GOD SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!\nHOW DO I GET AT LEAST 94% IN BIOLOGY CLASS (I AM GRADE 12)\nHOW DO I STUDY BIOLOGY?\nI READ, MEMORIZE, TRY TO UNDERSTAND, BUT NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK FOR ME. I STUDY 20 HOURS FOR THIS FREAKING QUIZ AND I GOT 81% ON IT.... AH SOMEBODY HELP ME WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?\nTHIS IS THE ONLY SUBJECT (and physics) I CAN'T PULL MY MARK UP!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME\n\nI will choose the answer as best answer if it shows me a new way to improve my mark. rather than just saying "study more!"\n\nBio teacher, bio geniuses help me!!!!
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Rather than studying more, I would suggest studying differently.  Find out how you learn best.  I know that personally I learn better with other people where we can quiz each other.  Plus, you have to understand it to explain it, so talking it out with others may help.  Some people are audio learners, others are visual and need pictures or tables, some are tactile where they need to have things in their hands to manipulate to understand.  Try learning differently.\n\nTry chunking the information into smaller bits.  Don't focus on an entire chapter when you study.  Take things a paragraph or a section at a time.  If you look at a section that's too big, your brain probably freaks out and can't learn it.  It's like chewing... Small pieces so you don't choke. ;)\n\nDon't be afraid to go to your teacher after school for help.  A lot of teachers and professors are very willing to help you or present material in a different way if they know you're really trying to learn it.
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i m not sure wat do u mean by biology 12 but i know how to do well in bio since i took Bio 2 AP and 1 honors in high school to be honest with u i had 91% and i m not braging because there were alot of people who had higher grades than me \nwhat i did was just read through notes and type them every day it took be less than 30 minutes but whenever i took the test i always had an "A" bio is easy because all u have to do is just memorize stuff
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I went through the same thing myself...I would suggest getting a tutor. I think some schools offer tutoring services for free...you might want to check with your schools learning center or the chem/physics department. My college allowed people needing help to sign up for tutors and the school paid the tutors to help students out for an hour a week. If this kind of service isn't available, you could try getting a tutor on your own. I think in the case of orgo, its really best to have someone there to talk through concepts and reactions to make sure you're really understanding it. Books that try to dumb things down just dont help because they can't tell you if youre actually understanding things correctly. Good luck!
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haha so much for doing your hwk\nc d c c a b b d b b e? c b c? e a a a c b b a b? d?\n\nThats all i have time for... im dont remeber to much on this but best of luck to you\n\nLet me see if I can find my old textbook site and you can read it:\n\nah... here\nhttp://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/maderbiology7/student/olc/chap08-outline.mhtml
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I've just finished Maths at College and I passed almost everything top of class. Anyhows, don't focus on misconceptions; instead find the right way to do it and put in effort solving the problems over and over again.\n\nI put in 16 hours the day before the first test that I passed top of class. There's no secret- simply put in the work and pass top of class. Einstein- 'Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.\n\nEmail me once you pass top of class, or even once you pass.
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Keeping a regular time everyday for studying is a good idea. In that time keep a specific time period for a subject you need to improve in. Practice questions of that subject everyday and read up lesson everyday. Keep a timetable so that in week aside from homework you can study the subjects. For exmaple, keep a day for studying biology, another day for geography etc. It will help you. \nAlso I would recommend a meditation, it helps improve concentration. Sit straight and comfortably, focus your breathing, breathe deep hear the sound of your breath. Do this for 5 to 10 mins. It'll help. Good luck!
