a little refresher - Essay Writing 101 (Lecture 13)
Summary
This on-demand teaching session will provide medical professionals with essential skills in essay writing when using the Oxbridge approach. We will learn tips and good advice on how to better structure an essay and present it well, as well as more detailed information on the type of questions in exams and how to answer them. We'll explore how to engage with literature, synthesize and argue our ideas, craft original thoughts and be critical of the evidence we provide. This session is perfect for making sure that you stand out from the crowd and understand the importance of essay writing.
Learning objectives
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structure and timeline of essay writing in the Cambridge medical program.
- Gain an understanding of the marking criteria for essays in the Cambridge medical program.
- Analyze the benefits of essay writing for medical students.
- Learn techniques to craft an essay that achieves an outstanding mark.
- Become familiar with research resources that can be used to support essay writing.
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thing, we'll get started. Okay, So how everybody said today is a part one of our essay electricity of pair of lectures. Um, writing. It's certainly something that's a bit strange among medical schools, and Oxbridge decides that they they want us to write lectures. I don't know about 10 until they came. So, um, it's certainly something that's, uh, the bane of our lives, I think on. But hopefully these, like it should make. It will be easier and help you help yourself, Supervisor no. Despise you during you to a vision that you can actually write a good essay. But we got just in Oscar Anna, who should give us some great tips and good advice on how to best for an essay. Um, and present that Well, okay, so over to you guys. Okay. As you may have realized, Cambridge is quite unique compared to other medical schools in the fact that it sets essays. And by the time he gets a Week five and your book down three essays do you in one week, you might think wider thumb I even doing this. But we're here to try. And the sweet tea the actually essays could be a very valuable way off learning. So when you're watching lectures, it can be quite easy. Think you understand. And but as you start to write about it, you realize, actually, no, this isn't as easy as I thought, and actually bringing all of the knowledge together from the lectures in consultation an essay could be really helpful for your learning on DTA. Highlight those areas off. Misunderstanding on it also gives you an opportunity to explore some practical applications off the millions they give you. So experiments, clinical examples which really are the more interesting parts off the information you get from lectures. And actually, why you are at medical school is to one day hopefully become a doctor. Essays prepare you for just give you a kind of ah, um baseline knowledge of a few diseases. Um, pathological process is, um, and also doing these essays You're in terms time talking to your supervisors. Getting feedback is really important. For example, per a shin. And then in terms of looking at essays as a way of examining students, it's it's actually really good for testing your understanding rather than just the multiple choice questions where you could in theory do it from right learning. Um, and also teaches you some valuable skills, such as synthesizing urine arguments, um, problem solving, working on the pressure on one positive. So you might see this is negative. But, um, when positive and essays is that it gives you the opportunity to show off a little bit with the clinical examples of the experimental evidence, which in the practical aspects and the multiple choice questions, you don't really get that chance. So it could set you apart from the rest of your cohort. Sorry. Uh, I'm just going to briefly go before my for the essay papers for one A before going classic structure. So for one a, use it a grand total of three s A papers one reach off the main subjects over these three s papers. You will write seven s Is all of these papers are 120 minutes long or two hours, depending on what you need to not to use with Harmony. Fab required me to write two essays in this time on the, um it's required me to write 36. So it was different between how much time you spend on each excite between armour names. Um, your overall score for the s A paper comprises 50% off your mouth for that subject. Uh, therefore for when they dry posts a 50% of your overall class movements of rice with ST Mark's. However, a key take away is that's the essay papers do not contribute to the second and the past fail eso as long as you pass the papers contribution to second then based on that section 12 subjects do not need to do exceedingly well in the papers. I mean, I love you to do exceedingly worms papers. You do not have to do exceedingly worth papers to make it to the following it for one day You do five subject instead of three. So you do five s a papers much like one A. This comprises 50% for your school for individual subjects as well over mark and then set. She's done. This is for the Tallix because she at 6% you're not strictly the same as those triples The style of the exercises difference. The expected structure loses arguments. The way you engage with literature is difference for 70 on also the schools from the section. But do you know what's contributes? Trifles. You only need to pass it on