<p>alright. need some help. i have to cover half the year's material of bio in about 3 days. 18 or so chapters? any suggestions other than reading every chapter in campbells?</p>
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<p>In my biology text book, there are short summary's for each section of each chapter. I went through and read just the summary's. If I didn't remember or understand it, I read that section.If your book doesn't have those, I'd suggest just skimming pages, that'd work just as well.
I also spent a lot of time recopying my notes. It's time consuming, but I've found it really works for me.
I'm sure there are some sections that you KNOW you know. For me, I've got the whole genetics chapter in my head, no problem.Spend the least amount of time on those sections.
If you know your teacher, you might know which sections he/she has emphasized most in teaching. Spend extra time on those sections. </p>
<p>Generally, there is no quick and easy way for me to study. It's just time and repetition. Luckily, our exam was based mostly on recent material and I rocked it with a 98. I wish you much luck.</p>
<p>I just took mine, and I basically studied my book, my notes, and the AP bio exam book. I also used some cards from Barrons that serve as a really good review/refresher for things learned earlier in the year...they are about $15 and you can get them at barnes and noble or really any bookstore. I also used some websites that are from textbooks...they have some nice animations for many of the chapters.</p>
<p>Our teacher gave us a review list of things that will be on the test, unfortunately he decided to make us learn two more chapters by ourselves before the final, but we are allowed to use notes for those two chapters. Our book has a great online resource with complete chapters summarys, so I cut those out and taped them on the notes he gave us to fill out. I'm just relying on the list of things he gave us, and my answers, and then I think I'll make a sheet of more complicated things like meiosis, the citric acid cycle, transcription, translation, etc, and study that as well.</p>