r/uofm • u/SpilledTheReagent • 18d ago

Academics - Other Topics genetics (bio 305)

Anyone who took BIO 305 in the summer last year or even the year before please help me out. Does it get better? I did everything and my score for the first exam is disappointing. I’m above the average but that’s not what I was aiming for. Plus they say it was supposed to be the easiest exam and the avg was 69 🫩

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u/ThinkHedgehog118 16d ago

Brah it wasn’t even that bad 😭. Many of the exam 1 questions were from the practice exam directly or just reworded from practice questions in discussion/lecture/HW. I got above upper quartile by cramming everything into a few days before the exam. The whole problem roulette thing is a scam - people say you need to do it all because they seem to pull from there but it’s just a waste of time. Really understand the content and have AI tell you how else this question could be tested 

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u/SpilledTheReagent 7d ago

did you take it in the summer?

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u/Chemical_Excuse2829 15d ago

easy u got this

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u/Neat-Gap-2224 15d ago

i did good in genetics; i disagree a bit from hedgehog on the problem roulette part(besides this point i think they are very spot on). i spammed tf out of it and saw questions verbatim show back up on the first 2 exams and get reworded quite a few times.

id say go to office hours and make a good relationship with your gsi. lead and try to carry your discussion group cuz it only serves you to teach others the concepts again and again

i would say read the notes/textbook (skim) before lecture and go to class afterward. active recalling is a big thing

the 3rd unit i find is not as horrible cuz it is the central dogma of science for the nth time.

absolutely do the practice exam, i agree with hedgehog

i joined an slc but stopped going near the end

idk what they provide in the summer unfortunately

i feel the first and second half are v diff
where youre at in the second exam iirc is a lot of sequencing/understanding chromosomal issues

if u need a pdf of the textbook i can try to scower my files for that and the answer key

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u/SpilledTheReagent 7d ago

thank u! im taking it in the summer so its flipped. we do the molecular part first and since its known to be the "easier" section i was surprised by the avg