Hi fellow students of Jow Forums! In Polish medical universities it is very common for exams to have a few/many/most questions repeated from previous years. It is because teachers are too lazy to create an entirely new exam every year. It mostly applies to multiple choice questions as in pic rel.
We, the students, collect those questions by either taking photos or memorizing them, and pass to the next generations. We call such collections: baza/giełda/banki which means more or less 'sets/bank of questions'.
Why? Cause it is still easier to memorize 200 pages of random question and answers than 200 pages of a book.
I know it is not so common in Western countries, but surely some of you do have such habits in your universities.
I autisctially want to know what do foreigners call it - the collection of exam questions from previous years.
I know that they call it: revis(iones) in Mexico Հարցերի փուլ in Armenia бaзa in Kazachstan бaзa тecтiв in Ukraine (Lviv) шпopa in Russia (Sankt Petersburg) أمتحانات سابقة /Emtaħanat Sab'a or Emtaħanat 'adema/ in (Egyptian) Arabic baze in Serbia pitanja in Croatia počet otázkou in Slovakia
Do you guys do it, and if so, what is it called in your langauge and city?
if you know the Turkish word I would be most grateful
Ethan Edwards
>studying for the grade instead of actually understanding the material
this is why everything is shit
Grayson Carter
"Çıkmış sorular" or "eski sorular".
Noah Martinez
>understanding the material you will never need because it is of tertiary importance, like learning advanced calculus in Medical University found the overarchiver
Evan Richardson
>learning advanced calculus in Medical University Is it a thing?
Ryder Clark
nie no jemu trochę ściemniam, ale na farmacji jak się nie nauczyłeś porządnie całkować to nie zdawałeś pierwszego roku xD chociaż w sumie na innych uniwerkach możliwe
Jordan Powell
math is amazing, if you don't like it you might as well kill you're self
on a serious note, I guess calculus is too much, unless you're getting into medical research or something. Still, I'd like my doctor to not prescribe me homeopathic drugs
Michael Flores
You have plenty of time to understand things during the semester. But before the exams, your focus should be on scoring maximum marks. No one's gonna give a shit about what you supposedly learnt if your gpa is 2.8
David Bailey
you guys have such a thing back in India? what do you call it in your University?
i love math, but the majority do not.
Angel Mitchell
well, you have a point
Mason Richardson
>what do you call it in your University? Whatever the publisher calls it.
>Unit 4 is too big, I am just gonna study that from easy solutions
Шпopa is any info on paper/phone that you can't remember or don't want to learn it to pass exams by a cheating way.
What questions? What previous years? Nothing like that. And it's not about only universities, but any schools, colleges, courses, any tests. Whatever.
Carter Barnes
you Lithuanians surely have such a thing as well. and don't be fooled. there is plenty of people who despise it as you do.
it appears we do not understand each other >ambitious I will study 200 pages from the official coursebook >want some free time I will study from a short version (40pages) of the topic by some other publisher or by concise notes of some generous student >pure fucking lazy I will read the questions (pic rel) and answers from previous years (what I am talking about in this thread) hoping they will hand us the same tests they did the year before
>it appears we do not understand each other The book I posted is a compilation of university papers with answers from the past 4/5 years.
Logan Edwards
>you Lithuanians surely have such a thing as well. probably, generally the question/notes get passed from older people who studied the same thing last year, I don't really hate it, I think it just points to a flaw in the teaching methods, though not that I have a better solution (maybe the teachers should stop being lazy, but it's not like they get paid for that enough)
Jayden Robinson
it it professionally made, so I presume these questions have 0% chance of occuring again? The teachers would surely realize everyone has easy access to those and come up with new ones every year
Nathaniel Torres
Nah. But papers from the past 4 years cover pretty much all of the course content. The university has a fixed syllabus and it wants everyone to understand those particular topics well. It's not a first world university where everyone is supposed to be innovative or prepare for a research career.
Austin Taylor
dude we got questions written down since like 2002 and they still come up with new shit every year
Grayson Mitchell
If you understand the principles, it doesn't really matter how the questions are framed.
The key is to know which topics should be prepared well for an exam.
Jack Foster
Dumb medfag. It's the case in any course.
Daniel Turner
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Connor Price
no wonder your unis are underrepresented on the rankings, you're literally cucking your own degrees
Eli Reed
Uni rankings are based on amount of scientific papers published, not on effectiveness. You can have lots of money to pay people to do research at your university, be high in ranking and still have shitty teaching methods and professors.
Evan Ross
no, friend. uni rankings are based on much more than just a single statistic, citation and international outlook being two of the most important one. if your university shits out subpar medical students, the overall ranking of the uni is going to decrease because companies will know the graduates are subpar
Connor Ortiz
calculus ain't that hard mate. you're just not bothering to study at all
Easton Russell
im albanian it's "tezë"
Jacob Rogers
>citation and international outlook being two of the most important one yeah, and it all boils down to how much you can pay people to do research at your uni and publish their works there more money = more and better researchers = higher position in ranking it has no influence on quality of education a regular student will receive.
Kayden Jackson
Usually they're called Altklausuren(sammlung). It's pretty much standard to use them to study, while it's fairly rare (in my experience) to have the exact same questions from the last year, if you have a sizeable collection there's bound to be repetitions. In my experience it's also encouraged by profs/mentors to use them, since you get a good feel for how the questions are posed and what the excpected scope for the answer is.
