Anyone taken BIO201 through Rio Salado?

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Hello,

I have one week before BIO201 final exam and I am extremely stressed out. I was wondering if anyone on this site had taken this course online recently and could give me some tips as to what to expect on the final exam.

I would also love to have a study-buddy if anyone is interested.

Thanks,

Nathalie

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I've noticed that many people have taken this class online, and I think that there are some areas on it. Try a search in this forum. Good luck! I just finished BIO 205 (Microbiology) through Rio Salado. I know how you feel!

CrazyPremed

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I just finished taking my BIO202 test and the best advice I was given was to study and know the lesson objectives. If you go through each of those and know them and understand them, you'll have no problems. Most of the identifying pictures were pretty standard, nothing too hard. Also, make sure you can answer EVERY essay question in each section, not just the ones that were given as summarize your learning homework. This will help in the essay department and it will also help with some of the questions asked on the test.

The important thing is to just take it a step at a time. One chapter at a time. You'll do great, it's really not as hard as you're probably thinking it will be. Everyone I've talked to (including me) has absolutely stressed over the final and then when they get in there it's not too bad, just like the midterm was.

Good luck, and if you have any other ?'s just pm me.

Keli

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I've noticed that many people have taken this class online, and I think that there are some areas on it. Try a search in this forum. Good luck! I just finished BIO 205 (Microbiology) through Rio Salado. I know how you feel!

CrazyPremed

Thanks for the advice. I will do a search and see what I can find.\

Nat

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I just finished taking my BIO202 test and the best advice I was given was to study and know the lesson objectives. If you go through each of those and know them and understand them, you'll have no problems. Most of the identifying pictures were pretty standard, nothing too hard. Also, make sure you can answer EVERY essay question in each section, not just the ones that were given as summarize your learning homework. This will help in the essay department and it will also help with some of the questions asked on the test.

The important thing is to just take it a step at a time. One chapter at a time. You'll do great, it's really not as hard as you're probably thinking it will be. Everyone I've talked to (including me) has absolutely stressed over the final and then when they get in there it's not too bad, just like the midterm was.

Good luck, and if you have any other ?'s just pm me.

Keli

Thanks Keli that sounds like a good plan. From my experience with the midterm I do understand how important it is to know at least something about the 4 essays. I will try my best!

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I took it in the spring semester. I agree with the poster that said know the lesson objectives. I also did all the notes for each chapter. I remember stressing so much about all the insertions and origins, but during the test I was only asked like two, and they were easy ones like masseter or rectus femoris, stuff like that. Focus more on the main muscles and know the names. I also did all the essays, I didn't write all the essays that weren't due, but I took notes for them and studied them so I would be able to put it in essay format if they were asked.

All in all it was not too bad! Definitely not as bad as I thought it would be. I actually thought the bio156 was a harder class because I was not familiar with biology at all, and bio201 was just way more interesting.

Rebecca

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I just finished BIO 201 a couple weeks ago and my only advice is don't just study what's on the study guide (if your prof gave you one). The study guide I got was very vague and didn't help me too much. The 4 essay questions are pretty easy though as long as you did all the ones that were assigned. Hope that helps a little. I just started BIO 202 and I have a much harder prof this time so if anyone has any tips for me or has taken it recently, I'd love to hear from you! :)

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I just finished BIO 201 a couple weeks ago and my only advice is don't just study what's on the study guide (if your prof gave you one). The study guide I got was very vague and didn't help me too much. The 4 essay questions are pretty easy though as long as you did all the ones that were assigned. Hope that helps a little. I just started BIO 202 and I have a much harder prof this time so if anyone has any tips for me or has taken it recently, I'd love to hear from you! :)

Thanks for the tips. The study guide I got is very vague as well and I am not really going by it. Are you saying that the essay questions on your final were exactly the same as the ones your prof assigned with the labs? Or are you talking about all the "summarizing your learning" essay questions? I know that for the midterm, I came across two questions that were the same as the ones the prof assigned with the labs.

Good luck with BIO202. I think that I am going to take it at PVCC next semester, not online this time. I am taking BIO205 this fall at Gateway.

Nat

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Thanks for the tips. The study guide I got is very vague as well and I am not really going by it. Are you saying that the essay questions on your final were exactly the same as the ones your prof assigned with the labs? Or are you talking about all the "summarizing your learning" essay questions? I know that for the midterm, I came across two questions that were the same as the ones the prof assigned with the labs.

Good luck with BIO202. I think that I am going to take it at PVCC next semester, not online this time. I am taking BIO205 this fall at Gateway.

Nat

Nat,

Good luck with BIO 205...I'll be taking that in the spring. :) On the final, there were 4 essay questions. Two of them were ones we had been assigned with the labs and the other two were straight out of the summarizing your learning in the book. I think our midterm was that way too. I'm sure that they change the essays they use on the tests from class to class, but the one on my final that I totally blanked on was about the function of the cerebellum...oops! Good luck to you!

Meg

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One trick I use for the exams is to "triage" the knowledge so to speak. The study guide will tell you exactly how many questions will be lab (pictures) versus actual questions. So say there are 10 actual questions for muscles - in addition to lab pictures. Is it really worth memorizing all of the origins and insertions? I will make it a point to read (not memorize) the i/o(s) for the major muscles (bicep femoris) and forget the minor ones (i/o(s) for the rectus abdominus). Yes, everything is important, but who has the time? It is simply not worth the time to memorize every i/o when the probability of there being more than one-two questions (worth one point each) is quite low. So in general - if the information is contained in a huge complicated chart in the text it is usually worth reading it once or twice, quickly, and then moving on.

I usually memorize all the essays, though, because they are usually a great review of concepts that are almost certain to appear as multiple choice questions.

All exam essays come from the SYL, not the labs. At least that has been my experience in Bio 156, Bio 160, Bio 201, Bio 202.

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Is there much difference between BIO 160 and 201/202?? I notice they use the same text book... so they must cover the same material, right? I am about to finish 160 and am curious if taking 201 and 202 is worth it (used to be pre-nursing student, switched to biochem as a pre-med student so 201/202 are no longer requirements... neither was 160 though)

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