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05-05-2012 11:30pm#1
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Bio is a difficult one to revise.
Best thing to do is sit down, do a past paper with no timing (or even a few questions) but don't use your'e book as an aid.
Answer the questions as best you can and you'll probably know the ones you got wrong or the ones you guessed.
Note any questions you didn't know. Then when you've build up a list of about 20 questions, use your book to get the answers. Write out the 20 questions and their answers from the book (or better the marking scheme) and that sheet is you're revision for the evening
Theres a lot to learn in Bio, but at the same time, theres very little material thats actually difficult to learn. So if you've sat through all you're classes, you probably know 70-80% of the material. Therefore the challenge is in identifying that last 20% you don't know. Therefore by reading your book, you waist 80% of your time rereading. By using the method I outlined above, your'e at 100% efficiency
Biology is a huge syllabus, like you said. They can't ask you every topic and every question, but they will ask a lot of questions "eg. what is a hypothesis" over and over again and they will ask the same topics over and over (eg. genetics). Therefore, by learning how to answer the questions they ask, you're gonna beat the people who have just learned the material.
Source: straight A1's in bio 5th and 6th year0 -
Thats some very good adviceBio is a difficult one to revise.
Best thing to do is sit down, do a past paper with no timing (or even a few questions) but don't use your'e book as an aid.
Answer the questions as best you can and you'll probably know the ones you got wrong or the ones you guessed.
Note any questions you didn't know. Then when you've build up a list of about 20 questions, use your book to get the answers. Write out the 20 questions and their answers from the book (or better the marking scheme) and that sheet is you're revision for the evening
Theres a lot to learn in Bio, but at the same time, theres very little material thats actually difficult to learn. So if you've sat through all you're classes, you probably know 70-80% of the material. Therefore the challenge is in identifying that last 20% you don't know. Therefore by reading your book, you waist 80% of your time rereading. By using the method I outlined above, your'e at 100% efficiency
Biology is a huge syllabus, like you said. They can't ask you every topic and every question, but they will ask a lot of questions "eg. what is a hypothesis" over and over again and they will ask the same topics over and over (eg. genetics). Therefore, by learning how to answer the questions they ask, you're gonna beat the people who have just learned the material.
Source: straight A1's in bio 5th and 6th year
Must take that on board for the next few weeks0 -
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Im not sure what book you have but we never ever used ours.
Our teacher gives us notes and Ive been using a revision book.
Apperently much of the books is completley irrelevent.
Units 1 or 2 are meant to be focused on more I think, and experiments.
And ecology and genetics are definates. 0 -
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