This unit is hard for a level 1 if you didn't do any bio, human bio in high school. Being my pre-req I had to do it. Not very enjoyable just because it's poorly designed. Take SCIE1106 instead if you can.

As someone who did Y11 and Y12 Bio and Human Bio, I found this to be a decent unit. There are readings and questions assigned each week that can take 2-5 hours depending on how you learn/if you take notes or not. There are 4 modules/topics, and the lecturers in the first 3 modules do not cover all the testable content in their lectures, so I recommend you to do the assigned readings/questions for those first 3 modules at least. The 4 exams throughout the semester weren't too bad, however the first 2 exams were considerably harder than the last 2, so don't get discouraged if you don't do too well on the first 2 exams. The labs are alright and they usually don't run the full 3 hours that the timetable says they would. The final report is a pain to write. Make sure you have confirmed the aim of the experiment and how many hypothesis you need with the unit coordinator or your lab instructor before you start writing.

Good unit, yes labour intensive, but not too difficult. But my biggest complaint is that the lecture slides for the research forums take sometimes a week to upload. And if you take notes like me, then you will suffer having to wait so long for them.

Quite labour intensive. 3 hours of readings per week, 2 hours of lectures and 3 hour labs on select weeks. Good aspect is that there is no final exam. Bad part is that 40% of your grade comes from ONE lab report assignment, which is marked relatively harshly. Good unit for people going into broader biology, but the plant biology is nearly useless for any other biomed student.

The worst. They've changed this unit from previous semesters. Tips: ask unit coordinators on what to focus on for the exams. Unless you've had experience writing reports before, read some journals on Journal of Experimental Biology. Make a friend, do this unit with said friend. Unless you have no background in biology, don't even bother touching textbook quizzes. A waste of 2-3 hours and your brain cells. Make detailed research forum notes, because you'll want to maximise your exam scores as much as possible. Keep up with the textbook readings, and try doing this before lectures. They're not a lot and would take 15 minutes to complete. Take the report writing seriously, it's a big chunk of your unit grade. Pay attention during the lab and take notes on what the demonstrator says. Do not leave it to the last minute. Don't bother with the marking past papers practices, they're not useful. Communication is poor in this unit and you will most definitely feel frustrated. Good luck.

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Absolute torture of a unit! I tried to explain several times why this is, but instead I will provide a survival guide as to how to do well: read lots of reports on onesearch, learn how to use endnote, talk to your unit coordinators in person as to what they want you to memorise out of each lecture, take full notes on research forums (I mean everything, give yourself 3 hours to do this), read the text book readings as often as possible, take this unit very seriously (very easy to fall behind), ask someone who is doing the unit ahead of you to give you weekly reports and tips of what's going on so you don't make the same mistakes. Good luck. I really hope you make it.

Absolute joke of a unit. You spend 9+ hours reading and doing a 3 hours test that is worth 1%. But if you don't do this you will fail the exams worth 10%. The in person lectures were all just research forums that were not very useful and the only sort of lecture we got that covered the content was I short one that barely explained anything. The labs were alright. But the fact the a lab report is worth 50% of your grade is shit. And each exam was 10% but it was online and multiple choice. But you couldnt go back to any questions while taking the exam , and you never actually got to see the questions you go wrong so you have no real idea where you knowledge was lacking.

Felt as though the unit was poorly organised. Literally was not given enough info to do the lab reports and then the feedback was unhelpful and just passive aggressive. The weekly quizzes took so much time and had so much unnecessarily specific knowledge. Thank god the final exam was multi-choice. Did not enjoy this unit at all.

A lot of content. 3+ hour readings each week and the exam was mostly based off these readings. Lectures only covered the surface of the content. Big workload if you haven't done Biology ATAR, but only revision if you have. Great subject for wrote learners, not much understanding required, just memorisation of facts (personally found this difficult because I like to understand the content I learn). Tutorial teachers were helpful. Overall it was badly organised but this was probably due to COVID-19 restrictions. If you need a unit that's more hands on and not self-taught, probably go for ANHB1101. Also, no practice exams supplied. Textbook was supplied online though.