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Originally Posted by gcruz91
Did anyone find that after taking these classes, they didn't need to buy the textbook after all?
Econ 1BB3 - Macroecon
Biochem 2B03 - Nucleic acid structure & Function
Biochem 2BB3 - Protein structure & enzyme function
Biochem 2L06 - Lab Course
ChemBio 2P03 - Biophysical Chem
Psych 2N03 - Neuropsychology
Bio 2C03 - Genetics
Bio 2B03 - Cell Bio
Psych 2AP3 - Abnormal Psych
Thanks for the input!
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Biochem 2B03/2BB3 have the same textbook...it was relatively useful for 2B03, but not useful AT ALL for 2BB3...which is too bad, really, since you've already spent all of that money on it
Chembio 2P03 has a different textbook this year--not just a different edition, but it's actually an entirely different book than what we used last year. And really, anyone who bought the book last year only did it because the prof was a fail, but you have a different prof this year too, so I'd wait and see. If the prof hadn't been a fail, the textbook would not have been necessary.
Bio 2C03 has 1-2 concepts that are only taught in tutorial, so the textbook can be useful for that, but otherwise there was no need for it. You could google the concepts taught in tutorial or borrow the book from a friend/the library if you don't get those concepts, it's not really necessary to buy the book.
I didn't buy the Bio 2B03 book, but I was looking through my housemate's the night before the exam and found it explained some things pretty well, albeit with a lot of superfluous information. If you learn well from the prof, you don't really need the book for the course...I had Igdoura, and even though he expected us to read all of the chapters associated with what he was teaching, I didn't read any of it and still did fine
I haven't taken biochem 2L06, but I'm pretty sure the stuff is actually mandatory...the CCW is, at least.
They just changed Psych 2AP3 to make it a second year course (it used to be a third-year course) so I'm not sure how they're actually changing it, but they used to test some things directly from the readings, so the textbook would be good to have for this course.