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S1E8 - [q+a] a-level biology
in this episode, i answer ALL of your questions about a-level biology - how to answer application questions, how to revise effectively and more. hope i gave good advice!! if you have any questions, feel free to message me on all platforms! i'd love to hear from you <3
[0:42] best online resource for biology?
[2:32] what to do after getting past paper questions wrong?
[4:10] how to revise all a-level content before the exam?
[7:04] best tips for revision? i understand topics but struggle to get marks
[9:11] maths + application in biology?
[11:39] how did you revise?
[14:37] how to identify what the examiner wants you to say?
[15:52] are notes or mindmaps efficient?
[17:37] another episode on chemistry / maths?
[18:08] how to answer application questions
[20:32] exam techniques?
[21:14] how to revise effectively? i spend so long revising but it doesn't pay off
my website: themediocredoctor.square.site
instagram: @medicmornings @themediocredoctor
tiktok: @stinkybluebells
email: [email protected]
youtube: themediocredoctor
Good morning, guys. Welcome back to another episode of medic mornings. I'm so excited to be starting today's episode because I am answering all of your questions on biology anyting, biology related and there's a lot of questions. So I'm going to try my best to answer all of them. But if I haven't then, send me a DM and I'm more than happy to help you. All right, let's get started. I haven't seen any of your question, but I'm looking through them right now, and these are some good questions. The first question is by someone who asked, what is the best online resource that you have used for biology? If you know me, I'm like, the queen of using online resources. I don't know if it was just me and my school, but everyone had a laptop or an iPad of some sort. So I used only the Kaboodle app. I don't know if you know it. But for ocra, there is a caboodle book that has the original Oxford book and it's the best resource. It's the textbook that all of your students should have aside from that, I didn't really use any online resources. I want you to buy, that was just my personal study Style. I also use the cgp book. If you're familiar with that, it's a handbook. It has all the cheat sheet, it has like equations formulas, small things you need to know but it's not really in much detail. So if you're looking for a good textbook, that is OCR certified go on crib oodle. I also want to explain. Why do you do sheep? Especially since I procrastinate a lot. I want to say more than the average person. I would say, when I'm on YouTube, I just start procrastinating and just click on to other videos that aren't really related to biology. And also, the concepts for YouTube is really differs from person to person. So I'm just a person that doesn't like you, do you shoot for apology but if you do, I would recommend mr. Murray, he helped me during my exam. Where he did these predictions and he's been quiet spot. Actually. So you would be doing yourself a huge disservice if you don't look at Mr, Maury, during your exam season. Another question by someone who asked? What did he do? After do past paper questions, did you memorize the answers? You go wrong. So far, I've tried memorizing questions. I got wrong. But I have so many to go through. How did you manage? This is such a good question and it's so specific. I love that. I personally did not memorize the answers that I've gone wrong. I know a lot of people do this specific method where they input the question that they got wrong on annke and over time, you'll come and revisit again. But for me personally, I think that once you get a question wrong, you get it wrong once. But then you'll redo the past paper. Again, that's what I did. So I just read the entire past paper and because in biology, there is only so many past papers, you can go through. So, a lot of the time, I just repeated the past paper over and over again. And also one piece of advice is to not dwell on those like question that you got wrong because, especially in biology, it's very content, heavy. And there is a bell, Application but it's always within the specification. So as long as you know the contents as long as you are 100% sure on the textbook and everything within a textbook then you are completely fine. Don't worry about it too much. Someone asked any examples on how to revise all a level bio contents to our exam time. Do past paper questions, I did a YouTube video on this, it's titled how to make a schedule, and if you call my YouTube channel, you will see. But I'll quickly brief over again. So a level by a lot of content. We know it's the most content, happy subject. So the first thing you want to do is not stress about it too much. You want to do your your 13 content first, because we underestimate how much we actually remember from your 12. Your 12 content is the basic and the fundamentals of your 13 and you will definitely never forget it all. It's just impossible to forget all. So my biggest is to go through your 13 content. First, make sure you get on top of that because basically and you're 13 you're learning the same amount of content as your 12 but half the time so you need to know all your your 13 content by April. I'm assuming. And then on April you want to go through your your 12 content. So perhaps