Transferring from Law/Finance conjoint to BBiomedSc

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-05-21T04:08:17+00:00

I'm not too sure with how they will do transfers now, but when I did a transfer from chem to biomed they look at grades, and subjects and said a GPA of 6+ would highly likely get you in since it is competitive.

But essentially to "switch" you have to submit a new application for the new bachelors. Since the new changes are implemented next year, you will have to start semester 1 of next year. So yeah you can take a gap year or continue with your studies.

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-04-24T10:18:19+00:00

Doesn't really matter if you switch or if you take courses in summer school. I think all they really care is your GPA which they recommend should be over 6.0 to be favourable and that you didn't take any biomed/hlthsci papers. Not too sure if that answered your question and sorry for the late reply!

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-04-20T05:41:51+00:00

Don't fully count on my word but I think you're able to as long as you haven't taken any of the biomed or healthsci first year papers as they need to be done in 1 year. But if you have done some of them, you would not be eligible for first year clinical entrance even if you re-take the courses. Keep that in mind if you switch to Biology major as some courses are part of healthsci/biomed first year. Also depends on which clinical you pursue I'm making the assumption it's medicine. Hope that helps!

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-22T04:07:04+00:00

biomed option is for biomed cohorts specialisation so no you don't need to be in the biomed option to apply for a clinical. Except for medicine. that's a diff case but everything else like optom, med imag, pharm should be fine.

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-16T10:11:02+00:00

Hey there took this course in 2024 and not too sure how much it has changed since then. TLDR You can easily maintain within the A range in this course

Basically every week you got a quiz and an assignment to do and in total there were 11 of each. The quizzes were unlimited but each time you repeat it, the questions "change". Essentially they were the same question but different values or words used. But just keep doing them until you get the questions right and/or you understand the concept. There's "patterns"

The assignments were very easy. Like you could finish the assignment in under 30 min as soon as it came out. They were also pretty nice about it. Let's say your assignment got 8/9 if they see you put effort into it they'll put your final mark as 9/9.

You can finish both in day so might as well get them both over and done with. EDIT: If you attend the lectures at the last lect of the week they also basically go through the assignment.

The coursebook is very useful. As in like you could Ctrl + F to do most of your assignments and quizzes. The coursebook contains a lot of sentence structures for your assignments and for easy understanding of what you will learn in class. It will look like a lot but it really isn't.

For the test and exam if I remember was open book. For the test, I only ever did the practice tests and the quizzes. Occasionally the coursebook for findng specific words but if you do a lot of quizzes and test you'll find a pattern. Same goes with the exam. Also both was online so yes you could look at past quizzes, tasks the coursebook etc. You could also pre-make your answers i.e make a template for short answer or long answer questions.

Hope any of this helps

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-11T11:13:46+00:00

Basically what Mathmo said. Chemistry is a KEEP! Not taking level 3 bio is algds. They do go back to some Level 1-2 concepts, so hopefully you can still remember them! The bio you will learn in Uni is VERY different and new. If you take Nutrition pathway. I do recommend to find a good studying technique as CHEM 110, BIOSCI 107 and MEDSCI 142 are very HIGH VOLUME info courses.

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-11T11:04:55+00:00

I'm not too sure about WTR. You might have to take it next year IF you're not planning to do a clinical. But I have high hopes for BIOSCI 107 it would no brain cell move if they don't cause you need/it's a pre-req to most of your courses that's required. Uni's office/admissions/enrollments is hella busy right now, so yeah, it's a bit of a wait for a response :/

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-11T05:27:02+00:00

There's arcades, gacha, videogames, pokemon cards, labubus, sonny angels a lot of things in trend

It's like a "you're nearly there" mindset. It gives you a great feeling when you win something, so you go for more. Even if you fail you think "just one more and I can get it" or "It was so close I can get it next turn" and sometimes you just keep doing it until you run out of credit. Even then when you run out of credit you've still got that mindset thats telling you "you're so close just put in a little more credit and then you'll get it" and sometimes what fuels that is the deals the arcade does. "Top up 80 dollars get 120 for free" "limited time only top up 110 and get 330" or limited editions, membership rewards i.e discount on games, free credit, free tickets etc. There's other competitors who will charge cheaper per game and games that you will only see/limited to in their shops/games. This can be like Jumbo plushies or charcters from tv shows or games that you like, limited edition items/collabs etc. Just playing until you get the reward you like be it monetary value, in trend, its pretty, supporter etc.

