Since I tagged along for the ride, I’ll reiterate Leigh-San’s advice of the day:
CHECK YOU EXAM TIMETABLES THREE TIMES!!! MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR VENUE!!! AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT UNIT!!!
That’s the public announcement from me today. I’d tell you the story, but I’ll have to get approval from someone, cause the story isn’t mine to tell and plus, it is just good ethics 
For more exam tips, do visit my previous post. Until next time, be sure to have read Kristine’s Guide To Exams and you’ll have a jolly good time 
That’s it for me, I’m going back into my shell and nerding it for the rest of the night!
2 papers down and I’m half way there. Half way for this dreaded exam season to be over and done with. Had that professional issues paper and like I thought, there the case study was taken directly from the Freegard book. Looks like Heather pulled a ‘Hoe Lee’ of just pulling things that are readily available for the students to practice on.
I wonder if she expected us to think that she’d do that or we were just too lazy to read her book. I guess the people who actually tried the case studies in her book would have an upper hand in the exam. It’s like the exam question being released early. LOL.
Anyway, more pushing for the last 2 papers: Childhood & Adolescence and Applied Research. I don’t need a lot to pass these 2 units, something like 7.7 marks for childhood and about 10ish marks for applied research. Although I don’t even need to pass the exam to pass the unit, obviously I want to do the best that I can. If given the chance to get better than a 50% pass, I’m sure any sane person would want to push and make that extra effort to earn every single mark they can from the exam.
I feel that however much I study for the exams, I don’t feel like I know much. I don’t know, sometimes I feel I don’t know anything, but turns out I do know some things, maybe not everything I need to know. There are limits in my memory’s capacity you know
I’m not too worried for my applied research paper cause I know I can sail my way through the biostats component. We have a biostats component (worth 20% of the unit) and a research methods component (also worth 20% of the unit) which entails having to come up with a qualitative and a quantitative research proposal. All this in 2 hours. Luckily we’re allowed to bring in the cheat sheets for the biostats with the formulas we need plus the assumptions of the various statistical tests used.
Childhood case study is out, with torticollis as one of the disorders that the child has. Along with chromosomal abnormality and developmental delay. So many things to think about. Sometimes I wish we have clinicals so we can actually experience how to make clinical decisions and apply our clinical reasoning skills. Putting things down on paper is a whole world away from specifically applying principles to a person. I’m sure there are many other who feel like that but can’t be helped. I just wish that we didn’t have to do the 4th year units now just cause they need to fill up our credits to complete the course.
Listening to Apologize by Timbaland now. I’m loving the beat of it so far. I’ve been listening to song lyrics a lot these few weeks, some songs have really meaningful lyrics to them that I’ve ignored before.
Anyways, I’m definitely due to go study the childhood case study while I wait to go home. Toodles!
Well, it IS the exam seasons and it is well and truly under way right now. Having finished 1 paper, rehabilitation, I can now say with conviction I am prepared to give all you readers “Kristine’s Guide To Exams”. Of course, I got this idea from the Curtin Uni Guild GROK magazine, but some of these are actually based upon real life things that either happened to me or other people. So read on.
1. Buy a pencil. A very handy writing tool to use for multiple choice questions which you should score for.
2. BRING THE PENCIL. Also a very handy tip so you can write your answers.
3. Buy an eraser. Definitely don’t use the erasers on the back of the yellow HB pencils you take from the Mrs Mac’s test counters when you’re supposed to fill out the survey. Tsk tsk…..Karma baby. Karma.
4. Organize your file. Part of the fun in procrastinating your studying time, plus you’d probably discovered you DID indeed print those lecture notes you need to study from.
5. Outline a timetable and deadlines to have studied various units from.
6. Definitely bring a box of tissues into the exam room. We don’t appreciate snot being wiped on the tables or for you to keep sniffing every 30 seconds. Just drives the bajeebers out of us either way.
7. Double check your exam venue and time the night before. Showing up for an exam 30 minutes late might make you look like a hero, but it’ll only be to your detriment.
8. Make sure you have the right unit’s exam timetable. Check that if the unit is done for 3 year groups, you are in the right place for each year group is separated. Research Methods 112 and OT 108 - Research Methods might have the same content but the venues are TOTALLY miles apart from each other.
9. Make sure you have a bottle of water. Writing for 2 hours in the exam room with a dry, parched throat is not the way to go.
10. Make sure that bottle of water isn’t some giant 2 liter bottle. You bladder ain’t that big and I’m sure that with such a heavy bottle, you’re bound to spill it on the floor during the exam at some point. Not to mention you’re going to annoy people by walking in and out to the toilets during the exam.
