Biology is killing me

[cookderosa]

Wow. I don't know what's wrong with me today. I just took the OCSG and got a 57%. >< Ouch. Out of the 70 questions I only knew I had 15 of them right. That's pretty bad. Every question had new terms and stuff that I had NEVER heard of before. Nothing I was expecting. I've studied the Petersons tests and Wikied everything mentioned in the Specific Feedback so I thought there'd be a good amount of questions that I was ready for. But comparing other people's practice test scores I think I'll pass. At this point, I just want a 50. And that just might be what I get

Ok, you need to refocus on high-yield results. Study heavily the stuff that makes up the most of the exam and let the other stuff go.

I've told this story before, but when I took social science and history for 6 credits, I had already taken psych, soc, and us history 1 & 2. The exam also included anthro, gvt and world history. I had NEVER EVER EVER studied world history. I know, crazy but true. So, what was my study plan? Learn all of the world history from scratch? No, the approach I took was to go back through everything I had a base in (psych, soc, us history) and plan on getting 100 percent of those correct. I would have wasted my time trying to randomly guess what possible world history questions they would have thrown at me. So, whenever a world history question came up, I picked "B" and moved on. I easily passed.

The point- bio is broken down almost evenly between 3 areas of bio. Look at this list, and pick your best 1 and know it cold. Pick a second area and cram like hell. Higher accuracy on 2/3 is better than lower accuracy on 3/3.
Biology | CLEP