Anyone else writing this exam on friday night?!

I've been studying for a while, but I don't know how I'll have time to cover this ridiculous amount of material... like, I'm only reading the textbook sections that correspond directly to the lecture slides.. i.e. the bare minimum.. and even then, there is sooo much information. I'm curious to know how other people are studying for this!

also that exam-review was so useless... dr xu basically listed off every topic that we covered in the class... that really narrows it down -__-

any upper years who've taken this course... how was the exam? especially the written answer section?

Originally Posted by marcie

Anyone else writing this exam on friday night?!

I've been studying for a while, but I don't know how I'll have time to cover this ridiculous amount of material... like, I'm only reading the textbook sections that correspond directly to the lecture slides.. i.e. the bare minimum.. and even then, there is sooo much information. I'm curious to know how other people are studying for this!

also that exam-review was so useless... dr xu basically listed off every topic that we covered in the class... that really narrows it down -__-

any upper years who've taken this course... how was the exam? especially the written answer section?

Read the textbook, and then some...

Originally Posted by SciMania

Read the textbook, and then some...

Even if you have the time to do that... how could you possibly remember everything?

sigh... I'm so screwed.

Originally Posted by marcie

Even if you have the time to do that... how could you possibly remember everything?

sigh... I'm so screwed.

Dr. Xu tends to test very random facts, so just ensure that you've read everything. You'd be surprised at how good your brain can be at recalling random facts - especially when the exam is mostly multiple choice and the answers are right there anyways. Don't worry, you'll be fine. Just don't skimp out on reading the textbook. Also for the short answers, ensure you know major concepts...It's been so long since I've taken it I can't remember what exactly was asked but I know that the only things tested for the SA were more important things and not random factual details.

Also don't worry about memorizing or understanding the little details like the glycolysis intermediates and what not, but understanding what glycolysis is and what the end results are, how ATP generation occurs would be important.

I'm doing pretty much what you are. I go through the slides and the textbook at the same time, taking notes as best I can. I have a shit load of pages written so far and I'm on lecture 16.

I did notice too that he skips over a large amount of sections in the text lol, I don't know if we have to know what he skips over but I highly doubt it.

I agree there is a ridiculous amount of stuff to be memorized, based on the midterm thats all it was, how much did you memorize from my piece of shit notes that have pictures and no words (ie. from the textbook).

His notes are terrible. There's a random slide of a picture of something and I'm like wtf is that and how am I supposed to pull information from that if I didn't have the textbook.

Guy's a tool.

should read the textbook during the year right after he went through the lecture slides.. almost impossible to keep up after u fall behind in this class... my adivce..read up on atp synthase

Originally Posted by pinkpiggydoe

should read the textbook during the year right after he went through the lecture slides.. almost impossible to keep up after u fall behind in this class... my adivce..read up on atp synthase

Yup, atp synthase seems to show up on there over and over again. Would be a good idea.

ATP synthase, Koch's postulates, and that theory about microbes being present in any environment were important in the written section. Read the textbook; Xu's slides aren't very good.

On a side note, I saw him go into a spin class today at DBAC

i remember him saying in class that in previous years he took questions from a test bank(of text questions), but that this year he made his own questions. so i think the questions will be based more on the his lectures than things from the text(although he was talking about the midterm so it could be different for the final).

what do u think the long answer is

who knows lol, 16 marks of something that im just going to bullshit and use a bunch of science words in order to get marks. thats the way to go.

hey im in the class and i emailed him about the source of the questions and he said he will be making them up like the midterm!

I heard from some 3rd years that the final exam is easier than the midterm... which would be great because I found the midterm incredibly challenging, despite reading relevant parts of the textbook and studying for like a week... he must have adjusted the midterm marks big time, cause there's no way I deserved the mark I got... I walked out of that midterm feeling like such a fail, haha. I can only imagine what tomorrow will be like :( :(

oh and the 16-mark question.... f***... hopefully I'll scoop up enough part marks here and there to pull off an ok mark.

yeah hopefully its an easier exam, theres no many little random facts that no one but him would ever expect you to know.

i've been studying for this exam alone since sunday and i know that i probly will have a bunch of questions where im like how the hell am i supposed to remember that tiny insignificant fact.

oh well

easiest exam ever.