Stop being daft.

Go get a resit sorted, and this time do some studying instead of just getting wasted with the LADs.

Not the end of the world. First year doesn't count, right? Or at least doesn't count for anything significant. As above, resit, or even retake the year, and use it as a learning experience.

Oh, I should add that I wasn't a science student, but all the ones I knew absolutely loathed Organic Chemistry, so don't worry too much about struggling through it.

>>5648
> First year doesn't count, right?

If resitlad were doing dentistry (which I don't think he is) then it would count. They use those exams to weed out the weaker ones.

But yeah, just do your resists and some studying and you'll be fine.

>>5650
Why is dentistry so difficult to get onto? My mate wanted to be a dentist and had five As at A-level and still got turned down by four of his five uni choices. It seems like a trivial as fuck subject to me.

I did hear a theory bandied around that he got turned down because he's Arabic and the universities might be trying to cut down the number of Arabic dentists to move away from that stereotype, but I doubt that somehow.

>>5651

It's positive discrimination gone mad.

>>5651
>It seems like a trivial as fuck subject to me.
>Once you go autistac, you never go back.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>5651

Arab dentists is a stereotype? That sounds made up.

Sorry for the histrionics, lads.

Spoke to the Curriculum Manager. I've been told I'll get my sit voided and I still have a first sit and a resit, because I had a panic attack in the hall and had to leave and I'll get to sit it in a private room both times if needed. So relieved.

Organic Chemistry though... wont know till Wednesday at the earliest. My friend reckons I've passed, or we've both failed as we had pretty much the same answers with the exception of my fucking up the calculations on a couple of pH questions by using the dissociation constant of water calc instead of the [salt/acid] calc because I forgot what pK_w meant...

I hope the summer clears my head, I've not been coping with exams at all and I'm worried about my longevity if this is how I'm going to act. I need meds.

>>5655
>fucking up the calculations on a couple of pH questions by using the dissociation constant of water calc instead of the [salt/acid] calc

WHAT A FUCKING KNOB. EVERYONE GET A LOAD OF THIS DOINGUS.

>>5655

I'm in my fourth year of my three year Chemistry degree, after failing second year the first time.

Don't worry mate, there's no point. Just make sure you actually do some work throughout the term so you don't sit there and shit yourself a month from exams when you realise you don't know anything. Make sure your assessed coursework is top fucking notch, it's well worth it. If I could do two things again, one would be to have started learning things earlier and another would be to ensure my coursework is absolutely perfect. There's no reason why it shouldn't be, you have ages to work on it.

Anyway I'm guessing it doesn't count toward your final grade, so don't worry, just pass. If you have to do a resit to pass, so what? It's your first year, it means nothing.

>>5657
This. If your coursework is good, it's a sign that you're learning and understanding, which will put you in good stead for the exams.

>>5657
>Make sure your assessed coursework is top fucking notch, it's well worth it.
I'd second this advice for any subject where you get coursework, really. A lot of people (myself included) go to shit in an exam hall due to the pressure, so if you know you struggle in exams then you need to compensate by making sure your coursework is as good as it possibly can be.

>>5657
>>5658
>>5659
What these lads have said. It's a massive bonus to go into an exam knowing you've almost passed the module before you've even turned over the paper.

>>5651
>It seems like a trivial as fuck subject to me.

Your ignorance is palpable. They're essentially mouth doctors, that's as simply as I can put it. They screen for cancer, use dangerous instruments, perform dental surgery and need intimate knowledge of drugs, cranial nerves, chemistry and god knows what else.

>Why is dentistry so difficult to get onto?
Lack of places due to lack of government funding I believe. Add the combination of high salaries for dentists and it really squeezes your chances of getting a place (because of more competition). Did you know there's also a shortage of dentists? I hate the government.

>>5661
I they're mouth doctors, and I know that they do and need to know all of those things, but mouths aren't changing any time soon and they've been studied to death now. It would be entirely possible to boil down the work that an everyday dentist does into a short crash course that practically anybody with full control of their hands could pick up.

