<\/p>\nHey Everyone, Hope you all had a great break.\u00a0 I never did a review of courses I took last sen so here: <\/p>\n
Stats 200<\/p>\n
Probably my favourite course this semester, and I was expecting it to be the worse.\u00a0 I had Yew Lim, and I really liked him as a prof.\u00a0 Even though it seemed like he went fast he explained things really clearly to me.\u00a0 I went to about 95% of lectures and for a 9AM class I didn’t think that’d be possible for me.\u00a0 The labs were straight forward too, and between clickers, lab, and online quizzes there are a lot of free points.\u00a0 The first midterm was hard, it was in the morning so I pulled an allnighter (smh) but I got an A so it was worth it.\u00a0 The only thing thats annoying is that the other section has a midterm different than ours, and much easier, our class average was like 64, and the other class average was 78.\u00a0 Apparently they scale our class up and the other class would get scaled down.\u00a0 All I know is that with my final mark in the class I didn’t see any scaling\u2026makes me wish I stayed in the later section that I was in initially, but then again I liked the teaching style of Professor Lim better.\u00a0 All in all a good class, I tend to get sidetracked midway and the online quizzes forced you to keep up.<\/p>\n
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Phyl 301<\/p>\n
This course is supposed to be really interesting but I haven’t been interested during any lectures.\u00a0 During the first 4 weeks I was really into everything, and keeping up, and then I kind of just fell off the material if that makes sense.\u00a0 I think its the fact that theres no midterm, no quizzes (no that one 2.5% quiz doesn’t count really..), no clickers.\u00a0 I didn’t realize there was solo much memorization until the final, and I was pretty behind.\u00a0 A lot of people spent the full 5 days after the last day of classes and the Phyl Final to study, but I didn’t.\u00a0 I used the last week of classes to study Phyl, and then started studying for Stats since it was my first final.\u00a0 I regret this because I know Stats, and worst case scenario I can BS and still do well because its math at the end of the day.\u00a0 Spent so much time making a cheat sheet for Stats that I didn’t use on the final.\u00a0 So anyways I was done Stats and used the day to review Phyl, but the stuff I’d reviewed the week before (Neurophysio mostly) was all gone, it was pretty bad.\u00a0 I’m glad its a year long course otherwise I’d be really sad about my grade.\u00a0 Especially since the final was really easy, just had no time.\u00a0 As of this semester it is my first priority course, going to do a study group thing to help keep up.<\/p>\n
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Micb 302<\/p>\n
This course I found really interesting, and its a lot of memorization, but its interesting so it sticks easier.\u00a0 My favourite part of the course was the material, since I work at a hospital a lot of the case studies were things I’d seen so it was cool to see the relevance of what I’m studying in real life.\u00a0 Now heres what I didn’t like..\u00a0 So I feel like this course is a third year level course, but that its desperately trying to be a weeder course.\u00a0 If I keep up with a course and study like crazy and don’t do phenomenal on a midterm i don’t give up but i do start slacking a bit.\u00a0 The first midterm grading I was like wow they are grading really harsh, damn.\u00a0 Like I answered all the questions confidently, but the smallest things you lose marks.\u00a0 I feel like this class is part memorization\/learning and part luck.\u00a0 Your lucky if you wrote what they wanted, your unlucky if you answered differently.\u00a0 My first midterm went way better than my second, which I expected since I didn’t keep up as much.\u00a0 Regardless this is the type of stuff that just isn’t right, Micb 302 needs to be multiple choice, even if its tricky multiple choice I prefer that to writing everything I know and losing marks over random irrelevant stuff like this<\/p>\n
eg. aren’t organs made of tissues though…. \u00a0like I said I would have loved this course if it was multiple choice, or even mc and short answer alternating.<\/p>\n Regardless of the technical issues, in terms of material I liked it wayyyyyy better than Phyl 301, and would actually recommend it, go to the tutorials, keep up, and go to class, the clickers are 10%!\u00a0 So there are some free marks to get.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Germ 100<\/p>\n Actually this was my true favourite class.\u00a0 It’s my first time taking a language since French in high school, and I was nervous because of the kids in the class who knew more than Beginners German.\u00a0 Regardless the pace of the class was really good, I actually learned from the teacher more than the textbook [this has never happened at UBC for me\u2026], and it’s also fun to know a language.\u00a0 I already planned on taking it till the 300 level, and I definitely will after this class.\u00a0 There are\u00a0 a lot of free marks to get from German if you try: attendance, quizzes, online quizzes.\u00a0 I really loved our teacher too her name is Eszter Lazlo, she was really good and fair.\u00a0 The practice midterms were literally another form of the real midterm.\u00a0 It wasn’t a million times easier than the real midterm [unlike some other courses eg. stats 200, micb302, the list goes on]\u00a0 It was my highest grade at UBC ever, safe to say I don’t think I’ll ever see another A+ on my transcript till I graduate, unless Germ 110 goes well, fingers crossed!<\/p>\n And what am I taking next semester?\u00a0 Germ 110, Phyl 301, Anat 391, Fnh 250, Isci 350<\/p>\n ALSO I get a lot of emails from people to send them practice midterms, finals, etc.\u00a0 I got a new laptop this year so all that stuff is in my old laptop thats turned to crap.\u00a0 It’ll take me a while to get all the files out but I will have a post with everything I have on there.<\/p>\n ALSO\u00a0 I am selling my Stats 200 textbook if anyone is interested, bought it last semester.\u00a0 And I am interested in buying FNH 250 if anyone has it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Everyone, Hope you all had a great break.\u00a0 I never did a review of courses I took last sen so here: Stats 200 Probably my favourite course this semester, and I was expecting it to be the worse.\u00a0 I had Yew Lim, and I really liked him as a prof.\u00a0 Even though it seemed […] Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binta\/files\/2013\/01\/IMAG04442.jpg\" "\\"IMAG0444\\"")
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