Sunday, October 19, 2008

October 20th

Hi everyone. No, I have not marked the test yet ---I will try and do so later today. However, now it is out of the way, you should all be seeing your way clear to looking at the Immune System notes on Blackboard and working through the Workbook and Blackboard quiz. As I said last week it is a relatively short Unit but you will find it is almost all new stuff and Immunology is quite a complex subject. Doing the concept map on innate immunity that I gave you at the practical class on Friday could be a great help in getting some of the concepts clear in your mind. I will post a possible solution on Blackboard later in the week.

You have this week to finish the blood Blackboard quiz, so make sure you get on to it before it closes next Monday.

Some of you asked me about doing extra tutorials to help you revise before the final test which is on Friday 28th November. I would be happy to do that. We just need to get dates and times agreed and then I would like some feedback on what are the specific areas you have particular trouble with so we can work on them together.

I also talked about going through the notes and thinking about the particular questions that could be asked about each subject. In the absence of previous exam papers to work with this is a really useful excercise. You now have quite a lot of experience of the exam papers I write. Look back at them and at the workbooks, which are really just a set of potential exam questions(!), and as you go through your notes think about what questions could be asked. In fact make part of your revision creating and answering questions as potentially set in an exam. Some sucessful exam sitters make themselves a pool of exam answers as a standard part of their revision.

And only 2 more units to go before the end of the course!

Have a good week,
Cheers Ruth

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