<p>Super exciting nostalgia fun! Hoping next year is as great as the last!
also – “StarCraft also seems to be a tradition” – hahahahah. :D</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Sigh…you biologie people… Why must you be so excited so early? Most of us are entering our hybernation sleep…</p>
<p>When is it this year?</p>
<p>^ Look at the website.</p>
<p>Hey Insorak! Long time no see…</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll agree that finding the old tests is really difficult (I got several off of Scribd, after looking through like twenty pages of search info). </p>
<p>Only studying advice I know - memorize Campbell. Cover to cover. Come on, I know you can do it.</p>
<p>And IJoker? I didn’t study nearly that much, and I still got in to Finals.</p>
<p>Lol, u guys make me worried. I’m reading Campbell now and haven’t finished it. Wat was the cutoff for semi (thats my goal)? I heard its around 30/50 for the last few years right?</p>
<p>last year, the open exam was ridiculously esoteric, and the cut-off was 21/50, or something like that.
don’t worry about finishing campbell now; as long as you finish it by February (you can skim over the ecology parts), you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>After looking at past test, I perceived that the test focused much on biochem, Genetics, molecular bio. Is this the case for you as a pervious USABOer?. Is it a good idea to jst skim the classification section and try to learn the charts and graphs? I got everything down (jst need to review biochem, gen, molecular in detail).</p>
<p>So, I’m doing the USABO for the first time this year. I took AP Bio last year and found it quite easy, had a lot of the diagrams and things memorized, and am in the process of re-reading the book (I forget how many times I read it last year) to refresh for the opens. I’m wondering is there anything else to do to prepare (other than read, re-read, MIT study, possibly some college textbooks, and study past tests)? Thanks for all of your help! :D</p>
<p>cmon, usabo-ers, i dun wanna be the only one commenting on this thread!</p>
<p>@ boomshakalaka: The subjects that you have mentioned are important ones, but that can be said for almost all subjects within campbell.</p>
<p>@ rosaceae: what NightShadeQueen said about Campbell x10000000000. there is so much information packed into the book that knowing all of it should keep you busy for a while. btw, great name. i like it.</p>
<p>Can we get a list of the most important chapters of Campbell’s that we have to pay a lot of attention to? And what other books/topics that are covered briefly in Campbell’s that we need to know?</p>
<p>its so unpredictable. There are years when there are 5-6 evolution questions. There are years when there are none. However, the molecular/biochem section is very prevalent in every test</p>
<p>I want to get involved with this. My school has zilch knowledge about this kind of thing. I have chekced the website out but it says i need a teacher to recommend me. I don’t really feel like having my school start this so I was just wondering what the steps were needed to compete in this by taking it at a different school? Teachers from those schools wouldn’t know me, so how would they recommend me? How would i find out where certain schools have this USABO test administered? IS there a different website for this? Help guys!!! I am a strong Bio Student. I have taken AP BIO. I have memorized a good portion of Campbell. I think i can be ready by February.</p>
<p>@sumgunno: Thanks!! Well on to those lovely r-groups then… As to the name, rose family XD Finally a place I can be my plant loving self in with no shame!</p>
<p>what chapters are considered “molecular/biochem”?</p>
<p>And also, is memorizing that taxonomy stuff a waste of time?</p>
<p>^ True, there are only like 1 to at most 3 after looking at recent tests.</p>
<p>What books are you guys using to study for Semis? I know open is primarily from Campbell</p>
<p>Also, is there a big enough difference between the 7th and 8th edition campbell, that i should consider buying the 8th? I know the info is most likely the same, but just wondering.</p>
<p>^No, because as you said the information are almost the same, except probably for some modern stuff.</p>