AP biology?

I'm in AP biology, I had an 87 in the class and it dropped to an 86% because I didn't do very well on my Unit test. My teacher is a tough grader and doesn't reluctantly change grades, like I actually scored an 80% on a test, but she gave me a 78% because the scantron marked a right answer wrong and I had to circle the question so she can manually check it and she won't change it! The thing is, I don't know why i did so bad, like...Saturday I made notes and Sunday I finished my notes and started studying really hard. My mom thinks it's because I spend more time writing notes and not absorbing them then knowing and absorbing what I'm trying to study. If you've taken AP bio, just wanted some insight as to how I can score better next time.



I have an 86% in that class and hope to get an A by the end of the semester and the 2nd quarter is halfway over on Friday...we have two tests and two quizzes coming up...so help? suggestions?



thanks!AP biology?
I'm currently in AP Bio, and I know what you mean! For the first two tests, I would get an 89%, then a 86%, and I'm used to be a completely straight A Student ( in calc and all other ap courses). However, for the 3rd test, I decided to look in the AP prep book my mom bought me ';5 steps to a 5'; by McGraw-Hill, and I wrote notes in that book from my textbook. This was faster than completely writing my own set of notes, and it worked! I got a 100% on the 100-question multiple choice section, and the essay grades are yet to come out. So, I suggest that you start coinciding your studying with some sort of AP Prep book for Biology. GOod Luck!AP biology?
I'm in AP biology right now too. Since I don't know your teacher or class, how it's done/grading, etc., the only advice I can give you which has worked wonders for me is just asking for extra credit! If there simply is nothing you can do for extra credit, try talking to some of the people in your class with high grades and see how they've done it. Also, you said you write notes a lot, which is good. One of my tips concerning notes is have your notes, then take another piece of paper and fold it in half ';hot dog style'; (I'm not sure what that's actually called... vertically I guess? Heh.). Using your notes, write out questions to quiz yourself on one side of the fold and the answer on the other side. Then fold your paper back, quiz yourself, and then check the answer to see if you were right. That's a really great studying trick I've learned. I hope that helped some... :D