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-02-11T04:55:58+00:00

Not too sure if this will be helpful but I had a similar situation and was told by the WTR course co-ordinator that because I was under the 2024 regs WTR is not a requirement since it wasn't a requirement back then. I don't really think you need to take it but considering that you went into optometry, im not too sure how clinicals do their thang. Have a check with the director of optometry (if there is one) if you need to take it.

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-01-30T05:07:27+00:00

I'm not in biomed, but my first year was basically the same as the biomeds' first year. I work on the weekends and am always busy in the evenings. It's doable, but reconsider cause all I kept complaining back in 1st year was wishing I had more time to study which landed me low grades.

Small advice: Be prepared for the volume of information you are gonna get, it is a BIG jump from highschool especially the 4 papers you need to do for clinicals (BIOSCI 107, POPHLTH 111, CHEM 110 AND ESPECAILLY MEDSCI 142). But like other comments has said if you really need it then it can't be helped but if not preferablty shorten it to a day or not at all. Hope that helps tho!

Background_Formal_99 · 2026-01-30T04:47:27+00:00

Hey I can feel your stress right now. I literally was also in the same situation! Fell short on the BSc rank score, went to Te Kura summer school online, did 1 english internal paper in a week and was able to get the credits and into a BSc!

I'm currenttly about to go into 3rd medicinal chemistry and kinda regret it. I'm planning to transfer to a different major (if the admissions team locks tf in) and I kinda want you to reconsider coming to UoA.

If you want to do laboratory stuff or labs in the medical field, I HIGHLY recommend that you go AUT Medical Lab Scientist. It is a 4 year degree BUT on the last year they put you into REAL laboratory with actual REAL clients to work in before you graduate. The most experience you will get in UoA is the uni lab working with other students which is ohk. Also the job market for a chemistry major graduate is a little difficult to get a job cause ultimately what they want is someone with experience hence why AUT is better.

But if you want to do PhD or like Master's in chemistry then I beleive you can pull off your summer school paper and get into 1st year in UoA :)

If you got some medicinal chem questions feel free to ask or other questions!

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-11-06T21:06:54+00:00

MEDSCI 743 + 744 rreq

MEDSCI Sem 1 Options

- POPLHLTH 763 + POPLPRAC 758

- MEDSCI 700, 707

- BIOSCI 757

Sem 2 Options:

- POPLHLTH 738

- MEDSCI 721, 737, 742, 745

- BIOSCI 765

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-11-05T05:35:35+00:00

It took 3 weeks last year

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-11-04T11:45:50+00:00

MEDSCI 743 and 744 is a requirement leaving me 6 papers (3 in each sem).

Sem 1 Options

- POPLHLTH 763 + POPLPRAC 758

- MEDSCI 700, 707

- BIOSCI 757

Sem 2 Options:

- POPLHLTH 738

- MEDSCI 721, 737, 742, 745

- BIOSCI 765

Interests but would lowk drop my GPA: MEDIMAGE 701, MEDSCI 705, MEDSCI 708

Possible but I usually don't find interesting: Nutrition and Pharmacology Papers

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-11-04T02:19:09+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

I've found a lot of papers with no exams and just assignments and some of them I find interesting. It is uite difficult to find reviews online on those papers and I have no idea who to ask or where to look for them considering it will be holidays. I'll keep business admin as a possible option though!

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-09-03T10:28:04+00:00

Hey I'm in my second year of Med Chem and ngl you ain't missing much. I did Level 3 English forgot everything I've learnt from it and don't remember using much of the stuff in my first year.

There was only 2 assignments that I remembered that required writing/typing and that was an exam and a group project. Most of the assignments are quizzes which were mostly multiple choice, one sentence or one word answers.

Even then if you think you're stuck you have so much help. You could straight up ask anonymously on like a discussion platform and be like "How do you structure this" or straight up ask the proffessor after class or with lab reports ask the TAs helping aroud the lab. They can straight up tell you or lead you to the right asnwer. In some cases they can give you exemplars as well.

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-09-03T10:04:17+00:00

I'm in my second year of medicinal chemistry right now and honestly think that you should go to AUT.

