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In addition to the regular lecture class, you will also be in a Biology Lab (This is only 1 semester long so you may have it either 1st or 2nd semester). These twice a week classes will let you interact with what you’re learning in biology. It will be taught by a grad student TA -- there are about four bio lab TA’s and the classes are mostly TAMS students. Typically, your grade consists of prelab and postlab quizzes, a lab report, a group presentation, and 2 lab practicals. The difficulty of the quizzes and lab practicals will vary greatly depending on the TA. What I recommend is before class, and before the quiz, write down all the key terms that you should know and any other things, like results. Study those really well and you should be pretty set for the quizzes. The lab report sounds exceptionally daunting, but don’t worry, if you follow the rubric, you should do well. For the lab practicals, study at least a day before kind of like a big quiz. You should get all the vocab down in addition to all the experiments and the results. These are rather challenging, so be sure to prepare well and to do well on everything else to bump this up. Finally, there is the group presentation, and, like the lab report, make sure to follow the rubric. The classes are typically Tuesday and Thursday, 1-3:30pm or 3:30-6pm. If you’re unlucky, you might have 6-8:30pm labs.

In addition to the regular lecture class, you will also be in a Biology Lab (This is only 1 semester long so you may have it either 1st or 2nd semester). These twice a week classes will let you interact with what you’re learning in biology. It will be taught by a grad student TA -- there are about four bio lab TA’s and the classes are mostly TAMS students. Typically, your grade consists of prelab and postlab quizzes, a lab report, a group presentation, and 2 lab practicals. The difficulty of the quizzes and lab practicals will vary greatly depending on the TA. What I recommend is before class, and before the quiz, write down all the key terms that you should know and any other things, like results. Study those really well and you should be pretty set for the quizzes. The lab report sounds exceptionally daunting, but don’t worry, if you follow the rubric, you should do well. For the lab practicals, study at least a day before kind of like a big quiz. You should get all the vocab down in addition to all the experiments and the results. These are rather challenging, so be sure to prepare well and to do well on everything else to bump this up. Finally, there is the group presentation, and, like the lab report, make sure to follow the rubric. The classes are typically Tuesday and Thursday, 1-3:30pm or 3:30-6pm. If you’re unlucky, you might have 6-8:30pm labs.

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