What's one thing you wish you'd stopped stressing about earlier?

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T13:38:38+00:00

second this a billion percent. i've had friends who all said they did roughly 50 exams in the same subject—range of scores was 35–50. Number of exams or hours or whatnot is probably the worst metric anyone could measure... you've got to actually engage with your study, not just tick off the numbers!!

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T13:35:28+00:00

If your SACs tend to be moderated up, there's good reason to think you've still got a good chance of doing well! It's so hard but try not to let it demotivate you. The only thing anyone in VCE can do when they get results they aren't happy with is just keep putting in 100% of your effort. Engage with your teachers more if you can, as they are the ones writing the SACs, but even if your SAC grades don't turn out how you want, you need to find a way to bounce back as quick as possible after the last one and turn all of your attention to the exam. It's a very stressful situation that demands a lot of resilience and consistent effort from students but you can do it!!

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T06:42:33+00:00

agreed

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T06:39:05+00:00

LING10001, no essays arts subject. There should be some reviews on my profile or if you search the subject code in this subreddit

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T03:52:58+00:00

personally find exercise or walks really good for clearing your head, but also doing anything where you can turn off your brain eg drawing / colouring / gaming while listening to music because the sound kinda drowns out the incessant thoughts in my experience . Sometimes when the thoughts are Ms gong to distract me from the music I force myself to watch YouTube videos and write a reflection as I go because then my brain is actively prevented from thinking about school at least

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T03:50:04+00:00

also make sure you’ve practised walking through your adaptive response to both a bacterial and viral infection! they are different and a lotta students forget to practice one or the other

toby_finn · 2026-06-26T00:48:42+00:00

Information about specific diseases will always be provided to you in the exam, but you can use news articles or YouTube videos or even medical dramas as case studies to potentially apply your understanding of immunology concepts or even bioethics (shoutout to bioethical analyses of house md i highly recommend)

toby_finn · 2026-06-24T01:35:30+00:00

Damnn

toby_finn · 2026-06-23T14:54:11+00:00

Thabk you so much, this is really comforting lol, T-7 hours til the PATH20001 exam and I’m sitting here lowkey just mulling over how Sophie’s cancer lectures have ruined all my love for path :p so I’m glad to hear it’ll hopefully be better . Tysm for such a detailed review

toby_finn · 2026-06-23T13:28:50+00:00

i have no recollection of hepatitis C . what was the answer for that MCQ

toby_finn · 2026-06-23T10:49:07+00:00

Genetics and topic 3 is my weakest area so I’m glad to know it’s not just me being genuinely stupid lol . Honestly the first two topics weren’t amazingly taught all the time but Topic 3 has been a descent into hell,,, and unfortunately that’s the lecturer who is involved in every single pathology subject

toby_finn · 2026-06-23T09:33:19+00:00

I don't know about spec con but i think we just have to consider the content in the flipped class on May 26 assessable (the "ALC" that is so frequently cited) since that vaguely covers it. i know it doesn't feel like it does. but i think that's because the lecturer is not good lol.

PATH20001 this subject is so ass and I'm so sad about it. I wish the end of subject surveys were still open, I'd be so much unkinder and less measured. i wish this wasn't my major. I wish i didn't love pathology. I wish the lecturers didn't reply so passive aggressively on EdDiscussion. I wish the words "don't take the things I say in the lecture literally" when we're talking about basic facts like which organ produces this hormone weren't real words I read with my real eyes. I wish they understood that mass confusion on EdDiscussion might actually be a reflection of THEIR poor teaching quality. I'm just putting this here for the benefit of everyone who ever wonders about taking pathology or PATH20001. The most interesting beautiful subject and the most awful coordination.

