I've trouble remembering bio. question answers and lessons. Can you help?

Question

I forget bio easily. ppl say maybe i don't understand it. yah, in a way that's right. But is there any way i can remember my lessons? Should i try writing and studying? 'coz i don't think reading works for me.

Answer 1

I think it *is* largely a question of understanding it; sometimes that's helped along by the logic of the way plants and animals work. There's nothing magical about living things, and there's always logic behind their physical mechanisms. I'm not sure if this will help, but it's how I remember things. If you can learn meanings of words - even though they're often Latin-based - that can help as well. Good luck.

Answer 2

You say reading doesn't work for you, and that you can't remember well what people say - this suggest to me that you are a kinetic learner. This means you learn by doing and you will also learn best when you are fidgeting or moving about.

There are various strategies for kinetic learning:

Get some old exam papers and work your way through answering them by researching the answers in your textbooks.

Get a koosh ball and play with it while your teacher is talking - it helps you to concentrate and stops you driving people crazy by clicking a pen which I have a bad habit of doing.

Walk about while you are studying - you can repeat things you want to remember while you are walking.

Stick up notes all over your room in big coloured writing - use bright coloured ink - preferably marker pens, each point in a different colour. This is a version of mind mapping - it makes it easier for your brain to process it and remember. This means whenever you are in your room, wherever you look you will be absorbing your study material. If your parents will let you, you could also put these cards up round the house as well. Stick them to the side of the cereal box, the back of the toilet door, on the wall above the bathroom sink - you get the idea.

I have included. for your own interest, a link to a test to see what type of learner you are - you just answer a series of multiple choice questions.

Answer 3

Are you anticipating a career that requires you to know all aspects of biology? If so, you need to find a way to store that information. Just reading never worked for me, but playing word association games made me remember. Here is an example. Question: What virus is responsible for the common cold? Answer: Adenovirus

If you can remember that the adenoids are in the sinus area and usually removed with the tonsils, it could trigger the answer, or for fun, you may just answer "I du no" Try and have fun with how you study and it will help you remember a lot easier than trying to absorb all those big words that bore you to tears.

Answer 4

Make yourself flash cards.

Go to a stationary shop, buy a pack of those 4"x3" address filecards. On each one, write a single important point from the area you're studying right now, until you've covered most of the basics.

Keep the cards around the house. Look through them, and try to memorise what you've written, as regularly as possible. Over time, you'll find you retain the information better, and it'll be easier to understand the more complex stuff.

Get as many test questions from old exams, books etc as you can, and try and work through them. Make your brain actually have to do something with the information, rather than just hold onto it.

Work in small chunks, if you try and do too much at once, it just gets frustrating.

Answer 5

Memory is a strange ability. If you loaned me say 10 cents you would give it little thought (goodbye 10 cents!). But if you loaned me $500 you would take great pains to get my name right and know where I can be reached. You would be using the same powers of memory but one event is heightened by its importance. Perhaps you need to heighten the importance of the material you need to learn. Is it important to get a good grade on an exam or to get good grades and enter a college of your own choice?

That said, some people learn (remember) better using different senses (seeing, hearing, reading, writing, etc.). A combination may work for you. Read the material, say it out loud, think about it, write it in notes, and see it written. Make it interesting (someone spent a career studying and writing about material you are presented with in summary form). Since real effort is required you must judge what needs special attention and is likely to appear on tests. First and final sentences in a paragraph are often key with elaboration in the middle. Prepare notes in the form of a quiz.

What is the difference between a moth and a butterfly?: (moths fold their wings).

Review you quiz before tests.

If you are going to spend some time studying, be a big spender and also spend some close "attention" (it takes the same amount of time with better results). Always look for meaning to help facts stick. Scientific language (including bio.) often uses Greek or Latin derived words that make more sense when you look them up in a dictionary to find the meaning of the root and other related words. For example % means percent or per hundred and relates to century (100 years), cent (100th of a dollar) or centimeter (100th of a meter). Ped may mean foot, as in pedal or centipede (100 feet?), etc. Good luck.

Answer 6

this is what i've got discovered: It does no longer count number what's on your ideas, "For any query, there is an answer to be givin". human beings from all walks of existence come at the same time very practically while somebody else is in want, yet in the presence of one yet another we are so consumed in our own existence, that we tend to bypass up the possibility to respond to a query that somebody else could have.

Answer 7

have you ever tried mind-mapping? Tony Buzan explains how to do it in all of his books. I have found they helped me think, take notes in class, write essays, work out what to say in meetings... the list is endless - it really is an easier way to work. The only hard part is making yourself do the first one!

Answer 8

Take notes, take loads of notes, then check with your teacher later

Answer 9

yeah !!!!!!!!! there are so many tricks through which you can remember bio. one of which is "pneumonic".