where do i even start with this horrible subject. the lectures are run by several people and each of them have different teaching styles and different lecture slide styles. some slides are incomprehensible with just one image taking up the slide while others are huge paragraphs of text. some images are of such poor quality i can’t even read them after downloading and enlarging the slides. throughout the entire semester i watched all the lectures each week for three days a week and yet i still struggled to comprehend the content the majority of the time. i found it hard to understand what was examinable content and a lot of the lecturers go too fast. they don’t understand that we’re not experts in their field and that most of us are hearing all of this content for the first time. on top of that this subject is incredibly content heavy with very specific knowledge that is required to be memorised in extremely great detail. i had to watch most of the lectures on a slower speed/pausing every few seconds/multiple times in order to feel like i SORT OF understand what is going on. the subject coordinator peter acted as if there are two groups of people. 1. the people that get h1s and breeze through the subject and 2. the people that don’t watch the lectures during the sem and cram them before the exam and do poorly. i am in neither group, having watched all the lectures and had tried very hard to understand them throughout the semester yet getting a poor final grade. i believe i am not the only one in this situation. peter does not give any guidance, sympathy nor understanding to us. this was evident in the fact that he does not answer a single question on ed discussion. we did not get an answer the whole semester until the very final lecture where he gave a poor excuse of basically saying he does not want to ruin the fun if he answers questions on ed (regardless of whether we answered each others questions incorrectly) and he does not want to make people feel like they are “being watched” (what a terrible reason). he was absolutely the most discouraging subject coordinator i have ever experienced. the mst and exam had incredibly specific questions and the entire thing was packed with paragraphs upon paragraphs upon paragraphs. with some questions being almost trivial knowledge. the practice exam disappointingly had incorrect answers and incomplete questions increasing the confusion amongst the cohort. over the course of the semester there were several discussions on ed discussion about how this subject was confusing and had almost zero guidance to which it garnered over 100 likes. the greatest mistake of my degree was enrolling in this subject. save yourself the pain and regret and stay far far away from this subject.

a lot of the people who give this subject a positive rating mention how interesting the content is. sure. the content is interesting. but it is delivered VERY badly. lectures have no learning outcomes, and they feel more like the lecturer's stories than actual content.no practice questions. no feedback. no monitoring of ed discussion. i kid you not the staff have sent ZERO messages there. there are posts complaining about the subject with 150 likes on ed discussion. i dont care how interesting the content is. this subject made so many people, including myself, doubt our entire undergrad career. i cannot warn people enough to avoid this subject (and the neuro major in general. neurophysiology is just as bad). pls pls avoid

Easily the worst subject I have ever done. There are no learning outcomes for about 80% of lectures. The content itself is interesting, but that does not make up for how terribly the subject was run. Staff did not monitor the discussion board at all, which made communication hard. There is no point in having a discussion board if staff are not willing to utilise it. On top of that, the main lecturer (Peter) rambles on in his lectures which adds to the difficulty of figuring out what to know when we already did not get learning outcomes. The MST was very difficult, and for practice MST questions, we were not given answers. In fact, the staff told us to use ChatGPT to figure out the answers. Do not take this subject unless you want to major in neuroscience, it will genuinely make you reconsider your entire degree and life choices!

I feel like its easy to hate the subject at first. At least compared to my other biomed/science subjects, this subject can be quite overwhelming and especially if you lose track midway and don't revise frequently. I think you shouldn't be fooled by the only-MCQ format because it really is NOT that easy, you actually need to put in effort into revising for this subject because they make the MST especially hard (to combat AI usage, etc.). The exam was not too bad (a lot easier than the MST) but there were some iffy questions. Having said that, this subject is genuinely so interesting and you appreciate the content you've learnt after its done. As I said this subject is overwhelming, but its because neuroscience is quite a broad field and you get a lot of exposure to MANY different aspects of neuroscience. Hence, I think you should only take this subject if you're up for learning a wide range of topics and you can stay organised with the mountains of content you'll be exposed to. I reckon a good thing to do for this subject is make practice questions for yourself and try to pick out the high-yield concepts/ideas that Peter or other lecturers discuss. They do test some specific details at times but its not the case for all MCQs. (Also pay close attention to weekly questions available on LMS!!)

I truly believe that all the 1 star reviews are overreacting. this subject is the most interesting and intellectually stimulating subject i have taken in my degree so far. it is true, as you may have read below, that it has some admin issues like ed discussion not being monitored, and its sometimes tricky to synthesise exactly whats important from the slides because there are no learning objectives. thus, to do well in this subject you need to actually get involved and thinking about the content and ACTUALLY watch the lectures. this is NOT the subject for you if you just want to cram in the last 2 days before an exam by chucking the slides into chatgpt. people are complaining about the lectures, thats simply because instead of there being a lump of text on the slide, peter will actually verbally explain a diagram. apparently everyone has become unable to think. i could spend all day here contradicting all the negative comments. i really enjoyed this subject and found myself (for the first time ever) actually telling my friends and family in my own time about what we've been learning about. if not for the terrible admin i would give this subject 5 stars! this is probably the most important review for you to read if you are considering taking the subject! please try to be realistic and ignore any overly negative comments (someone said the subject is awful and they are disgusted... hahaha pls)

Peter is so cute 🥺 His lectures made me feel Fuzzy inside Btw I am not trolling

Highly intellectually stimulating topics. Lots of content, but if you keep up with the lectures, a H1 is highly achievable. Definitely one of the best subjects I've took so far. The coordinator, Peter, is highly engaging and knowledgable too

I know there's a lot of hate for this subject, but I personally think it was one of the more interesting ones during my study. I think majority of the criticism is in regards to the delivery of the subject--not much resources, general clarification & support in ways that many students are used to, in the form of Ed Discussion tutorials etc. Don't think the hate train is quite justified: This subject just trains you to learn differently by forcing you to synthesise relevant information from the lectures in your own way. I really enjoyed the content overall and while it was content-heavy, the final exam was definitely more lenient.

RUN DONT WALK away from this subject!!!!!!!!

I really disagree with the many 1 star reviews. This subject was difficult but super interesting. There was a lot of nuanced psychological stuff that i personally thought was really cool. Peter's lecture slides were frustrating but if you write down what he says for notes rather than just focusing on the slides then you'll be fine. A lot of people complained about the subject in the Ed Discussion but I think it was quite clear that it wasn't being monitored by staff (which is common). Emailing these questions to Peter (as he offered) or talking to him after a lecture would have been the smarter option. I didn't do amazingly on the MST but that's on me for not studying - and helpful feedback was given for the questions which isn't usually given. If you're someone that likes to learn interesting things further than just how synapses work and what the serotonin is, you will like this subject - its one of the most intellectually stimulating ones I've ever taken.