<p>@Mansu what is the Student Resource Center?</p>
<p>ALso have any of you guys started a USABO club at your school? CEE has some info on their website.</p>
<p>^ It will be very hard to convince the school to sponsor a USABO club here 
I guess Iâll have to tryâŠ</p>
<p>ImSoAmbitious:</p>
<p>Student Resource Center is a website within CEE that contains countless information on biology. Information in that website is just AMAZING! CEE organized the whole website into several categories (i.e. Evolution, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, etc.), and it listed all the resources you can study and other recommended websites to learn further about specific subject within biology. </p>
<p>SRC can only be accessed by account of teacher at your school (who holds Open Exam), but you can just ask for the account. </p>
<p>I tried to make a USABO club at my school, but nobody was willing to joinâŠI guess that makes me a lone USABO-fan at my schoolâŠ</p>
<p>Wooo! Finally got my book. x3</p>
<p>@mansu, I wish I could access it, but I do not know which teacher runs USABO. I will see what I can do when school starts. And you could consider yourself the President of USABO Club at your school I guess.</p>
<p>hey guys
Last year I took AP bio, used the campbell textbook, and absolutely HATED it(diagrams are way too colorful and unclear, explanations are extremely vague, etc). What books do you recommend to study for USABO other than the campbell textbook?</p>
<p>The USABO test is based on the Campbell Book. The test makers take that Specific book and use it to make questions. CEE recommends that you be able to reproduce charts and figures in the book. For that reason, using another book may harm your chances. If you really donât want to use it, I would assume that any college level intro-bio book would work.</p>
<p>@ilove, it would hurt your chances, as campbell is what specific questions are from. But, Purves and Raven Biology(not plants) are worthy alternatives.</p>
<p>I think Purves textbook is more like reader-friendly than Campbell Biology; Campbell Bio has more details thoughâŠ</p>
<p>@Imsoambitious
The student resource center become available when you actually register for the exam. You are given a user Id and a password⊠personally I donât find it to use full as it is a collection of links and not really a coherent âcourseâ</p>
<p>Sent from my Transformer TF101 using CC</p>
<p>IDK if this helps or not, but here is a link to the australian science olympiad page with links to multiple tests. <a href=âhttps://www.asi.edu.au/site/asoe2012_sampletests.php[/url]â>https://www.asi.edu.au/site/asoe2012_sampletests.php</a>
Iâll get more if you guys want.</p>
<p>In the name of scraping together an applicationâŠBUMP, Bump, BUMP!</p>
<p>I started this thread: <a href=âhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sciences/1380059-anki-flash-cards-usabo-advanced-biology.html[/url]â>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sciences/1380059-anki-flash-cards-usabo-advanced-biology.html</a> that talks about Anki and bio, in case anyoneâs interested.</p>
<p>^I started using Anki a while ago (when you and NSQ mentioned it), itâs awesome</p>
<p>I JUST FINISHED Campbell Biology, 9th e/d!!! Now I completed C&R for second time!!
Honestly, I really love the Campbell; it is like a reading The Lord of the Rings (or The
Silmarillion).</p>
<p>Now i really do need your advice!! Please help me!</p>
<p>I know majority of information in Campbell Bio; should I read the textbook all over again or just focus on memorizing any subtle details and charts & tables?<br>
I also have been reading, though unfrequently and shallowly,the Raven Plants Biology and the Albertsâ Molecular Biology of the Cells. Should I now focus on those books?</p>
<p>I have been trying to memorize all the labs and corresponding abstracts in Campbell Biology. Are those labs necessary to memorize (I did not focus on them when I read the textbook)?</p>
<p>Hehe, wow NSQ you really managed to set up quite the personality cult here!</p>
<p>Go easy on her guys, sheâs an MIT sophomore! Also, she bites when you do stupid things :]</p>
<p>I kind of notice here that people are asking a lot of the same questions just rehashed in different ways.</p>
<p>1) Campbell is the best book for USABO. Campbell alone can get you into finals. The next best book out there is Ravenâs plants. Books like Lehninger honestly give you chapters of nonsense about Schiff bases and catalytic triads and if youâre interested in that stuff, thatâs great, but if you want to be prepared for USABO it is nottt worth the time.</p>
<p>2) Everything is fair game! I think I said this at least three times on the previous thread. Do you need to know famous historical experiments? Maybe! As NSQ said, no one here is CEE and âeverything is fair gameâ will always be the best answer we can give you, no matter how you decide to ask the question.</p>
<p>3) No it is not too late! This year some senior baddie made finals off Cliffnotes and nothing else. Some other senior baddie got a bronze at Finals off a bet with one of his classmates. </p>
<p>4) People are, I think, stressing waaaaay too much over books. The point of a book is to give a guided curriculum from start to finish; any book can do that. If some parts are kind of unclear, well, hellooo, you have the internet and us, donât you? Changing Campbell to Raven is NOT going to make or break your exam readiness. </p>
<p>Sorry if I sound harsh, but it annoys me when people ask alums like NSQ âhow should I studyâ or âwhich book is bestâ or âdo I need to know X?â It implies that you donât have the confidence to work out what will work for you and youâre resorting to the reassurance of an expert opinion as a fallback. </p>
<p>Thatâs no bueno, man! NSQ studied a certain way and knew certain things and that got her to 7th at Taiwan - doesnât mean she knows how it works for different years and different people! </p>
<p>No offense to NSQ, of course, sheâs a smartie, but you guys gotta believe in yourself if you want to make it, not in her!</p>
<p>Sent from my MB611 using CC</p>
<p>ok guys, iâve decided to get on board with campbell.
a quick question: do USABO questions tend to bring multiple areas of biology together, or do they tend to just focus on single subject areas? is USABO mostly memorization or do you also have to be able to apply it deeply(iâm talking about the open exam)
another question: which topics appear most frequently on the open? Iâm starting with human anatomy just cause thats my weakest area but from what I hear plants seem to be a big topic</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder if people actually look at the thread before asking their questions :/</p>
<p>Some are and some arenât. Some will be like medical diagnoses or ecological setup problems, where youâll have to think, for example, and some will be like âwhich of these have hearts with four chambersâ</p>
<p>someone made Finals with Cliff Notes AP Bio prep bookâŠthat does not make a sense.</p>