every single day you should write two or three chapters. So within cells topic, we had one topic where I was just cell membranes and dimes the arrangements of eukaryotic cells. So I would just do eukaryotic cells and cell membranes in one day. And then the next day I would do another topic so you should arrange it. That you will not miss any topics out and you should be extremely diligent with your time. Biology is one of those really time-management fussy subjects where you have to be excellent at time management otherwise you will never get everything done. So just be diligent, I personally, I stayed at school till 6 p.m. every single day and that's definitely not healthy. But my house was like a two-minute walk away from the school. So I had the facilities to do that, but some people who need to travel who have strict curfew staying at home. To revise is also good. I spent a lot of time in my bedroom, but if you're able to manage your time wisely than you're able to revise, all of the content as well as get your past papers in especially for biology, I would say that content is more important than past paper questions. So if you can park Why is knowing the content first then application is something that you can do further on right before your exam. Someone asked best tips for revision, I understand topics, but struggle to explain it to get marks. Biology is inherently a very content, happy subject. So the main thing is that you should understand the mark scheme, the first thing you should do is consolidate your learning. So use Anki, use Quizlet or any method that you're comfortable with any apps that are facilitated for flashcards spaced repetition, all these techniques, utilized them for a revision for your content first. And when you understand topics, but he struggled to explain it. Then that means that you struggle to understand it in the first place because understanding content is inherently being able to teach it to someone. So just pull your biology, classmates to one side and maybe every lesson, just teach each other a topic. Perhaps, teach you some other, you know, the entire genetic topic and just add on ideas. And that's kind of how you Regurgitate that information over and over again. Another tip that I have for revision, especially for those who struggle to explain it is, literally do the past papers from the very beginning. So, I think OCR goes all the way back from 2002. So start from those past papers, those past papers, from 2002 to 2016, I believe are the old specification and even though they're the old specification people are like it's not reliable. Honestly, the exam technique required from that. Time. To know, is basically the same, they have some stuff. That's not an arse back. I know they have a lot of food stuff like cholesterol but honestly for most of it, it's very relevant, it's very applicable to our specification. So make sure you do some old past papers as well as their useful. Someone asked maths and application with a broken heart emoji. Okay, formats and application in biology, they're fairly simple for me because I took psychology and that was incredibly difficult. Especially we had research methods and we had like six different significant tests that we needed to remember, but math I would say is I think you get given the equation. So you just need to know what the little symbols in the equation mean for biology. I think that means a t-test. You need to know spearman's Rank and Saturday patient. And yeah, I think that's it. So, those math equations, that you will be given just remember how to use them. And also, the small equations, like, magnification. Just remember, magnification is image over actual image size over actual size, and lot of people struggled with that. And also, For Maxi, part of biology. I think it's fairly simple. I think chemistry is where it starts to get really confusing. But yeah, for biology, just remember that the equations are given to you and just know how to use them, know the significance test. So I think they'll be like it's a significant or not and you need to know the probability, if it's over 5% or something. But yeah, those are really the only things that you need to remember about biology maths, it's really not that complicated, a lot of the time, teachers overcomplicate it, but just remember, it's very straightforward. You just need to know the probability. The statistics you don't even need to remember the formula. So you're good. The application part of biology is where a lot of people struggle, because it's worded. So weirdly of the times, they're like one Mark, and then one more questions are easier, but when it comes to the essays, sometimes it can be there. Cool. So what I did personally was I didn't highlight any of the key words. I make sure I just re-read the question over and over again and write what you think is relevant. So overtime, over doing lots of past paper questions, this becomes more easy and I promise you it gets easier. I promised, how did he revise? Someone as I spoke, a lot about this in my text. So I revise easing and key the most. And I also revised using past papers, and that's about it. I made notes, I made really, really pretty looking though. It's on Google. So, I highlighted a lot of it, I made comments on the side. So if you know, you can I comment on some highlighted text, right? So I use that a