FORB201 - 95% (attended first 4 lectures)
BIOA201 - 83% (attended all lectures, complained more than once about unfair marking, drudgery)
I'll have a look through some folders tonight and see what I can find for FORB.
Hello guys, I have just joined (2nd year genetics)
I have signed up for FORB201 and HUNT233 for 2014 summer school based on the advice from these forums. I think I read somewhere also that only 3 lectures for FORB201 are examined in the final, and the past papers questions look very repetitive. It is nice to hear that the lecturer should be really interesting, I will probably go to all of his lectures just for the experience (and because I will eventually have to pay for it lol). Might see you in class in the Summer Cogswell
I think I have heard that quite a few postgraduate entrants to medicine did HUNT233 and said it was good to take.
Koochkooch and Danny would either of you possibly have any electronic notes or lecture slides for those papers that you wouldn't mind sending to me? I would really like to do some preparation before I start or at least read over some material to get an overview beforehand.
Also while I am here I should recommend GENE222 as the easiest science paper I have taken in 2nd year. I have just had my exam for this today and this probably is slightly premature but the exam today was very similar to most of the previous exams - they are really repetitive compared with my other 200-level science papers (GENE221, BIOC221, MICR221, GENE223) so if you do the past papers (some questions also go back to 2001 as the paper emerged from GENE212) and study hard I think it is quite reasonable for achieving 90%+. I am not naturally a strong mathematical person, however with practice I find mathematical-style exam questions much easier than long rote-learned essays. Due to the flexibility of question choice in the final, 80% can be largely logical or mathematical and also mostly found repeatedly in past papers, so you actually have a lot less that you need to memorise. That leaves four further modules and you would only need to study one more to complete the last 20 mark question (you might get away without studying 13 out of 31 lectures if you study impeccably for the other questions - I studied a couple of extra modules as back-up in case the questions changed but they didn't). Internals are a 10% phylogenetics assignment, 15% lab report and 5% blackboard unlimited attempt quiz (basically free 5%). I would recommend going through both the assignment and lab report with others to make sure you are on the right track. I worked hard especially on the lab report because it's 15% and got an internal average of 97%. I am not saying that so far I found this paper easy, but easier than other science papers. If you prefer logic and mathematical-based questions to rote-learning, and would go through the past papers then I would definitely recommend this paper. The genetics department approach to exams is that they want you to demonstrate understanding rather than just rote-learning which I prefer as in some other science papers there was so much rote learning and last semester I didn't manage my time well enough and couldn't learn everything for exams. I have learnt that really good time management (make study timetable a month before exams - took me about 5 hours before I was happy with it) and practicing past paper questions from the start of semester is really important.
Hope that's not too much info. about GENE222 but I found advice on these forums really helpful when choosing papers so I feel like too much detail is better than too little in case it is helpful to someone.
All the best with exams everyone
Just editing to say that GENE222 gave me a 97% overall so it really is a good paper especially if you do not like essays and are good at maths. It does take quite a lot of time to learn and understand the theory behind the maths (which you will get examined on) but if you work hard and practice everything (do as many exam questions as you can and start them when you start semester) then you should be fine as the questions are repeated a lot. Also the lecturer is really nice for the last two modules and there are confusing parts so make sure you ask. I used to think that it is kind of nerdy asking questions but I justify it now by thinking that it is better to be a nerd and get into medicine than not. And really all you are doing is asking someone a question, it's not the worst thing in the world.
I never met him but was really looking forward to FORB201 form these rave reviews. I hope it's still fun without him!!