50% final exam, 40% for 4 labs, 5% for a notebook and 5% for prelabs. The content is super interesting and useful! I loved it! I learnt some useful excel skills and some actually useful report writing skills. Peter, the UC literally cannot shut up! each lab has a following tutorial. Unfortunately, we all get different teachers for the tutes. Most of them I have been told are great and finish the tutes in 30-minutes to an hour. Peter always takes more than 2 hours long, and not because he teaches in depth, but because he gets distracted and starts talking about random BS like license plates, animal rights and can go on yapping for ever. I was legit suffering in his tutes and felt like I was about to faint from boredom. He also doesn't respond to mails unlike other tute demonstrators so if you have any questions, you are on your own. The marking of the lab worksheets isn't standardised between tutes so your luck may vary. Peter marks really weirdly an in a way that is far too subjective for a science unit. The lectures are pre-recorded and some of them are pretty poorly taught if you do not have the right background. The prelab notebook is easy and almost everyone got full marks (in fact, in my tute group, the lowest lab notebook grade was 4.5/5). Unlike former years, only 2 questions were recycled in the final exam and both were MCQs. The exam is a split of MCQs and SAQs. Despite not recycling questions, I feel it was a fair exam. Peter's lectures (he does about 75% of lectures in the unit) are filled with spelling errors and his announcemenrs are too. Overall, I would say it has the potential to be a 4 star unit if you get a demonstrator who is not Peter. My friends told me some really great things about the other demonstrators. I reccomend this unit only if you demonstrator isn't Peter and if you did scie1106 before even though it isn't a pre-requisite.

Great unit and super interesting as well. All the lecturers do an incredible job at explaining the concepts and make it very easy for the students to follow along. My only complaint for this unit was the incredibly repetitive nature for all the lectures/labs. I felt like I was repeating the same experiments for the labs and learning the same concepts for majority of the lectures, which I guess some can say helped make the unit seem 'easier'. The assessments were not so bad. For the pre-lab quizzes and lab reports, I'd recommend staying up-to-date and asking for help when needed. None of the worksheets were too difficult, but asking questions and watching the relevant excel videos to create the graphs, made it a lot more easier to do well. The final exam was closed book but very straightforward and fairly simple (it even included some questions from the previous practice papers). Tutorials were are great place to go over the lab reports, consolidate lecture material and ask tutors questions. Isaac was an amazing tutor, incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful as well. Overall, this unit is very easy to do well in and fairly interesting too. Just by staying up-to-date and asking questions, I think a D/HD is very possible.

Unit was pretty easy. Unlike the previous review, I found the lab worksheets were very easy and it was obvious what they expected us to do (I managed to get 100% in 3 of the lab reports and 90% on the other). Tom was an awesome tutor and gave good feedback on the lab worksheets. I felt like I didn’t learn much in this unit in terms of receptors/action potentials etc. It felt like a slightly harder version of ATAR in terms of action potentials with a little mix of CHEM1001 and equilibrium ideas. The calcs were pretty easy and involved manipulating formulas. The exam was not that similar to previous exams and I thought it was slightly harder than expected. Overall easy unit and I’m excited for level 3 PHYL units.

This unit provides adequate depth and breadth for a Phyl/Neuro major. Content requires a bit of work, consolidation and comprehension to do well. Format of the unit is pre lab quizzes, lab worksheets, and a final exam. Lab worksheets involve a lot of excel stats so maybe get acquainted with excel or else you will struggle. Worksheets were graded pretty harshly, and took a while for marks to be released. Labs are pretty fun but do get the right lab partners.Though past year papers help with answering final exam questions well, do make sure you understand the content well, because the % of questions repeated from past year papers were on the lower side (at least for this year). Do your tute practice questions and study early, you'll be alright!

Unit content was easy to grasp. Make sure to understand each topic/weekly content before moving on or it would be hard to gather all info in the end of the semester. Lab reports were doable and easy if you pay attention in lab work and tutorials and seeking for help. However, lab report marking may be quite silly as they take marks off something like forgetting to remove graph backgrounds or smtg. Lab reports were easy to end with a HD. Exam was fair and draw questions from previous exam. (i never did phyl2001 and this unit was still ok)

I found the content a bit less enjoyable than 2001, as it involved a lot of repetitive concepts about currents and action potentials that were frankly quite dry to get through. The lab reports were also slightly more difficult to compensate for no oral presentation (paragraph answers, more graphs, referencing) but overall not that hard to get decent marks in with some effort. The exam was quite fair and had lots of repeated questions from the past papers.

I found this unit stressful. The unit coordinator took weeks to reply (if he replied at all) and lectures were often also uploaded late. I found the marking for the lab reports to be very vague and your marks really depended on the tutor you had. The pre-lab quizzes, whilst only worth 1% each, were quite stressful as the questions were very subjective!! The content was not as interesting as PHYL2001 but still relatively easy to get your head around. I found the exam to be very fair! Overall, I agree with other reviewers that whilst the organization of the unit was terrible it is still doable!

PHYL2001 was a fun unit but this unit, on the other hand, was quite stressful. Lectures weren't always uploaded on time, and when it was uploaded we would be a week behind which caused issues in the tutorial classes so those classes weren't as useful. The lab report marks at the start appeared to depend on which tutor you got, but the variation from tutor to tutor appeared to improve as the semester progressed. Compared to 2001, they are harsher with marking, but they provided good feedback to help improve and it isn't impossible to achieve 80%+ in them. The labs themselves were interesting and enjoyable. Chris, one of the tutors/demonstrators, made the unit far more enjoyable for me. The lab books themselves are worth 5% and it quite easy to get full marks on that. Pre labs are quite straightforward and easy to get 80%+ on. Otherwise, the exam was tough, but it draws on questions from previous exams and covers the unit content well, so a good mark is quite achievable as long as you study it frequently. Random info for anyone interested: 2 one-hour-long lectures/week; 1 lab every fortnight (lasts up to 3 hours); 1 tutorial alternates with the labs (1 week lab, 1 week tutorial) and lasts 1.5 hours. Total of 5 labs (4 are marked, 5th was optional if you want to improve lab 1 mark). Each worth 10%. There are 5 marked pre labs - 1% each. The exam is 50% of total mark. I believe this unit was tarnished by its execution, but it has been a tough unit for everyone including the lecturers, unit-coordinators and tutors/demonstrators, so there is a good chance it will be better next year.

Content was interesting, final exam was well-correlated to the unit content and similar to practice exams. Lecturers assumed a lot of knowledge but were still enjoyable to listen to.Lab reports were marked a lot more harshly than 2001, but overall a good unit.

The unit content is really good. The course is well structured. The assessments are absolute garbage. Lab reports where you lose marks for dumb sh*t make up a large proportion of your mark. They don't test physiology, just your ability to use Excel/make diagrams on a computer. When you get your lab report marks back you will know how stupid the marking system is. The final exam was good if you learnt the content well and regularly. Cramming this unit is a challenge.