>>5662
Are you a total moron or just acting like one?

>>5661
In some parts of the country, it's not uncommon for a new dental surgery to open to a queue of people around the block waiting to register, only to have to turn half of them away when they've signed up as many as they can realistically manage. It really is a bizarre situation where we have a shortage of suitably-trained individuals but a glut of suotable candidates for training.

>>5663
I'm clearly just a total moron for suggesting that something isn't that hard.

>>5662
> mouths aren't changing any time soon
It's funny you define the difficulty of a topic, as to the degree to which its principle subject matter is changing.

And the field is changing, as is anything allied to medicine. There is talk about a cure for dental caries (decay) and of course new implants are being developed all the time.

All in all, I totally agree with you. I mean Ophthalmology should be taught at Sixth form.

>>5667
Might just be the case that as a researcher, my topic is constantly changing. I understand the practices are changing thanks to constant development and redevelopment of treatments and medicines, but it always seems like hyperbole to me when people suggest that doctors and dentists have to study non-stop so they don't fall so far behind that they're essentially moot. As something of a scientific specialist myself, when something new comes along it's very rarely so revolutionary that you have to study it any more than just looking at it and/or giving it a go.

>>5668
True, but you do need to reach that base level in the first place, which for medical professionals is rather high. It's not enough to just know that the inside of a mouth is supposed to look like, or the basics of how to pull a tooth.

>>5669
The base knowledge could be taught to A-level students, and the practical side of it is - like any specialist job - just a case of practice at any rate. There are things that are every bit as specialist and complex currently in the A2 level biology syllabus anyway - the best example being how nerves and synapses work, which requires an excellent blend of biology, chemistry and physics to understand properly.

>>5670
>The base knowledge could be taught to A-level students, and the practical side of it is - like any specialist job - just a case of practice at any rate.
If you say so, lad.

>>5671
Once again, I do say so.

>>5672
Well then I guess all those experts in medicine have obviously got it wrong with their five years in training and two years PQE, because someone in the internet says so.

Dentistry: just like becoming a hairdresser, really.

>>5655
As well as the reassurances you've already had, I'd like to chip in with the suggestion that you do more than hope the summer clears your head (though obviously I hope it does) - now's the time to go and talk to your GP and see if they agree that you need meds, and see about accessing help through your student support office (or whatever your Uni's version is called). With any luck, you'll come back in the autumn with a support network set up, or at least knowing exactly where to go to get it set up as soon as term starts, before the pressure really kicks in.

Come do BTEC in Dentistry NOW!!! Enrolment in Hull City College starts 1st June. Don't miss your chance to become a Dentist!!!

>>5662
>mouths aren't changing any time soon
POTY

>>5646

So, journeyman dental surgeon lad, could you tell the difference between a mouth ulcer and a cancerous lump and whether to refer?

Could you identify an epiglotal tear or congenital mutation?

You're confusing the dental hygienist with the dentist, lad.

If we're making this the exam thread...

Just came out my first one of the year. Could have gone better but I reckon I've done enough for a II.i. I've now got to switch my head from GR to stat phys in about an hour and a half... can't wait.

5 down, 3 to go. Currently shitting bricks about my next one as there is just so much to learn.

>>5655
Lad, considering you are in your first year you are almost certainly worrying more than you should.

Assuming you go to a decent university you are probably used to getting 80-90%+ in exams from A level. That does not happen at (decent*) universities, 70%+ is a first and you only need 40% to pass. 80%+ is rare and 90%+ is virtually unheard of for people who aren't autistic savants and future Hawkings. This difference comes as a bit of a shock in first year when you sit difficult exams for the first time, but everyone's going through the same thing and the marks will be normalised against those same people.

* if of course you are taking Advanced Rote Learning at Hatfield polytechnic then disregard all of what I've said above, swallow a textbook and take n resits until you receive the necessary gold star.