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Glg 101 Week 4 Assignment

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First, I skim the chapter, resting on big ideas that are new, complex, and/or especially confusing, and speeding through things I quickly understand--just getting the gist of things. Sometimes I jot down things if I feel compelled to; sometimes I don’t. If there were any homework problems or quizzes I don’t feel 100% confident on, I redo them until I feel comfortable. I ask the teacher any the questions I have. I read the chapter again, but this time I usually draw some diagrams and come up with funny pictures or mnemonic devices that can give me some shortcuts.

Then I read the chapter again, but this time I have made picture in my mind of the pages and I try to anticipate the terms and the concepts and my own examples for each concept before I read them. If I miss any, I jot them down again. Sometimes, I read the book backwards, sub-heading to sub-heading until I can see pretty much the whole …show more content…

If I am feeling especially studious or nervous I’ll run through the quizlet at night, and then wake up early in the morning and do it …show more content…

My mom is a biologist, so sometimes while we cook dinner together we’ll have discussions that delve pretty deeply into what I learned (or thought I learned), which I really like. It sticks with me. Basically my studying method is figure out what I know and what my weaknesses are, attack the weaknesses first, make sure I ask questions and think insightfully, then check everything over. My methods for attacking my weaknesses depend on the type of stuff I’m learning about in AP Bio. I pick the one or combination of ones that I think will get me the most prepared in the least amount of

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