lot because it was kind of like little sticky notes on the sides. I also put sticky notes on my bedroom wall which did absolutely fucking nothing. I didn't look at the notes once but I feel like just seeing everyone else do it like put sticky notes on their wall. I thought it was super cool and I wanted to try it. It didn't work, I will not be doing that again but which one to make. So I'm so sorry for my really curly boys. I usually don't sound like this, but I have had the flu for the past few days so this is what you're getting, okay. Nick's someone asked how to memorize content long-term for me. I didn't have this issue a lot of the time, it's just because you're cramming so much information into your brain at such a little time. So that is why your information is falling out. But what you have to do is just right over and over again, get a piece of scrap paper. Do the blessing technique, which is when you just look at the text book 4, 10 minutes. I'm right everything that you know down and reread it and go over with red pen. What you have missed out and then get another piece of paper. The next day. Don't even look at the text, but just write everything that, you know, from that topic and see if there are any irregularities. See if there are any mistakes with in it and just keep doing that every single day. So I really struggled with the next topic. I also really struggled with translocation a lot. So the process within translocation like the pumping of H+ ions, the movement of sucrose from a high concentration to a low concentration. So I use the birthing technique for that, I just drew all out. I wrote the entire process down and that's kind of how you get it to go into your long-term memory. Especially since it's a semantic type of information semantic is basically when you input information into your brain, due to its actual Eating instead of just putting it into your brain cuz it's there, you know, you actually have to understand it and that's how it gets into your long-term memory because it means something to you and it's attributed to something and your mind recognizes it more and that's how you get it to stick. Someone also asked how to remember or identify what points examiners want us to say, there is no cheat code for this. There is no, short-term hack or hit. That's going to help me help you. You're going to have to do that yourself, through lots of past papers, lots of dedication and time. So you're going to do past papers every single day. You're going to dedicate 2 hours to biology every single day, because that's what it requires because of its large Content Volume. And essentially this is just something that is unavoidable. I agree that sometimes it can be really difficult because examiners want something. But then they rephrase the question so weirdly but if it's really difficult than other people will find it difficult as well. So you're scored on a curve and the most important thing is that you do your job and You look at more past papers, the more past papers, you come across the better, you will get. So make sure you just put your time. Turn off your phone, turn on your Forest app. Just do your revision and it will come. I promise I promise some of that are notes or my maps efficient, I didn't do any money or any sort. I remember I didn't mind maps about the Maasai, Mara topics when our teacher for stuff to make some, they had to make it all pretty and stuff. But no, I did not do any my maps. I think personally their waste of time especially in biology because you're trying to link topics together and I can see how it works. So you can say oh the cell biology is involved in the plants topic. It's involved in the the breathing and exchange surfaces topic cell membranes are involved in the alveolus. And that's how it connects together but I personally didn't find it useful at all. I also know that you could make money online. So maybe I would have made my maps online. But I also made notes. So I already went through how I made notes on goo. But make sure you make them really pretty, make you make them really pastel highlighted. But also remember that tables charts and graphs are going to be your best friend. So whenever you get any information, I remember there was a thing called Divergent and convergent. I think you have to put these pictures and these words into tables and charts and that's how I organized my mind into a more like simplistic layout. So you want to compare these directly against each other. I don't know if this makes any sense, but if you struggle with this, then send me the arm and I'll explain it in a bit more detail. Someone asked as well. Could you do 140cr come and Edexcel maths? Of course, I don't do math. I did psychology or CR and I know lots of people don't do those or a psychology since it's such a small subjects, but I will definitely do one for OCR chemistry as a lot of people to OCR chemistry. Okay I'm checking my account now or questions. Okay, I've got a lot of questions here as well. One person ask tips to answer application questions. They'll be the death of me low. Oh my God. I genuinely paper, 3 and biology was literally the bane of my existence. I hated it so much. And also, why are the great battery's so low for paper 3? It's probably cuz everyone hate to do this as well. But application questions is the only way to get past them is two more