Biology Section-Reading questions first?

[agill786]

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Hi everyone,
Since bio is becoming more like verbal now...I have found that sometimes I read a passage and spend time on it, then I don't have a GREAT idea of what is going on just a little bit of knowledge on it, I waste a lot of time going back to the passage....there was one passage on which I spent 9 minutes on! Has anyone tried reading the questions first and then just referring back to the passage? Or is it advisable to just look at figures/diagrams and read the questions.

I have found that a lot of the passage-based questions, I could have answered based on my knowledge of bio.

Thanks in advance!

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Hi everyone,
Since bio is becoming more like verbal now...I have found that sometimes I read a passage and spend time on it, then I don't have a GREAT idea of what is going on just a little bit of knowledge on it, I waste a lot of time going back to the passage....there was one passage on which I spent 9 minutes on! Has anyone tried reading the questions first and then just referring back to the passage? Or is it advisable to just look at figures/diagrams and read the questions.

I have found that a lot of the passage-based questions, I could have answered based on my knowledge of bio.

Thanks in advance!

Reading questions first, then going back and trying to pick apart the passage might take longer. Do you have a lot of practice passages? It might help if you try to time yourself at around 7 min a passage. I think on the actual test you'll have enough time for 8 or so minutes a passage.

 

[CodeBlu]

Personally, I thought bio was very reasoning heavy. But I like that kind of stuff. I think reading the questions first would be a bad idea. Because then you won't read the passage critically, you'll be fishing for the answers.

Yes, some of the passages are long. But if there are graphs etc. Don't bother wasting your time trying to interpret them from the first time you read through. Get a gist, highlight any important info like "In this animal cytosine bonds to adenine not guanine."

Good luckkkkk

 

[cwaranch]

I havent had this same experience with the bio section. I just took aamc 9 and i really cant remember any question at all i used the passage on. Seemed like every single question could be answered without it.