Not a bad unit. There is a group presentation on a research article worth 20% which is not hard to do well in if you deconstruct what the figures mean and have good presentation skills. Its marked very fairly. The labs are really interesting (you get to do a lot of cool techniques like ELISA, activity assays, etc.) but I didn't enjoy the compulsory online lab book submissions due at midnight. Its basically a mini literature review, calculations, data analysis, results, discussion, etc. and it takes forever. Its worth 0% in BIOC3005 because the marks go toward BIOC3003. We were told that 2 entries from BIOC3003 or BIOC3005 will be marked, and the marks will go toward BIOC3003 only (10%). But they ended up just marking 2 lab books from 3003 which was rather annoying as it made our efforts in 3005 seem not worth it. But the lab book was useful for the lab report so you can't really complain. The lab report is worth 20%. I was not used to having such constrained lab report guidelines, but they were definitely helpful (unlike BIOC3002 which had little guidance). I felt it was marked pretty fairly but some people were unhappy with their mark. It had to be done on Cadmus word processer which was frustrating but understandable considering AI usage. I was quite pissed when the unit coordinators sent an email a few hours before the lab report was due saying that we can go a bit over the word limit due to Cadmus counting table contents as words. I feel this would've been useful to know days in advance, not on the day the report was due. There's also a calculation test on Cadmus worth 10% and its quite easy to do well in since a practice test is provided. The exam preparation was a bit stressful because there was very limited practice material. Some lecturers gave a few practice exam questions (Ben's were really good) while other's didn't. There were 5 lecturers and I thought all of them did a good job with their presenting and slides. Luke and Ben's in particular were very easy to follow along, especially due to the clear slides and useful learning outcomes. The 2025 sample exam was not very good though. There's some practice exams on OneSearch which were extremely useful revision material (and representative of the actual exam) yet most students didn't even know about it because it wasn't mentioned by the unit coordinators. Having said that, the final exam was time constrained but very fair provided you studied everything adequately. It is overall a pretty good unit, its just requires a lot of consistent effort. You learn a lot and the labs and lectures are both really interesting.

Content is interesting, but there is a lot of it. Fairly similar assessments as Bioc3003 (group presentation and lab report). Not impossible to score HD, need to put effort and work in. If you go through the learning outcomes provided by the lecturers and review the lectures regularly you should be all set for the exam.