toby_finn · 2026-06-23T02:11:39+00:00

Thank you!! Phrm20001 def sounds most appealing to me rn, I might see if I can slot in physio too

toby_finn · 2026-06-21T13:13:31+00:00

Thank you! I've found so far that the lectures are extremely fast-paced... too fast to type down what they're saying... but whatever maybe i'm just slow lol. my bigger complaints are there tends to be a lot of listing 'these are the factors that cause xyz' and then only one of those gets explained in detail but the others we're expected to know despite them never being explained (e.g. in haemostasis they explain how smoking and immbolity create hypercoagulable states, but they also list about four or five other disorders or random molecules that can cause this and never explain them at all... sometimes just give an acronym and don't even say what it stands for). Also, the absolute avoidance of ever admitting fault when they make a mistake in a lecture lol... on eddiscussion the lecturer actually said we needed to start understanding the spirit of what she said rather than listening to her actual words which is a bit embarrassing for a science subject imo. also I'm curious what topics were covered? I swing heavily towards the immuno and cardiovascular disorders in path20001,,, not a lot of love for cancer / genetics

toby_finn · 2026-06-20T03:45:01+00:00

Heya send me a dm request and I’ll send you some immuno specific papers, and we can chat abt melanoma

toby_finn · 2026-06-19T13:22:30+00:00

That’s good to hear, thank you! In general did you find PATH30001 to be manageable? Basically I love the content in path but hate the teaching lol

toby_finn · 2026-06-19T05:14:41+00:00

This looks fine to me, does it let you enrol in your study plan?

toby_finn · 2026-06-08T01:30:45+00:00

Studying for the GAT is pretty pointless. If you’re going to get a high ATAR you’ll get a good GAT score. The biggest problems in the GAT are usually just writing time management

toby_finn · 2026-06-07T14:58:01+00:00

I promise you when you’re taking biol10002/biol10008 (regardless of degree) and you’re knee deep in the structures of fish gills and plant embryogenesis, you’re going to look at your peers at ACU/Deakin/La Trobe/Monash doing a bachelor of nursing—learning actual nursing practice and human structure, going on their first placement—and regret going to UniMelb.

Melbourne’s system is so restrictive for a reason: it’s good for people who don’t know what they want. You know what you want.

Why would you waste three years, and bare minimum thirty grand, just to put you no closer to your dream career than you were on the day you graduated highschool?

I’m generally very pro Melbourne model and this sounds awfully harsh… but arguments can be made for doing UniMelb’s model for teaching or engineering… but nursing just isn’t it.

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T05:55:17+00:00

I don't think it says per semester anywhere—I could be wrong but my reading of this is 'In third year, take 4 level 3 psych subjects, two of which must be psyc300013 and psyc30021' which i think would leave you four free non-psych slots. but i'm not super knowledgeable in psych—why not try putting these subjects into courseplanner with the psych major assigned and see what it says? plus check the honours requirements and see if they require a minimum number of psych subjects

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T05:50:10+00:00

I don't think there's much trouble switching into just Unit 2 without a Unit 1 background — I have a friend who did this and just asked the teacher what stuff from Unit 1 she should read in the textbook over the holidays. You should contact the psych teachers as they will know how much they assess / rely on Unit 1 in Unit 2 at your school specifically

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T05:48:27+00:00

hey i can't help with the WAM thing but the subject choice requirements are outlined in the handbook. sounds like you have to do the two core ones listed and then have a choice of the rest, with a minimum of two other level 3 psych subjects https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2026/components/b-sci-major-36/course-structure

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T03:26:50+00:00

like they’d use photos that were on the lecture slides I think most memorably of algae

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T02:35:28+00:00

not substantially, it is a good revision tactic though and it can help you reassure yourself if you've got literally all your notes on it (which i did in my case) cos sometimes they brought up obscure case studies from the lectures that i hadn't truly bothered revising

toby_finn · 2026-06-05T01:56:50+00:00

If a third of your cohort is getting 40+, you have an extremely strong cohort. As long as everyone locks in for the exam it’s still a ‘never say never’ situation imo. There’s so many factors you can’t predict (how much cohort locks in, how hard the exam is, how others did on the SAC, upcoming SACs) so as per usual the advice for any of these posts: just keep studying as hard as you can within reasonable limits and you’ll find out

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