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Would you people who have done it before say that the Bio 107 textbooks are worth buying? Or is all the information you need given in the lectures? They're so heavy and expensive!
 
Cool, thanks. Any tips for good studying methods, or do you just read the slides over and over? I've never done Bio before; it just seems to be all memorisation, which I'm not used to.
 
Just be able to rewrite the entire course book and remember precisely where each of the lec slides are on the page, then i think you should be fine~^_^

And if you can't understand something... then remember everything word to word! lollolol sigh~ brings me back to the force-velocity graph... :confused:
 
G-ice said:
brings me back to the force-velocity graph... :confused:
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Yeaa that never made sense no matter how i tried to interpret it

As for the biosci107 book, I found campbell much more useful for it, but I had tortora's one as well since i was gonna use it for semester 2 anyway. You can always sell it on trademe or to UBS next year if you want, you can get a decent return for it if it's in mint condition
 
Hey hey

Just had the chem110 lab yesterday and my lab partner and I stuffed it up by being so slow...so we got an OK(n)
Anyway does the first lab count? A 2nd year med student told me that first labs don't really count for anything. This would be awesome because come to think of it, my biosci107 lab wasn't that great either.

Cheers(yy)
And for popn hlth, I have never been in the FPAA-so crowded!-_-
 
Scones2 said:
Hey hey

Just had the chem110 lab yesterday and my lab partner and I stuffed it up by being so slow...so we got an OK(n)
Anyway does the first lab count? A 2nd year med student told me that first labs don't really count for anything. This would be awesome because come to think of it, my biosci107 lab wasn't that great either.

Cheers(yy)
And for popn hlth, I have never been in the FPAA-so crowded!-_-
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Yes all the labs count. Don't worry though, my lab marks were shit - I got 3,3,4,5,2, and I don't know the last one. You probably already know, 1 is the best and 6 is the worst, so obviously I did pretty poorly, but I still managed to get an A+ so don't worry mate.
 
I agree with Dip. Do your best but don't get too fussed with labs. If you did prereading and looked over it to make sure it all makes sense you should do fine. Even if you don't do great the effect on your overall grade is marginal
 
Chem labs were the worst. You have to be perfect to get a 1 or 2. I ended up getting the same mark in the lab as a friend who got an overall C+ in the paper. Alot of the labs are somewhat structured in that way, such that u have to be outstandingly useless to get lower than the typical.
 
Gah, with chem it was really annoying. The system means that one group will be getting 1's and 2's while another gets 3's and 4's. It gets kind of depressing, people who do worse/similar to you getting higher marks, but its not really something to worry about thanks to scaling. (or at least they say they scale it)
 
Hey guys

Just following on from this lab discussion. Does you mark (from 1 to 6) depend on how good the other people are in your group i.e. is it like a percentile?
 
Hey guys, for biosci 107 is it enough to study just from the course guide and the lecture slides or can they ask us questions from stuff in the text book as well?
 
It's pretty rare for them to ask things from the textbook, but if they do, it's usually possible to deduce the answer from what you know from the coursebook/lectures.

So I'd say to at least read the readings, but focus on studying on the coursebook/lectures.
 
naahhhh screw the textbook. first year is all aboot lecture slides!

and yeah i'm pretty sure for chem labs it depends on your rank in your group...so hopefully the people in yours look stewpid ^_^
 
olliefoundabeerholder said:
naahhhh screw the textbook. first year is all aboot lecture slides!

and yeah i'm pretty sure for chem labs it depends on your rank in your group...so hopefully the people in yours look stewpid ^_^
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oh god, really??????:cry: R u sure they dont make it fair across the whole class???? Cause there's someone realllly good at chem practicals in my group i.e. equivalent to olympiad level.
 
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