anyone take organic and bio together?

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The way my schedule is it looks like i'm gonna have to take them both. I was told it was a no-no to take these two classes together because there's a lot of memorization involved. Is there any merit to this?
 
Lower division bio should be super easy. I don't see any problem with taking them together.
 
i've done it. took physics that quarter, too.
just depends on how much you like science, i guess. 😀
 
As lonf as your bio class doesnt have much zool stuff to memorize you should be fine. I took a zool class and would have absolutely hated to take it along with organic. That was an evil class. The year after I took it they decided to no longer make it a required class....figures. 😡
Overall, I think my worst semester was when I was taking organic, physics, anal chem, and micro all at the same time! I would NEVER recommend doing that to anyone! lol
 
spread out the science classes!!!! there is no need to take them all at once, because you will just do worse. take it one class at a time and your life will be better and you will do better in the classes!
 
I took them both at the same time. I had decided to lighten up the rest of my schedule though to free up enough study time. I didnt think it was too bad and I wasnt adversely affected. Just stay disciplined and focused. It isnt easy but certainly doable.
 
I just completed Orgo, Bio (into) and Phys at once. The first two together should be no problem.

Good luck and stay focused it'll work out.
 
i'm assuming you're not a Bio major, because you'd obviously be taking those two together regardless. I'm a bio major and I did it with no problem at all, and so did all the other 500 bio majors (although I'm not too sure about their grades).
 
it depends on your school, so asking people here wont really help. lots of premeds will tell you that bio is the easiest of the 4 requirements, at my school it is far and away the most difficult. taking bio and orgo together is simply not possible - it works out to at least 1 exam per week, sometimes two - and that's just two classes. if everyone at your school tells you it's easy, then do it - if their face goes pale, then dont.

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i agree that it definitely depends on the school. at my undergrad bio majors were expected to take both orgo and bio at the same time, and bio was, in my opinion, the most difficult of the pre-med requirements at my school. it weeded out a LOT of people. i nearly jumped in lake michigan that year i was so stressed out and depressed--the workload was incredible and the exams were extremely tough and frequent. if i didn't have to do it that way i wouldn't have in a heartbeat. so i agree that you should ask around to see how feasible this might be at your particular school.
 
I'm a bio major, so I always had to take bio with another science class. I took Orgo and bio together plus studied for the MCAT last year. I did great in my classes and on the MCAT. So, it is manageable. Good luck.
 
Just do it, work hard, and get used to it. I took parasitology with organic 2 and physics. With organic 1, I think I had cell biology. It isn't bad as long as you manage your time well. Just think, in medical school, you'll have a schedule a lot worse than that so you may as well try it out now and make sure you can handle it.
 
I did it and it isin't too bad. I guess it depends on your school. Most people in my school did it at the same time, so it wasn't really an issue. It also opens up your other semesters for other electives. go for it.
 
I think so long as you don't take organic, physics, and cell bio at the same time, you should be fine 🙂
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Completey doable, as long as you set aside enough time to study. At Berkeley I took them together both semesters. The semester I got 2 A's I studied consistantly about 2.5 hours a day for them combined. The semester I got 2 B+'s I studied in spurts, and averages about 2/3 the hours of the previous semester.
 
O Chem is easy, there isn't that much memorization.
 
What?! Orgo is not easy and there're tons of memorization!!!

But, with discipline, you can do both bio and orgo together. Definitely make the rest of your courseload easy. Also, make certain that the bio and orgo finals are at least two days apart. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend taking both.
 
fall 2001: bioI, orgoI, physI; spring 2002:bioII, orgoII, physII + MCAT.
 
Orgo is a lot more simple if you dont think of it as a lot of memorization. Its more about practice - do lots of problems, and try to understand the mechanisms and reagents. If you understand the mechanisms, you can group a large amount of problems together and infer the results of new reactions, instead of trying to memorize each individual reaction.
 
i still maintain, in agreement with bald, that it *really* depends on what these particular courses are like at your particular school, so none of us here can really help you out that much. it's not an issue necessarily of being able to handle more than one science course at a time nor is it necessarily indicative of your ability to handle med school. there isn't as much of a weed-out mentality in med school, where you're pretty much on your own to set your own pace regarding how much you want to learn (since most med schools are pass/fail). it's more about how demanding these particular courses are at your college and how well you will be able to do grade-wise taking both simultaneously, because the bottom line is that you need to do well in these two courses. i took physics along with two upper-level biology courses plus a reading-intensive literature course every quarter for an entire year and still found that schedule to be considerably less demanding than my orgo/bio year. so ask around at your school and see how other people handle it. sure, people get through it if they have to, but you need to ensure that you get it done grade-wise.
 
at my undergrad, I had to take both of them together for a whole year. So don't sweat it. I think it is common to take O-Chem with Bio-Chem since they complement each other so well. It just means you are gonna have to study harder.
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by RLMD:
•Orgo is a lot more simple if you dont think of it as a lot of memorization. Its more about practice - do lots of problems, and try to understand the mechanisms and reagents. If you understand the mechanisms, you can group a large amount of problems together and infer the results of new reactions, instead of trying to memorize each individual reaction.•••••Organic is definitely not memorization. I tried that the FIRST time I took it and did terrible. My professor would constantly throw in things we hadn't seen and didn't know how to answer. The SECOND time I took it, I understood what was going on. You learn HOW things react and why and it makes it so much easier. It also makes mechanisms a lot easier to do, you reason through them.
 
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