past papers. I know that's not what you wanted to hear as a person who also struggled with application a lot doing more past paper questions delegating answers with her friends as well asking them what they wrote down and looking at the Mark scheme memorizing the mark scheme and then writing that Mark scheme as the way you would answer. All of those questions. Moving forward is the way I would answer application questions. A lot of people are also asking, I know the content but can struggle to hit the mark scheme. This is such a common topic and all my questions. Oh my gosh, it really is a big struggle. Yeah, I would say biology is one of those subjects that takes a lot of dedication and time and patience to get to that stage where you can achieve a consistent, a star. I mean, the mop before I did my actual exam icon a not the a star. So it really depends on what paper is. I think a lot of people will feel lucky and some people feel like they could have done better on each paper. And personally, I feel like you will never feel prepared, you will never feel a hundred percent prepared to take an exam. But just trust your content, trust your revision, trust everything that you've done, because application questions are hard Are difficult, but once you revise more once you put the time in on the hours and and the past paper questions and then it will show and I promise you, it will get better because the start of your 13 always seem so hectic and it seems like such a difficult exam to overcome but I promise you guys it will get better. A lot of people. Also asked, could you talk about is on techniques and specific Mark scheme answers for exam techniques? I think main questions like multiple choice questions. I personally did those last I always skim read the multiple choice question but I left them for the last because if the time came to where I could just guess and move on, I think the main technique and the main denominator in this is to do more pass paper questions and I know that sounds very disappointing. but it really is the only way and the only consistent way and the only proven way to improve Someone asked how do you effectively revise? I feel like I spent so long revising but doesn't pay off. This sounds a bit like a burnouts. Essentially during your revision. You should feel like every session is doing a little bit, you're learning a little bit and after each session, you should consolidate your notes through a key and that's why I did if you want a more in-depth on keeps toriel. Look at my YouTube, or look my Tik-Tok. I think, if you're struggling to see any change in your grades, or in your test results, then the main important is to take a little break, especially since burnout is so intoxicating out, I really struggled with burnout during the last period of my exam like the last month moving on to my exam. I mean, I literally went to a beach two weeks before the exam and I procrastinated on YouTube the entire one week before the exam, but it's really important. And to recognize burnouts and when you're burning out, it feels like everything you're doing is pointless, it's useless and it can feel tiring to revise. And at that point you have to question whether you're spending your time productively because there's a different type of productive. You know, there is actually productive and feeling productive but you're not actually doing things so feeling productive. As when you're doing the revision, putting the hours in but nothing is actually encoding inside your mind. When you start feeling burnt-out, it feels like you're doing things. It feels like you're doing these notes, you're writing these papers and you feel like you're at the top of your game. But when it comes to the exam, you don't remember any of these things and That's kind of what it feels to burn out and also procrastinating a lot is also a sign of burnout. So, take a day off, take a day off to not do your revision. Take a day off to just relax and allow yourself to take that break because in the long-term, you will thank yourself. Because if you don't take breaks, then that procrastination. It's just going to extend more and more and more until it eats into your exam revision time, and that's all to mately the worst decision ever. Lastly, I just wanted to make a small encouragement and word of advice for you guys. I know biology is so difficult. It honestly was the most difficult subject that I had personally aside from psychology, but it is so rewarding when you see the results and you see the hard work pay off the goal is In your reach and it honestly is in your reach. A star. And that is so itchy vable, I promise you. If I can do it, you can do it. And I'm so proud of all of you. I know that you can achieve this biology grade and your medical school acceptance is. I can't wait to hear from you guys. Just a word of encouragement that got a start is attainable. And it's not a dream, it's not a hope and it's a reality. For all of you guys that you can do this. Thank you for listening to my podcast. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. And as always, if you enjoyed, make sure to rate me on Spotify, Apple podcast, wherever you're listening it from thank you for being my journey, and thank you for supporting me always. I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of the day and see you guys next time. Bye bye.
