<p>I would like to ask this question to those who were once bad at bio but now damn good at it. How do you get better? Studying hard is definitely not an answer I am looking for. Please help me!</p>
<p>Quite honestly, you have to be willing to memorize major things (what I call trends). If you can get certain basic concepts (for example, cell organelles, the essentials of cell division, a general idea of neo-Darwinian evolution) then you can fit other stuff in around it. For example, if you understand photosynthesis, a lot of the other stuff you need to know about plants falls into place.</p>
<p>One thing you need to be prepared for, which you can't avoid, is memorization. Sorry :(</p>
<p>You just need to memorize. In 9-10th grade at my school all students were required to take Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Biology was the only one you just had to memorize. In the others you can to a point understand the theory and still do well. That doesn't fly in biology. You just have to learn it. I'm good at it simply because I paid attention in class and took good notes and learned from them.</p>
<p>just sit down and attempt to connect all the points.</p>
<p>for me i was just the opposite of scarletleavy. bio was the only science where I didn't memorize. chem and physics, i had to memorize all the little formulas</p>
<p>I never bothered memorizing the formulas because we get a formula booklet for our exams. So it seemed kind of pointless. I just learned the theory so I could plug in the equation when I needed it.</p>
<p>MEMORIZE MEMORIZE MEMORIZE.
thats the key.
I'm currently taking biology and my grades are consistently 98's and higher on every test. Draw diagrams, reread, highlight the important info [that's what i do], and just read the notes every once in a while.</p>