Friday, 10th October 2014, 9th Microbiology Class "Exam"

Today I arrived quite late to the exam venue. At... If I'm not mistaken, 8.35am. Fortunately, when we arrived the others were also going into the room where our very first Microbiology examination will be held. Yes. We had our examination today!! Haha. The examination is done in 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

And... I got correct for the question on what is the function for pili. Actually, we have to match the organelle with it's function. And there are some that was quite confusing and I'm not so sure about their function. 

(By the way, the answer for what's the function of pili for today's exam is ---> infecting other organisms) 

Afterwards, Dr Wan said that after she observed how we... answered our Microbiology paper today. She got quite worried, i guess? Haha. And that when she asked us why didn't we remember what's the function of pili. Some of us told her that they don't remember but Dr Wan said that that's not the case. The real reason on why we couldn't remember is... We are not supposed to memorise all the organelle and it's function but it is because we do not understand what we learn during class. 

So, for today's lesson which is on Topic 5 "Protozoa", she assigned us a group work. Discuss with our groupmates on what is the best way to remember or study this topic. Such as by doing mind map, watching videos or search for additional informations on the net. After deciding on the best method, share it with the class by presenting today's topic with the method that we have chosen. 

It was veryyy interestin to see how each how each group present it with their own preferred way. Hmm, Farah Alia's group and Megat's group use the mind map method by constructing a mind map online.

Chew's group chose to watch videos in order to understand more since we can visualise it and also search for words or terms that we don't understand like... "African sleeping sickness" which is a disease that is caused by flies (at least that's what Mawardah said hehe. I'll look up for it, after writing this blog. hehe). 

Ee Lyn's group gave us few questions, and we have to fill in the blanks. Which really helps! :D 

Mashi's group chose the flash cards method, they agreed that it is easier to read notes that way especially when we are having quizzes. 

And lastly, Choy's group where they presented the "Protozoa" topic by using the capital of the characteristics, like... for example PIPA which stands for Phagocytosis, Ingestion, Pinocytosis, and Absorbtion. (See? Even I remembered it up until now, haha xD) and they even prepared some "short songs" but the lyrics is based on the characteristics for the major group of protozoa. They even made us sing along with them. We were forced to, under Choy's command. Hahaa

And as for my group, we also use the mind map method but we sort the... "biography of protozoa" (Can I even say it like that? xD) by dividing the informations into four main sections which is characteristics, movement, habitat and example. And we also use the icon method. For example, for the point "housed in shell". We presented it by putting a house drawing followed by "in" and a shell drawing. We think that it is more fun that way, suitable for us "youngins". Hehe. 

But we didn't get the chance to present our presentation today because we ran out of time, the class was dragged until 12.30pm when our class was supposed to end at 12.00pm. Hee. And it was our fault anyway; very poor time management. The preparation for the presentation should only be done in 10 minutes only (that's what Dr Wan told us before we started preparing) but apparently we took more that 10 minutes.. Hee. 

Until then, 

Adieu!