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This professor definitely tries to help students, but he's just a bad professor. In the class portion, he takes forever to go over a single problem, and when people ask him legitimate questions he doesn't quite answer them. The tests are not really like anything in class, either. In the end, what you learn from this class is how to understand his questions and memorize his tricks, and you just have to compromise and be okay with not understanding the actual genetics behind it. This class was just one giant frustrating experience. If you just do his previous practice tests and study clicker Q's if he emphasizes a new concept (for us it was cloning and cancer, wasn't on any of the previous tests), you'll be fine.

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Pham is really sweet and caring but his exams are hard and relate very little to lectures. Don't waste time practicing the clicker questions, just figure out how to do his past exams because he essentially just repeats them every time. Also your discussion quizzes will not necessarily be from the book like he promises, every TA does it differently. Recommend getting Chegg study for solutions to problems in this class.

Pham was such a cute, straightforward, honest professor. He made learning genetics really fun, and I didn't lose my attention as much during his lectures. This class was more like a stats/probability math class than a Life Science course (i.e. LS1/2/3). I would say memorization helps, but you need to know how to apply the "formulas" to the different genetic math problems. In short, just consider this class to be another math class than another biology class.

Compared to the other LS classes, this class was definitely easier and thus more enjoyable for me. Pham assigns you problems from each chapter, and I would say that they are worth solving because 1) it gives you more practice for the exams and 2) the TAs use these problems for the discussions section quizzes (literally word-to-word from the text).

The best source for this class is the past midterms, which Professor Pham provides himself on CCLE. Solve those problems, know what you don't know, and attend office hours a few days before the exams because other students are probably having trouble with the same exam questions as you and will ask them during his office hours. Understand the questions you got wrong on the practice tests and review some more, and you will be fine for his midterms and final.

Pham is such a sweet, approachable professor. I would definitely recommend this class for anyone who is taking LS4.

Hello anxious pre-meds/health students, I'm here to give a very honest and straightforward review of this class, the professor, and how to succeed.
Class: This class is not very conceptual. There are conceptual things that you should know but majority of this class tests your aptitude in math, probability, and applying simple genetic concepts (i.e probabilities of passing certain genes/diseases on a pedigree) into a mathematical equation to find the answer. With that said, I would highly recommend actually understanding why you use certain numbers and equations rather than just memorizing "how to do them" because then you will be able to apply it broadly to any exam question. As for lectures...I never took notes because 1) he rarely (basically never) tests you on vocab or concepts/facts 2) I couldn't understand his accent.
Professor: He's a cute guy and very nice. He likes phrases like "very good" "thank you for asking that question". His accent though. It takes a while to get used to it but it's not unbearable.
Discussion: So this class has quizzes based off textbook problems. Your best bet is to do those problems because the quiz will typically be verbatim from your textbook so you should always get a 100. If you're lazy like me, you can gamble and eliminate long problems because no TA is going to want to grade 20 quizzes of a question that was extremely long/difficult and tedious. TAs are just as lazy so it'a win-win for both
Exams: Okay so a lot of these reviews say "do all the exams!!!". No. you really only need to do about ~3 years worth of exams. For example, I took this class in 2017 therefore I did all the exams that were labeled with 2017,2016,2015...maybe some 2014 just for extra practice. This was suffice to get solid As on all the midterm/final exams as the questions were literally exactly the same just different wording/numbers. His exams are very fair and he literally gives you practice exams and answers. Just do the work, figure out how he gets the answers, and you're solid. It's extremely straightforward, no trick questions. Word of warning: His exams are "easy" but also unforgiving. Make a few careless mistakes here and there and you'll see your grade tank off stupid mistakes. Triple check your work please! I've seen many of my friends who said the exam was easy only to find they made a handful of careless mistakes which tanked their grade from a potential 95/100 to 80/100

I would say stray away from just memorizing patterns and how to answer his questions as you're severely limiting your knowledge in genetics as well as the understanding of why you are doing certain things to get to the correct answer. With that said, don't make this class harder than it is. All the material is right there, work smart, focus on the practice exams not the lecture slides or every word he says. There are many classes where you can pack in tons of hours and still do bad. This class is not one of those. If you work hard and practice, there's no reason to fail. Good luck bruins