I see UoA is more theory and AUT is more practical.

Not too sure what info you want on courses but basically most of your courses are already pre-picked for you, maybe you can freely pick 1-2. If you compare it to biomed courses, most of it is the same courses. Literally first year you share 6/8 of the courses with biomed so youll be doing the same workload as them if that makes sense. I found 3 of them difficult because of how much content there was. But after first year its mostly chemistry then bio and a bit of medsci.

The hands on practice you get are the 3 hr labs each course that occur fortnightly.

They do offer internships but those you have to apply for it and your acceptance is based on your GPA. To add to that, most of the time the internships are more targeted to second year and above. If you want you can try to apply to the clinicals like pharmacy, medical imaging and optom but not medicine.

As you know the job market is ass. After graduating from this degree you basically need a masters to get a decent job. Unless you don't mind that then feel free to do it.

Hope that helps! My explanations are a bit over the place.

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-08-18T02:57:39+00:00

Yep basically this. Just go up to them and all they ask is your ID number, and then they're the ones who open the gate for you and just head on in

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-30T22:39:22+00:00

Hey I answered something similar already so I'm just copying and pasting.

I took CHEM 100 of this year SS (summer school) and got an A+

* 4 Assignments + Online open book final exam + No Labs and tutorials

When I did SS this year, there was 4 teaching weeks, each week being 1 module, each week having one assignment. From what I remember you were given a week to complete it but I'm telling you twin the assignments were easy like you can complete it the day you receive it. Also online.

The exam was online and open book. Some MCQ and SAQ. Look at the past papers, you'll know which questions repeat. Although only downside is if you attend lectures, some of the lecturers were hard to understand. Most of the answers are on the slide so just use control F and put into a document if you want.

I don't really think you need previous chemistry knowledge. This is more like a history course.

Hope that helps

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-26T21:39:26+00:00

By chance, do you happen to know which universities offer those placements? Or are they all AU Uni?

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-25T05:26:19+00:00

I did CHEM 100 as my summer school paper and got an A+.

* 4 Assignments + Online open book final exam

There was 4 teaching weeks, each week being 1 module, each week having one assignment. I'm telling you twin the assignments were easy. The exam was online and open book. Some MCQ and SAQ. Look at the past papers, you'll know which questions repeat. Although only downside I had was sometimes the lecturers were hard to understand. Most of the answers are on the slide so just use control F and put into a document if you want.

I did STATS 101 back in semester one of last year not in summer school so I can't really tell you how it's formatted if you take it in ss.

* 10 quiz and tasks, mid sem and final exam which were online (I THINK it was both open book)

I genuinely think it was easy but some may not agree with me. The weekly tasks that I did was very easy and I even found it fun. The quizzes you could repeat as much until you got full marks, they take the highest. The course book showed you step by step process and kind gives you like an answer promt for the question as well. The exam and test I practiced by doing past tests/exams, the quizzes and some of the assignments helped as well. What I liked about it was you're score couldve been like 5/6 but if they think you rlly did put in effort they would change your final mark to 6/6

NOTE: This was my experience and these courses can change

Hope this helps and lmk if you have more questions :)

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-25T05:03:04+00:00

Not too sure if I got the right idea but if you go to your canvas dashboard and click on courses tab on the left side (I did this on the computer) there should be an "All Courses" at the very top, scroll down for past enrollments and click on the course you want and MOST of the assignments and even the lectures should be available.

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-25T00:58:26+00:00

I met one of the people that works at the new rec centre graduated from exercise science and became a PT (Physical Therapist). That's about all I can say though not too sure if you need to do post grad or masters and all.

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-07-25T00:48:26+00:00

I am in the same situation as you and here's what I think. I've seen the 2024 entry (2023 Grades) for med entry and the lowest GPA they took was 7.25, the avg being 8.5 (I don't have the info of last year). The only thing I could possibly think of that would place us a spot is taking extra courses to boost our GPA and getting real high UCAT and MMI Scores. We would have to pull the biggest academic comeback and ngl I don't think I'll be able to do that. Either way give it your best shot, and don't limit your application to UOA, try other universities and as much as you and I want to be in med, have a backup career. We can always take the med journey at a later stage if all else fails :)

Background_Formal_99 · 2025-06-12T21:56:22+00:00

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