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Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 07:30:20 2020 No.11817327 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11817390 >>11817411

Who else here sucks hard in Biology?

>study Medical Engineering
>have the same subjects as the Microtechnology studies in the main subjects Calc 1-3, Physics and Chemistry
>do okayish in them
>the biology exam from the first Semester is the easiest in the entire subject with a 10% failing rate
>fail it twice

I'm incapable of understanding it. I try to memorize eukaryot and prokaryot cells over months and at the exam I just confuse everything and fail. If I study something in Math, Physics or Chemistry and don't understand it, I just do a few extra exercises and get it, but Biology? I suck hard at route memorization

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Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 2020 07:45:38 No.11817353 Report

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You are right about it being just about memorization.
Try categorizing words, draw trees which have branches and sub-branches for terms. You don't need any deep understanding. If you confuse words, make dumb and arbitrary mnemonics that you will use for a short time. They don't need to make sense, and they don't need to be expendable. When you get the exam paper you can write dumb acronyms you made that makes it harder to confuse stuff.
I am not sure if I explained myself well, probably not. But I know how you feel like. I don't like biology myself and I needed it just as an requirement. But these techniques served me well so I hope they might be useful to you too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 2020 08:18:20 No.11817390 Report

Quoted By: >>11817411 >>11817424

>>11817327
learn your latin and greek roots, find a way to map out structures and related their functions. create mechanistic chains of structures/functions and things will clump together allowing you to freely associate more easily. the memorization is just the most obvious part of developing biological intuition. otherwise you should just make flash cards but that never felt like a good use of time for me.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 2020 08:38:38 No.11817411 Report

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>>11817327
>>11817390
This might be useful to you:

Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Roots, Donald J. Borror

You can find the text on libgen. One of my first year bio professors suggested this to me and it was quite useful for being able to quickly associate names with functions and structures

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 2020 08:51:00 No.11817424 Report

Quoted By: >>11817480

>>11817390
This guy is probably correct. I learned latin and greek roots at a very early age and medical terms and basically anything bio comes easily to me.
I honestly cannot tell you why you'd fail the exam, especially if you can pass physics and calc (that is, if you're taking the real version of those courses) since I was in class with literal retards, your picture very related, who received Bs and Cs in Bio and they didn't study for shit. Learn the roots and read the book
t. physics student who received As in 2 bio classes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Jun 2020 09:32:01 No.11817480 Report

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>>11817424
>how could you pass that

In Math and Physics, when I do a lot of the exercises and repeat them I can apply them. In Biology you don't have exercises and just have the script and memorize it including the sketching.
I think I switch to Microtechnology. I'm not suited for anything regarding Biology.

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