This man cares alot. For the first midterm I thought he was really clear since it was all math. The second midterm I could not for the love of my life understand him during lecture. For the final he was a bit more clear. Basically, most of my learning were straight from his past exams he loaded up on ccle. He loads up about 20 or so of his tests but you really only need to do about the past 7 because those are the ones that are most similar to the test he will give. If there is a certain concept you realize you don't understand as well as you go through his midterms, then go through every test and look for that specific question until you find a pattern. That reminds me, before I took this class someone told me you can kind of bs your way through it. And that is true, you can definitely do that easily by finding patterns and not really needing to necessarily know the details of the concepts as well as say LS 2 or 3. There isn't nearly as much memorization in his class compared to the other LS classes. The in lab discussion quizzes were easy just go through all his problems he assign and the TAs PROBABLY will take a question verbatim from it. The pre lab quizzes weren't too bad just take it with a friend because everyone has the exact same 4 questions. So what I did to study for the midterm was his past midterms->understand HIS clicker questions from his lectures because he pull some of them verbatim or nearly verbatim on his tests->skim the rest of HIS slides->go through the pre lecture clickers and pre lecture quizzes (they weren't the most helpful but they help to solidify some concepts so it's better than nothing)->go through the past midterms again. It's not really necessary to study the rest of his pre lecture slides for his tests but it doesn't hurt to go through it once or twice. In fact, I didn't even bother watching the videos. But it doesn't hurt to watch them. For the final, everyone gets so terrified that he only uploads the past 2 finals but honestly if you study with other people and understand EVERY single question on those two finals and his 3 practice set of questions his final is arguably more or less difficult as his midterms.

I loved LS4. I never thought much of genetics, but after this class I have a better appreciation of it. Pham is a really sweet professor and I really enjoyed having him. Lectures were engaging, and although he did have an accent, he wasn't too difficult to understand.

For me, there was definitely a learning curve I had to get over for this class. A week before the first midterm, I panicked and cried because I didn't understand anything at all and thought I was going to bomb the test. By the time the second midterm rolled around, I did three of his practice tests the day before and managed a perfect. It's a little tough at first, but once you learn how to think with a "genetics mindset" you'll find that Pham's class is actually quite easy.

Pham really wants to help you do well. He encourages you to ask questions and is very, very transparent about his exams. He posts a TON of past exams and as long as you do and understand them (I suggest that you focus on the more recent ones) you should be fine. The second midterm is the easiest if you stay caught up. The final is probably just a tad more difficult than the first midterm. I'm not sure if he curves because his averages seem pretty high.

Flipped classroom format is helpful, albeit a bit tedious. You get quizzed on the videos but he lets you drop a lot. Discussion quizzes are meant to be easy points, and so are clickers. Pham also assigns textbook questions that aren't graded, and I mean you can do those if you want... but I didn't touch them even once throughout the entire quarter. My main study tool was the practice exams.

Overall LS4 with Pham was a great class. Didn't stress me out too much. Enjoyable. Loved it.

hitting the key points of this class...
WORKLOAD: pretty light. the class is reverse lecture style (learn the material at home, take quiz on CCLE, and do practice problems in class). this is my first time encountering this style of learning, and i was a huge fan. problem solving is really the only skill you need to get a good grade in this class, so tackling problems during lecture was extremely helpful.

LECTURES: attending lecture is necessary not only to get your clicker points (although he drops five lowest scores) but also to learn his problem solving methods to do well on his exams! honestly, most of the leg work is done in class, and the rest is done by doing practice exams before midterm and the final. go to class- you'll thank yourself.

HOMEWORK: as mentioned, there's an online quiz based on the online lectures that's due before every class meeting. super easy and simple as long as you watch the lecture (definitely recommend adjusting the speed to 1.5x). the professor who teaches the online lectures is also great! pham also assigns homework problems and reading from the textbook. personally, i read the textbook to supplement my learning, but most of my classmates did not read it and still did well in the class. so, is it necessary? not at all. however, it is necessary that you at least attempt to do the homework problems. note that these problem sets are neither submitted nor graded BUT these are what the discussion quizzes are based on, which i will go into in the next topic...

DISCUSSIONS: as mentioned, there are discussion quizzes based on the textbook problems that pham assigns. these quizzes are all or nothing, and the difficulty of the problem(s) depend on your TA. i sorta found these quizzes to be annoying because some of the problems that we were assigned didn't exactly correlate to what we were learning in class... nonetheless, you should take the time to attempt these textbook problems, and DEFINITELY go through the solutions for each answer. another note: he drops your two lowest quiz scores, and weeks 1 and 10 are basically freebies since they're diagnostic exams.

EXAMS: if i could give a single piece of advice for this class, it's to do the practice exams. honestly, pham does an amazing job of providing all the resources to succeed in this class because he has plenty of office hours AND he has soooo many past exams available on CCLE. it's sorta ridiculous. he does not deviate much from previous exams, so you already know the types of problems to expect.

FINAL THOUGHTS: not much is required of you to get a good grade in LS 4. all the resources are available to you, and it's really just a matter of doing practice exams, staying on top of online quizzes, and showing up to class. i had such a good experience taking LS 4 with Pham, and highly recommend him to anyone who is taking this class.