, the ridiculous level of uncertainty (regardless of input, effort or understanding) people have to go through in the subjects Stefan teaches is insane for such a simple course (the content was definitely easier than my science classes, and there was less of it).

BUT!

BOTA20002 - Plant Biodiversity
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 100 Grade: First Class Honours (H1)

This subject did not involve mid-semester tests or multiple choice-based assessment. I wrote an entire script book of tiny writing in the exam (160 marks of the exam were long answers), the two herbaria took days to complete properly and the two prac tests (pretty easy) were really error-prone and I am just in UTTER SHOCK I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE IN SUCH A QUALITATIVE SUBJECT. I actually can't deal with this mark at all, I would cry BUT I ALREADY DID. I can die happy, I achieved a 100 at university and I didn't think that was possible in a subject run by the botany department :')

In terms of my actual science degree, this semester has gone super-well, especially considering I only had one night to furiously study for my breadth thanks to wasting days and days earlier studying for German (which was unnecessary).

2014   Semester 2   BOTA20002   Plant Biodiversity   1   100   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   ECOL20003   Ecology   1   94   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   LING10001   The Secret Life of Language   1   90   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   ZOOL20006   Comparative Animal Physiology   1      WXT   WH Extension   12.500

...the animal phys mark had better be released soon, half the class have had their marks for two days now :')

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

SO MANY UPS AND DOWNS, IT'S A ROLLERCOASTER
Good job to everyone this year You're all doing wonderfully. HSF marks are insaaaaaane, I heard the physiology exam was soul-destroying.

GERM20005 - German 4
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 75 Grade: Second Class Hons A (H2A)

I'm relieved this mark wasn't lower, really, and it doesn't bother me much (a 75 is still a good mark!, and it's somehow my lowest mark after a 63 in Calc 1), but I could rant for days about this subject, and I feel like I really need to, I'm so mad at myself for putting effort into it. BUT APPARENTLY MY GERMAN 3 AND 4 MARKS DON'T EVEN COUNT TOWARDS MY SGPA AND I'M QUITTING THE DIPLOMA, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHHA

WARNING: CATHARTIC SELF-INDULGENT VENT

I studied so much more for this than German 3, which was no easier, and I got a mark 6 points lower despite understanding the entire course far better. I lost 3% by changing two true/false answers on an MCQ test with dubious lost-in-translation passages that were supposed to be extremely easy to understand (they were) at the last minute (the test was 10 MCQ, 6 were true or false and it was worth 15%). I lost 5% on the writing test because there was no time, and the last six answers of over twenty (forty-five minute test) were worth 40/100 marks on the test - I lost 24 marks on questions I was able to answer because the test was so short, and got 14/20. The oral (which I spent far too long preparing for) in which I answered everything confidently and got open praise from the tutors in, I ended up with 1 mark more than last semester, where I broke down crying and was unable to speak for three minutes due to hysteria. The exam, which I studied the whole course for as advised, covered almost nothing I studied except for the basic grammar, and had no opportunity to show understanding, only a blank space to write a sentence (some of the English I had to translate also didn't make grammatical sense in English @_@) or fill in a single word or ending. The assessments for this subject are terrible, and work and understanding do not correlate to your final mark. I definitely understood everything better than last semester, and I managed to answer things consistently correctly in class and while practicing at home. I put so much more effort in, when the concepts were not much harder to grasp, and got a mark 6 points lower. Lots of other students have suffered the same fate (some of them in the reverse direction, which I guess is good for them). The coordinator's changing back to normal again next year (she was on maternity leave this year), so I hope the subject returns to a stable grading structure. I'm really glad I'm quitting the diploma, the ridiculous level of uncertainty (regardless of input, effort or understanding) people have to go through in the subjects Stefan teaches is insane for such a simple course (the content was definitely easier than my science classes, and there was less of it).

BUT!

