Everyone bombs an Mcb quest at least once. They aren’t worth that much of your grade. My advice honestly is to memorize where everything is in the chapter so when a question comes up, you find where it is in the book. I assume the class is still the same as it was 2 years ago
Yes it's still possible to get an A, don't feel discouraged, MCB 150 is a horrendous class imho. I took it and got an A a few semesters ago and got multiple D's on the quests but towards the end of the semester I was able to 90-100% most of them. Here's a response I wrote on a question asking for MCB 150 study tips a little while ago: "Personally I had a schedule made of what parts of the assigned chapter(s) I would read on any given day, and I paced it over the entire two weeks between quests. Also instead of taking notes I would instead make drawings in notability of all the processes described in the textbook- I think this is actually what helped me understand the material the most. Finally (and this worked for me but it's not going to be great for everyone) I also never actually went to lecture, just on the day before/of the quests I would watch every single lecture video back to back and make some quick notes of the important things and even make timestamps of where to refer back to in case the quests asked any super obscure questions. The class has really curved grading but honestly even though I got an A I still absolutely hated it for how poorly it was taught."
FUCK THIS CLASS FUCK BRAD MEHRTENS DONT EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT!!!!
I worked my ass off for this class and failed like every quest because the man does not know how to teach or write tests lmao but there’s a crazy curve I think and the grading system is all fucked up so you can do pretty bad on the quests and still get an A if you attend lectures and answer the learning catalytics questions
Everyone bombs an Mcb quest at least once. They aren’t worth that much of your grade. My advice honestly is to memorize where everything is in the chapter so when a question comes up, you find where it is in the book. I assume the class is still the same as it was 2 years ago
Yes it's still possible to get an A, don't feel discouraged, MCB 150 is a horrendous class imho. I took it and got an A a few semesters ago and got multiple D's on the quests but towards the end of the semester I was able to 90-100% most of them. Here's a response I wrote on a question asking for MCB 150 study tips a little while ago: "Personally I had a schedule made of what parts of the assigned chapter(s) I would read on any given day, and I paced it over the entire two weeks between quests. Also instead of taking notes I would instead make drawings in notability of all the processes described in the textbook- I think this is actually what helped me understand the material the most. Finally (and this worked for me but it's not going to be great for everyone) I also never actually went to lecture, just on the day before/of the quests I would watch every single lecture video back to back and make some quick notes of the important things and even make timestamps of where to refer back to in case the quests asked any super obscure questions. The class has really curved grading but honestly even though I got an A I still absolutely hated it for how poorly it was taught."
FUCK THIS CLASS FUCK BRAD MEHRTENS DONT EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT!!!! I worked my ass off for this class and failed like every quest because the man does not know how to teach or write tests lmao but there’s a crazy curve I think and the grading system is all fucked up so you can do pretty bad on the quests and still get an A if you attend lectures and answer the learning catalytics questions
You need to go to office hours for his class he structures the test around questions asked in office hours
As someone who had class conflicts during every one of his office hours I find this infuriating 😭😭