Hi! ah..uhmm... Anyone can help me or introduce me effective ways to memorize the cycles, terms, characteristics, bla bla in Biology? No matter how many time i read my books i keep forgetting those stuff... Any help???? Please help me as this is very, very important.
One of the best memorizing technique I've ever used is to take a few letters from each word in the cycle and make it into some sort of story and visualize it in your head... uhmm... never done this in English but it's roughly like this for example: Gray wolf: Kingdom = Animalia Phylum = chordata Class = Mammalia Order = carnivorous Family = Candae Genus = Canis Species = lupus The story: An animal playing keyboard chord of Mamma Mia song while chomping meat (carnivorous) and candy-in-a-can which has lupus. Pretty much like that. You only have to recall the story and what term it associates. On a number of lists, remember the keywords of each list. Ex.: gray wolf=keyboard chomp.
I think those memory tricks are called mnemonics. There are a gifted few who are truly interested in this stuff, and so can just soak all these facts after hearing about them or reading about it. Mnemonics help with the memorizing part, but it does really little in understanding concepts, which will be in the form of very detailed and complex multiple choice questions in university exams. The best way to study for that is to make a table - tedious I know, but it actually does help. Not only will it help you memorize things, it will help you remember how those things are related to each other - stuff's easier to remember when they're associated with lots of other things rather than by themselves.
