CK402-Advice

Timbuck2 wrote: »

I'm currently in sixth year and I am considering CK402(Biological and Chemical Sciences). Biology is one of my favourite subjects, and one of my best.
I have some concerns about the course. I don't do Physics or Chemistry in school and I'm wondering if I will struggle with this course. I have a good work ethic, but too much stress is never a good thing. What are your thoughts ? Was anyone in the same position as me ?

All biology ultimately boils down to chemistry... if you really want to understand it properly, and if you like it for the right reasons. It'll be tough enough for 1st year if you don't have physics and chemistry. But you can drop them after that. For the 1st 2 yrs, you should really only study for the sake of exam results, as opposed to trying to understand it. I regretted not taking that approach and I sort of wore myself out... since the course content is so broad. For the sake of all the MCQs, you'll only need to do the bare minimum in each topic. But the lecturers being the way they are will often go into too much detail.

With CK402 no one really knows what they're going to end up specialising in until the final 2 years. With something like food science or genetics, u needn't worry about that. Therefore there's a certain amount of deliberation over choices, and worrying whether your grades are good enough to compete.

That's why I did biochem. What would have been better for me would have been to go into genetics, and then transferred over to biochem after 2 years.