studying using flashcards

[GoodEarth]

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What do u guys find is the best way to formulate them? And How do u deal with putting huge concepts on them. I'm having trouble putting the information from my textbook on to the cards (biochemistry)

 

[mediterranean]

I put the name of the amino acid on one side and what it looks like and function on the other. Try to put outlines of processes on one card and break down each step on separate cards. That's how I would handle it. Those were the good old days when I took. It is just a matter of breaking it down. (ex. all the steps for gluconeogenesis on one card. break it down for all the steps on another side). Hope this helps.

 

[Mackey]

For quick flashcards, you can make questions on one column of an excel spreadsheet and answers in the second column, then upload them to a free account on flashcardexchange.com. Don't make them huge either, flashcards really lose their value if they have gigantic answers.

The speed of making them this way comes in handy when you actually get to med school.

I have 1400 flashcards from the past two weeks. knocked through them twice today. Test on Friday. Good times.

 

[WatchForDaEF55]

If you're talking about reactions with steps such as lipid biosynthesis, glycolysis or TCA cycle then all I really did was write the reaction name on one side and wrote the step with the enzyme on the other. I personally needed to find a better method for remembering because according to our professor...memorizing the steps won't help on the tests. I ended up with a B using that strat in biochem 🙁 , but most of that class failed cause of his ridiculous final

 

[MattBicknell]

.In general, the flash cards are cards that bear information in the form of words or picture on either or both sides and are very popular with toddlers. You can use to store any information or text.

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[jm192]

What do u guys find is the best way to formulate them? And How do u deal with putting huge concepts on them. I'm having trouble putting the information from my textbook on to the cards (biochemistry)

You don't.

You can either break the huge concept into several smaller steps/concepts and put each onto it's own note card

OR

Write the life out of it.

I've done both...I honestly find writing it out in that instance works better.

Just sit down and keep writing and rewriting the concept. At some point you might not exactly understand it all, but you'll be able to write it.

If you don't know Protein 1 activates protein 2 activates protein 3 activates protein 4...............activates protein 47.........WRITE it. Keep writing it. Then go back and read through it, try to make sense of it, then go write it some more.

As horrible as it may sound, most of the time being able to spit it out on paper is the most important thing. And, it's really the same thing as note cards.

 

[Myuu]

Are you making physical flashcards or electronic ones? There are some fairly nice options out there for electronic ones.👍

 

[seelee]

I find that flash cards are better for definitions, long lists of minutae, etc. For mechanisms or pathways, I draw it out. I may make a flashcard in my deck that says TCA cycle, and when the card comes up, I draw it out on a piece of paper.

If you have an ipod touch or an iphone then get iflipr. Make your flashcards in a spreadsheet and then upload them online. you can look at them forward or backwards, and you can do multiple choice too.

 

[GoodEarth]

Are you making physical flashcards or electronic ones? There are some fairly nice options out there for electronic ones.👍

Hmm, I've usually just done the physical kind. I recently transferred from semester system to quarter system which moves way faster so maybe electronic ones may be better? I'm also finding that I can't recall facts or concepts that well on tests... or if i do i write it in a way that makes me lose points, anyone have any suggestions for this as well?

 

[orthomyxo]

For quick flashcards, you can make questions on one column of an excel spreadsheet and answers in the second column, then upload them to a free account on flashcardexchange.com. Don't make them huge either, flashcards really lose their value if they have gigantic answers.

The speed of making them this way comes in handy when you actually get to med school.

I have 1400 flashcards from the past two weeks. knocked through them twice today. Test on Friday. Good times.

😱 1400 flashcards?!?? Mother of God.

 

[tiedyeddog]

Are you making physical flashcards or electronic ones? There are some fairly nice options out there for electronic ones.👍

I looked into electronic ones and didn't like what I saw (it was ~two years ago) What have you used, I'm getting tired of having thousands of little pieces of paper....ugh..