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.

Coming from a person who didn't do any ATAR bio, it was definitely a larger workload than expected. Even though they make up a small percent of your grade, pretty much the entire course is taught from the textbook. The Textbook readings are really long and tedious, and lectures can sometimes be hardly relevant. Would recommend keeping track of each TBR with notes, and use a 'bio vocab' list for those who haven't studied bio in a while. Unit management with that many students makes the online forum quite messy, and we were given vague and inconclusive data for the major report.

This unit is not suitable for online learning as valuable lab work was missed. We had to write reports on experiments based on videos and pics. The whole unit was unorganized and based on a book rather than teaching content written by lecturers which is lazy. The TBR's in the book were hell! They were way way too long to the point where u stopping learning anything because u just wanted it over. The exam was also based on this book so u had to endure it. Reports were harshly marked, most are in their first semester but we were expected to know how to do reports. No support or instruction. I had no idea what we were meant to do in regards to the data, there was just absolutely no instruction whatsoever. This unit needs to ditch the book nd not run it until classes resume in person. I don't recommend this unit its horrible. You have to have studied biology before or u will be lost completely as it's heavily content rich and there's so much to remember u feel your brain will explode.

This unit is ridiculous. It's a low scoring unit due to the harsh marking of reports but they don't provide specific enough instructions for them so when you look at the feedback it is not enough for you to improve just a vague "more needed" (when the word count is low so it's not really possible) or "yes but we wanted this" (which wasn't told to you in the briefings). Maybe its better when you actually get to do the labs yourself but honestly the reports felt ridiculous to write and kinda irrelevant to the lecture topics. The TBRs seem to be lazy unit management, they take too long for what you get out of them, which is not much. It would be better to do an hour long LMS quiz if they could be bothered to actually write questions themselves. The timing and organisation of everything in this unit felt off, from due dates for quizzes and reports to the layout of and navigation on LMS, which was critical for online learning to being able to view scores and feedback. Would not recommend unless you have to for your degree.