It is true that there are lot of things that have to be memorized, but it's a kind of logical memorization: if you understand the previous concepts, you'll learn better and faster. The moral: It's not impossible to self study it, but do it for 3 months or more to score over Almost half of the test consists of application questions about experiments.
I had a decent base for bio. If you consider that I at all didn't know anything about the chemical processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis, retroviruses, gel electrophoresis,nerve impulse, and absolutely NOTHING about evolution and ecology. It's definitely possible to self study for it. I got a self studying it a week before, even though I had plenty of time before. As you walk by each picture, label one thing on the picture. Next time you walk by it, label something else.
Soon you will have labeled most of the items on the picture. When you have one or two left — if you know them, label them — if you don't know them, study them. Look for online quizzes and practice tests. Make sure you can explain why all the other options are wrong. Use memory aids to help you form memory associations. Mnemonic devices like acronyms, acrostics, rhymes or songs, visual imagery, meaningful associations, and even looking at the etymology or origin of words can be helpful.
When you are comfortable with one of these steps, move on to the next level of difficulty: Draw, trace, or photocopy a picture of the process from your book remove the label.
Note that the terms on the cards may relate to important steps in the process in addition to the names of the molecules or structures. For example, is this a step in aerobic respiration where chemical energy is stored in an electron carrier or where carbon dioxide is given off? Remember that knowing how or why something happens is sometimes more important than simply knowing all the names. Why should you this? But the only way to be sure in advance that you really know the given system well the forest is to practice explaining what you know.
Learn individual concepts before integrating it together. You need to have content learned and understood before you can go to the next level of understanding by integrating the information. This is one reason it is so important to turn around your notes quickly and answer any fact and detail questions right away.
Use active study methods. Try to see how disparate lecture topics are connected. How does a concept or process tie to a larger picture? How does new material build off of prior course content? How could it be built on later? When explaining causal connections, it's important to build a logical and adequate chain of connection between the initial cause and the final effect.
There are too many questions left unanswered. As an Astronomy major I usually covered only a couple of pages a night in my relatively short textbooks. Little memorization was needed but strong analytic skills were crucial. The amount of new material that had to be learned was not great but it was material that is extremely difficult to understand. In medical school the textbooks were page tomes and it was not unusual to have to learn all the material in 50 pages in one night.
There is very little in medical school that is particularly difficult to understand but there was just so much of it. They would all have led to lucrative careers in either industry or wall street making more money than medical doctors and using your mathematical skills.
Of course there are easier ways to make money, as well as ways just as hard to make crazy amounts of money. I've seen plenty. There's so many other ways to make more money than MDs more output with less debt and time less input.
Finance and management at a large technical company are some of them. People wanted to go to medical school to become a doctor because of pay inflation due to the medical cartel situation in the US.
You can't assume everyone to be the same as people in your circle. And people who really want to help others and save lives do not consider the amount they can help or save. Memorization is a skill and puerile minds that denigrate the sciences are what hold society back. It is the study of life and true biologists have some of the most enjoyable jobs imaginable. We can learn about the living world around us on a micro or macro scale through biology.
The courses may be term intensive but what would you suggest they be? Biology doesn't involve the ridiculous number crunching that Physics or Chemistry majors go through. It is what you make of it.
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