I decided to get into Biology (Physio specialization) 2nd year. These are compulsory bio courses:2A03, 2B03, 2C03, 2F03. Chem: 2OA3, 2OB3 and some electives. How should I set up my courses so that I could study efficiently 2nd year? Can you guys give me some ideas/recommendations for each courses? Thank you in advance

Originally Posted by Phuong Tran

I decided to get into Biology (Physio specialization) 2nd year. These are compulsory bio courses:2A03, 2B03, 2C03, 2F03. Chem: 2OA3, 2OB3 and some electives. How should I set up my courses so that I could study efficiently 2nd year? Can you guys give me some ideas/recommendations for each courses? Thank you in advance

Well 2F03 and 2OA3 are only offered first semester and 2A03 and 2OB3 are only offered second semester, so your only option really is to move 2B03 and 2C03 around. I would say take them in different semesters. Genetics (2C03) is a fairly difficult course, and I haven't taken 2B03 yet but I heard it isn't the greatest either.

I can speak for 2B03...a lot of memorization, protein synthesis pathways. I'm taking it now in summer school so I have podcasts with Dr. Dej...not the greatest course but definitely 10able, 12able if you work really hard. a lot of it is dry but there are a few sunny spots

I would suggest taking 2C03 first term and 2B03 second term, only because 2A03 and 2C03 probably require more work and in my opinion were more difficult then 2B03 and 2F03 so it's better to space them out. That's what I did last yea and it worked really well for me.

I thought 2B03 was worse than 2C03; I found 2C03 to be my easiest course, without question.
It doesn't really matter though, either way you'll be fine.