the past. Marc is set of sounds. That is, that you get out. Um, so here's a cleansing started on. If you think this massive and this is the condensed version, there's actually weigh more detail. And one that's the website. So, as I said, these are the condensed criteria for how examiners mark you. Let's say for part one. So both both one I am but what they if you walk before criteria there all the exam information page on the Bunch Factor website. Find it through the medicine team page. Um, so essays classes follow the stands. It's 70 60 50 40 scheme that you're fired, employed most universities. So I'm gonna go over your detail, would expect for first and go out for a little for 21 because let's hopefully rate for most smart. So first I say, I say essentially, he will answer the question completely with a good use of examples on Have well crafted out, Um, so you and you'll be thoroughly demonstrating your understanding off the subject area. There is more than one. Roots were first. There's a lot of practice area that examines Look for in differentiates in the first place, I say from a two, for example, you could be awarded first based on there being a great deal of relevant information. So I mean encyclopedia knowledge of the lecture notes providing it's relevant of It's a try to probably to. The question may be enough for alone. First, the higher marks. Usually you need some elements of extra reading of review papers review. This is a great way of starting off if you want to delve into private research papers that since the great your arguments and your presentation made it stylish, this is very much a personal thing. And as you write more more essays over the next two years, you developed your writing style. Uh, where you write on that say it's not the same as how your peers write essays, necessarily, so you might be able to craft a message away that makes you stand out from the crowd. Um, how do you put your points across from across in a really unexpected way that the example of Sanders, That's that's an interesting way of putting it. Putting this very specific piece of information that everyone else is probably verbatim copies from the lecture notes from memory. Um, so also, your approach might be original critical war unorthodox. Now there's a three adjectives that seem a bit wishy washy, but there's actually eating behind them. So the first one original reverse to you. Bring in your own develop thoughts on the subject back from coming under. Do you have maybe some thoughts on where the field is going from? In a few back, Um, and obviously you can't just put in one sentence to go there. My originality. You have to give an element of developments and considered that what you know of the area and go putting together with this information is where I might see this field going. Future. Um, also, do you have an interest in take from that subject? A. Z. This was a phase into the style of shots. That's a presentation. Think it's making you stand out from everyone else because they one is being taught the same content. It a lot of differentiating yourself. Next day, it's It's down to how you put a cross the same information that table a critical essay. The second one won't just state the evidence that you've been kid, so you're given much notes. There are basically proposed lots of review papers and from research that sometimes the electricity cells have done. But if you engage with the mixture and you start pointing out floors of the limitations because science that this level was no longer really about right and wrong, there's a great deal of stuff. We just don't know on this great deal of, uh, sets of labs that will disagree with each other and China papers every single year that disagree with the other one in home. Your finds that James Fraser and Michael Mason disagree with each other on something. You against that eventually. But, yeah, they did. They have open spots frequently. I'm so you have to come to a judgment as to how useful the evidence you're putting into the USA is on being critical about its limitations. Its pros does it. Is there a way to make it fit with any other evidence you've been given? So being Crisco is not about just taking what you get electricity face value. It's about thinking about it on finally, the whole idea of an STD. Others the docks is that sometimes the best there stays of the ones that break all the rules. It's a big risk to take. Any example will tell you it's a big breasts to just throw out of the rooms for an essay you can give you a very big higher wasn't very good score. Ah, hi. First, more nail all of these criteria on basically being abused. It's work a low first. Still be fantastic, but it might might not be so original. Where may not be so critical, or it might not have so much of a firm basis and lecture contents well, and when it won't get a little criteria, but it'll hit on some of them a 21 s. A. Is likely to answer the question in a focused way. You're still answered. The question. It may not be as completing answers. It would be the first you're you're going to get a good deal of relevant information, maybe with occasional a mission or something important. Or maybe it's fighting accuracy and describing it theocracy. It's will probably will be solid. The arguments will be solid and understands on clear, but again may not be quite strong, flawless as you'd expect. The first on the bulk of the knowledge that you're going to be closing will actually be from lecture content, and you have a clear and appropriate