{"id":5086,"date":"2013-06-03T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:28:52","slug":"screw-the-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5086","title":{"rendered":"screw the suggestions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently a grade 11 student and I&#8217;m planning on doing Biochemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry at U of T.I have taken biology and chemistry since they are requirements for the program but I have noticed that the program says physics recommended. However, I did not take grade 11 or 12 physics because I have heard about how hard it is! But do you recommend that I take both grade 11 and 12 physics next year just in case?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hey hey<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_bch.htm\">biochemistry<\/a>, if you do the specialist, you&#8217;re going to need physics thus yes, take the high school ones &#8212; or at least one of them. If you just plan to do a major, which does NOT need physics, then no, don&#8217;t bother. The necessary knowledge of physics here seems to be pretty basic considering even the specialist only wants 100-level courses from you.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_phc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pharmaceutical chemistry<\/a> (which can only be taken as a specialist), you&#8217;re going to need the same first year physics.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: ehhhh maybe take grade 11 physics at least.<\/p>\n<p>See here&#8217;s the awesome thing: PHY131H and PHY151H, the two courses you choose between to start from, don&#8217;t actually require grade 12 physics.<\/p>\n<p>So technically you CAN get into the course, but without the recommended preparation, you may very well botch those up (read: you will). So I do recommend maybe taking at least grade 11 physics to get soooooome knowledge of the sacred art of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m currently a grade 11 student and I&#8217;m planning on doing Biochemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry at U of T.I have taken biology and chemistry since they are requirements for the program but I have noticed that the program says physics recommended. However, I did not take grade 11 or 12 physics because I have heard about how hard it is! But do you recommend that I take both grade 11 and 12 physics next year just in case? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey hey For biochemistry, if you do the specialist, you&#8217;re going to need physics thus yes, take the high school ones &#8212; or at least one of them. If you just plan to do a major, which does NOT need physics, then no, don&#8217;t bother. The necessary knowledge of physics here seems to be pretty basic considering even the specialist only wants 100-level courses from you. Now if you want pharmaceutical chemistry (which can only be taken as a specialist), you&#8217;re going to need the same first year physics. Verdict: ehhhh maybe take grade 11 physics at least. See here&#8217;s the awesome thing: PHY131H and PHY151H, the two courses you choose between to start from, don&#8217;t actually require grade 12 physics. So technically you CAN get into the course, but without the recommended preparation, you may very well botch those up (read: you will). So I do recommend maybe taking at least grade 11 physics to get soooooome knowledge of the sacred art of physics. Cheers! aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}