11. Speaking about bladders, go to the toilet before the exam. Never overestimate the bladder’s ability to hold in pee when your thinking and writing in the frigid cold.
12. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT A MASSIVE BOWL OF CURRY LAKSA THE NIGHT BEFORE EXAMS EVEN THOUGH ITS SUPER COLD AT NIGHT AND YOU’RE TRYING TO KEEP WARM. Your digestive system is going to punish you all throughout your exams.
12. Last but not least, don’t cram everything the night before. You’ll only end up drooling on your exam paper and failing the unit.
Yours truly here has finished studying professional issues for now. There is the childhood exam on Friday which I’m currently studying for and there is also the applied research paper on Monday. Whee!!! After this, its back to watching Heroes, Scrubs, Ugly Betty and Friends! Not to mention karaoke and dinner the day we finish….Wheeee!!!
OK, so I’ve finished my rehab paper. I think I aced part 1 which had the case study and part 3 which was the MCQ questions. Part 2 was a bit dodgy in my opinion, but I did OK I guess. The best part for this exam was that the questions are EXACTLY from the sample paper which was put online. Which lecturer in their right mid would do that?!?! And not to mention the MCQ questions were taken from the same question bank which our CAA lab tests were drawn from. And we could also access those question banks and repeatedly do the quizzes and memorise the answers and BAM, guaranteed 40% of the paper.
Part 1 was worth 30% of the paper and I think I got like 3/4 of the marks there so I’m not too bothered about it. It was definitely easier than I thought, which is VERY good I guess.
Next paper is professional issues on Thursday and then childhood and adolescence on Friday, which I’m not looking forward to. Case studies and outcome statements and target objectives aren’t my favourite words at the moment.
The timetable planner thing for next semester is out already and next sem’s timetable doesn’t look too bad actually. If I squish my classes a bit, I can get 2 days a week off, which is probably the most days I’ll get off uni ever in my life….Hahaha…Then again, if I do get those 2 days off, I’ll probably be working anyway so not much free time. I’m definitely aiming for Monday off, so I can get 3 day weekends…Hahaha…..Or rather more like 1 day weekend since I work all weekend anyway.
Been talking to Zaneta and the babes for the past few days and somehow this question popped up in my head: “At what age will your parents start to get worried if you don’t have a boyfriend?” I get random questions in my head at times of high stress, but I guess this one is probably not so random
I guess I’d be worried if I didn’t have a boyfriend and settle by the time I’m in my late 20s. Then again, I see myself as being very independent and not leaning on people for anything. If anything, I think I prefer to be by myself and relying on myself for things that need to be done. I don’t like relying on people cause I know I’d most likely end up being used by them for their own good. I hate being used and then forgotten after that, that is not what friendship is like. Friendship is a give and take thing and it takes me a long time to trust people with things close to my heart, I’ve been burned too many times to take things like that for granted anymore.
Anyway, I’ve strayed away from the topic. I think I’d be worried for myself if I didn’t have a stable relationship by the time I’m 30. So dad, what do you think? Hehehe
June 11th, 2007
8:42 pm
Meme
OK, taking a break before 1 final push to study for the rehab exam. I am going to score a D for this unit, no less! HD would be better
5 things found in your bag
1. Wallet - no way i can get out of the house without this
2. Handphone - I feel so, so alone, disconnected and naked without it
3. Keys - with my good ol OT keychain on it
4. iPod - I probably won’t survive a bus ride without it
5. Eye drops - for when the contact lenses are really dry
5 things found in your purse/wallet
1. ATM and credit cards - well, plastic is better than cash just in case I get mugged or something
2. Driver’s Licence
3. Smart Rider - ain’t going far without this baby
4. Coins - I tend to keep coins in my waller, just so I feel a bit ‘richer’…hahaha
5. Panadols and plasters
5 favourite things in your room
1. My pictures of friends
2. Clothes
3. Shoes
4. Story books
5. My ‘cow’ collection
5 things you’ve always wanted to do
1. Get married and have kids
2. Own my own Honda
3. Do a photo shoot and post it here for the fun of it
4. Own my own house
5. Lose 10 kilos
5 things YOU currently into
1. Heroes - oh, its taking a lot of will power alright
2. Studying - have to la, no choice right?
3. Going grocery shopping - there is just something about wondering the aisles and picking out items you might/might not need
4. Blogging - no way will I ever give up
5. Ice cream - chocolate…..*slurps*
OK, its 6pm, the night before my rehab exam and I’m just cold, hungry and tired from the marathon studying I’ve been doing. Yesterday was full on it wasn’t even funny.
