BIOL 308Principles of Molecular Biology

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• On the first day of lectures Dr. Miskovic told the class that there were study questions, and to do them. The study questions are the only content you need. Do not make notes as you would traditionally for a course, exclusively focus on the content covered in those questions. You also start them immediately after the content was covered in lecture, and review them frequently - as Dr. Miskovic will tell you, they comprise 70% of the questions on examinations. Do NOT leave them until the end, or there's a good chance you'll fail the course. Finally, do the practice final multiple times as well.

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• if someone put a trigger to my head and asked me just ONE THING I learned in this course, I would probably be dead. I still don't know how I passed. I think I actually got a 70 and I'd say that's a bloody miracle. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not impossible, but I must admit, at a certain point in time I was so doomed I stopped studying for the exam because I figured no amount of studying was going to help me. It's probably not a useless or impossible course but it's just not worth the decline in mental health (for me at least, since I value my mental health).

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• Im going to try and stay away from making statements like I hate this course and give you useful information.
  The course is filled with a MASSIVE amount of information that it is not possible to remember. I recommend going to lectures but keep in mind I would end up sleeping through half of it. The slides are filled with so much information too. It is a pipe dream to expect to remember all of that.
  So what to do? Try and go thru the slides, really skim and and pick out core topics and concepts that seem testable and absorb that (you have to use your discretion and common sense, if you were the examiner, what would you test). Really do this exercise, it helps get rid of all the other…

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• This course was just a nightmare. There is just an overload of information and minute details. But only a few certain ideas and areas are actually tested. I feel like if that is what was expected of us to learn than the prof. should have spent more time on those parts.
  The material comes hard and fast, with little time for explanation. This course wasn't one I enjoyed, even though I love Molecular Biology. If you can choose not to take this course, I would not take this course.

  Dec 2014 · didn’t like it · 2 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• Great course, I hate how much fundamental filler crap you have to get through before you learn anything really interesting. If you're into molecular biology there some incredible insights into splicing and transcriptional mechanisms i found fascinating. You're evaluated on your ability to finish the study question or your ability to amass a library or them and regurgitate them on the exam. There is a lot of material despite have a clear set of question to focus you brain on the important stuff. Its definitely a course you need a few days to let the material sink in before the exam.

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