I got a 68% on the last test which is horrible! Other people thought the test was easy. I actually thought so too until I saw my score. I have no idea what I did wrong. Maybe I should have read the textbook and started studying earlier? Idk, but if any one you got an A in Biology please tell me how. By the way, this class in particular is Evolutionary Biology. Any advice is appreciated 
Also my teacher has a bell curve which is pretty awful :l
Welcome to the pre-med rat race. Curved grading is now a permanent part of your life. Embrace it.
Did you attend review sessions? Work with study group? Outline textbook chapters? Make flashcards? Take notes in class? Condense class notes into a review/study outline? Seek out & use additional resources besides your textbook? Worked with a tutor?
Now that you have your test back, have you looked up/corrected your wrong answers? If you still don’t understand why your answers were wrong, have you gone to your prof’s or TA’s office hours to ask why your answers are wrong? Have you spoken with your prof/TA about ways you can improve your class performance?
Have gone to your college’s tutoring center? Have you sought out ways to improve your study skills?
Sounds like you didn’t put enough effort into preparing for your exam and it bit you in the butt. Tests that look easy are usually because you don’t know the material well enough to realize the questions aren’t a simple as you thought.
You make a good point. I honestly did not do most of those things, mainly because I underestimated the class.
A’s in Bio and the rest is not any trick or miracle, need to work hard, there is no other way.
“I have no idea what I did wrong” - Did not you go over your mistakes after exam to get an idea? If something needs more effort, then put them out. If exam takes 30 hours to prepare, so be it! Whatever it takes. You cannot ask others, Bio maybe easy for some and very hard for others, Chem might be hard for some and easy for others, cannot compare, need to assess your own ability and assess your own amount of efforts required.
I am surprised that you have not been exposed to bio in HS and you want to be premed? College bio is an extension of HS bio, harder of course.
Bio is notorious in son’s school to trip even the best student. There are 4 professors teaching 4 different topics and giving 4 completely different style tests. So you don’t get the benefit of getting used to one professors style of teaching and test format. My son studied really hard and he’s really good at science. Got high 90s on 2 tests and high 60 on the other 2. When he went to the professor after one of those tests because he didn’t agree with the way it was marked, professor didn’t understand the question himself and couldn’t explain it. So even though I agree with everything my fellow CCers said on preparation, sometimes even if you do everything right, you still can’t get it right. I guess that’s why they call it a weed out course. My son was so terrified about getting a B or even worst in the class that he was going to drop it 3 days before the final. I convinced him not to. I told him that next semester he will just have to go through the same insanity with same results. He studied like a fiend for the final. Couple of days nonstop. Ended up with an A- It was a miracle and he was happy it was over.
^Close experience in my D’s first Bio, which was called Botany/Microbiology/Zoology - BMZ. 3 profs at every lecture, teaching their own subpseciaty. D. was shocked after having both Honors and AP Bio in HS and having As and 5, they told her not to skip this class and thank goodness that she did not They went thru AP Bio material in the first 2 weeks and then moved on. Good number of Honors students (Honors at D’s UG was filled primarily with valedictorians, many from private HSs) did not survive on the pre-med track after this class, fell out. We heard about this class before D. even started her first sememster. D. knew how to study for As, never had a B, so she said she just needed to adjust her efforts upward in college, that is all, still did not have a single B. You will need to adjust again to much higher level at Med. School, and this adjustment will be a “quntum leap” according to my D. (graduating in May, just applied for residencies). So, as I saind, no miracles, not tricks, just a lot of hard work, ALL the time, not just before exams.