#exam diary

Exam diaries: Results & a little life update

I received my exam results on Saturday, August 24th and I'm pleased to say that I passed, with an overall score of 80%!

I'm beyond relieved and thankful for good grades, I struggled a bit this semester and missed a lot of classes because I was sick- but I managed. I was happy to see I that I had passed Pharmacology since it gave me a hard time. All the tears were worth it 🥲✨️.

As a reward, I decided to get myself two perfumes on my wishlist, which I'll take pictures of when I receive them. Although it will take a while since my money was stolen from me by a scammer ☹️

For this new semester, I hope to increase my cumulative score to 75% and also participate in as many club activities as possible. I also want to try different study methods and start preparing for finals. Aside from that I want to self-study for Anatomy, Physiology, Organic Chemistry and Coding.

I also want to take up Arabic or German classes. I can read Arabic but I'm not a fluent speaker.

How I'll study for those, I'll figure it out, I'm considering taking a pre-med course after I graduate- hopefully it works out.

As I had mentioned in my introductory post, I have a personal blog @sliceofmy1ife, and I hope to start posting soon! It's going to focus on things like my morning and night routines, crochet, skincare, make up, and reviews of products I've bought, etc etc

I also got into the second hospital of my choice, which I'm happy about. So from the 23rd of this month I'll be learning from hospital from Mondays to Saturdays until the 16th of December. I'm hoping to go scrub shopping after we get more information on everything about clinical practice. I'm hoping to wear scrubs that are the colour of my choice (pink), but since nutrition professionals wear yellow scrubs here, I might need one or two yellow pairs.

I hope this semester will be better than the last and will help me grow not only as a student but also as a person and future healthcare professional. I plan to post more consistently now that I'm back to grinding. Thanks for reading up to this point, I hope you have a lovely day/night 🫶🏾🎀

23.05.22 - Exam Diary Day 1

Hello! It is officially exam season for me, and although I had my French speaking on Thursday I forgot to make a post lol but today was my first written exam, for Latin unseen translation!

Today I:

Read some of the metamorphoses

Revised Latin verse vocab

Tried to revise as much of the vocab list as I could

Revised Greek vocab too

It was terrifying but actually pretty OK, could've gone a bit better but also could've been so much worse, so I'm happy, and I've also included my favourite snacks that I ahd today lol because Lidl Neos are delicious.

Hope you're all doing well!

maths was better than expected and history was a bit rubbish, and could’ve been way better. i guess it’s all i could do so let’s just see on results day

Monday, 22nd July 2024

I woke up late today, so I didn't get to study for Food Security like I had planned to, but it's okay. Today, I sat for my Pharmacology and Food and Nutrition Security exams, and honestly, it wasn't great. The exams were delayed since they issued our exam cards late, and they changed the exam rules, so they had to tell us about that too. So I was anxious and itching to start. I also finished my exams late, I left at around 5PM and when I got home I ate, took a bath and now I'm in bed as I type this.

FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY:

I rate this paper 7/10. I loved the long answer questions and felt like I'd get full marks as I wrote my answers, I'm passionate about this module. But the multiple choice and short answer questions confused me since they had similar answers.

What I wish I had done while studying was to make mindmaps- believe it or not, I never made notes for food security. Listening to the lecturer and just scribbling down the important parts was enough. But I believe if I made mind maps or power points, it would have made recalling some things easier, same with explaining them.

I had no motivation for pharmacology ☹️ I didn't do well in the mid semester pharmacology exams but that didn't even push me to do some last minute revision. I was so tired and sleepy, and very hungry but I didn't carry lunch :(

Though I eventually got to reading the summaries I had made.

NUTRITION PHARMACOLOGY:

I rate that exam 4/10. Everything about it was bad. It was like they decided to give us hell in the form of an exam. Literally everyone in the room was scratching their heads in confusion. It was a very hard paper and I'd be grateful to score a 50%

What I wish I had done while studying was to find more examples of drugs from different classes. I also wish I read about how different drugs work to produce therapeutic effects. I also wish I hadn't stressed so much. Maybe I would have been less shaky in the exam room.

My motivation for tomorrow's exams is that I'll be done with the second day of exams, and that my studying will benefit me in the exam room. I'm going to sleep now and hope for the best when I wake up because I'm so sleepy.

I hope everyone else who's doing their exams does great 😊🫶🏾💞

Monday, 24th June 2024

Oh my goodness. I just opened the class group chat to see that I need to be in the exam room by 8AM. I normally arrive at 8:30AM so I need to get up early and leave early too. This is a group practical, so my group members and I will have to work together to make sure that we cook and clean with time to spare.

