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I would agree that College physics is utterly rubbish, in fact I think the whole physics paper is rubbish, but they base alot of what they teach on it, which does make it useful. Its also used for the tutorials, so you should make sure you at least have a friend in your tutorial who has the book.

I don't think they examine the pre-reading in Medsci. They say its all examinable, but I didn't study the pre-reading, and didn't find anything I couldn't do in the exam or test. Each topic doesn't get that many questions in the exam, so when they come to prioritise what they want to examine you on, the lecture stuff is more important. Thats my interpretation anyway.

Lordgarlic, what text books are useful to get for 2nd year med?
 
Hmm I thought the Campbell&Reece biology textbook was useful. If your someone who did CIE and don't get much about evolution, then you should get the book. For BIOSCI101, most pictures you see on lecture slides and course manual come from the textbook. I think its a great reference book but hey, I know many other people who found it useless so its up to you.

Yea I agree with toaster, the physics paper is rubbish, Don't even know why 3/4 of the stuff is even relevant to med students. But if your someone who's not good at physics and need practice, then buy the book, since the lecturers have those recommended exercises. It's still a good reference book if theres stuff from the lecture you don't get, I know it helped me heaps for the thermal section.

For chemistry and biochem, you will need like 2 or 3 pages for your lab so photocopy them from shortloan.

I suggest you buy essential epidemiology (maybe 2nd hand) because its very relevant to
module 3, and gives some good examples for module 1.

Toaster, I looked at the website and it seems we need our BIOSCI 106 coursebook X_X (hated that paper). I'm sure they'll post more info about what other med books we need.
 
Thanx guys. I've already bought books for Biochemistry and College Physics because i heard those papers are quite hard and require practice. It seems that both of them are not essential:(.
I did NCEA level 3 biology and yeah we did a lot of evolution stuffs. I didn't know we still need to do evolution in uni. I hated that stuff.
Do i need Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry for CHEM110? I heard that CIE students did most of them in their A level already. What exactly is in that paper? The course description gives you little info about it.
 
No don't buy the chemistry one. You will get a course folder for chemistry, which contains a comprehensive set of notes, that is everything you need to know for the course. So the text book is totally unnecessary.
 
BIOSCI 106 can only be done in the 2nd semester, and though you can do CHEM110 in the 2nd, it is recommended that you do it in the 1st semester. This is when nearly all biomed people do it. So in the first semester you do BIOSCI 101 & 107, CHEM 110 and POPLHLTH 111. In the 2nd you do BIOSCI106, MEDSCI 142, PHYSICS160 and you gen ed.
 
Thanks toaster.
Do you know if it is better to put the lectures in the morning and labs in the afternoon?
I went to the Class Search site and saw that most morning lectures are all full now:(
 
It doesn't really make a difference, the lecturers are the same, and they say pretty much the same stuff, including making the same jokes. I did afternoon lectures first semester, and morning lectures in the second semester. The only difference I found was at what time you wake up, and what time you go to sleep.
 
Yeah you technically can for some papers. But theres only one way all the lectures and labs fit together perfectly. So really you don't get a choice.
 
Hi toaster, i went to check on the BIOSCI 107 and found out that the "For Biomed students only" catagory is already full and closed (with about 100 ppl). All other catagories are for other people. What is going on?
 
That happened last year too. What will happen, is that the class capacity will increase, and it will become open again, eventually. I had a look on ndeva, and see that the afternoon class is still open. If you want you could enrol in that one, and as soon as the morning one becomes available you could swap classes.
 
Leafie said:
Thanks toaster.
Do you know if it is better to put the lectures in the morning and labs in the afternoon?
I went to the Class Search site and saw that most morning lectures are all full now:(
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my advice would be lectures in the morning and labs in the arvo. That way you get a few afternoons off which is great should you want to do some part time work
 
I would like the lectures in the morning too. But the morning ones for BIOSCI 101 are all full, and that shifted all my lectures (including other courses') to the afternoon and all labs in the morning:(
 
Every time i entered the term for the second semester the same page appeared again. It seems i couldn't add courses for 2nd sem.
 
I'm pretty sure when I did it last year, I did both semesters before uni started. Maybe second semester enrolment didnt become available untill a bit later, but I don't know. What page keeps coming up?
 
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