KIN 308Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiology

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• This class definitely is not easy and you need to put a shit ton of effort in to do well. However, it is very doable. Just make sure you pay attention in class and also go to office hours for clarifications on the slides. Record the lectures because you will be very confused otherwise while studying. Overall, very doable but do need to focus - I came from a Biomed Sci background and still did relatively well for my first KIN course. We had Connor as our instructor who is a PhD candidate, but he explained things very thoroughly. He took a bunch of other KIN courses, so he gets the students really well. The expectations and what we were expected to know was very clear and he went through the…

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• The course content is very important and interesting. The marking scheme was made up of 2 midterms worth 25%, a 10% assignment, and a 40% final. The midterms were relatively straightforward, but Dr. Ramsook's marking was quite unfair in a few situations and he was not very open to feedback from the class. The final also felt like the difficulty was turned way up. The midterms tested basics, and the final asked you to apply these basics to completely new situations. Definitely doable, but many of us did not feel prepared and didn't expect this sort of switch for the final exam. Overall, great course in terms of content, but I did not love the marking/teaching style.

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• interesting content, but unlike what the previous review says, the midterm was not fair. it was out of 30 marks, so each mark is practically one percent of your grade. i will update this when i finish midterm 2 and the final.
  dr andrew ramsook is lowkey passive aggressive and makes people feel judged/like a liability for asking questions (it's literally his job to answer questions?). somehow he made me lose my understanding of a concept i fully understand in kin 202, because he explains things so impressively badly. do NOT take this course unless you have to.

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• Taken F25, two 25% midterms (non-cumulative), a 10% assignment, and 40% cumulative final. I would've initially rated this higher because the two midterms were very fair and tested in a logical way, but the prof completely changed the way he asked short answer / long answer questions (suddenly every question on the exam was application and conceptual on topics barely touched on in class??). I swear the exam was curved because I should not have achieved the grade I got otherwise (finished with a 92). Dr. Ramsook is a super chill guy though and very nice, recorded some lectures (but would forget every other day to record them...) and does a pretty good job at answering questions and being…

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• I had Dr. Andrew Ramsook for this term and he deserves that title he really knows his stuff. This course is so interesting and he explains all the concepts really well. He is organized and so the course runs really smoothly. Also...he talks about his research so it's really cool to see how class content is applied outside of just content! Application-memorization type course, overall awesome course, probably up in my top favourite courses I have ever taken!!

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