For Medical Biochemistry Chem 1005, below I have my thoughts on the latter half of the course. See my previous post for the first half of the course which I posted on this thread:
Just finished the final for the class and got a 45/50 on the final. Took it with Dr. Morris but it doesn't matter who you take it with because the lectures are all the same by the same teacher. A buddy of mine took it a year before with another teacher and I showed him my blackboard and he said everything was the same. I took the full 16 weeks to complete the course, but not due to the difficulty but just no desire to push through quickly. You could easily get through this course in 8-10 weeks, and if you were an overachiever you could bust this out in 5-6 weeks if you have no other/minimal obligations, but it will be mentally taxing.
Overall got an A in the class and I feel it wasn't easy but it also was not extremely difficult. Compared to Ochem and Physics (I did not take these two through UNE) this class was a walk in the park. Unit 3 and 4 build off of unit 1 and 2, moreso unit 2 as it works off of the pentose phosphate pathway, gluconeogenesis, glycolysis and other connections. Just like my Unit 1 and 2, I did not thoroughly study the units 3 and 4 as I went through them. Each unit requires a Case Connection which gives you four scenarios with biochemistry related to the unit and you have to pick two to answer in depth. Each unit also requires a "pathway response" where you pose a question to the class related to the unit readings, and also answer two other classmates questions. I got A's on all my assignments because I did thorough work, my lowest score on any of these was a 90%. I find you can get through a pathway response and case connection both in about 4 hours. The end of the unit tests are not bad because you can check your answer online, but the midterm and final which are worth 40% of the grade are proctored through proctor U.
Unit 1 and 2 as you'll see in my previous post are a grind, especially unit 1 because its a new class, new information, and you have no idea what's important and the textbook sucks camel d***s. The textbook covers wayyyy more crap than you need to know and its important TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE STUDY GUIDE AND LECTURE VIDEOS! Unit 3 and 4 are much more doable because it builds off of the first 2 units and you now know what to expect.
Now before where I said "TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE STUDY GUIDE AND LECTURE VIDEOS" is so crucial and here's why. I hated the textbook so much (and I read everything for unit 1 and 2) that I did not read A SINGLE CHAPTER for Unit 3 and 4 and yet I still got a 45/50 on the final and an A in the class. After I took the midterm, I realized that the lecture video with the study guide and AK Lectures covered everything I needed to know for the exams. Studying for the final, I popped the book open once to check a question I had about gluconeogensis from Unit 2, but that was it.
If you have any other questions about the course please feel free to comment or DM