structure to ask. The question for a 22 is usually awarded for two main reasons. Either you have a large degree of inaccuracy or you have met a lot of depression or you don't engage. The question on the third row fails if you do both propose. So if you are mostly in accurate on your, um, it's a lot of sense and then you don't answer the question, you're likely to break it. That's cool. Well, so Oscar had just mentioned that sometimes to get a first one useful thing that you could do could be toe Um um, have, um, or outstanding essay. And one way you can do that include information that might not necessarily be in your lecturers, although we do want to emphasize that you don't have to include extra information. Sometimes synthesizing it in a very creative way can also achieve the same effect. But if you do want to read around the subject, we've put in some resource is here that you could use. So, um, obviously, lectures are good starting point on and at a medium urge to the green links that you see in your fact I section manual. It can be a little overwhelming at first, specially as it's meant to be supplementary material. But, um, I I personally found it very useful toe click in and school scroll through. And sometimes they had really good, um, kind of things on evolution or, um, ah, anatomical variation or clinical relevance and things like that that I found very useful when preparing for essays. Um, every lecturer will usually give a reading list, or at least every a lecture series will have a reading list. Um, and they will often cite textbooks that they recommend, so that could be a good starting point. Um, sometimes we, uh, supervisors will also mention the importance of reading the literature and the subject. So, looking at the research output, a good place to get started would be review articles rather than getting immediately into the meat of primary research, because review articles would provide a very useful summary, often of different viewpoints on the same subject experimental evidence are is another way of kind of getting into the upper bands for a good essay. Um, especially for home. I think, um, they give very good lecture examples for different phenomena or laws in physiology. But other ways to accumulate experimental evidence would be reviews from nature, which is a scientific journal and sometimes in supervision, things that supervises much in passing. If you just know down what they're saying that look it up later, that could be a very useful source of just little details. To add into your essay on for clinical examples toe an Easter term, I believe you got clinical linker lectures for home where they invite, um, I think practicing physicians to come in and talk about their own experiences. So that could be a useful source of information on do your applied anatomy, which I believe are being run on Zoom this year's ball. Um, that can also be a useful source for, like, clinical exams or treatments. But the important thing is the link those things to the kind of bare bones at atomical detail that you find in your manual and in your lectures. So on its own, um it might not be that useful. But if you're able to link it to the kind of high, cold, hard and a topical knowledge than that gets more useful and again like I mentioned anatomy here, yeah, so moving on to the different types of S a questions we're going to kind of run through how to dissect an essay on also kind of general tips for writing different parts of it or how to structure it. So we'll start off by looking at the types of us a questions that you might get in the exam. And if you look at the past papers, you'll find that there does seem to be kind of certain essay questions that they do like and so the main ones would be compare and contrast to things. Or they'll give you a statement, um, arguing a certain perspective, then ask you to discuss that statement. And so those two, I think, are the ones that we're going to go through in this session. But we just want to briefly mention kind of the other s a titles like describe or explain or to illustrate with examples and make sure when you're answered the question that you're actually answering what they're asking. So if they ask you to, um, compare and contrast, make sure you're not just describing what's going on. Make sure you actually looking at the similarities and differences, um, off the topics that they're giving you, which and I will talk more about eso, as Oscar mentions to hit those top marks in essays, need to make sure that all of your material is relevant on one of the main ways of achieving this is properly reading the question on understanding what the Examiner's asking and why. Also, why they've asked for a and so we're going to do is just look at a couple of examples. This'll one's fairly simple and the next one's bit more complicated. So this one comparing contrast the roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in the control of the cardiovascular system. So just have a little think about what are the key phrases keywords in that s a title that you would pick out and then base your essay can one Okay, so, um, obviously people go about this in different ways, but the the key phrases I've highlighted starts with comparing contrast So this is a zoo. Just you mentioned a phrase it's used very frequently by examiners on Do. It's important that when you're comparing and contrasting, for example, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems that you don't structure essay as entirely sympathetic and entirely