Skipping passage in bio

[bluedusk]

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When I do the bio section, I spend way too much time trying to understanding every detail of the passage/graphs. Is it a sound strategy to skip the passages and go first to the questions, and then come back to the passage as needed?

In general, what kind of strategies for bio worked for you?

 

[RemiSig]

I can not guess as to what other SDNers will tell you, but I will say no, no, no! This is a bad habit to get involved in because these questions are tricky and can prime you to look for particular verbiage or topic within the section and miss the bigger picture. What I would recommend, and this is only my opinion, is to become faster at reading and understanding the section. This means that you will have to push yourself to practice this. This is not an easy skill as these sections are very difficult and convoluted. I wish you luck as it was frustrating for me as I was studying!

 

[Lurkvey]

Just read the passage and get the main idea of the passage: the background, hypothesis, and experiment(s). Most of the passage is noise, don't get bogged down in details about gene names or weird words.

Try to have a general idea what graphs are showing, and for tables you should just check column and row titles and skim for asterisks (or a similar symbol that isn't a number or word) since that tends to show significant differences between control and experiment.