Login

Search the forums now!

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

February 21, 2026, 12:49:45 am
Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8   Go Down

Author Topic: Not coping  (Read 23612 times)  Share 

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

iffets12345

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Respect: +15
Re: Not coping
« Reply #75 on: April 24, 2011, 10:25:07 pm »
0
Everyweek, another 100000 things to remember. Oh dear.
Logged
Feel free to message on dentistry questions

lexitu

  • Victorian
  • ATAR Notes Superstar
  • ******
  • Posts: 2147
  • When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University.
  • Respect: +66
Re: Not coping
« Reply #76 on: April 24, 2011, 10:42:43 pm »
0
Quote from: iffets12345 on April 24, 2011, 10:25:07 pm
Everyweek, another 100000 things to remember. Oh dear.

I feel the same just reading through my Anatomy and Physiology textbook. But then we only have another 100000 things to remember for 12 weeks a semester.
Logged

Russ

  • Honorary Moderator
  • Great Wonder of ATAR Notes
  • *******
  • Posts: 8442
  • Respect: +661
Re: Not coping
« Reply #77 on: April 25, 2011, 09:31:59 am »
0
Heh, first years. The secret is to appreciate what will and won't be assessed on the exam
Logged

iffets12345

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Respect: +15
Re: Not coping
« Reply #78 on: April 25, 2011, 12:45:30 pm »
0
^ vce all over LOL
Logged
Feel free to message on dentistry questions

KenworthTrucks

  • Victorian
  • Adventurer
  • *
  • Posts: 9
  • Respect: 0
Re: Not coping
« Reply #79 on: April 25, 2011, 10:43:02 pm »
0
I'll be happy to pass this year to be honest. I'm 1st year doing Podiatry at Latrobe and I know **** all to be honest haha. I didn't do chem or Bio so right from the start I just fell behind in HBA... I'm sure you'll do fine as you have the work ethic... I just don't have any motivaton whatsoever to do work. For example for the annotated bibliography and PHW essay I just did them the night before and on the morning it was due... You shouldn't be worrying cause you seem to be on top of things better than 99% of people I've talked to/met haha, so keep up the good work.
Logged

lexitu

  • Victorian
  • ATAR Notes Superstar
  • ******
  • Posts: 2147
  • When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University.
  • Respect: +66
Re: Not coping
« Reply #80 on: April 25, 2011, 10:45:27 pm »
0
Quote from: KenworthTrucks on April 25, 2011, 10:43:02 pm
I'll be happy to pass this year to be honest. I'm 1st year doing Podiatry at Latrobe and I know **** all to be honest haha. I didn't do chem or Bio so right from the start I just fell behind... I'm sure you'll do fine as you have the work ethic... I just don't have any motivaton whatsoever to do work. For example for the annotated bibliography and PHW essay I just did them the night before and on the morning it was due... You shouldn't be worrying cause you seem to be on top of things better than 99% of people I've talked to/met haha, so keep up the good work.

First year of any Health Sciences at La Trobe seems massively boring. Once you get passed that year and start doing some relevant stuff it gets better - know quite a few doing Podiatry at La Trobe. All the best :)
Logged

rustic_metal

  • Victorian
  • Forum Leader
  • ****
  • Posts: 783
  • Respect: 0
Re: Not coping
« Reply #81 on: April 26, 2011, 10:31:15 pm »
0
Get a copy of last year's exam. Lots of questions on uni papers are just last year's with slight changes. You certainly don't have to remember everything like in VCE.
Logged

iffets12345

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Respect: +15
Re: Not coping
« Reply #82 on: April 27, 2011, 12:44:38 pm »
0
My course is brand spanking new, 4 years out. the lecturers don't give out past year papers I think. hes a nut.
Logged
Feel free to message on dentistry questions

Russ

  • Honorary Moderator
  • Great Wonder of ATAR Notes
  • *******
  • Posts: 8442
  • Respect: +661
Re: Not coping
« Reply #83 on: April 27, 2011, 01:08:34 pm »
0
You'll receive at least 1 past paper because most universities require lecturers to provide an example of the assessment.