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WELL FOR STARTERS YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR STUDYING HABITS. WHAT I DID WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE WAS I WENT TO THE LOCAL LIBRARY AND CHECKED OUT A STUDY ROOM FOR MYSELF AND STAYED IN THERE FOR A FEW HOURS. AS FAR AS STUDYING ITSELF, I WENT THROUGH MY NOTES FROM CLASS HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANT STUFF AND LOOKED OVER THAT. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO READING, I FOCUSED ONLY ON WHAT THE TEACHER LECTURED ON IN CLASS AND HIGHLIGHTED IT I MY BOOK. THAT WAY I COULD CROSS REFERENCE BETWEEN MY BOOK AND MY NOTES. ALSO I HAVE FLASH CARDS. I FOUND IT HELPFUL TO PUT ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON MY FLASH CARDS SINCE THEY ARE SO SMALL AND I WOULD STUDY THOSE AS WELL. IF YOU HAVE SOME FRIENDS IN ANY OF YOUR CLASSES WHO ARE NOT GOOF-OFFS, STUDY WITH THEM TO. IT HELPED WHEN I SOMETIMES STUDIED WITH A FRIEND AND WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON THE INFORMATION. BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT CHANGE BECAUSE YOUR GRADES WILL SHOW. IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO STUDIES WIT MUSIC, THEN DO THAT. I HAD SNACKS WITH ME SO I WAS COOL. BUT WHAT YOU LOOK OVER YOUR MATERIAL FROM YOUR BOOK, NOTES, FLASHCARDS, AND OR HOMEWORK, IT WILL START TO SINK IN AND YOU WILL RETAIN THE INFORMATION MORE EFFECTIVELY. I FOUND IT BETTER FOR ME TO STUDY AT NIGHT FOR SOME REASON. SO STUDY WHEN IT'S MOST COMFORTABLE TO YOU. ALSO DON'T MAKE IT A HABIT OF STUDYING AT THE LAST MINUTE. A BIG NO NO. UNLESS YOU ARE THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO CAN ACE A CLASS WITHOUT HAVING TO STUDYING DON'T DO THAT. FROM WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT YOURSELF YOU JUST NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU ARE STUDYING. BEFORE A TEST, AND I MEAN LIKE IF THE TEST IS ON THE 9TH AND IT'S THE 1ST, TRY TO STUDY BETWEEN 1 HOUR AND A HALF TO TWO HOURS OR MORE IF YOU NEED IT EACH DAY UP UNTIL YOUR TEST. THAT WAY THE DAY BEFORE, YOU ARE NOT CRAMMING FOR A TEST. I CAN TELL YOU THAT CRAMMING IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MIND AND YOU GENERALLY DON'T DO AS WELL.  SO LOOKING AT YOUR MATERIAL AHEAD OF TIME WILL BENEFIT YOU IN THE LONG RUN. HOPE THIS HELPS YOU AND GOOD LUCK IN SCHOOL.
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I don't know what kind of random hits your teacher is making on the students.  Perhaps you can't get past that?  I went to three universities and graduated with a 4.0 GPA in all.  The key to my good grades was my note taking.  I took amazing notes and then when I got home, I went through them and outlined my notes making more sense of them.  By the time I got through outlining and making a really nice bunch of note pages, I knew the material.  It helps to not be freaked out by tests as well.  They never bothered me.  You either know it or you don't.  I think trying to study at the last minute outside the classroom door is foolish.  All that can do is get you all nervous and confused.  Even being around other students who are panicking over their last minute studying will have a negative effect on you.  I stayed away from the classroom and those students until the very last minute and didn't crack a book before the test.  Like I said, "If I didn't know it when I got there, I wasn't going to learn it in 5 minutes!"  I also helped other students study for their exams (the same ones I was taking) and this also solidified the information in my brain.  In that case, you give and you get something in return.  If there was an area which was extremely difficult to grasp onto, I stayed after class and talked to the instructor or made use of the computer programs available for that particular subject.  Good grades take hard work.  Your grades to date are not to be sneezed at, so don't be so hard on yourself.
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I can help you if you need it, I'm a senior biology major. Email my nickname (akidagurl84) at yahoo.com. Hope I can help.
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I learned this from my class validictorian on how to study when I was in high school. You see you are not alone in this world. I was once in your shoes also. Give the following a try. I did work for me. I went from a C - D border line failing student to an A - B student in 4 weeks. First take notes in class? Take your notes & your book. Review each chapter before a test especially the night before a test. Take blank sheet of paper & copy your notes or chapter high lights from one page to another as review. While you are writing this you are self consiously remembering what you wrote. I would do this 2 times the night before a test/exam. During class listen to what the teacher is saying in class and write it down. Most teachers test you on what they talk about in class. If they repeat something you will have a 90% chance that it will be on a test. If they write on a white board. Write what they put on it. It is also on test. This does tend to cut into your social life on nights before a test but in the long run. It is you that will reap the rewards from the effort. I taught these study habits to my children & I am currently teaching my grandchildren this same study habit. It is tried & proven it does work. Good Luck you can do this. Be confident & strong. Things will improve along with your grades.