parasympathetic in two separate blocks, you should be constantly balancing in between the two, um, on maybe more comparing general themes, um, and using phrases such has. Likewise, unlike on the other hand, in contrast on that really emphasizes to the Examiner. The key points you're making aware these two systems differ on may be where they are similar. Eso next. I have highlighted sorry and synthetic on parasympathetic nervous systems. So that's just basically highlighting what's, um what the book the essay needs to be about. And that means that you can exclude it relevant things such as thesis Batic, Nervous system, for example, because this is only asking for autonomic on the same with cardiovascular system. So those just basically giving you the framework of your essay on it. If you keep referring back to the question, you can make sure that your essay is staying relevant. Um, which is really important for the high marks case the next one on, So this is a bit more complicated. We've got kind of eases are on essential component of ulcer signaling systems where where signals are arriving by the plasma membrane effects changes in metabolic pathways within the cell Discuss. Have a little think about which was used highlights out of after those. Okay, so first of all kind a XYZ again that's similar to the last question where it's it's the focus of the essay, However, with this one because of the use of the word discuss, um, you may want to use counter examples on so there might be a paragraph that doesn't involve kind a XYZ um, to show that they aren't essential for ulcer going systems. So that's just trying to highlight to you that worst, it's important to stick to the question when you're trying to argue, you need to bring in other aspects of the course that maybe within the same general topic, area and and then essential and all are actually really important words to highlight, because and and you can get similar words like necessary always never, and those should be like bringing alarm bells in your head because they're the kind of controversial points that actually is. What you're discussing is essential on Is it in a while signaling systems? Or are there examples of where this might not be true? Um, yes. So that that's really what the the essay is arguing. And if you we've in these words throughout your essay that keep helps to keep it relevant, it helps to show you that you're discussing not just new rating the lecture content, um, and then of highlighted plasma membrane and within the cell. Because again these air the kind of specifics on you should be excluding the relevant examples such a things that, um, the signals are only interested. I'll yeller and know I'm working at the plasma membrane because that would not be answering the question that would just be demonstrating knowledge in a separate and Tobey carrier and then discuss That's the actual A question on go you asked is asking for the extent to which that statement is true. Um, and you need to again, Like I said, talk about whether it's essential on whether it's part of all signaling systems, um, to make sure that the essays not to narrative So now that we've looked at some of the essay questions, we're going to go go on to talk about how you'd actually go about writing it. And actually, before you even think about writing, we think that creating a plan for the essay is really important. And so the purposes of having a plan would be to collect in, organize your thoughts and also for you to kind of pick and choose what you think the use of best examples or evidence can be. And it might seem counterintuitive under time pressure, especially for something excitement where you only have about 40 minutes and essay. But ultimately it will definitely save you time. And one thing that I found useful Drew revision was toe have kind of a skeleton structures like a table for, um, an essay plan. And then I would just fill out the table every time I was doing an escape plan for revision. And it made it a lot easier to look back on because it helps to kind of make your planning process more systematic. Okay? And so the first thing that would do is we look at the introduction. So, um, some key things that you should be doing. Your introduction would be to define the terms, especially if they are kind of more technical or something like relatively, um, obscure are very medical scientific term that needs to be defined. And that's also useful because it will help you to highlight any points that you won't be covering in the essay and wide. So So you're really focusing a scope of your essay? And that way, if you miss it it, the Examiner won't think like, oh, they don't know it. But if you acknowledge early on in the introduction, The Examiner knows that, you know, But you just not going to talk about it. And then we like to include, like a brief summary of your arguments, so that can be kind of like your thesis statement. But make sure you're not repeating the question, but rather your summarizing your answer to the question and in your interaction. It's important to also think about why the Examiner has asked the question. So why bother? Basically, Um, and maybe just a brief sentence about why we care. Maybe it's only to do clinically with disease Burden or, um, for example, in Fab a purely an anatomical essay when embryology might set the scene for its role in developmental disorders or something like that. So it's just a very brief introduction to the essay. We'll do. And after you got the instruction that's