should i take lec and lab together?

[whosereality]

is it better to take lecture and lab courses during the same semester/quarter? or lec first then lab? or does it not make a difference at all?

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[CaMD]

It's good to do them together so the material from each reinforce each other.
If you have to do them separately I'd do lecture and then lab.

 

[notJERRYFALWELL]

I don't understand why you wouldn't take them together if you had a choice. I took gen chem II lab after lecture because of schedule conflicts, and it was really annoying. Get them both overwith, I say.

 

[Domitian]

A friend and I both ended up taking orgo II lab a year after we took the lecture. Man, we set some speed records... while others floundered about, we were in the fast lane. We once finished a 3 hour lab in 37 minutes. 😀 "Boil, DAMN YOU, boil!" Good times.

 

[whosereality]

i originally thought that you had to take them together. but then i noticed that some students took the lec during one quarter then the lab during the next. so i was just wondering if there were any advantages to taking them one after the other.

 

[ambrosia]

Personally, I've done better when I've taken the lab later, that way I'm really solid on the material. It's really just a matter of preference though.

 

[Sage880]

Take the lab during - all the studying you do during the year for the lab really helps you for the course at the end of the year I found.

 

[whosereality]

bump! any more inputs?

 

[aparecida]

It really depends on the course. For bio, physics, and gen chem, I found that the lectures and labs were concurrent and each really reinforced the other. I would definitely recommend taking these together. For orgo, though, at my school, the labs and lectures have zilch to do with each other and for some reason, the labs are *ahead* of the lectures. So I made sure to take one semester of lecture before I started the labs, and frankly I wish I could've had both semesters of lecture first.