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Shouldn't all 7-12 grade students be able to read by now? If you mean "can" like in because of religious believes or acceptable for all creeds...? I think more information is needed... For reading activity for all ages you might want to try plays. It bugs me that you are a "Teacher"... sorry I have to RANT because you are an educator!! you really should be able to ask a question in a... without being so freaking vague. If you were my high school teacher I would tell you the same... just a bit of constructive criticism.\nbtw good luck
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Study harder. If that's not the problem then talk to your teacher & try to figure out what to do. They will know best what you need to do to pull up your grade. Oh and tell your parents if you are still in grade school so they don't find out later & get really mad, unless you know you can pull it up or they won't find out. But if you do tell them then approach them with the "I'm really trying & I don't know what else to do" attitude so you'll be less likely to get in trouble!
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I too am a chronic procrastinator, and like you, a straight-A student (even through graduate school :) but I do have a story that may scare you a bit. It's the only F I ever got in a total of 20 years of school! I was in 6th grade and lived in a rural community, in a house in the woods. Our assignment was to do a leaf collection with 50 pressed and mounted leaves, scientifically named and categorized. I knew the names of most trees in the area, and was fairly interested in botany, but could care less about doing the project, so I set it aside. On the night before it was due, I wandered through the woods, carelessly plucking leaves, and stacked them into a large encyclopedia to dry a bit. I managed to find 40 different leaves, but they didn't have time to press, so I ironed them (BIG mistake) then ended up gluing them onto typing paper, and writing the scientific names with a marker, and putting them in a folder. It was awful, and I knew it. Other students (like C students!!!) brought in beautiful keepsake-type albums...I sneaked up and slid mine on the bottom. The next day the teacher talked about the projects, and held up mine as a NON-example. I'm sure I was scarlet but no one guessed that shabby work was mine!!! The teacher looked at me with a you-ought-to-be-ashamed-of-yourself stare and my heart sank to the floor. I will never forget that blazing red F on the paper. It was horrible! I never let that happen again!!! Good luck and get it done!!!! :)
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go to \nwww.gcsebitesize.com - elementary biology\nfor advanced one search under gcsebitesize-advanced biology. Search for the advanced section. \n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision/\n\nThis website encompasses many things about biology. However, if you want to have more study guides, check up the book. "A Complete Guide to Biology" by William Pickering. It might help.
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examkrackers is going to be your best bet, ESPECIALLY with your lack of a science degree.  I used them for my MCAT and got a 31 (and i'm in my 2nd year of med school now).  They teach you everything you need to know, and they do it at a very basic level and build you up.  I really liked it a lot.  You should also have kept some of your chemistry/bio/physics text books to reference once and awhile if there is a particular topic in examkrackers that you are really struggling on.  I have a couple of websites that sell their text books way cheaper than you would normally get them.  Drop me an email.  evoacct10@yahoo.com\n\n(please mark as best answer if you are satisfied)
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There was this girl I went to nursing school with.  I was a 4.0 student and she struggled.  She always sat at the table with me during class and I often found her copying off of me for answers. Especially off my scantrons so I usually tried very hard to conceal my answers.\n\nNear the end of a class semester I had so many extra credit points that I could fail the last few tests and totally pass with an A.\n\nSo what did I do? I did not hide my scantron.  Usually during the multiple choice tests there was always one joke answer. Like what is the function of the uterus. Answer....to hatch eggs.  So I picked all the stupid answers.\n\nI don't even think this girl read the questions because when we got our tests back we both had 0 right and she actually got mad at me!\n\nMy teacher caught on to what I did and booted her from the class.\n\nI got to retake the test, not that I needed to or anything.
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Hello Desh, I think you are brilliant already. The fact that you are aware that you can't remember some of the answers you read, is the first step in solving the challenge. To tell you the truth IT IS VERY EASY TO STUDY AND REMEMBER!\n\nFirstly, change the environment you study in. Some people study and absorb a lot in quite environments. You can chose a very quite library or study room. If you live in the country side move to the parks, but remember to stay in sight so people will easily come to your aid in case a lunatic threatens you.\n\nSome people also do very good studies in music filled environment. Tune in to your ipod or mp3 player and hit them books.\n\nSometimes you might also want to make it fun. If it is a history subject, put yourself into the drama and be the hero remembering all the characters in the lesson.\n\nOr better make your own music or discuss your topic or subject with one of your favorite friends and tell them to ask you questions about the subject in question. Hey! You are smart and am sure you gonna come out with the grades you are looking for. Good luck sweet heart.