Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Science Degree

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I’m not very confident in my science knowledge or skills, but I think I have enough to succeed. I have a stronger understanding of biology than any other discipline of science, as I did biology and life science classes in year 11 and 12 in preparation for nursing. Through this I learnt about disease and the immune system, cell division, natural selection, and human and plant systems. If we did any science in primary school, I don’t have any memory of it. We did not do any science investigations or experiments since most of our work for every subject was book-based and involved creationism for science due to the school’s denomination. I enjoyed high school science and remember learning about electricity quite vividly. It was a very hands-on

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