Is it possible to take Health Sci 3i03 and Health sci 3k03 both in the same term and do well ? and by well i mean 10+ in both courses.

the other courses i have are 2 near-bird courses (mol biol 3h03, stats 2b03) and 1 high-workload course (bio 2f03; which isn't so hard).

Any ideas?!?
ive been at this course finalizing the whole day and am really brain-fried by now... this is the last course combo i have come up for today

Bio 2F03 isnt a very high workload course, only if you do all the assigned readings (at least with Dr.Cartwright) which most gave up on pretty quickly. Studied last minute as usual but got double digits so you'll be fine!

should be good, the two complement each other somewhat. if u take one you might as well take the other.

Yeah I have friends who got 12 in both courses while taking them at the same time.

Originally Posted by inthemaking

Yeah I have friends who got 12 in both courses while taking them at the same time.

really? that sounds relieving. how were the other 3 courses they were taking?

Originally Posted by paperplanes

should be good, the two complement each other somewhat. if u take one you might as well take the other.

information wise yes. but im afraid that the workload will kill me. the deadlines on the projects especially!

Originally Posted by mike4

Bio 2F03 isnt a very high workload course, only if you do all the assigned readings (at least with Dr.Cartwright) which most gave up on pretty quickly. Studied last minute as usual but got double digits so you'll be fine!

oo thanks! i feel a bit better abt bio 2F03 now .....so the readings are the hardest part of the course?

stats 2b03 and bio 2 f03 are not hard. Nucleus is also good but it has a term long group project.

They were also taking mandatory health sci courses (critical appraisal of medical literature and inquiry III) and another health sci elective (human movement).

I don't know about viro but I took immuno and there are only 3 assignments + 2 midterms and then the final. It wasn't a super heavy workload imo because the assignments are pretty much straight from lecture material and it took me a day tops to churn one out.

Originally Posted by karna

stats 2b03 and bio 2 f03 are not hard. Nucleus is also good but it has a term long group project.

oh yea! nucleus has that poster project right? and isn't bio 2F03 kinda annoying because of the lengthy labs?

Originally Posted by inthemaking

They were also taking mandatory health sci courses (critical appraisal of medical literature and inquiry III) and another health sci elective (human movement).

I don't know about viro but I took immuno and there are only 3 assignments + 2 midterms and then the final. It wasn't a super heavy workload imo because the assignments are pretty much straight from lecture material and it took me a day tops to churn one out.

oh i see. i dont know abt those hth sci courses but i assume they had PBL projects which can be lengthy.

How did you do on the team project and exam. these two things are the ones which are really scaring me. especially the 25% take-home exam which supposed to be uber tough and pure death.

For bio 2F03, its not a difficult bio, in fact probably known as one of the easier ones. It doesn't take much effort unless you choose to do all the assigned readings which are tedious, not difficult. One of my complaints on the course evaluation was that there were too many assigned readings that didnt seem to be necessary (sometimes 40 pgs per class). They should be optional since they only embellish your notes, so since most people didnt read the textbook, I wouldnt worry about it and focus on the slides! Ie, easy to get by without much work so dont worry!

Originally Posted by mike4

One of my complaints on the course evaluation was that there were too many assigned readings that didnt seem to be necessary (sometimes 40 pgs per class).

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Originally Posted by traveler10

oh i see. i dont know abt those hth sci courses but i assume they had PBL projects which can be lengthy.

How did you do on the team project and exam. these two things are the ones which are really scaring me. especially the 25% take-home exam which supposed to be uber tough and pure death.

Yeah the other hth sci courses involved group projects. There's no group project for immuno anymore (unless they reinstated it for fall 2011? I just took it last year in fall 2010 and there was no group proj), thank goodness. The take home exam was actually the best part (only part of immuno I would say is pretty much an easy 11 or 12). You get ~2 weeks to do it, so that's plenty of time. I got together with a bunch of friends and we split up the questions and then we shared our answers and discussed any disagreements. After that you just have to memorize the answers (1 page for each question, but it can be in point form) and spit some of them out for the exam (you get 8 questions to prepare for but only 4 appear on the exam).

Originally Posted by traveler10

HOLYYYYYYYYY...... !!!

EXACTLYYYYY

Originally Posted by inthemaking

There's no group project for immuno anymore (unless they reinstated it for fall 2011? I just took it last year in fall 2010 and there was no group proj), thank goodness.

well i saw the 2009 course outline
hth sci 3i03 course outline 2009.PDF

and it says that the course evaluation is
Midterm 1 = 25%
Midterm 2 = 25%
Written Assignments = 10%
PBL project = 15%
Exam = 25%

And the exam & PBL are 2 places where everything can go wrong so i was worried.

How was the course evaluated when u took it last year?

Originally Posted by inthemaking

The take home exam was actually the best part (only part of immuno I would say is pretty much an easy 11 or 12). You get ~2 weeks to do it, so that's plenty of time. I got together with a bunch of friends and we split up the questions and then we shared our answers and discussed any disagreements. After that you just have to memorize the answers (1 page for each question, but it can be in point form) and spit some of them out for the exam (you get 8 questions to prepare for but only 4 appear on the exam).

oh thanks, guess we have to know ppl in the course to do well do the exam.

lastly, isn't the exam online? like, they release the questions and then 10-13 days later u have to submit the answers online.

When I took it, it was just 3 assignments (5% each), 2 midterms (25% each) and a final (35%).

The exam isn't online, they post the 8 essay questions ~2 weeks before the exam up on LL (and the exam is scheduled by the registrar), then on exam day you go in and write the answers to 4 of the 8 questions (obviously you will not know which 4 will be on it, which is why you still have to prepare answers to all 8). You don't submit it online, it would be way too easy to plagarize that way - you still have to sit an exam thus making sure you take time to learn/memorize the answers.