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By medbyfioin this episode, i answer ALL of your questions about a-level biology - how to answer application questions, how to revise effectively and more. hope i gave good advice!! if you have any questions, feel free to message me on all platforms! i'd love to hear from you <3
[0:42] best online resource for biology?
[2:32] what to do after getting past paper questions wrong?
[4:10] how to revise all a-level content before the exam?
[7:04] best tips for revision? i understand topics but struggle to get marks
[9:11] maths + application in biology?
[11:39] how did you revise?
[14:37] how to identify what the examiner wants you to say?
[15:52] are notes or mindmaps efficient?
[17:37] another episode on chemistry / maths?
[18:08] how to answer application questions
[20:32] exam techniques?
[21:14] how to revise effectively? i spend so long revising but it doesn't pay off
my website: themediocredoctor.square.site
instagram: @medicmornings @themediocredoctor
tiktok: @stinkybluebells
email: [email protected]
youtube: themediocredoctor
Good morning, guys. Welcome back to another episode of medic mornings. I'm so excited to be starting today's episode because I am answering all of your questions on biology anyting, biology related and there's a lot of questions. So I'm going to try my best to answer all of them. But if I haven't then, send me a DM and I'm more than happy to help you. All right, let's get started. I haven't seen any of your question, but I'm looking through them right now, and these are some good questions. The first question is by someone who asked, what is the best online resource that you have used for biology? If you know me, I'm like, the queen of using online resources. I don't know if it was just me and my school, but everyone had a laptop or an iPad of some sort. So I used only the Kaboodle app. I don't know if you know it. But for ocra, there is a caboodle book that has the original Oxford book and it's the best resource. It's the textbook that all of your students should have aside from that, I didn't really use any online resources. I want you to buy, that was just my personal study Style. I also use the cgp book. If you're familiar with that, it's a handbook. It has all the cheat sheet, it has like equations formulas, small things you need to know but it's not really in much detail. So if you're looking for a good textbook, that is OCR certified go on crib oodle. I also want to explain. Why do you do sheep? Especially since I procrastinate a lot. I want to say more than the average person. I would say, when I'm on YouTube, I just start procrastinating and just click on to other videos that aren't really related to biology. And also, the concepts for YouTube is really differs from person to person. So I'm just a person that doesn't like you, do you shoot for apology but if you do, I would recommend mr. Murray, he helped me during my exam. Where he did these predictions and he's been quiet spot. Actually. So you would be doing yourself a huge disservice if you don't look at Mr, Maury, during your exam season. Another question by someone who asked? What did he do? After do past paper questions, did you memorize the answers? You go wrong. So far, I've tried memorizing questions. I got wrong. But I have so many to go through. How did you manage? This is such a good question and it's so specific. I love that. I personally did not memorize the answers that I've gone wrong. I know a lot of people do this specific method where they input the question that they got wrong on annke and over time, you'll come and revisit again. But for me personally, I think that once you get a question wrong, you get it wrong once. But then you'll redo the past paper. Again, that's what I did. So I just read the entire past paper and because in biology, there is only so many past papers, you can go through. So, a lot of the time, I just repeated the past paper over and over again. And also one piece of advice is to not dwell on those like question that you got wrong because, especially in biology, it's very content, heavy. And there is a bell, Application but it's always within the specification. So as long as you know the contents as long as you are 100% sure on the textbook and everything within a textbook then you are completely fine. Don't worry about it too much. Someone asked any examples on how to revise all a level bio contents to our exam time. Do past paper questions, I did a YouTube video on this, it's titled how to make a schedule, and if you call my YouTube channel, you will see. But I'll quickly brief over again. So a level by a lot of content. We know it's the most content, happy subject. So the first thing you want to do is not stress about it too much. You want to do your your 13 content first, because we underestimate how much we actually remember from your 12. Your 12 content is the basic and the fundamentals of your 13 and you will definitely never forget it all. It's just impossible to forget all. So my biggest is to go through your 13 content. First, make sure you get on top of that because basically and you're 13 you're learning the same amount of content as your 12 but half the time so you need to know all your your 13 content by April. I'm assuming. And then on April you want to go through your your 12 content. So perhaps every single