Professor
Julie Ko
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Winter 2026 - I loved Dr. Ko! She is a super sweet and funny person, and an awesome lecturer. I genuinely looked forward to class and enjoyed her lectures because they were very engaging. I liked how she annotated the slides and explained concepts well (I did take AP Bio and AP Chem in high school, so I was already familiar with most of the material). If I did not understand a concept during class, I would just rewatch her lecture recordings and then understand it. The midterms and finals were all application-based and used similar diagrams from the group midterm, and they were relatively simple in my opinion (but I know they may have been a little difficult for other people). For the midterms, you only get 40 minutes, which was kind of short, and I wish I had gotten more time to thoroughly check my answers. But for the final, you get 150 minutes, which was a lot of time, and most people left early. In my opinion, it was way easier than AP Bio MCQs. You can miss up to 59 points in this class (including the 7 points of extra credit) for an A, so you can get a lot wrong and get a good grade. If you have to take LS7A, take it with her! (although the course is standardized - but take it with her for a fun experience!)
Winter 2026 - I loved Dr. Ko! She is a super sweet and funny person, and an awesome lecturer. I genuinely looked forward to class and enjoyed her lectures because they were very engaging. I liked how she annotated the slides and explained concepts well (I did take AP Bio and AP Chem in high school, so I was already familiar with most of the material). If I did not understand a concept during class, I would just rewatch her lecture recordings and then understand it. The midterms and finals were all application-based and used similar diagrams from the group midterm, and they were relatively simple in my opinion (but I know they may have been a little difficult for other people). For the midterms, you only get 40 minutes, which was kind of short, and I wish I had gotten more time to thoroughly check my answers. But for the final, you get 150 minutes, which was a lot of time, and most people left early. In my opinion, it was way easier than AP Bio MCQs. You can miss up to 59 points in this class (including the 7 points of extra credit) for an A, so you can get a lot wrong and get a good grade. If you have to take LS7A, take it with her! (although the course is standardized - but take it with her for a fun experience!)
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Spring 2026 - literally everything in this class is true/false so be careful. the content goes much in depth and the textbooks especially go very in-depth (and honestly more than you need to know for the tests). iclickers are graded on accuracy and discussion sections are definitely a lot more stressful in this class. at the end though there is a pretty nice curve/buffer so i remember i ended with an a instead of an a- (which i was supposed to end with). honestly for this class read the textbook and take notes and check with cpo for past tests because i found that practice tests are really the best way to test your understanding of the content. good luck and congrats for being done with the 7 series!
Spring 2026 - literally everything in this class is true/false so be careful. the content goes much in depth and the textbooks especially go very in-depth (and honestly more than you need to know for the tests). iclickers are graded on accuracy and discussion sections are definitely a lot more stressful in this class. at the end though there is a pretty nice curve/buffer so i remember i ended with an a instead of an a- (which i was supposed to end with). honestly for this class read the textbook and take notes and check with cpo for past tests because i found that practice tests are really the best way to test your understanding of the content. good luck and congrats for being done with the 7 series!
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Fall 2023 - Dr. Ko is in my top 2 most amazing professors I've taken at UCLA, she is so sweet and her lectures are organized so logically and beautifully. I never walked out of lecture confused because she's just so good at explaining. The grading and midterms were also super reasonable. I love her!!!
Fall 2023 - Dr. Ko is in my top 2 most amazing professors I've taken at UCLA, she is so sweet and her lectures are organized so logically and beautifully. I never walked out of lecture confused because she's just so good at explaining. The grading and midterms were also super reasonable. I love her!!!
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