8.30am: Wake up, get ready for church, have breakfast, pack bags to go to uni
10am-12pm: Church
12pm-2pm: Go home, grab bags, go to lunch at Harbour Town, drop Jasmine at school, go to work
2pm-7pm: Work
7pm-8.30pm: Finish work, get changed, get picked up from work, grab dinner, have dinner, remove contacts
8.30pm-12.30am: Study, talk to Zaneta, get caught by Euhin for being on Meebo and having 9 windows open, study
Going back to studying rehab after dinner. I am soooooo going to score for the MCQ part it ain’t funny no more.
Ok, so the vegetarian diet has long been over. I tell you that certainly was a learning experience in itself.
I admire Lin for being a vegetarian since Year 11, by choice not coercion. Trying to purposefully avoid meat int he 4-5 days I was vegetarian wasn’t that easy. Its actually the conscious choice of choosing make that made me realise how much I take things for granted. Like how much meat I actually eat without realising it.
This whole experience probably taught me a few lessons:
1. Never take things for granted. There are some people who have so much less than me and they are still surviving and living life to the fullest. Whatever the diet choice a person has, there are a lot of pros and cons.
2. I’m developing a new admiration and respect level for Lin. Don’t you feel honoured now? Being vegetarian is no mean feat, even when you know you ate meat y accident, the will power to ignore that food item is commendable
My tummy has been giving me nonsense lately. I’ve been getting so many tummy aches, its beginning to worry me. I just hope I won’t be dashing to the toilet in the middle of the exam tomorrow. *gulps*
Well, that’s it from me for now. Though I tell you I’m itching to blog about something else, I’m going to be good and get back to studying for rehab. Strickland method and all. Tooddles!
Kudos to Lin who recommended this song. I won’t go into detail but this is my favourite song currently, beat-wise and lyric-wise.
Sometimes i sit at home and wonder how it be if he had loved me truely loved me yes, i learned
Awhile ago that kind of thing it never happens for me, and so i go around and just pretend love
Is not for me i play the circus clown around my friends make them laugh and they wont see that
U never let them see u sweat dont want them to think the pain runs deep, Lord know its killing me
[Chorus:]
So i put on my make up put a smile on my face and if anyone ask me everything is ok im
Laughing cuz no one knows the joke is on me cuz im dyin inside with my pride and a smile on my
Face…on my face singing, la la la, la la, lalala, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la la
Laaaa
Sometimes i sit at home by the phone hopin he might call me but he dont call me but then i
Realize dreams come true arent for girls like me not like me, and so i go around with my head
Up like it aint no thing and when the boys around with all my friends im into other things cuz
U never let them see u sweat dont want them to think the pain runs deep, lord knows its killing
Me
[Chorus:]
So i put on my make up put a smile on my face and if anyone ask me everything is ok im
Laughing cuz no one knows the joke is on me cuz im dyin inside with my pride and a smile on my
Face…on my face oooh
Its not easy (thing to do) sometimes its hard to (face the truth) its not the life that i
Would choose but what else can i do if he dont love me no if he dont want me im not about to
Sit around let myself go (gooooo)
[Chorus:]
So i put on my make up put a smile on my face and if anyone ask me everything is ok im
Laughing cuz no one knows the joke is on me cuz im dyin inside with my pride and a smile on my
Face…on my face singing, la la la, la la, lalala, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la la
Laaaa ill keep singing la la la la la, lalala, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la la
Laaaa ill keep singing la la la, la la, lalala, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la la
Laaaa ill keep singing la la la-la la la, lalala, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la la
Laaaa
I was just curious to know what my IQ is And, turns out that I have an IQ of 131. Wonder how reliable and valid these online tests are though. Although my ego probably is inflated by now
You’re a Visionary Philosopher!
The Classic IQ Test
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Since I’m at uni and all university undergraduates have to have a proficient level of English, I’m going to use big words and jargon. So I’m going to purge my brain here and get back to work till 9pm so I can attain superb grades for my upcoming examinations.
The point of this post is that my brain is fried and I have a headache yet I’m going to push through the pain and study rehab till I probably have too much in my brain to function normally. And to also tell you my reader, yes you, that the epitome of technology is demonstrated when you have 2 friends sitting next to each other but talking to each other on MSN.
Not bothering to verbally express ourselves but having to rely on technology to express ourselves through written communication just goes to show how much we depend on technology.
Translation: We are such lazy bums. We talk on MSN eventhough we sit next to each other. I love you babes though
Brain drain.
Hurrr….