day you should write two or three chapters. So within cells topic, we had one topic where I was just cell membranes and dimes the arrangements of eukaryotic cells. So I would just do eukaryotic cells and cell membranes in one day. And then the next day I would do another topic so you should arrange it. That you will not miss any topics out and you should be extremely diligent with your time. Biology is one of those really time-management fussy subjects where you have to be excellent at time management otherwise you will never get everything done. So just be diligent, I personally, I stayed at school till 6 p.m. every single day and that's definitely not healthy. But my house was like a two-minute walk away from the school. So I had the facilities to do that, but some people who need to travel who have strict curfew staying at home. To revise is also good. I spent a lot of time in my bedroom, but if you're able to manage your time wisely than you're able to revise, all of the content as well as get your past papers in especially for biology, I would say that content is more important than past paper questions. So if you can park Why is knowing the content first then application is something that you can do further on right before your exam. Someone asked best tips for revision, I understand topics, but struggle to explain it to get marks. Biology is inherently a very content, happy subject. So the main thing is that you should understand the mark scheme, the first thing you should do is consolidate your learning. So use Anki, use Quizlet or any method that you're comfortable with any apps that are facilitated for flashcards spaced repetition, all these techniques, utilized them for a revision for your content first. And when you understand topics, but he struggled to explain it. Then that means that you struggle to understand it in the first place because understanding content is inherently being able to teach it to someone. So just pull your biology, classmates to one side and maybe every lesson, just teach each other a topic. Perhaps, teach you some other, you know, the entire genetic topic and just add on ideas. And that's kind of how you Regurgitate that information over and over again. Another tip that I have for revision, especially for those who struggle to explain it is, literally do the past papers from the very beginning. So, I think OCR goes all the way back from 2002. So start from those past papers, those past papers, from 2002 to 2016, I believe are the old specification and even though they're the old specification people are like it's not reliable. Honestly, the exam technique required from that. Time. To know, is basically the same, they have some stuff. That's not an arse back. I know they have a lot of food stuff like cholesterol but honestly for most of it, it's very relevant, it's very applicable to our specification. So make sure you do some old past papers as well as their useful. Someone asked maths and application with a broken heart emoji. Okay, formats and application in biology, they're fairly simple for me because I took psychology and that was incredibly difficult. Especially we had research methods and we had like six different significant tests that we needed to remember, but math I would say is I think you get given the equation. So you just need to know what the little symbols in the equation mean for biology. I think that means a t-test. You need to know spearman's Rank and Saturday patient. And yeah, I think that's it. So, those math equations, that you will be given just remember how to use them. And also, the small equations, like, magnification. Just remember, magnification is image over actual image size over actual size, and lot of people struggled with that. And also, For Maxi, part of biology. I think it's fairly simple. I think chemistry is where it starts to get really confusing. But yeah, for biology, just remember that the equations are given to you and just know how to use them, know the significance test. So I think they'll be like it's a significant or not and you need to know the probability, if it's over 5% or something. But yeah, those are really the only things that you need to remember about biology maths, it's really not that complicated, a lot of the time, teachers overcomplicate it, but just remember, it's very straightforward. You just need to know the probability. The statistics you don't even need to remember the formula. So you're good. The application part of biology is where a lot of people struggle, because it's worded. So weirdly of the times, they're like one Mark, and then one more questions are easier, but when it comes to the essays, sometimes it can be there. Cool. So what I did personally was I didn't highlight any of the key words. I make sure I just re-read the question over and over again and write what you think is relevant. So overtime, over doing lots of past paper questions, this becomes more easy and I promise you it gets easier. I promised, how did he revise? Someone as I spoke, a lot about this in my text. So I revise easing and key the most. And I also revised using past papers, and that's about it. I made notes, I made really, really pretty looking though. It's on Google. So, I highlighted a lot of it, I made comments on the side. So if you know, you can I comment on some highlighted text, right? So I use that a lot because