And your university will lodge past exams for subjects that give permission; find out if they're accessible online and look for subjects similar to yours
Logged

iffets12345

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Respect: +15
Re: Not coping
« Reply #84 on: April 27, 2011, 09:59:22 pm »
0
I've looked for them but for the oral health subjects, so far nothing yielding. Hopefully in class he will give us some parts of the old exam though or I can ask older students :)

Update:
I have figured I am a question-type learner. I learn better by doing heaps of questions over and over to help me understand concepts. Only by getting things right and wrong can I really absorb subjects. Too bad for my course, a lot of it is learn on your own with no questions or aid. The biology part comes with questions, but I could have found that on the net... the dental part...not so. I think that is maybe the source of my problem in terms of studying issues :)
Logged
Feel free to message on dentistry questions

rustic_metal

  • Victorian
  • Forum Leader
  • ****
  • Posts: 783
  • Respect: 0
Re: Not coping
« Reply #85 on: April 27, 2011, 11:14:59 pm »
0
Email your lecturer for past papers. That type of approach generally doesn't work in university, since they'll usually give you the same scenarios, rather than just similar types of ones like you'd get in VCE. The positive side is that if you can do all the problems in the lectures and on the sample paper (you only need one sample paper, so 4 years is plenty of time), you're pretty much set.
Logged

Glockmeister

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1660
  • RIP Sweet Nothings.
  • Respect: +8
Re: Not coping
« Reply #86 on: April 28, 2011, 05:36:38 pm »
0
Quote from: iffets12345 on April 27, 2011, 09:59:22 pm
I've looked for them but for the oral health subjects, so far nothing yielding. Hopefully in class he will give us some parts of the old exam though or I can ask older students :)

Update:
I have figured I am a question-type learner. I learn better by doing heaps of questions over and over to help me understand concepts. Only by getting things right and wrong can I really absorb subjects. Too bad for my course, a lot of it is learn on your own with no questions or aid. The biology part comes with questions, but I could have found that on the net... the dental part...not so. I think that is maybe the source of my problem in terms of studying issues :)

Yeah I find that I'm sort of like that too.

One thing that I discovered (this year, actually - can teach an old dog new tricks) that really helped was to turn the learning objectives from the lectures into questions and then trying to answer them.
Logged
"this post is more confusing than actual chemistry.... =S" - Mao

[22:07] <robbo> i luv u Glockmeister

<Glockmeister> like the people who like do well academically
<Glockmeister> tend to deny they actually do well
<%Neobeo> sounds like Ahmad0
<@Ahmad0> no
<@Ahmad0> sounds like Neobeo

2007: Mathematical Methods 37; Psychology 38
2008: English 33; Specialist Maths 32 ; Chemistry 38; IT: Applications 42
2009: Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Monash University.

Souljette_93

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1092
  • Respect: +4
Re: Not coping
« Reply #87 on: April 28, 2011, 08:12:22 pm »
0
Quote from: Glockmeister on April 28, 2011, 05:36:38 pm

Yeah I find that I'm sort of like that too.

One thing that I discovered (this year, actually - can teach an old dog new tricks) that really helped was to turn the learning objectives from the lectures into questions and then trying to answer them.

I always do this. Ever since year 11..works well
Logged
Ancient Persian Proverb; " I Wept because i had no Shoes, until i saw a man with no feet!"

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
-Martin Niemoller, a german pastor

schmalex

  • Victorian
  • Forum Leader
  • ****
  • Posts: 619
  • Respect: +3
Re: Not coping
« Reply #88 on: April 29, 2011, 05:21:08 pm »
0
I kind of have that problem, except that I struggle with subjects when we have to rely on lectures rather than text books. I learn really well out of textbooks but when the information is presented in other ways I tend to struggle.
Logged
2009- National Politics (43) Methods (38)
2010- Economics (50) English (44) Literature (38) Introductory Microeconomcis (86) Introductory Macroeconomics (75)
ATAR:98.95

Offering Economics tutoring
http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,35848.0.html

iffets12345

  • Victorian
  • Part of the furniture
  • *****
  • Posts: 1414
  • Respect: +15
Re: Not coping
« Reply #89 on: May 22, 2011, 01:43:52 am »
0
^ I WISH i was like that LOL> I am not a reading learning, but all my friends read things and learn it like that.
Logged
Feel free to message on dentistry questions
Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8   Go Up