My little tip (1 Viewer)

[meLoncoLLie]

Our school uses Heinemann Biology, which is comprehensive but sometimes shallow. I believe a lot of schools use this textbook, so what I'm trying to say is:

Get your hands on as many different books as you can - Jacaranda Biology, Excel, Macquarie...your school library is likely to have them! Flick through different books and make summary notes from all of them.

Extract only the essence. Try to ignore things that are not in the syllabus and do not help you directly. ( Don't try to learn everything in Jacaranda, it's far too detailed)


For example, you would find that Heinemann has almost no description of the chemical composition/structure of enzymes, but Jacaranda has a very detailed explanation! The section on "plants' responses to temperature changes" in Macquarie isn't very good, so you might want to look it up in Heinemann and Jacaranda.

Most people probably know about this already, but I still see lots of people in my school who only stick to the set textbook, which isn't really enough...thought I'd share my ideas with you guys

 

[lala2]

Thanks heaps...I'll definitely get my hands on a couple of books, plus friends, plus teachers, etc, etc...is Macquarie good? Like, does it at least address each outcome minimally?

 

[meLoncoLLie]

Macquarie is quite good, especially that it has detailed description of the pracs you're going to do, all the procedures and results etc. There still might be some left-outs in that book though, go to Jacaranda for those areas