it was kind of like little sticky notes on the sides. I also put sticky notes on my bedroom wall which did absolutely fucking nothing. I didn't look at the notes once but I feel like just seeing everyone else do it like put sticky notes on their wall. I thought it was super cool and I wanted to try it. It didn't work, I will not be doing that again but which one to make. So I'm so sorry for my really curly boys. I usually don't sound like this, but I have had the flu for the past few days so this is what you're getting, okay. Nick's someone asked how to memorize content long-term for me. I didn't have this issue a lot of the time, it's just because you're cramming so much information into your brain at such a little time. So that is why your information is falling out. But what you have to do is just right over and over again, get a piece of scrap paper. Do the blessing technique, which is when you just look at the text book 4, 10 minutes. I'm right everything that you know down and reread it and go over with red pen. What you have missed out and then get another piece of paper. The next day. Don't even look at the text, but just write everything that, you know, from that topic and see if there are any irregularities. See if there are any mistakes with in it and just keep doing that every single day. So I really struggled with the next topic. I also really struggled with translocation a lot. So the process within translocation like the pumping of H+ ions, the movement of sucrose from a high concentration to a low concentration. So I use the birthing technique for that, I just drew all out. I wrote the entire process down and that's kind of how you get it to go into your long-term memory. Especially since it's a semantic type of information semantic is basically when you input information into your brain, due to its actual Eating instead of just putting it into your brain cuz it's there, you know, you actually have to understand it and that's how it gets into your long-term memory because it means something to you and it's attributed to something and your mind recognizes it more and that's how you get it to stick. Someone also asked how to remember or identify what points examiners want us to say, there is no cheat code for this. There is no, short-term hack or hit. That's going to help me help you. You're going to have to do that yourself, through lots of past papers, lots of dedication and time. So you're going to do past papers every single day. You're going to dedicate 2 hours to biology every single day, because that's what it requires because of its large Content Volume. And essentially this is just something that is unavoidable. I agree that sometimes it can be really difficult because examiners want something. But then they rephrase the question so weirdly but if it's really difficult than other people will find it difficult as well. So you're scored on a curve and the most important thing is that you do your job and You look at more past papers, the more past papers, you come across the better, you will get. So make sure you just put your time. Turn off your phone, turn on your Forest app. Just do your revision and it will come. I promise I promise some of that are notes or my maps efficient, I didn't do any money or any sort. I remember I didn't mind maps about the Maasai, Mara topics when our teacher for stuff to make some, they had to make it all pretty and stuff. But no, I did not do any my maps. I think personally their waste of time especially in biology because you're trying to link topics together and I can see how it works. So you can say oh the cell biology is involved in the plants topic. It's involved in the the breathing and exchange surfaces topic cell membranes are involved in the alveolus. And that's how it connects together but I personally didn't find it useful at all. I also know that you could make money online. So maybe I would have made my maps online. But I also made notes. So I already went through how I made notes on goo. But make sure you make them really pretty, make you make them really pastel highlighted. But also remember that tables charts and graphs are going to be your best friend. So whenever you get any information, I remember there was a thing called Divergent and convergent. I think you have to put these pictures and these words into tables and charts and that's how I organized my mind into a more like simplistic layout. So you want to compare these directly against each other. I don't know if this makes any sense, but if you struggle with this, then send me the arm and I'll explain it in a bit more detail. Someone asked as well. Could you do 140cr come and Edexcel maths? Of course, I don't do math. I did psychology or CR and I know lots of people don't do those or a psychology since it's such a small subjects, but I will definitely do one for OCR chemistry as a lot of people to OCR chemistry. Okay I'm checking my account now or questions. Okay, I've got a lot of questions here as well. One person ask tips to answer application questions. They'll be the death of me low. Oh my God. I genuinely paper, 3 and biology was literally the bane of my existence. I hated it so much. And also, why are the great battery's so low for paper 3? It's probably cuz everyone hate to do this as well. But application questions is the only way to get past them is two more past