I have my bio midterm tomorrow and I'm pretty freaked out cause I'm not good at memorizing too many details. Can anyone tell me what these midterms are like or your experience with them?

The format is multiple choice questions and a couple written answers.

Should I focus more on the study questions she gave us or outlines or textbook?

Thank you

My memory may not be entirely accurate but based on what I remember...

1) There was nothing that wasn't featured in one way or another in her study questions.
2) It was almost completely based on memorization, which sucked for people who weren't expecting it or aren't good at it.
3) The class teaches some pretty awesome stuff (if you enjoy biology) but does so in a way that destroys any enjoyment and then the tests destroy all residual hope for application instead of regurgitation.
4) Should be 30 multiple choice and 5-6 short answers worth 15 marks.
5) At the end of the test, you'll have been tested on about 1/10th of the concepts taught but because you don't know what she'll pick, you have to study everything.
6) Kajiura ruins the course by forcing memorization despite the fact that she says "This course will be about learning the material, not memorizing it" on the first day. Very hypocritical.

(That's just my opinion of the course. Some people might hate the material and love Kajiura, who knows. IMO though, the course with the best material in first year Life Sci is pretty much ruined by horrible teaching and testing methods.)

Pretty much everything you need to know should be in the lecture outlines (no random textbook stuff, so don't worry about that), and if you know those and the study questions well you'll have no troubles. I completely agree that its all memorization though, and if you happen to not know the one minute detail that an entire short-answer question is based off of, well, sucks to be you (though I found Kajiura was generally pretty good for hinting what the short answers would be on).
Memorization, Y U NO let bio courses be fun?

So not all future bio profs (ie all my future profs) are not like Kaijura?

Originally Posted by RememberTwce

My memory may not be entirely accurate but based on what I remember...

1) There was nothing that wasn't featured in one way or another in her study questions.
2) It was almost completely based on memorization, which sucked for people who weren't expecting it or aren't good at it.
3) The class teaches some pretty awesome stuff (if you enjoy biology) but does so in a way that destroys any enjoyment and then the tests destroy all residual hope for application instead of regurgitation.
4) Should be 30 multiple choice and 5-6 short answers worth 15 marks.
5) At the end of the test, you'll have been tested on about 1/10th of the concepts taught but because you don't know what she'll pick, you have to study everything.
6) Kajiura ruins the course by forcing memorization despite the fact that she says "This course will be about learning the material, not memorizing it" on the first day. Very hypocritical.

(That's just my opinion of the course. Some people might hate the material and love Kajiura, who knows. IMO though, the course with the best material in first year Life Sci is pretty much ruined by horrible teaching and testing methods.)

Totally support this, and I came back for MOAR bio.

Check out the course reviews section - has a lot of info.

Ugh this is going to suck for me then, thanks for the replies though!

Not looking forward to tomorrow..