Hi!
How do you memorise all the content for bio?!?!
it's a crazy amount of content and i find it so difficult to memorise everything
Hi shreya_ajoshi!
Personally, I didn't memorise anything but instead sought to understand the processes thoroughly. For example, I didn't memorise the steps of polypeptide synthesis or DNA replication, but I made sure to understand how they worked, and why certain steps needed to occur, in order to achieve the desired outcome.
I also frequently drew pictures of the processes. In exams they can ask you to draw the steps of a certain process, so this is useful; in addition, it helps you consolidate your knowledge of a process and therefore it is ensured that you will remember it and be able to picture it, which is extremely important.
Some things, however, do need to be memorised. These are the definitions.
What I found throughout the year was that I used the definitions so much during study and class time was that I didn't need to actively memorise the definitions. Rather, they just seemed to stick in my brain after a while. If you want to ensure that you remember the definitions, you can use flashcards, especially for the longer definitions and the definitions you don't use as much.
Basically during the year you will learn so much, but you will also use the information so much that a pretty large amount just becomes part of your knowledge and doesn't need to be actively memorised. However it's important to constantly consolidate everything that you've already learnt.
Good luck for biology this year, I'm sure if you study hard you'll do great!