Max Levin

Congratulations!! U seem pretty pleased with yourself! : ) How many have u got so far? - Maryam

Only 3 - somehow screwed up last weeks one and it didn't really say where I went wrong either so should be 4 lol :P - Max Levin

lol thats still good! Yh it would be much more helpful if we were told were we went wrong but Dr Cann did say somwhere on FF that its not possible to do so as everyone does the assessment at different times..something along those lines anyway! - Maryam

Thanks lol, right that sort of makes sense. - Max Levin

well done mate, some of the questions are worded quite oddly though. - Munaf khamisa

wow that is quite good, welldone!! - Syeda Maham Batool

thanks, true - Max Levin

1 mark off as usual for me, lol. Good work Max !!! - Feyisayo Fadero

Well done! - Khai Cheng

You only need to know the data for the compound you are told to work out. - Philip Higgs

Thanks, I know, I haven't used any of the other components info, only the mass and Mr of the component asked for and the total volume but I'm still getting it wrong. there are no examples like them in the help info. :s - Max Levin

You don't need total volume. Just the given volume of compound, as the other solutions won't affect the concentration of your specified compound. - Philip Higgs

THANK YOU PHIL! That's where ima goin wrong then. Sorry to be a bother but I still dont understand why though - surely the 'final concentration of X in the buffer' uses e.g. the whole 500mL, not just the 100mL it was originally composed in. Odd wording. - Max Levin

Becuase the other solutions aren't water, they're compounds dissolved in water. When your compound is mixed into this solution the concentration stays the same, as the same amount of the compound is dissociated/dissolved into the solution. This is why it uses only the volume of it's solution. - Philip Higgs

Ok, thanks, I had understood it to mean that it was the amount of X per volume of buffer, regardless of what said volume is made of. I still think it's a bit dodge but I got 100% so I'm not complaining! :) - Max Levin

Curses, thank you anyway :) - Max Levin

your welcome..were you planning on making an extra early revision timetable? or planning a hoiday? just curious! - Maryam

January Examinations: Monday 17th January to Friday 28th January 2011 (inclusive), Midsummer Examinations: Monday 23rd May to Friday 10th June 2011 (inclusive), September Examinations: Monday 5th September to Saturday 10th September 2011 (inclusive) - Lyndsey Wright

Exams can also been on a Saturday so you need to be aware of this. After the exams, you are expected to stick around at uni til the end of the semester (1st July I think). Hope this helps :) - Lyndsey Wright

Thanks Lyndsey. Maryam I was planning to go to Download 2K11 but the last day of exams is the first day of the festival. I'll have to wait for my exact exam dates before I can get tickets which is annoying as they'll probably be sold out. :/ shoot - Max Levin

Your not likely to find out your exam dates til the Easter break at the earliest I'm afraid. - Lyndsey Wright

Lyndsey is right, you need to be here until the end of term. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Sorry for the delayed response; I can now use EZproxy to find some articles on pudmed etc., but still can't get onto some google reader full texts. The University of Leicester does not come up in the list of instituions permitted to use Elsevier Science and Swets Information Services, for example. They don't mention EZproxy of CFS usernames, only Athens. I tried using leicester e-link... more... - Max Levin

If you're still having problems, go to the Help Zone in the Library and ask them to show you. - Dr Alan Cann

I just went but it was difficult to show them the exact problem with google reader. - Max Levin

Did you explain to them that the problem is off-campus access? - Dr Alan Cann

Yes. - Max Levin

I think they thought the use of EZproxy would suffice but it seems not to. - Max Levin

Take some screenshots when it fails and show them. - Dr Alan Cann

Ok, bare with me. - Max Levin

I think tutors should be there and a big fat camcorder too. - Max Levin

Max, MB6 have their video session on Thursday... - Ria Patel

@Ria - beat me to it - group MB6 is Thursday at 9 - Dr Chris Willmott

Must be the sign of a genius! :p - Max Levin

i need to slow down according to my peers as well! oh well atleast we are on the right track now! - Syeda Maham Batool

It was a really good informative presentation Max,very little that needs improving - Ria Patel

My thoughts exactly Ria :) - Ismahane Messahel

I'm worried about it too! - Khai Cheng

me too :S the words "you will get kicked out" terrified me!! - Olivia Little

@Olivia with respect I did go through several levels of sanction before "you get kicked out". I am not aware of any Leicester undergrad (certainly no bioscientist) who has been punished for plagiarism by the direct termination of their course, though I do know cases where they have received zero for the module and therefore failed the year. - Dr Chris Willmott

Ive just come back from giving mines in at the MSB office and i feel really relieved...ive tried my best so i will hopefully not look back with regret when i get the results! I think the plagarism lecture we had on Friday for #MB1030 really helped me adapt information from sources to avoid plagarism so im not too woried about it but theres always that nagging feeling at the back of your mind that youve plagarized unintentionally!! - Maryam

The lecture on plagarism was indeed very helpful. I wan't sure how often to cite the same source; I referenced every source that I used but when resusing the same souce in consecutive sentences, which I did often, I only cited it once. If I reused a source in a seperate paragraph I cited it again but I didn't do it in every sentence. Was that wise? - Max Levin