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12-22-2010 at 02:11 PM
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What are some second year electives that you found interesting and easy to study for?
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12-22-2010 at 02:26 PM
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Math 2K03! (if you like math, only require 1LS3 or 1A03)
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12-22-2010 at 02:32 PM
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Philosophy 2B03 was really easy, & pretty useful too.
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12-23-2010 at 01:49 AM
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Weren't interesting, but they were easy: Stats 2B03, Biology 2D03
Not as easy, but if you can memorize: Biochem 2EE3, Biology 2B03
Interesting (to me) and easy: Biology 2C03
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12-23-2010 at 05:34 AM
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Weren't interesting, but they were easy: Stats 2B03, Biology 2D03
Not as easy, but if you can memorize: Biochem 2EE3, Biology 2B03
Interesting (to me) and easy: Biology 2C03
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I wouldn't consider most of those electives (and especially not easy)...
But in terms of bio courses, ecology (2F03) is a guaranteed 10/11 and possibly even 12 if you're great at memorizing. Only annoying thing about this course was 4 presentations but you can easily get 95%+ on all of them since it's mostly peer-review marks. 
And psych courses usually make good electives too if you took first year psych. I've only taken social psych 2C03 so far, and that was really easy. And since it didn't have any tutorials or assignments (just 2 midterms and an exam) you get more time to focus on your other courses.
BTW both courses I mentioned were evening courses 
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12-23-2010 at 10:06 AM
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Definitely stats 2B03, you can easily get a 12. Go to class , take notes and cram it 2 days before midterms and exam and i still got a 12 in it so yeah definitely take that coures ( don't cram it though , it's just that cramming stats work for me lol)
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12-23-2010 at 11:07 AM
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Science 2B03 if you want to waste your money and not learn anything that isn't already available on wikipedia.
And be bored to death.
Fail.
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12-23-2010 at 11:17 AM
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earth sci 2ww3 and 2gg3
econ 2ho3, j03
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12-23-2010 at 01:45 PM
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I wouldn't consider most of those electives (and especially not easy)...
But in terms of bio courses, ecology (2F03) is a guaranteed 10/11 and possibly even 12 if you're great at memorizing. Only annoying thing about this course was 4 presentations but you can easily get 95%+ on all of them since it's mostly peer-review marks.
And psych courses usually make good electives too if you took first year psych. I've only taken social psych 2C03 so far, and that was really easy. And since it didn't have any tutorials or assignments (just 2 midterms and an exam) you get more time to focus on your other courses.
BTW both courses I mentioned were evening courses |
They are electives depending on the program you're in... And difficulty is obviously subjective, no course has all students with a grade of 10+. But most of the people I know who took those courses did very well.
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They are electives depending on the program you're in... And difficulty is obviously subjective, no course has all students with a grade of 10+. But most of the people I know who took those courses did very well.
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From what I've heard, bio 2C03 depends heavily on the prof - moreso than other courses, that is.
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12-23-2010 at 01:54 PM
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From what I've heard, bio 2C03 depends heavily on the prof - moreso than other courses, that is.
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I can't tell about the tests and assignments because I've never compared, but the material itself isn't very difficult to understand. It's very basic information compared to other second year courses I've taken where they go into a lot of detail.
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12-23-2010 at 02:01 PM
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They are electives depending on the program you're in... And difficulty is obviously subjective, no course has all students with a grade of 10+. But most of the people I know who took those courses did very well.
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That's true, but I still don't think most of those are electives since I doubt anyone from another faculty would find it interesting to learn about plant physiology and attend tedious weekly labs :/
I don't even think any honours life sci students take that course, let alone an elective from another faculty...
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12-23-2010 at 02:03 PM
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That's true, but I still don't think most of those are electives since I doubt anyone from another faculty would find it interesting to learn about plant physiology and attend tedious weekly labs :/
I don't even think any honours life sci students take that course, let alone an elective from another faculty...
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Aha, fair enough. Those plant labs were very annoying >.> I literally took pictures with my camera and left after like 20 minutes and I still destroyed the lab exam.
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