<p>A few questions,</p>
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<li>Which leads to more career opportunities?</li>
<li>What careers REQUIRE biology, and what careers REQUIRE physics?</li>
<li>I know that biology is probably 80% memorization, how much of physics is memorization?</li>
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<p>Let me know,
THANKS to ALL. :)</p>
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<li>All and none.</li>
<li>Biologist requires biology. Physicist requires physics.</li>
<li>Depends on what you are talking about. At a high school level or at a college level?</li>
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<p>higher level physics has a lot of calculations. also, physics is supposedly the hardest science to study</p>
<p>^At a conceptual level, yes. At a practical level, not so much.</p>
<p>The thought of studying physics scares me. :x</p>
<p>@ Grisam: how is the memorization required for high school and college is different? well i’m thinking that college probably requires more, but biology generally involves much more memorizing than physics right?</p>
<p>@ ALL: the reason i ask is because i can’t decide which science to take (i’m a sophomore doing the IB diploma, and i’m doing IB Chemistry next year for sure). I’ve always been more interested in biology and life, but i’ve always REALLY hated memorizing. On the other hand, I love math (yes, as crazy as that sounds, i do) and i’m fairly good at it. Any advice?</p>
<p>Physics is all about application more so than memorization. Biology <<< Physics in terms of difficulty.</p>
<p>i’m not sure if i’m right, but isn’t it true that continuing in physics in university is more valuable than biology? i mean, like grisam said, biologists require biology, and physicists require physics; but physics is also required for the broad field of engineering. At first i thought that biology leads to pre-med, but apparently you can do the same thing with physics.</p>
<p>If you are good at pre-cal or higher math than take Physics. I personally would take bio because I’m not good at math, and it interests me more.</p>
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<li>Well, both have about the same career opportunities.</li>
<li>The med field requires physics and bio. Most careers that requires math usually involve physics. Like engineering. Except business (for obvious reasons). Bio is in most science related careers such as biochemists, neurologists, microbiologists, medical researchers, etc.</li>
<li>Physics doesn’t require that much memorization. It’s like math. Math involves memorizing some formulas, but it’s mostly concepts and then applying them. </li>
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<p>I personally would take bio because even though I’m pretty good at math, physics bores me.</p>
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<p>Generally, yes. What I’m thinking is that (don’t take my word on this, I haven’t taken college level biology) there becomes a level where, it’s then applying everything you memorized to a more practical level (versus a theoretical level i.e. the memorization learned in high school).</p>
<p>But yeah, physics requires limited memorization compared to biology.</p>
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<p>I would think that med requires chem and bio. O_o</p>
<p>One last note: in answer to your question ibcrazy, I’ll point out that I always thought bio was for someone who loved science but wasn’t that good/didn’t like math. Physics was for someone who loved science and was good at and enjoyed math.</p>
<p>Physics > Biology</p>
<p>Hands down. Biology is pure memorization. Plus, physics is much cooler in that, it explained everyday things and seemed to enlighten me.</p>
<p>^Biology has more practical uses than physics</p>
<p>^^The med requires practically all of the 3 general sciences; chem, bio, and physics. Kinda weird that it requires physics but that’s what i’ve been told. And I’m pretty good at math, and I like it too, but physics is just boring to me. Or maybe it’s my teacher’s fault…he doesn’t teach, so i don’t understand anything at all.</p>
<p>Do whichever one you like better. Don’t worry about what you think you want to do when you get into college. When I was a sophomore, I wanted to be a math and biology major. I am a first year in college as a Humanities & Anthropology major.</p>
<p>It’s more about what you plan on doing in college then what you’ll need to use on the job. </p>
<p>If you are planning on pre-med or humanities, then take Bio. If you are planning on Engineering, or something else of a computational nature (CS, Math, other hard sciences) then take physics.</p>
<p>Personally I find both boring, but Physics probably requires less memorization as was said. I don’t memorize the formulas (except for the ones that are simply definitions, like F = ma or something), I just derive them on the test. It might be easier for some to do that, and for others to just memorize. If you derive them then it’s mostly memorizing definitions (what is Force, what is Work, what is Energy, etc.)</p>
<p>At my school, physics is traditionally easier than biology, at least in terms of the workload it takes to get the grade. However, this can vary widely based on your skillset. Traditionally, more humanities-minded students grasp the bigger concepts of biology more easily, while the future engineers and calculus geniuses are better at the patterns of physics. Play to your strengths.</p>
<p>And, unless your career goals are incredibly specific–like you want to go to engineering school for college specific–this one class choice will impact exactly nothing in your future.</p>
<p>“Bio is in most science related careers such as biochemists, neurologists, microbiologists, medical researchers, etc.”</p>
<p>Is it possible to get there with Chemistry and Physics only?</p>
<p>^ Any of those? No…</p>
<p>(Chemistry and Physics as in high school courses, not university)</p>