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Less compulsory and more optional modules. Learning things that we aren't interested in could be so boring

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formative blackboard quizzes, especially before exams

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i think in terms of work load it is not as intense as A levels. You don't have to beat yourself up trying to do absolutely every optional bit of work and not missing any lectures because uni is a big social adjustment and you can definitely cut yourself some slack. Having said that, don't just leave all your work for exams till the last minute as that will only stress you out more

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go over lectures at least briefly each day

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The mixing of the labs was a good way to branch out. The socials were good but I think there should have been more

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I think the course content was great in general, but the phys pharm module did feel noticeably more difficult. The concepts were not necessarily harder, it was more so in the fact that there is just so much content to memorise.

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I thought that Lt was a great platform has it provided all the relevant background information. I do think that the practicals themselves were quite repetitive, especially the ones involving the PCR. I enjoyed the rat brain labs the most where we had to design our hypothesis and carry out our own staining, and I liked that for the summative lab report I had to do a lot of research on areas I hadn't looked into much before. I think the 3 week project for the formative lab report was definitely the least interesting as all the concepts were basic and we had done similar experiments where you record your heart rate since the beginning of secondary school and it would have been nice to do something more complex.

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I liked when lectures set check your knowledge questions for each lecture. Found them helpful in getting a bit more perspective on the depth and breadth of what I was expected to know and what wasn’t as important as I though. It helped aliveate stress when there was a lot of content

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Be kind to yourself as uni a big adjustment

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I appreciated having practise at essays and lab reports before having to do summative ones. However this did also mean that the summative essays and reports coincided around exam periods which added to stress and made it hard to prioritise work

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Phys pharm module had a challenging volume of content which was added to by frequent flipped lectures, making it very hard to keep up with.

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flipped lectures (particularly for physpharm) were quite stressed up as it just added so much content to the already big module and they were really stressful

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Phys pharm module had way too much content in total had 34 lectures with flipped lectures, and each lecture required at least an hour more time to go over than qll of my other modules

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Lt had too much information it became hard to follow, there was no explanation to how to do log graphs so it was difficult to understand how to do so

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Active learning sessions were so helpful! However some lectures had too much content it felt almost impossible to keep up with it during the lecture even with making notes on the lecture before the lecture began

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Talking over things really fast especially when the content is hard can happen in some lectures

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Presentations - I don't feel they are as necessary now as more things happen online even in the workplace. I understand it is a useful skill but for some people it would be much more efficient to test understanding in a different way. I also think that very few people enjoy them.

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Better organizing the lectures in schedule. Avoid huge gaps between lectures (e.g. 10am + 4pm)

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Can be stressful having so many deadlines at once, and is hard to manage time during that period, especially since tutorials often happen around this point and these sometimes require additional work to do beforehand

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Assumptions on  students previous understanding or knowledge

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Make more friends at uni

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get involved with more societies etc

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for the biochemistry module, offer extra material to students who didn't do a level chemistry so they can catch up first

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Do less work more regularly instead of cramming

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introducing techniques for answering SAQs (how to hit the point)

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Maybe recommend revision websites etc, or general information pages, as a lot of information in articles could be hard to understand/not really relevant

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Go over lectures earlier rather than revising everything before exams 

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Go over lectures earlier rather than revising everything before exams 

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Take notes differently so it is easier to organise and look back on, and easier to catch up on

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Lectures, especially neuroscience, keep content interesting and try to ensure people understand the content. Active learning sessions have been helpful.

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tutorials

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More practice MCQs throughout the year would be helpful.

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formative quizzes on blackboard so we can check our understandings

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Do more outside of the course - societies, etc.

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Make more notes throughout the year instead of leaving things until the last minute.

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figure out how to better write and organise notes, and also start revising earlier

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be yourself and you'll meet the right people for you

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Lecturers teaching optional modules should remember that not all students are from their home unit and do not have all the background knowledge of that course.

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It looked like I would have to leave the course at one point due to how unwell I was. I continued knowing that there is good support in place for next time it happens.

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The mentor is not very helpful. Only sending a few messages throughout the whole year

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found my friends on Facebook before we joined in September and have got closer ever since - defo makes a difference knowing people on the first few days to do things with!

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As long as you keep on top of work ie. going over your lectures at the weekend, keeping up with notes, you'll be alright. Don't worry the jump into first year from school is about adapting to uni life, not as much uni work in my opinion

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especially early on in the year everyone is in the same position and is shy and wants to make friends, be friendly and talk to as many people as you can

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don't compare yourself to others everyone works at different paces

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Int'l students are sometimes alienated

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I personally have not had the best experience getting support from my tutor - the first time I went to them they didn't seem very supportive of mental health and it put me off going back to them even when I really needed support

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meet up with tutorial group before or after tutorials to get to know them better

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Chat to the people around you before/after lectures and labs

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The easiest time to make friends (in my opinion) is in the first few weeks of the course - remember, hardly anyone knows each other so people really appreciate someone just saying hi 

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The easiest time to make friends (in my opinion) is in the first few weeks of the course - remember, hardly anyone knows each other so people really appreciate someone just saying hi 

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join societies and go on socials

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Societies and clubs helped tons!

