Originally Posted by greekisfun
I took A&P I last fall and i saw how intense the reading was. I just couldn't keep up with the reading. A chapter in the testbook is like 200 pages and it was just impossible to read everything and still pass all the other classes i was taking. Anyways, since u took A&pII already and came out with a good grade, i was wondering how u did it, how u kept up with the reading.
My AP I and II classes were, as are all our pre req classes, 4 weeks in length. We went 5 days a week for 4-6 hours a day. We covered between 1-2 chapters a day, had an exam every Monday with the final being on the last Friday of class. The way I kept up was to take notes the night before class. I would read the chapter and take "rough" notes of bold face words, words I didn't know, and processes. That way when I went to class when the professor spoke even if I didn't know specifically all the details he was speaking of, I at least had heard the words and had an idea of what was being said. I took vigorous notes, as you will see of the ones I have placed here, and re-wrote the class notes with the nights previous notes. It was a lot of work but it paid off. We formed a study group as well and some nights when the chapters were REALLY LONG we would divide the chapter among us, take notes, copy them and pass them among one another. It made the chapters easier to digest along with getting another persons viewpoint, there were 4-5 in any of the study groups I have been in as of yet.
GOOD LUCK.
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