Posted by alexandra_k on September 29, 2015, at 15:52:30
In reply to Re: better-ish, posted by alexandra_k on September 28, 2015, at 16:33:50
oh. and my UMAT test score came back. i did alright, i suppose. i mean, i was a little disappointed, but i'm hearing of people who are A/A+ students this year who did worse on the science and on the maths section, even. (Not maths - apparently it is most useful for histology stuff... Patterns...) I got in the top 90 percentile for verbal. Not as well in the other sections. I got, like, two marks short of the cut-off for some of the Australian major universities med schools on the maths / picture completion section. Which, considering it was my first shot ever at it and I didn't work my way through all of the official prep material is... Pretty f*ck*ng great, really. And I didn't do so badly on the first section (mostly graph reading) as I feared I might.
It's not a deal breaker, in other words. I'm actually feasible. And doing that well on the medsci test... Apparently some people just don't seem able to crack the multi-guess thing. I didn't for biosci last semester. Walked out thinking maybe 3 or 4 wrong... Finding out it was more like 3/4 wrong... More than that, even. Things feel back on track with medsci... I have a better (more accurate) self-assessment. When I get them wrong I can come to understand why I got them wrong and I've learned something about how they think that will help me do better in future.
I worry about whether I can keep it up with a full time workload. One thing to be doing well now, when I'm only doing 2 classes... How will I go with 4? I guess that is the whole idea of 'the same and a bit more' repetition of content. Looks like one of the courses next year goes into a lot of muscle / bone / joint anatomy. So I'll do a first year sportsci anatomy course at the same time and there will be a lot of overlap of content. We have to do neurobiology for medsci and psychology offers neurobiology, too. That seems to be the idea... The volume of information accumulates, for sure, but the amount of study time you need to devote to learning it decreases with repetitions.
Apparently med school is organised into modules. Here, anyway. Fairly short module / intensive and then you get tested and then you move to the next. So... Focus on one thing then move onto the next thing. Much better for me than trying to juggle a bunch of things working up to lots of exams at the end of the year. I really might get to do this... I don't know... So much discretion built in... I don't know... At least I feel like I've found my people a bit with medsci. And good people to have found, too. I've also found a bunch of course reviews for the course I had trouble with and lots of studnets have been complaining about it for years now. I really will follow up on that. Legal action. F*ck*d me over. And who knows how many other people. It really isn't good enough. The whims of bullys... In the name of equity... I really don't think so...
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