What lectures is everyone going to?

[slothpomba]

Yeah, lucky i stayed away from engage (mainly because they started so early and i was disorganised to book)....

I'm not sure if im going to go to a bio one besides VU, anyone else going to any bio ones?

chrisjb, i still reckon the idea of lectures arent all that bad, especially the shorter ones. I myself still haven't finished my revision (shock horror) and the more you constantly revise something and hear it, keep it on the top of your mind, the more you remember it. (according to tsfx (this was backed up by a proper scientific study) you learn more by listening and seeing than by reading/writing your own notes, so unless you're fond of talking to yourself (another tsfx suggestion... people take these too seriously... i know a chick who teaches her pencil case).

3 Hours certainly won't blow a huge hole in your study schedule, for me especially i procrastinate a lot when im at home anyway, which is why i go to the library to study (haven't been lately which explains the little work i got done) time i spent at home would of been semi-procrastinated (im sure this holds true for most people) and you're forced to pick up stuff for a good solid 3 hours.

So, i reckon the shorter lectures are good for resfreshers/helping revision/keeping stuff ontop of your head (or if you had a really shitty teacher... my IT teacher told us no theory all year... just how to do the practical sacs... but we dont do the exam on computer... so its all theory)

Anyway once again - I'm not sure if im going to go to a bio one besides VU, anyone else going to any bio ones?

[slothpomba]

0.o I summarized Chem and Physics under 5 hours. I reckon that if you worked hard enough, you only need a single month to learn the entire Unit 4 for either subject, probably less.

Chem isn't extremely dense on theory (if you haven't noticed already, if you have heineman flick through the book and read the chapters, theres actually not all that much huge chunks of theory... a chapter is what like 30 pages.. some are like 15... compare it to biology with hugely massive chapters and heaps of theory) so i reckon, if you put even a solid week into it, you could get a decent amount of understanding.

[taiga]

it's stupid to think that a seven hour lecture can consolidate the ideas you learnt over one and a half semesters of school, it's impossible to go into enough detail in that time.

0.o I summarized Chem and Physics under 5 hours. I reckon that if you worked hard enough, you only need a single month to learn the entire Unit 4 for either subject, probably less.

This, it's a terrible rumour that leaving things till late never works. There is always time

I finished off the physics course for midyears the day before exams making up my laziness throughout the year by doing 11 exams the day before the exam, i got a pretty decent mark as well

[slothpomba]

This, it's a terrible rumour that leaving things till late never works. There is always time

Haha, same.

I get all my best work done in the last minute.

Stress actually motivates me to get off my ass and do something instead of breaking down into a heap like some people, it works well for me cause im lazy half the time

[minilunchbox]

Lectures are good for notes (depends on subject) and sometimes hearing things from another person makes some things so much clearer. But I wouldn't shell out too much money for them.

I've only been to a lot because so far I've spent a grand total of $20 for the entire year (and I went to 6 for midyears and planning to go to around ~8 (which would mean an extra $46) for end of year).

Obviously the quality of the lectures I go to are not on the level of DERRICK HA THE SUPERGENIUS/GOD. But I make do.

[slothpomba]

Yeah around 40 bucks or less is what you want to be paying... not like the prices TSFX charges...such a rip off.. how do they manage to get any business

[kyzoo]

it's stupid to think that a seven hour lecture can consolidate the ideas you learnt over one and a half semesters of school, it's impossible to go into enough detail in that time.

0.o I summarized Chem and Physics under 5 hours. I reckon that if you worked hard enough, you only need a single month to learn the entire Unit 4 for either subject, probably less.

This, it's a terrible rumour that leaving things till late never works. There is always time

I finished off the physics course for midyears the day before exams making up my laziness throughout the year by doing 11 exams the day before the exam, i got a pretty decent mark as well

Seriously? You did 11 exams in one day? It took me more than 2 weeks to do that 0.o

And for lectures...I have only gone to the one held for KLD (Kwong Lee Dow)/Extension Program students, and English/Physics was a waste of time.

[iffets12345]

lol in chem, there are like 4 chapters you don't even need/ skim over slightly. The chemical waste and all those other chemicals that aren't your study.

[98.40_for_sure]

Whose going to VU chem?

[slothpomba]

Whose going to VU chem?

Me probably, but 2 hours to get there... then i gotta rush to access chem

Who was at VU biology today?

[liv]

Whose going to VU chem?

Me probably, but 2 hours to get there... then i gotta rush to access chem

Who was at VU biology today?

*puts hand up*

did you like kevin o'leary?

[slothpomba]

Haha yeah he is funny (sometimes) but that chick with the inappropriately long and loud laugh got annoying sometimes when he made a joke.

I went to his midyears and he was ok for that too.

Felt rushed in some parts where he just said the headings of a section and not saying/explaining what was in them but it was ok

How did you find it?

[liv]

i liked it, but i was near the front so i only heard that girl when she laughed really really loud (i didn't even think she was actually finding everything that funny until she kept laughing...)

i liked it, considering my teacher hasn't finished the course yet, so i learned quite a bit about evolution.

and i can't believe VU made him take all the diagrams out of his notes this time...the mid year ones were amazing.

wish he was my teacher.

[slothpomba]

The midyear i recall had a lot of his stuff missing too.

I was sort of in the middle, like three rows from the mini-wall behind that front row of seats.

We also haven't finished haha so i learnt a lot about human evolution too

He makes it seem so simple and condensed down with his notes, he has been an assessor for like 20 years or something which makes him pretty awesome i guess

Going vu chem?

[liv]

wish i was, but because we havent finished the bio course our teacher scheduled a class on that day >.<
but i might skip it. just ot annoy him.