papers. I know that's not what you wanted to hear as a person who also struggled with application a lot doing more past paper questions delegating answers with her friends as well asking them what they wrote down and looking at the Mark scheme memorizing the mark scheme and then writing that Mark scheme as the way you would answer. All of those questions. Moving forward is the way I would answer application questions. A lot of people are also asking, I know the content but can struggle to hit the mark scheme. This is such a common topic and all my questions. Oh my gosh, it really is a big struggle. Yeah, I would say biology is one of those subjects that takes a lot of dedication and time and patience to get to that stage where you can achieve a consistent, a star. I mean, the mop before I did my actual exam icon a not the a star. So it really depends on what paper is. I think a lot of people will feel lucky and some people feel like they could have done better on each paper. And personally, I feel like you will never feel prepared, you will never feel a hundred percent prepared to take an exam. But just trust your content, trust your revision, trust everything that you've done, because application questions are hard Are difficult, but once you revise more once you put the time in on the hours and and the past paper questions and then it will show and I promise you, it will get better because the start of your 13 always seem so hectic and it seems like such a difficult exam to overcome but I promise you guys it will get better. A lot of people. Also asked, could you talk about is on techniques and specific Mark scheme answers for exam techniques? I think main questions like multiple choice questions. I personally did those last I always skim read the multiple choice question but I left them for the last because if the time came to where I could just guess and move on, I think the main technique and the main denominator in this is to do more pass paper questions and I know that sounds very disappointing. but it really is the only way and the only consistent way and the only proven way to improve Someone asked how do you effectively revise? I feel like I spent so long revising but doesn't pay off. This sounds a bit like a burnouts. Essentially during your revision. You should feel like every session is doing a little bit, you're learning a little bit and after each session, you should consolidate your notes through a key and that's why I did if you want a more in-depth on keeps toriel. Look at my YouTube, or look my Tik-Tok. I think, if you're struggling to see any change in your grades, or in your test results, then the main important is to take a little break, especially since burnout is so intoxicating out, I really struggled with burnout during the last period of my exam like the last month moving on to my exam. I mean, I literally went to a beach two weeks before the exam and I procrastinated on YouTube the entire one week before the exam, but it's really important. And to recognize burnouts and when you're burning out, it feels like everything you're doing is pointless, it's useless and it can feel tiring to revise. And at that point you have to question whether you're spending your time productively because there's a different type of productive. You know, there is actually productive and feeling productive but you're not actually doing things so feeling productive. As when you're doing the revision, putting the hours in but nothing is actually encoding inside your mind. When you start feeling burnt-out, it feels like you're doing things. It feels like you're doing these notes, you're writing these papers and you feel like you're at the top of your game. But when it comes to the exam, you don't remember any of these things and That's kind of what it feels to burn out and also procrastinating a lot is also a sign of burnout. So, take a day off, take a day off to not do your revision. Take a day off to just relax and allow yourself to take that break because in the long-term, you will thank yourself. Because if you don't take breaks, then that procrastination. It's just going to extend more and more and more until it eats into your exam revision time, and that's all to mately the worst decision ever. Lastly, I just wanted to make a small encouragement and word of advice for you guys. I know biology is so difficult. It honestly was the most difficult subject that I had personally aside from psychology, but it is so rewarding when you see the results and you see the hard work pay off the goal is In your reach and it honestly is in your reach. A star. And that is so itchy vable, I promise you. If I can do it, you can do it. And I'm so proud of all of you. I know that you can achieve this biology grade and your medical school acceptance is. I can't wait to hear from you guys. Just a word of encouragement that got a start is attainable. And it's not a dream, it's not a hope and it's a reality. For all of you guys that you can do this. Thank you for listening to my podcast. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. And as always, if you enjoyed, make sure to rate me on Spotify, Apple podcast, wherever you're listening it from thank you for being my journey, and thank you for supporting me always. I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of the day and see you guys next time. Bye bye.