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'What papers should I do at UoO for graduate entry' Chat, Enquiries and Help

ThaDarkRose said:
Hey wondering if anyone has done any PHAL 300 level papers, ANAT 300 level papers or PHSL 300 level papers. Looking for the papers that are marked fairly (eg. assignments). Any advice or tips on these will be much appreciated
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Hey! I did ANAT332 this year because apparently it was one of the easier 300 levels. There were less than 20 lectures, content was easy to understand and the lecturers were so good! In terms of internals there was a lab report, poster and oral presentation - all involving group work. The lab report was marked quite harshly, poster was fairly marked, and oral presentation was marked real generously (the class average was an A+). The class average increased over the semester. I loved this paper mainly because the lecturers (Stephen Bunn, Mike Garett and Gina Foster) were all great at explaining things and were all very approachable. I managed to get an A+ and am a 2nd year so I think an A+ is definitely achievable in 3rd year. However that's just my opinion which perhaps boils down to personal interest. I do have friends who said it was the worst grade they ever received at uni...so take what you will haha. But overall, I would recommend :)

Older friends have said that PHSL 300 level is quite fairly marked but I obvi can't comment on that yet myself :)
 
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student2828 said:
Hey! I did ANAT332 this year because apparently it was one of the easier 300 levels. There were less than 20 lectures, content was easy to understand and the lecturers were so good! In terms of internals there was a lab report, poster and oral presentation - all involving group work. The lab report was marked quite harshly, poster was fairly marked, and oral presentation was marked real generously (the class average was an A+). The class average increased over the semester. I loved this paper mainly because the lecturers (Stephen Bunn, Mike Garett and Gina Foster) were all great at explaining things and were all very approachable. I managed to get an A+ and am a 2nd year so I think an A+ is definitely achievable in 3rd year. However that's just my opinion which perhaps boils down to personal interest. I do have friends who said it was the worst grade they ever received at uni...so take what you will haha. But overall, I would recommend :)

Older friends have said that PHSL 300 level is quite fairly marked but I obvi can't comment on that yet myself :)
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How did you manage to do a 300 level paper in your second year?
 
123123 said:
How did you manage to do a 300 level paper in your second year?
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ANAT241 was the only pre-req which I did in sem 1! However, if you're doing a biomed, you still need to make sure you do the 6 core 200 level biomed papers in your 2nd year. I thought I could do some of the core 200 levels in my 3rd year but was wrong so got a long email from a lecturer about a week ago lol. the biomed department let me carry on because the Uni actually approved me by accident so they took it as the Uni's mistake. I think for Bsci it's different - you can do whatever level papers whenever as long as you do them in your 3 year degree.
 
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Hi

I did HSFY in 2019 and am on the waitlist for dent so am preparing in case I don't get in. I am looking to do microbiology and immunology with end goals of applying postgrad. I don't really understand the difference between BSc with Major in Micro and Immunology and doing a BBiomedSc with a major of Infection and Immunity. Could anyone shed some light, and also on the respective difficulties of the papers/how hard it is to get A+?

Thanks!
 
jiGs4w said:
Hi

I did HSFY in 2019 and am on the waitlist for dent so am preparing in case I don't get in. I am looking to do microbiology and immunology with end goals of applying postgrad. I don't really understand the difference between BSc with Major in Micro and Immunology and doing a BBiomedSc with a major of Infection and Immunity. Could anyone shed some light, and also on the respective difficulties of the papers/how hard it is to get A+?

Thanks!
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The main gist is that they have slight differences in the core papers you have to do. Check online to see what micro and non-micro papers you can do on the side in order to complete the different degree etc.

MICR is just pure memorisation. If you listen well to the lecturer's tips and memorise everything you should be fine for an A+. As with all papers, different people perform differently.
 
jiGs4w said:
Hi

I did HSFY in 2019 and am on the waitlist for dent so am preparing in case I don't get in. I am looking to do microbiology and immunology with end goals of applying postgrad. I don't really understand the difference between BSc with Major in Micro and Immunology and doing a BBiomedSc with a major of Infection and Immunity. Could anyone shed some light, and also on the respective difficulties of the papers/how hard it is to get A+?

Thanks!
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I personally chose to do a BBiomedSc in Infection and Immunity over a BSc primarily to avoid GENE221, which is thought to be a difficult paper (although a lot of people enjoy it and perform well in it). Also in 3rd year it gave me more flexibility because you only have to take a minimum of 2 MICR papers vs. the 4 of a BSc, meaning I could choose other 300-level science papers to give myself a bit more variety. But yeah, as above, have a look online to properly compare the 2 degrees.
 
asdfdsa said:
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I totally agree with Stuart 's comments above!
I'm actually super grateful that I'm getting the chance to do an undergrad degree first! Doing an undergrad degree is your chance to discover what you are actually interested in! - and you get to learn that stuff in so much more depth than those that go straight into med!

Also agree with not choosing papers just based on what you did well on in health sci! - choose papers on areas you were interested in / even things that weren't really covered in health sci but sound interesting!

You do so much better when you're interested in papers! I found my best paper in my first semester was Neurophysiology (PHSL231) because I enjoyed it so much and actually wanted to put the time into learning about it (definitely not the 'easiest' of the papers I did!).

