plasticities
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- HSC
- 2011
CHEM1041 (Higher Chemistry B):
Ease: 8/10
Lecturers: 7/10, Professor Thordarson explains everything really well but his accent can be hard to understand sometimes, Cole I struggled with again and Morris was pretty good as well
Interest: 9/10, Kinetics, stereochemistry, structural determination and d-orbital complexes are really interesting, and organic to a lesser extent
Overall: 7/10. The labs and lab reports can be tricky, but the computer assignments are very straight forward. I found more of the content this semester, more interesting than CHEM1031. With organic, make sure you learn how to use the roadmap (which is easier if you understand the mechanisms) so that you can do the synthesis questions a lot easier. The final was pretty straight forward, though a couple of tricky questions. And with the group lab assignment, make sure you contribute so your peers don't mark you down on participation (although you should contribute anyway).
MATH1041 (Statistics for Life and Social Science):
Ease: 10/10 If you can add, subtract, divide, multiply and square root, this should be fine
Lecturers: 9/10 I had David and he was pretty good at explaining everything
Interest: 4/10
Overall: 8/10 The assignments were super easy, you can get full marks no problem, the mid-semester exam was harder than expected, so the average was pretty low, but if you listen in lectures, and understand what's going on you'll do fine. The final is super predictable as well and easy. Though the lectures are 2 hours long and I usually lose interest.
PSYC1011 (Psychology B):
Ease: 8/10 The content is really straightforward, the only time it can get difficult is in psychobiology, but other than that it's fine
Lecturers: They were all pretty good, except for the psychobiology guy, who would include massive chunks of text on his slides, with jargon and would pretty much just read straight off them.
Interest: 9/10 This semester of psychology is more brain based (memory and cognition, perception, animal learning, psychobiology and abnormal psychology) rather than psychology A which was more mind based. I found it a lot more interesting since it related more to my major, but it's just a matter of preference.
Overall: 7/10 The exams in this course are really straight forward, but the assignment marking is really harsh. With your group assignments, stick to the brief very strictly and make sure your actual presentation is as good as your content. With the research report, there isn't much advice other than go over your format with a fine tooth comb and get someone to proof read it. They usually award terrible marks for this no matter what. Don't bother going to the statistics lectures if you're doing MATH1041 or know someone who is doing it/has done it. The concepts are straightforward.
BIOS1101 (Evolutionary and Functional Biology):
Ease: 6/10 The practical exam is notoriously difficult, this years average (and apparently best of record is ~59%, while previous years have been around ~45% I've heard).
Lecturers: 7/10 Mike Archer is one of the most interesting and charismatic lecturers I've had so far. I interviewed him for a SCIF assignment last semester and he is just awesome. The other two lecturers are okay but pretty boring.
Interest: 2/10 Not really an animal/plant biology person, but if you're into that, you'll love this course
Overall: 5/10 Try not to lose marks on the small lab assignments, be really thorough with everything because they will take away marks for small things, even if you get it checked by a lab demo before handing it in. Before the final, do the revision questions on blackboard, they will take some straight off there and put it in the final.
Ease: 8/10
Lecturers: 7/10, Professor Thordarson explains everything really well but his accent can be hard to understand sometimes, Cole I struggled with again and Morris was pretty good as well
Interest: 9/10, Kinetics, stereochemistry, structural determination and d-orbital complexes are really interesting, and organic to a lesser extent
Overall: 7/10. The labs and lab reports can be tricky, but the computer assignments are very straight forward. I found more of the content this semester, more interesting than CHEM1031. With organic, make sure you learn how to use the roadmap (which is easier if you understand the mechanisms) so that you can do the synthesis questions a lot easier. The final was pretty straight forward, though a couple of tricky questions. And with the group lab assignment, make sure you contribute so your peers don't mark you down on participation (although you should contribute anyway).
MATH1041 (Statistics for Life and Social Science):
Ease: 10/10 If you can add, subtract, divide, multiply and square root, this should be fine
Lecturers: 9/10 I had David and he was pretty good at explaining everything
Interest: 4/10
Overall: 8/10 The assignments were super easy, you can get full marks no problem, the mid-semester exam was harder than expected, so the average was pretty low, but if you listen in lectures, and understand what's going on you'll do fine. The final is super predictable as well and easy. Though the lectures are 2 hours long and I usually lose interest.
PSYC1011 (Psychology B):
Ease: 8/10 The content is really straightforward, the only time it can get difficult is in psychobiology, but other than that it's fine
Lecturers: They were all pretty good, except for the psychobiology guy, who would include massive chunks of text on his slides, with jargon and would pretty much just read straight off them.
Interest: 9/10 This semester of psychology is more brain based (memory and cognition, perception, animal learning, psychobiology and abnormal psychology) rather than psychology A which was more mind based. I found it a lot more interesting since it related more to my major, but it's just a matter of preference.
Overall: 7/10 The exams in this course are really straight forward, but the assignment marking is really harsh. With your group assignments, stick to the brief very strictly and make sure your actual presentation is as good as your content. With the research report, there isn't much advice other than go over your format with a fine tooth comb and get someone to proof read it. They usually award terrible marks for this no matter what. Don't bother going to the statistics lectures if you're doing MATH1041 or know someone who is doing it/has done it. The concepts are straightforward.
BIOS1101 (Evolutionary and Functional Biology):
Ease: 6/10 The practical exam is notoriously difficult, this years average (and apparently best of record is ~59%, while previous years have been around ~45% I've heard).
Lecturers: 7/10 Mike Archer is one of the most interesting and charismatic lecturers I've had so far. I interviewed him for a SCIF assignment last semester and he is just awesome. The other two lecturers are okay but pretty boring.
Interest: 2/10 Not really an animal/plant biology person, but if you're into that, you'll love this course
Overall: 5/10 Try not to lose marks on the small lab assignments, be really thorough with everything because they will take away marks for small things, even if you get it checked by a lab demo before handing it in. Before the final, do the revision questions on blackboard, they will take some straight off there and put it in the final.