on to the main body. Absolutely. This area has not falling asleep at this point. So the the main body a good idea for every pound off that you get is to start each politan paragraph report. Your point is for that paragraph. So that can come. A subheading think actually, eh, so so on. Supervisors recommend end, actually, right, we're still summary sentence is subheading. Others supervises. What recommends that you do a some headache special to start topic sentence for paragraph. It doesn't matter again. It's a personal preference thing. There is a definite definitely a difference between objective right and what suit was just prefer when the marking and 15 s is the market. A weekend just easier on thestreet chur off your main body paragraphs. A good a good place to start is the p structures of the point evidence explain or point evidence. Analysis is also another way of doing it. It's a great starting point with a rusty on s a writing. I don't know for many people that some people have not gotten near a state for four years at this point. So it's completely understandable that you would look into this and, um, usually about, however, if you want to develop your style, went to individualize your writing. Moving away from this This standards of a pea structure is really, really helpful because it can stop reading quite formulaic on if you want. Yes, that's right. Flow bit more as long as you cover your point is and what your references and your explanation. It doesn't necessarily have to go in that order. Um, just a long as you still hits all of the tickle the boxes and you're still discussing appropriately. It's also important, as just in said, to keep your most relevant and your best examples, because when it comes down to it in May June 2022 you will know a metric ton of information. You have about 45 lectures for each for Holland Memes. Since you have a decent number of lectures for a fact, you will know many, many things about many, many things you have 40 to 60 minutes to ask the question. So a really skill and that comes from right in vision essays. Practice S is for exams, marks Everything really scale was picking. The examples that will make your point is officially as possible evidence that will take you three sentences to describe it. Explain on directly relates to the question. They don't have to do any sort of mangling of the information to make it fit the question or answer. The question is far better than evidence that's going taking four paragraphs to diagrams, a few sites of papers, and you have to mangle it to make it fit. Fifth question. So especially if it's high pressure. But you must have a little bit, so it's really, really important. Um, another thing is also, if you can thank your points together, it's really, really helps us a flow. Even better now, it's only approved for certain types, for example, for a compare a contrast, acquire from have a notebook just for, like one make big points. It likes details about the more specifics that how they, on their forms of discrete sees have one pair of charts, paragraphs and the other the other. They're more likely to be separate if you're disgusting and overall process. And if you were discussing, maybe the stage is off the stations about every bit respiration that you might be regulating. Taking I'm finding a way of making it flow would be a far better way of structure. Your essay and it it's rewards you more kindly for it, even if your information is exactly the same to invent the other people's you present in the mortgage. In a way, they're more liking to bump you up 5 10%. And then regarding the content that you're pressing into your body's maybe paragraphs, it's important that you started the basics and then work up. You start with the underlying principle you start with, even if you want to write it. Very basic turn. That's a completely fine with doing. It is not a bill detail, so the courses and basics that you get from the second the substitute the court over arching concepts from the lecture materials is a really good way to start and then build on us appropriate with appropriate examples and evidence. So including it's Pamela. Until evidence is very, very good If it's evidence that is from the letrozole oats, that's good. If it's evidence that you've gone off about yourself, even better, there show extra reading and we'll cereal will show how how we know some things that it needs to be. You don't pick out Go Ah, this is once evidence is not. So do it because it was done on several fishing sacrificial notes directly applicable humans necessarily that it's very specific development of thing of under sedation in men's, for example, Message and stars classic DNA replication experiments for how we know T they replicates. And they say the conceptive fashion as the president butter type experiments over the diagrams and sketches they should absolutely use, but not at the expense of explaining something. Probably there are in a thing to learn over the next year is what I can explain the Diovan and can't think of the diet because there are definitely some examiners and some academic. It's you look very, very badly or you, if you decide to just draw a flow chart problem, explaining something, probably. But night is a flow chart my my attached to be the best represented. So, for example, clotting cascade a flow chart. First Cascade might be the best way of expressing it. Um, so a good use of thumb is to sum up the whole interested, like fast AIDS. So the one that you probably bumped into so far is