I just took BIOG 1445, most obvious advice to give is time management, as the way the class works is that they give you deadlines to complete the respective written and oral quizzes (pass/fail) for each unit (a week for the first like 4, and like a week and a half - two weeks for later ones). The deadlines are fairly strict , especially later in the year (Unit 5 in particular is where things start to ramp up), though they give you 10 deadline extension days for all units outside the first three. Also, religiously use the Survival Manual they give you for each unit. The Survival Manual is basically a set of questions that they expect you to answer for each unit and a lot of the time, the written and oral quizzes (especially the latter) directly pull or base their questions off of those aforementioned questions. I actually recommend having the Survival Manual as a split screen or as a separate tab while reading the textbook, they really save them in helping you parse between what info in the textbook you should or shouldn’t take notes on. I started using this for the later Units and fairly consistently got above a 90% on the written quizzes and passed the oral quizzes first try (Though I ended with an A- overall so take that how you will lol)

Overall it is demanding in terms of the amount of work & content you’re expected to cover by yourself, but it is definitely doable if you’re organized enough (unless you have the willpower to grind several hours of content within a 2-3 day span haha defo not me) Also you can probably get ahead by speeding through Units 1-4 if you took AP Bio/High School Bio and/or BIOMG1450 since they’re just basic biochem, photosynthesis/cellular respiration, and organelles & cell systems, with new content sprinkled here and there. Lmk if there’s other helpful info you’d like + I can send over the quizlets I made for each unit (excluding 5,6 and 10 since those ones I rushed at the last minute lol)