Readings considered part of lecture material? (1 Viewer)

[FeelBare]

Title! I know readings are meant to complement the material presented in the lectures but the thing is the BIOC2101 lecturer gave us readings that were quite different to what was taught in the lecture. For any of you doing BIOC2101 out there, in Lecture 2 he was talking about protein structure but the reading was about purification of proteins using dialysis and gel filtration chromatography, etc...

...now this guy on WebCT is saying that reading is part of lectures. Would you consider unrelated-to-lecture readings lecture materials? (Or is this guy just being a cunt.)

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[Rekkusu]

Make sure that in regards to your "referred reading" that its referring to exact same version as the textbook you've bought.

BIOC2101 is always keen in using old editions of textbooks in their reading or references.

From the sounds of it, it looks like you've just completed a lecture with Professor Wilkins or Dr. Galea. If it's Wilkins, you primarily just need to know the Protein structure (i.e. has a Carboxylic end, CH3 end, bla bla bla).

Gas Chromatography will become relevant to you, when you do the Practicals (This one is done either at the start or near the end of the labs (i.e. Week 10-11), so background reading is recommended,but not essential.

You won't have time to do extra reading, only read what's in the lecture notes.

Lol and who is this "Guy" you are referring to?

 

[ichiraku]

Hey, do you by any chance use an older version of Stryer Biochemistry because I know in one of the older versions the set readings don't match the lecture material taught. e.g. as you were saying above with regards to dialysis and all that crap. Sometimes, you should just go back a chapter and the content will match up with the lecture material. Can't help you if you use Voet though... a lot of my friends have been having trouble with that textbook as well.

I think you should genually cover the textbook material if you get shitty lecture notes or the lecturer is crap. I pretty much just look through my textbook whenever I find the lecture notes are a bit lacking and I'll skip all the irrelevant stuff in the txtbook when it comes up. I did do all the readings for the lectures up till now though and honestly pretty much everything that is covered in the book was also mentioned in the lecture. I didn't do it for first year though (mostly cause the tetxtbook content was shit boring to read) and still did well in the exams.

Anyway, g'luck in the quiz tomorrow =) You'll probably be fine just looking at the lecture notes. I mean it's only 2 weeks worth of stuff...can't be too much they can test us on.

 

[FeelBare]

Rekkusu: We've got this Asian guy by the name of Robert Yang lecturing about metabolism now and he's pretty competent at reading lecture slides to us (we all sit in darkness in the lecture theatres because he has failed to discover the dimming [?] light knob thing). And the guy is *gasp*. Thanks so much for your input; always so fast to reply *tear*.

ichiraku: I got the newest edition of Stryer and yeah doing back-a-chapter does works <_< thanks for the tip hahaha. Thanks for your help too^^

 

[Rekkusu]

Aww don't worry too much, you'll be fine!

If it sort of helps you I could bring in my BIOC2101 past quiz papers...if I have time this semester (Getting so frantic in 3rd year fudging crazy)

@Ichi: No lol all of us Biochem students do not use the old version, nor is it sold second-hand alot, because by 3rd year you'll be referring to alot of 2nd year books. Trust me the Biochemistry stuff does come in handy. It forms the basis of understanding other biological concepts. Just like Multiplication later forms your Sin theta crap.

@Feelbare: Rofl! This guy cannot teach! For metabolism I remember now, we got Mike Edwards to do it (Awesome guy really!!!) and the concepts got to us really well.

If you find lighting to be a problem I'd keep bothering Robert to call the IT line (Every lecture room has a phone which allows them to call IT service to help them with anything) and they will take care of air-conditioning, lighting or PC issues.

It's unfortunate yes you do get incompetent lecturers once in a while, textbooks are the way. But I'd encourage you to study primarily the lecture notes, because that's what you're examined on. Not the textbook, unless if they've explicitly told you to do so.