that traffic incident, um, diagram to summarize crab cycle would be really good for a crest like a Wednesday. Well, probably would be for for the electron transport changes to be very useful for if you want to discuss a variable over time. So if you've been kind, find the creative way of expressing how available to change the time that pressure or concentrations that looks really good, especially in the home equations can often form the basis off the entire estate you're writing, especially the home where they do do nothing equation. So for some nervous system, essay questions will have a very phone basis in the nose decoration or the G h k a raisin. Or, for if you're gonna look a cardiovascular, respiratory questions like throwing your flow equations and your card account equations. Those can actually one really helped him, afraid that your answer and two will show that you have what stands the underlying hard core site. The principles for this person. Specific question chemical relevance is lost. A great trip. Lose, a zoo says. And that's media is a great way to go. I mean, they teach me and that's me. Teacher surgery. These are all very good websites that help you extra detail. If you're into that, you're into extra stuff for five minutes on the such review articles. Great for that, too, but don't include clinical detail of the expense for proper discussion. Uh, this is partly because one you want the answering questions and to the Examiner's for many subjects are not actually commission. They're not actually medical. They're not magic contract. So they are quiet from just academics. Just work this very least bit of physiology of this in each bit by chemistry. They might have a working knowledge, the pathology. That's likely. But they are not likely going to be impressed by a whole mountain of clinical knowledge. We found being a slight exception, because what what examines just retired GPS insurgent? So they're quite actually like a five star. Sure hear lots of types of fractures, Um, and finally in Texas limitations, what you're saying like tonight Smith that out Just 15. They'll don't need it in a hand. Written s in the old times handwritten essays part time on but even now with type that stays there. Not expected, However, if you want sort of engaged the mixture like I was saying, That's the critical edge of those higher first class marks in getting the Nets check on pointing out specific review or a specific primary search you disagree with. You think it's bad because they have to pour study design or they didn't have the most data. Probably we contrast with this other thing that another lab came up with. That will be very, very impressive thing, for example, especially given that you turn 40 60 minutes to be liking this in the first place. So engaging with the mixture is fantastic by over including You are in critical thinking and UM, which analyses into your essays. So as Oscar mentioned one way Teo like beef up, your essay is with diagrams, and so we'll just talk a little bit more about what we mean by that. So the diagrams should really summarize a process that is really worried he to describe in detail in writing. So I'm like we talked about that could be a signaling cascade. Or it might be a flow chart of how things affect BP. I'll make sure you're not repeating what you're saying with words, so ah, more effective way of using Dark grams would be to say, um, the process of, uh, like insulin sickening is triggered by something for me. Something for this process is summarized in figure one below. So you're not repeating what you're saying, but you're adding value to your own argument. Um, and, uh, common abbreviations and symbols are accepted, although if it's like a very specific protein that you should probably write it out, Um, and when you use it, they should be labeled and then referred to intact. So make sure you never have a diagram or figure that you've never referred to intestine that you just put in there. So you make sure you're guiding the Examiner through your essay on so in on that note is, should you should probably be labeling your diagram as well on it if possible. Um, then you could have, like a little subtitle or have description of what the diagram is just so the exam is really clear. But why you've put that in, Um, make sure that they don't have to be pretty. If it's complicated, I'll just take up too much time of the exam. So we've included two examples of a diagram here. The upper one is one that you probably find in your lectures so often. Lectures will take very complicated, very comprehensive diagrams from textbooks or research papers, and you definitely don't have to do that in your exam. We've included, um, a diagram of a very similar process below this of the lower diagram. And your diagram had definitely just looked like that with a Siris of like arrows and just circles representing all these fancy molecules that they drawn out in detail the upper one. And there are some common symbols that are accepted. So, for example, the air of activation. It's just a normal one with, uh with the pointy arrowhead, whereas an error of inhibition will just be a straight line and, um ah, perfect of the horizontal line to that. So those are very useful symbols that you could be applying in your diagrams. And one more note is that although we often say diagrams that we often refer to flow charts and like signalling diagrams. But it can also be things like tables. Um, or it can be, ah, like illustrations of a particular molecule. So it doesn't