I'm so anxious that I can barely think of anything else. I was casually working out and texting my friends, and then I saw that I had to be in the room by 8AM. Of course, I'm anxious. It's 30% of my final grade, and I also have to talk to my lecturer about my missed lessons. If I don't, I might not do my end of semester exams.

But right now, it's been decided. I can't change the schedule or go back in time to say, "Hey, switch groups since your group members suck," I can't do any of that. So what I'm going to do is take a relaxing shower, wear some nice, comfortable clothes and do my hair and pray. I'm going to pray that the exam goes well and that my lecturer hears me out. While I was stressing out, I had to remind myself that Allah SW is always there for me. So I should turn to him and let him ease my pain and worries.

On Thursday, I had Nutrition Interventions in HIV/AIDS and Research Methods.

Nutrition Interventions in HIV/AIDS:

I was pretty unbothered for this paper! I had done a class on HIV and AIDS when I started college, my lecturer was very thorough. He would even read the notes out for us. So I really had a few things to read about.

I'll give this exam an 8/10, I actually smiled when I flipped the paper around to see the questions.

What I wish I had done while studying was that I changed the format of my notes! They were very cramped, and I could barely make out my own handwriting. So I'll work of that too.

My motivation for the next paper was that I had a lot of content to cover and that I'd probably come up with a topic for my research project (I'm interested in obesity, nutrition in special needs and diabetes btw).

Research Methods:

Ooh, this paper was a bit challenging since the format was slightly different. Instead of writing our answers on a separate paper, we wrote on the question paper instead. That really threw me off.

I'll rate this paper a 5/10 since the MCQS had such similar answers, and I was super confused. I also felt a bit blank for the last question even if I had read for it.

What I wish I did while studying was that I had tried to understand some concepts instead of cramming.

Today, I had management of malnutrition. I wasn't motivated to study, I fell asleep and didn't hear my alarm. So, instead of my 30 monute nap, I slept the whole night and woke up 3 hours before my exam, lol. Luckily, I did a class that covered some of the units for this class last semester.

I rated the paper 6/10. I was okay with the questions, but I got B as the answer for the first 5 questions. I started getting anxious because I kept thinking, "How can every answer be B?"

But it's okay, I chose the right answers. Another thing was that the questions were confusing, too, I was questioning if my lecturer would laugh at my answers at that point. But the paper was still fair in the end, I hope I'll pass.

What I wish I had done while studying was to mark out similar topics so that I could save time while studying. I also wished I prioritised the topics too.

Well,that's all for now. I'm glad I've finished my exams, I can't wait to just lay in bed and enjoy my weekend. Now that I know what my end of semester exams will be like, I feel compelled to study. I have roughly one and a half months to study for my end of semester exams. Let me just say that I have to get off my ass and study since I'll be in hospital next semester, not just any hospital either. My hospital of choice is a well-known one!

Today, I sat for my Diet Therapy 2 and Nutrition in the Lifecourse exams. I also have a mild case of food poisoning (I don't know what it is that I get food poisoning almost every month).

Honestly, it was a test of how much I could endure since I went from crying on my bed to getting dressed and leaving the house. My exams started very late but I'm just glad I showed up.

Diet Therapy 2:

I give it a 6/20.

The exam was just in the middle. There were a lot of questions from liver diseases. The thing is that the long answer question phased me! Even though I could explain it to someone, it's as though I just froze. Luckily, I was able to concentrate hard enough and answer the question, which I'm happy about.

What I wish I did while studying? I wish I had studied, unfortunately I was too tired to study last night. I woke up at 3AM because of the food poisoning, so I just slept until 6AM to get ready.

My motivation for Nutrition in the Lifecourse was that I was active in every class and did my best on the assignments given to us. I knew that I could do well for the exam.

Nutrition in the Lifecourse:

8/10. I really liked the questions, except for the long answer question since I couldn't phrase my answers in a way that I liked. But I still managed to do it, and hopefully, my lecturer will understand what I was trying to say. She's actually the sweetest woman alive!

What I wish I did while studying was to make notes. Ugh, I've not made notes in ages. I'll explain my nite taking system in another post, but I need to start making notes again

My motivation for my next papers is that I barely know some of the stuff in the notes. I've missed quite a few classes for these modules, so I'm scared that I might fail or just have nothing to write.