April 29th Bioscience 1

Hi, Sorry I didn't publish a blog last week but I presume you can ask me any questions you want and can all catch up at the block course. You will note that I have put up the slide show of tissues I showed at the practical on Blackboard along with others on the cell and diffusion and osmosis I also thought might be useful.

As for the test, I was very pleased with the results. I had 9 people get above 75% and not have to take any resit. I sent their marked scripts out yesterday. Most of the rest have between 50 and 75% and I am trying to organise oral resits for you. Please look at your email as I have sent you one with details of the questions you need to look at again and possible times for me to talk to you. Please email me back with the best times for you and the phone number to get you at. It will only take about 15 mins and should be relatively painless. So just take the time to make sure you know the answers and please try not to stress about it! It is intended to be a less stressful way of doing resits than coming in and doing another written test. I shall keep hold of your scripts so I have them with me when I am talking to you.

This is the last week for Unit 3 on the tissues and integumental system as you should plan to move on to Unit 4 on the skeletal muscular system next Monday May 5th. I am hoping to have it up on Blackboard at the weekend. I see lots of you have had a look at and got good, if not full marks, on the unit 3 tissues and integumental system quiz. It will be open until Monday May 12th so make sure you get those 2 marks by doing it before then.

Best wishes, Ruth

April 14th

Great to work with all you guys last Monday and to see how enthusiastic you are and how much work lots of you have been putting into Bioscience.

This week you should be thinking about finishing Unit 2 on the Cell and Cell Processes and moving onto Unit 3 on Tissues and the Integumentary System that has just been put up on Blackboard with its accompanying workbook and multichoice quiz.

I see lots of you have completed the cell quiz and got great marks. If you still haven't done it or need to improve your marks you have till next Monday, April 21st, when it will be made unavailable.

The test next Monday (9 am in the 6th floor massage room) will be on Introduction to Bioscience, Unit 1. Chemicals in the Cell and Unit 2. the Cell and Cell Processes. It is a closed book supervised test and will take an hour. It is worth 15 marks towards your final grade.

After the test we will be looking at different tissues and examining sections of skin.

See you there!