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butterfly13579

  • Feb 27, 2023
  • Joined Aug 9, 2022
  • In How important are workshops in uni?

    butterfly13579 BMS1031 workshops are optional but they do offer you a lot of exam style questions in them. They do release the slides and solutions after each workshops if things haven’t changed. Also 2 workshops in the semester are compulsory since that’s when the midsems occur

    • In biology unit 3/4

      butterfly13579 Hey! I think you meant sympatric speciation in howea palms- this is how I’d structure my responses for that

      1. There is pre-existing genetic variation in the howea palm population with some palms being able o grow better in acidic soil whereas potters growing better in basic soil (likely due to a prior polyploidy mutation which may have been the source of a new allele)
      2. These palms are NOT geographically o isolated, but occupy different niches hence may be exposed to different environments and different selection pressures
      3. Which selected for different phenotypes (ex-the difference sin flowering times). Over many generations as the different mutations accummalate, there is so much genetic and phentoypic variation between the palms that
      4. They are unable to interbreed to produce viable fertile offspring, hence are considered to be reproductively isolated and have formed different/seperate species
        • In ATAR needed for biomes at Monash

          You’d want to look at the lowest selection rank, which was 91 last year. This means if you had no SEAS, no spec con, no nothing, you’d need a 91 ATAR to be admitted

        • In Can I still get above 35 in methods

          butterfly13579

          Yes you can still get 35+ and will be definitely achievable if you do well on the remaining sacs and the exams. Try to use this sac as a learning opportunity and work out why you lost marks (was it inadequate preparation, was it time management during the sac, was it careless errors, not showing working out? etc) and try to address them before your next sacs and future exams.

          • In Medify vs UCAT

            butterfly13579

            Sorry, I think I might have worded that incorrectly but I got 900 only in QR and 850 in AR 😅 (I don't know anyone who's gotten 900 in both; I just know people who have gotten 900 in either of the two).
            As for QR tips, its just mainly going over every single question (even the correct ones) and trying to figure out a much faster way to do it. Basically, figure out mathematical shortcuts. For example, if the question says "if the number of hospitalisations of COVID last year was 1238 and it increased by 30% this year, how many hospitalisations are there this year?" Instead of doing 0.3x1238 and then adding to 1238, you should do 1.3*1238 which gives the same answer but in one less step. This might be a pretty obvious shortcut but you need to figure these types of things out for each question. Also, a big thing is to get used to the online calculator and working with it with a numpad.
            As for AR, you need to be exposed to as many patterns as possible and review the ones you get wrong each time and you'll find a pattern (see what I did there?) of the one you keep getting wrong. Also, when you're stuck, go through the mnemonic SCANS (shape, colour, arrangement, number and size/symmetry).
            Finally, if you ever every get stuck on any question, immediately flag and skip and come back. That's how the UCAT works: you just have to move on and come back.

            Hope this helped!

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              • In Medify vs UCAT

                I did it this year (shudder)

                For medify they give you a range. Pick the lowest values from each range, add them, and for me this value was a little lower than my actual score!

                Number 1 tip; Don't leave it till 2 weeks out to study.......

              • In Medify vs UCAT

                Hey butterfly13579,

                I didn't do the UCAT this year (I did it last year) but I have multiple friends who have already done it (some even doing it for the second time) and did Medify. They mentioned generally that VR was a little harder than expected; Medify texts are longer but the questions in the real exam were harder (specifically, there were usually two very very similar options in the answers). DM was similar to last year and it'll always be "weird"; you think you're doing well but your results beg to differ so pay careful attention to DM. QR was similar as well: easier than Medify. Same with AR, its usually easier in the real exam. SJT just chills as usual; you're exhausted at that point anyways 😆. This is what I've heard and also what I've extrapolated from my friends' marks.

                Hope that helped and feel free to ask more questions 🙂.

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