<p>For bio1a.. just focus on the lectures?</p>
<p>1al?focus on the lab manual?</p>
<p>Reading and understanding 40 pages of Enzymes and Recombinant DNA by Tuesday night…I wanna cry T-T…spare me Vedita!</p>
<p>IN for tips, i’m getting owned in 1AL. scored below the average on the quizzes 2 weeks in a row…</p>
<p>I got owned by that vedita quiz… not even a 1… lol = =GG</p>
<p>I feel like I studied way to much for a 3.2…draw a paramecium…seriously no wonder the mean was a 2.2! I was wondering do all the GSI’s have cumulative quizzes?</p>
<p>My GSI doesn’t. It just focuses on that week’s lab.</p>
<p>Really!!! This is week 3 and Vedita wants us to still know how to recreate the cladogram…■■■</p>
<p>But think of it this way, you’ll be much more prepared for the midterm/final :P</p>
<p>how are you guys studying</p>
<p>I watch the webcast in addition to going to lecture. I feel like it helps immensely. Sometimes in lecture I just lose focus, or I don’t understand a concept that Dr. Malkin goes over quickly. Plus it’s 8AM and my brain is foggy to begin with. So I watch the webcasts on a later day to refresh and hear all the stuff again.</p>
<p>My discussion GSI is also very helpful. She prints out handouts for us that has pretty much all the important info from lecture. What do all of your GSIs do for discussion?</p>
<p>^ this is all for 1A of course.</p>
<p>I don’t have the best scores, but I read the manual like 2-3 times and highlight. The thing that saves me is that I have friends in my lab so we get together and quiz each other and help one another in study groups. Having another person quiz helps to realize your weaknesses because the quiz you on anything. Week 1 got a 4.6 (average was a 3.3) and the second week I got a 3.2 (average was 2.2) and all my friends in the study group tend to also do better than the average by either .5-1.5 points.</p>
<p>So wait, who here has Helen as a GSI for lab?
And for lecture, I just webcast all. Forget going. 8 AM and Malkin’s style of teaching equates to me not concentrating to what he’s saying and merely thinking about how good a bed would feel right now (and of course, scoping out the scene with dim hope that there’s a girl to stare at).</p>
<p>I have Helen. She said the average was about 3-4. I got less than a 2. :[
Do you know what she means by “ER” questions?</p>
<p>I have Christian as my GSI. His average was pretty low for the first quiz; it was a 2. I’m not sure about the second one because he hasn’t told us yet… So far I got a 4.25 on my first one and a 4 on the second.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I have any specific strategies I can share, but definitely trying to understand concepts helps a lot especially for this upcoming lab with Transformation and Enzymes. Reading the lab manual prior to the lecture is actually more helpful than it seems. I felt like I have a solid grasp of the information, although I do feel less secure given the amount of information being covered for this coming lab.</p>
<p>@t0m04k1: wow those are very good scores. how specifically are you studying? can you be detailed as possible? i’m floundering in this class and REALLY want to do well…</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure if I can give you any specific advice, but definitely I read over the lab manual at least twice. Once to get a brief grasp of the concepts and another time to fully understand everything. Maybe even one more time to catch all the details. As I said on my previous post, I try to finish my reading all before the lecture; it helps a lot. For the cladogram quiz, I just made my own drawing. This doesn’t necessarily work for all of the labs, especially for the upcoming ones. For those, I suggest focusing on concepts and think about lab procedures, what we are trying to find, and why we are using specific techniques. This helped a lot when I was working on the Transformation lab. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>thanks t0m0, that really does help.</p>
<p>i find helen’s quizzes difficult no matter how many times i read the manual. :(</p>
<p>Definitely do what t0m04k1 says. I would read the lab manual once before lecture, and once or twice more before the lab itself. Really think about what’s on the pre-lab because that’s the type of stuff they would put on the quiz.</p>
<p>Also, if you have the time, and want to do every little thing possible, you can re-watch the lab lecture on webcast.</p>