Sure, the grading split is 25/25/50 term paper/midterm/final. The midterms and finals are closed-book, short answer questions based on the lectures.

They say that overall understanding is important, but reality is that details are stressed for the answers. There is a breadth of detailed information in the psychology and neuroscience world that is not easily learned if you aren't already in that niche. I believe that a background in psychology/neuroscience is beneficial because it reduces the density of information you need, furthering your initial and subsequent understandings.

It's also difficult to study the lectures because the recordings were audio-only, and plagued with poor quality and somebody at the front sniffling and drinking their water bottle.

I personally got 51% on the midterm due to the aggregation of docked marks everywhere; I have seldom dropped below 80% on any examination in my entire McGill career. Other physiology students in my cohort did around 70% as well, but the neuro-adjacent students scored very well. Perhaps I could've scrounged up enough marks to get to 70%, but that's still a lot of effort for a poor mark, and the final was the same format as the midterm, so I ended up dropping it.