always have to be a process. It could also be just a drawing. Like, for example, in fab in anatomy, you might find that very useful. Or, um uh, for example, in your to when you're looking at the cranial nerves that I might be useful to have a table to summarize the clinical exams of each, uh, cranial nerve rather than writing for Creon or what you will do this. So it could be a very kind of space and word of a word count saving way of expressing your information. So finally, let's move on to the conclusion. So, um, the conclusion doesn't have to be very long either. So basically summarized the main pieces of your s a very briefly and then here you condone into greater detail why the essay is important. So we've put in some possible ideas as to what you could, right? So, for example, clinical relevance. So if you've described a physiological process in home. You could talk a little bit about what happens when those processes go wrong. What these diseases arise, and why do those symptoms arise? So discussing the relevant physiology. If it's, for example, in Mimms, If you've described a very key cancer signaling pathway, then you could talk about why, why we care about this pathway. So it often times it will be because researchers are looking at manipulating or targeting certain steps of those pathways in research. And then the last one could be, uh, this was a little harder, but it could be very useful sometimes in functional and out of the essays. So why I have these in these in the anatomical five s A. So why I have these anatomical features been conserved, um, on diffuse, really feeling like it. You could also go for comparison with non human species to strengthen your point. Okay. I'm sorry. Just add on, make sure you're not introducing anything to novel in your conclusion. Anything that you mentioned should have been alluded to in your body paragraphs. Okay, So as we've mentioned the exams a very time pressured. So therefore, exam preparation is key. There's that old saying that's failed to prepare pat fail. So first of ulcer per visor feedback is really, really helpful. When you submit nest agency improviser, you get the feedback, go back over your essay and make the edits that they suggest. Or maybe have a think about you know, any any queries that they put or any areas of misunderstanding. But also note that some supervisors will like very abstract ideas, and they sometimes you've got to choose what makes sense to you on what you think is relevant. It's not just because of Supervisor has said, It doesn't mean that it's applicable to all of your essays on. You should be doing it in the exam because sometimes, like my supervisors would make us right 2000 word essays. You don't have time to do that in 40 minutes, so you do have to be a little bit critical in terms of revising. It's not something I wish I had done in first year was make s it plans. As I was going along. Um, I think it could be it could save a lot of time when you get to use the term to just have a plan, a bank of eso plans. They're ready for you to just look over on. Keep refreshing your memory. But in terms of active recall, blurting technique could be really helpful. So having certain essay titles, I'm just writing down everything you know about them and then, um, going over with your notes on seeing way, what and areas of the topic you missed. And and that's that's kind of bit more fun and engaging than writing whole essays every single time. Um, nearer to the time of the exam is important to practice timing, because this is actually a really difficult aspect off the essay exams on also nearer to this time, look at past questions. Try the try a few of the questions out, and then look at the Examiner's reports for those questions to see areas that you might missed on those on mood a lot. And we put a link there to the Examiner's reports. So finally, this is something that's very peculiar to kind of our generation of medical students. So online exams. So last year. These are just some things that we found useful when we preparing for them so it could be used. So last year, we did thumb, um, in our own rooms in Cambridge, all the online although this year I think they're considering the possibility of doing them online, but essentially individually to environment. But nevertheless, there are some things that maybe don't apply to a paper exam. So including things like looking at your typing speed. So when you're doing time, practice is make sure you're keeping track in your head of how much you could write within a certain period of time. So when you plan your essays, make sure you're not planning to much on and then you won't be able to cover all of it anyways, um, diagrams. So a lot of street is we'll use like, for example, tablets to draw and then upload it, although they're always like hand drawing them on paper and then taking photos. So just make sure you find a way that is best for you, um, and then upload in your work. So normally we last year we would get extra time to upload our work and paste in diagrams that we town drawn, etcetera, etcetera. But if, like that's something that might stress you out, then it could be good to kind of practice before hand just once or twice so that you're less kind of panicked If any technical issues do arise in the example. Thank you so much for listening to our presentation. And, um, feel free to ask this if you have any questions or to email like us and Met Sock. And I'm sure we could get back to you guys. I'm quickly him. Thank you so much, guys.