How do I take good biology notes?
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There’s also a theory that by using color, it’s easier for the brain to take in new information!
Try it! It worked for me!!
Good luck!
So at the same time you need to consiter your overall learning style, if you know what that is. If not, you should research it. Look for a “learning style test”, or something like that. If anything makes you say “ah!” then that’s it.
So, over the time you’ve been in the course, consiter how you best remember things. Is it better if you write words or draw pictures? If you imagine it in your head, or hear it? For notes, the split would be to focus on either words or pictures. If you like to look at pictures, and you can read a textbook later, spend more time drawing pictures of the subject and process diagrams. I drew a lot of process diagrams when I look biology. For example:
Stimulus hits a nerve ending ->impulse is created -> and so on.
I draw it going down the page, and sometimes I add pictures.
Take a process from your homework and take it apart, peice by peice. Go down the page,
Event A
Causes Event B
Causes Event C
Produces Substance D.
There are a lot of processes in biology, so I found that taking it apart step by step helped a lot, made it simpler. Use verbs. I use it for math, too. It’s because I like to think of things as a definable process of events.
Try it, see if it works for you.
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and things you know you need help remembering
plus EVERYTHING else, use abbreviations for everything
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