I really enjoyed CELLS in HSFY and we had briefly touched on genetics in that, so I decided to take a genetics paper in my first semester (GENE221 was a tough one, but I ended up loving it and would still recommend it if anything in the genetics/ biochemistry areas are of interest to you). - also looking back on GENE221, I could've done a lot better in it if I'd known how to study for genetics papers at the time! - exam style is very different to HSFY papers and much more like 3rd year papers (great preparation!).

Also loved the immunology we briefly did in health sci (I later learnt that what we did in health sci was really barely scratching the surface of all of that lol... ) - so thats why I chose my Biomed major (Infection and immunity).

Anyway lol the point of my message was that its a great chance to just give things a go!
I found that there were a couple of 'safe' papers I took just because they seemed like a continuation of HUBS (which I'd done well in) or whatever (e.g. ANAT241), which I actually ended up dropping after 2 or 3 weeks - I realised that I'd do a hell of a lot of anatomy if I got into post grad med anyway, so thought I'd get more out of my degree by doing different papers that I was actually interested in!

sorry I wrote this message in multiple stages so it is probably irrelevant/ doesn't make much sense - but if you want to know anything specific about any 2nd year paper options, send me a message and I'd be happy to help!
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Hey asdfdsa,

I know this is an old comment, but reading through these to try and get some grips on what to take this year (going to try for med postgrad and going into second year this year, and I was wondering if I could have your email or something to ask you some q's? (Sorry can't work out how to contact you other than replying to your post on here!)
 
jiGs4w said:
Hi

I did HSFY in 2019 and am on the waitlist for dent so am preparing in case I don't get in. I am looking to do microbiology and immunology with end goals of applying postgrad. I don't really understand the difference between BSc with Major in Micro and Immunology and doing a BBiomedSc with a major of Infection and Immunity. Could anyone shed some light, and also on the respective difficulties of the papers/how hard it is to get A+?

Thanks!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but does biomed also mean you don't need to take as many 300 lvl papers as BSci?
 
flooghost7255 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does biomed also mean you don't need to take as many 300 lvl papers as BSci?
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I did Biomed which only needed four 300 level papers to finish the degree and not all of them needed to be Micro. I think BSc in microbiology also only requires four 300 levels papers to finish but all four must be micro papers.
 
Hi, could somebody please check whether my paper selection (Biomed - Functional human biology) in my second year seems alright?
S1. PHSL231, MICR221, ANAT241, PHAL211
S2. PHSL232, PHSL233, ANAT332, PHAL221

Also did they change the papers last year? Because I wanted to initially do HUNT241 but got declined as HUNT141 was a corequisite paper, whereas my friend last year was allowed to do HUNT241 as prerequisites were only HSFY papers.

Also, by looking through the threads, I feel like everyone who passed PHAL211 did PHAL212 but this year, theres only PHAL221 from the options you can select from. So I was wondering if anyone knows about the changes in papers. Thank you 😀
 
duftlagl said:
Hi, could somebody please check whether my paper selection (Biomed - Functional human biology) in my second year seems alright?
S1. PHSL231, MICR221, ANAT241, PHAL211
S2. PHSL232, PHSL233, ANAT332, PHAL221

Also did they change the papers last year? Because I wanted to initially do HUNT241 but got declined as HUNT141 was a corequisite paper, whereas my friend last year was allowed to do HUNT241 as prerequisites were only HSFY papers.
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Seems like a pre big work load but if you think you can handle it then by all means go for it. You could consider taking ANTH203 in sem 2 as it's a lot less workload than other science 200 levels and its pre interesting. Also yea they did change the HUNT code but I think you can email the course coordinator and ask about taking it without the HUNT141 prereq (since they only JUST made the change)? I got approved for it when i emailed in and i didn't take HUNT141!
 
student2828 said:
Hey, jw if u ended up doing MICR332, how did you find it? :)
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I think it was fine. It wasn't quite as fun as Micr334 ... My biggest tip is choosing the correct questions for the final exam and practicing writing perfect essays since there's a limited amount of things they can test you in. The last module (Parasites) taught by Bruce Russell was probably the most fun module I did in Sem 2 - probably one of the only lecturers I personally emailed to thank due to how fun he made the lectures feel.
 
etoile said:
Also MICR337 and MICR334??
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I literally crammed Micr337 in like a week since they give you like 9 possible essay questions in the beginning of the year and you just have to write perfect essays for like 8 where 6 are asked in pairs for the final exam and you write about 3 of them. I stupidly only wrote essays for 7 and got unlucky that the 2 essays I didn't prep an essay for were paired together. If you just write perfect essays for 8 unlike me, you should get an A+ on the paper.

Micr334 was probably the most fun Micr300 level paper I did. Apart from the first module, the other modules were really fun to learn for + they incorporate very well with the labs that you don't need to study extra content since they link very well together.
 
Fili said:
I literally crammed Micr337 in like a week since they give you like 9 possible essay questions in the beginning of the year and you just have to write perfect essays for like 8 where 6 are asked in pairs for the final exam and you write about 3 of them. I stupidly only wrote essays for 7 and got unlucky that the 2 essays I didn't prep an essay for were paired together. If you just write perfect essays for 8 unlike me, you should get an A+ on the paper.

Micr334 was probably the most fun Micr300 level paper I did. Apart from the first module, the other modules were really fun to learn for + they incorporate very well with the labs that you don't need to study extra content since they link very well together.
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What 300 level papers did you do all up?
 
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