BOTA20002 - Plant Biodiversity
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 100 Grade: First Class Honours (H1)

This subject did not involve mid-semester tests or multiple choice-based assessment. I wrote an entire script book of tiny writing in the exam (160 marks of the exam were long answers), the two herbaria took days to complete properly and the two prac tests (pretty easy) were really error-prone and I am just in UTTER SHOCK I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE IN SUCH A QUALITATIVE SUBJECT. I actually can't deal with this mark at all, I would cry BUT I ALREADY DID. I can die happy, I achieved a 100 at university and I didn't think that was possible in a subject run by the botany department :')

In terms of my actual science degree, this semester has gone super-well, especially considering I only had one night to furiously study for my breadth thanks to wasting days and days earlier studying for German (which was unnecessary).

2014   Semester 2   BOTA20002   Plant Biodiversity   1   100   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   ECOL20003   Ecology   1   94   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   LING10001   The Secret Life of Language   1   90   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   ZOOL20006   Comparative Animal Physiology   1      WXT   WH Extension   12.500

...the animal phys mark had better be released soon, half the class have had their marks for two days now :')

Levi, you're bloody nuts. Congratulations on your crazy marks !!!! Looks like you'll be receiving an award from the Dean again

[Fyrefly]

BOTA20002 - Plant Biodiversity
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 100 Grade: First Class Honours (H1)

That's a really amazing mark - congratulations~!!
It sounds like you put in the work for it, so you definitely deserve it

[mahler004]

Wait, so you're saying that it's the subject's coordinator's choice to decide whether a subject will scale or not? Seems a little unfair if subjects are either too hard or too easy :/

Yes, it generally comes down to the subject coordinator or department.

Are there subjects that are known to scale well? In first year it is known that accelerated maths and advanced physics scale like crazy.
I heard that stochastic processes scales very well, but don't know any other subjects.
I think I will do just what I am interested in and not worry about scaling.

It's mostly subjects that are difficult that are scaling. Scaling makes up for a tough exam (usually, but definitely not always!) Remember, it's in the lecturer's interests not to fail half of the class.

On an unrelated note, I now have a science degree.

CHEM20019 - Practical Chemistry 2
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 85 Grade: First Class Honours (H1)

CHEM20020 - Chemistry: Structure and Properties
Passed
2014, Semester 2, Parkville, On Campus   Credit Points: 12.50
Mark: 90 Grade: First Class Honours (H1)

I just wonder what I would have gotten if I didn't overload. And if I studied as I planned before each exam.

Great marks for chem. Prac chem especially is a massive pain - it's seriously the worst subject I've studied in terms of workload. Structure and properties is a bit better, but I remember I found some sections of the course annoyingly taught.

In the end, the thing that kept me going in prac chem was 'I can't have done all this work and not get a H1.'

I've got no idea how you can overload with prac chem. I did prac chem + biochem techniques + UROP in one semester, was regularly up past midnight writing reports.

[jtvg]

2014   Semester 2   ACCT30001   Financial Accounting Theory   2   87   H1   First Class Honours   12.500
2014   Semester 2   FNCE30002   Corporate Finance   1   81   H1   First Class Honours   12.500

Not as stellar as my previous semesters but definitely happy. I'm finally done with undergrad. Off to work in 3 months!

[Starlight]

especially considering I only had one night to furiously study for my breadth

Only you LeviLamp, only you. I don't know how you do it.
Congratulations on the well-deserved marks.

[lzxnl]

Great marks for chem. Prac chem especially is a massive pain - it's seriously the worst subject I've studied in terms of workload. Structure and properties is a bit better, but I remember I found some sections of the course annoyingly taught.

In the end, the thing that kept me going in prac chem was 'I can't have done all this work and not get a H1.'

I've got no idea how you can overload with prac chem. I did prac chem + biochem techniques + UROP in one semester, was regularly up past midnight writing reports.

Well I spent entire weekends on prac chem reports and had to rewatch bio and biochem lectures on the train to uni. Not the most fun