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Took it first semester last year, Dr. Nurse was the professor. Over all, not a very difficult course, midterm averages were in the mid 70s. The course consists of lectures and tutorials, with the tutorials teaching the application of lecture material. You should try to do the tutorials before hand, using the lecture notes and textbook (very handy to have for the first half of the course) as guides. They're slightly math involved for the 1st midterm (Nernst equation, voltage/conductance, etc) with some physics emphasis (electricity mostly). The first midterm was mostly application based, and as long as you completed the tutorials and had a perfect understanding of what was done in them then you had no problem. Second half of the course is about cellular second messengers and various pathways inside the cell (e.g. calcium homeostasis was an important topic). This is more rote memorization of pathways and their effects. You have to draw a pathway for the midterm, so be familiar with them. Again tutorials are fairly representative of the level you need to understand things at. The final was not bad at all, my mark actually went up a grade point after the final exam. It was cumulative with a focus on things after midterm 2. Overall, fairly math based and you use a lot of basic equations. You'll never see a multiple choice question, but don't let that scare you away. This course is not nearly as scary as older reviews have made it. I found it fairly easy and even somewhat enjoyable. It'll take some work, but double digits are definitely possible.
Hope that's thorough enough lol
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