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difficult to make friends as a mature student

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Ngl, Im more used to regular smaller groups- harder to i guess get to know people in a big ol lecture theatre

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Ngl, Im more used to regular smaller groups- harder to i guess get to know people in a big ol lecture theatre

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Joining clubs and societies

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Lectures are a good place to meet people, especially for students who have to commute

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join societies to extend your friendship circle and feel like you belong at the uni

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DDSS were very useful at the beginning of the year. My personal tutor has made what has been a difficult year personally much easier to cope with in terms of remaining engaged with the course.

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Don't get too overwhelmed everything will get done some days are more than others

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RLF for writing, incredibly useful! Second pair of eyes to look over essays/ reports and spot grammar mistakes and help make my writing ‘flow’

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make the most of uni life and get involved with lots of things! work-life balance is key

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tutors are really nice but it would be better if there is revision session together for some of the tutorials

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tutors are really nice but it would be better if there is revision session together for some of the tutorials

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the lab tutor has very detailed instructions, but feel like some of the labs are too hard and its better to have some briefing session before

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the lab tutor has very detailed instructions, but feel like some of the labs are too hard and its better to have some briefing session before

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Not much face to face contact with tutors

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some of the practicals didn't seem overly relevant, or were quite hard to follow

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for some modules (particularly BMS11003), the content that needed covering per lecture was far too much

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Quite difficult to manage time and feel confident about knowing all content to do well in exams

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Jumping from very structured school to very hands-off uni was difficult even with the time management session (which was pretty late in the year). Managing time in terms of lecture prep was especially difficult because sometimes slides didn't go up on time and threw everything off. Self guided work was also and adjustment on top of learning how to approach lectures and content learning.

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Jumping from very structured school to very hands-off uni was difficult even with the time management session (which was pretty late in the year). Managing time in terms of lecture prep was especially difficult because sometimes slides didn't go up on time and threw everything off. Self guided work was also and adjustment on top of learning how to approach lectures and content learning.

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Even though A level Biology is not a requirement for this course a lot of the content assumes that level of Biology is already known by the student

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sometimes the pre labs don't fully explain the purpose of why we are doing the practical so doing the practical can be confusing as we are just following instructions and don't know why we are doing certain things

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workload was often quite overwhelming and stressful

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Try to keep on top of the timetable

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The group projects in the practical was valuable experience at planning and running our own experiment

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The group projects in the practical was valuable experience at planning and running our own experiment

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A few times in the first set of students doing the practical there have been scenarios where the students helping out have not understood the content themselves and given incorrect guidance

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Particularly at the start of the year, there were a few Prelabs that were a little hard to follow/understand fully, making the session a little confusing

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Sometimes the Lt pages have loads of information on it and it is hard to figure out what parts are useful and what parts are background knowledge

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Fun and overall not too hard, the instructions were good and people there if we needed help

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Course content is interesting but sometimes overwhelming

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Sometimes difficult when you learn about the theory behind the practical in lectures after the practical has actually taken place. (i think it happened when learning about pcr)

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we sometimes completed practicals prior to having studied the lecture content (e.g. PCR) which I found a little bit confusing

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The formatting of the slides are vary a bit- i like doing my notes in the notes bit on powerpoint but some lectures upload their slides as pdf

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slides are sometimes not very informative and also lots of additional information was sometimes added which made it difficult to know what we actually needed to learn

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There is a lot of content especially in the phys pharm module and sometimes it feels overwhelming to try and learn and understand it all

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active learning session are useful, but it would be better if they uploaded model answers

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active learning session are useful, but it would be better if they uploaded model answers

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Great chance for more 1 to 1 communication, feels like a source to express any queries

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Sometimes the slides are not useful to look back on as it would just be a random image or a diagram with no labels

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The active learning session are useful but i think they would be useful if there were at the end of the module, giving us time to learn the content

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The active learning session are useful but i think they would be useful if there were at the end of the module, giving us time to learn the content

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The active learning sessions are very useful

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experiment with note taking methods at the start of the year

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Lecture recordings are beneficial, although there have been issues with the technology in the SU auditorium

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some of the modules and particularly some of the lectures seemed to have an incredibly uneven distribution of content - some of them had way too much and some of them didn't have enough. I also found it really difficult to keep up in the lectures with lots of content as the lecturer would be talking so fast in order to fit it all in - a lot of the time the lecturer would run over/out of time and additional videos would have to be made for us to watch which I found stressful

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Really informative on skills necessary for the course now and life post graduation

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Active learning sessions are useful, but not all modules had these

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Great way to consolidate content from lectures and put what we've learned into practice

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Generally very good, but sometimes the lecturer's spoke too fast making it difficult to take notes 

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Generally very good, but sometimes the lecturer's spoke too fast making it difficult to take notes 

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I have found the practicals very useful, and it’s been good to put the content we’ve been learning into practice

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some tutors are not very good at delivering tutorials or ensuring that they take place/are caught up on