Overloading at Uni?

[Russ]

I think not going to lectures makes you spend even more time reading over your lecture notes, which sucks even more if your course has bad notes.

I tend to pick subects where the lecture content is pretty irrelevant to the assessment (creative writing, HPS, etc). It's a nice fringe benefit

[vexx]

Thanks for the more replies peoples.
Yeah i wouldn't want to miss tutorials and i will attempt to miss no lectures either! (this is in ages though heh)
i love planning ahead..

I can always drop it right and not suffer any negatives to my GPA?

Yes, but you need to withdraw before the "census" date, which is usually a few weeks into semester. It's to stop people dropping subjects at the end of semester, when it's obvious they'll fail. So if you withdraw early, no penalty, it gets removed from your academic record.

Also, if you're not doing biology at high school (are you?) I'd wait to see if you can cope with the increased study demands because of that.

oh awesome, i guess i'll see how things go for the first few weeks then!

What do you mean? I did Biology as a year 11 subject and did really well (and i know its only a year 11 but still), i loved it and i am so excited to study it again next year. I am highly doubtful it is going to a massively high demanding course for me since i will be enjoying it and doing work along the way well.. Hopefully i will enjoy it aha

[Russ]

^^

Did you do 3/4 or 1/2 in year 11?

It's because 1st year Biomed at UoM is essentially just cramming a year of VCE biology + extra stuff into two subjects, one per semester. They don't have it as a prereq, which means that all of VCE bio needs to be taught. So people like me, who hadn't done biology at all had to do a lot of extra work just to get to the same level as everyone else. It's perfectly doable, I got good marks in biology (plus realised genetics was definitely where I wanted to be) but it took extra effort that would have made overloading extremely hard.

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I think not going to lectures makes you spend even more time reading over your lecture notes, which sucks even more if your course has bad notes.

I tend to pick subects where the lecture content is pretty irrelevant to the assessment (creative writing, HPS, etc). It's a nice fringe benefit

ah true, true

[vexx]

^^

Did you do 3/4 or 1/2 in year 11?

It's because 1st year Biomed at UoM is essentially just cramming a year of VCE biology + extra stuff into two subjects, one per semester. They don't have it as a prereq, which means that all of VCE bio needs to be taught. So people like me, who hadn't done biology at all had to do a lot of extra work just to get to the same level as everyone else. It's perfectly doable, I got good marks in biology (plus realised genetics was definitely where I wanted to be) but it took extra effort that would have made overloading extremely hard.

just 1/2. so i have good knowledge from that basic level, and i will definitely put in the work to do well as i find bio very interesting. i already know quite a few things in the unit 3 course that i learnt over summer into year 12 when i thought i was doing bio about the most important topics, hopefully this gives me a little booster.

uni- so, so exciting!