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Hello! I'm in AP Bio as well and my teacher is very bad at teaching. I have an A in the class but I don't think I've learned much at all! When I try to read the textbook it's very overwhelming. Do you have any advice on learning it on my own and where to take good notes from? How do you personally study for bio?

Hi anon! I was kinda in that situation earlier this year! My advice is to go to YouTube and find the Crash Course channel. There, you can find a huge range of videos on a lot of topics! For biology, I like to go to the “Biology” playlist and find the video that pertains the the chapter. Sometimes there isn’t a corresponding video :/ Sometimes the “Anatomy and Physiology” playlist has a related video or two.

I know that the textbook is overwhelming, but my teacher gives us these reading guides that go through the key parts of the chapter and those really help if you actually read through the chapter. I say actually read because you kind find the answers online as well lol. If that interests you, maybe try going through those slowly?

I hope that helps you, Anon!! Let me know if you need any help personally!

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When to use flash cards: memorizing words/vocab, numbers, equations, names, dates, and verbatim facts or lines.

When to use mnemonic devices: memorizing steps of a process or sets of facts/information/people, especially in an order.

When to use concept maps or drawings: learning (rather than memorizing) relationships, processes, concepts, systems, etc.

When to use tables or charts: learning or memorizing systems (eg. conjugation in a foreign language), sets of sets of information (eg. people and when they lived and what they did), and other large/complex groups of information.

When to use songs: for learning or memorizing anything.

Disclaimer: this is a general guideline. If something else works for you, do it!

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