How To Prepare Biology for NEET 2022 Exam?

 

A Totally Different Step by Step Process:

How Do I Study Biology for NEET 2022

 

There are lots of tips and guidelines available online on how to prepare for NEET exams in 2022.

In this blog I present a slightly different way, deviating from the standard techniques shared on preparing for NEET Biology.

My blog is based on the research and reverse engineering I have done on the previous year’s NEET question paper.

I hope the tips that I share will help you in maximizing your studies as you prepare to crack your NEET 2022 Biology.

Let’s get started.

 

As you study the topics of a subject, you will have to think like the question paper setter who is given the responsibility to design questions for NEET.

 

What do I mean by that?

 

Every line in the textbook that you read from the syllabus has the potential to become a question in the exam, especially those keywords that are mentioned in bold in the textbooks.

 

Look at the question below asked in one of the NEET exams.

 

Which one of the following belongs to the family Muscidae?

(1) Grasshopper

(2) Cockroach

(3) Housefly

(4) Firefly

 

Now, while studying the content related to the above question, if you had thought this question will not come or it’s not important so you need not remember this, then you would have lost precious four marks.

 

Let’s look at another example. 

 

I have done an exercise of reverse engineering for this question. I picked up a question asked in a previous year NEET exam and then I went back to the textbooks of NCERT to find out from where the question was taken. I found the paragraph and I am sharing it with you.

 

Read the following lines taken from the Class XI Biology textbook. The chapter is the Plant Kingdom and the subtopic is 3.1 ALGAE:

 

“Certain marine brown and red algae produce large amounts of hydrocolloids (water-holding substances), e.g., algin (brown algae) and carrageen (red algae) which are used commercially.”

 

Originally, it is a big passage. Above, I have taken only a few lines as the following question was asked from the above lines in the NEET exam:

 

Which of the following algae produce Carrageen?

(1) Blue-green algae

(2) Green algae

(3) Brown algae

(4) Red algae

 

In the textbook, the word algin and carrageen are in bold. The question paper setter picked it up and created a question. Now, you as a student may not understand how the paper setter can use this information to create a question and that may trick you. Instead of carrageen, he could have used algin. If he wanted to be more creative, he could have taken the sentence and played with it, creating a tricky and tough question. 

 

The challenge here with most of the students preparing for NEET is that they read the chapters, prepare the syllabus but are not able to anticipate the questions that can be asked on the topic. As a result, their preparation remains incomplete.

 

My idea here is to open up your mind. Make you think out of the box while preparing for NEET 2022 in Biology. Ultimately, you are studying to answer questions and it will surely pay to know what questions can be asked on what you are reading.

 

So, how do you prepare your theory?

 

Here I am proposing 4 Step Process for you to follow as a NEET aspirant. It is time-consuming and will not help you in last-minute preparation, but at the end of the day, with enough time for preparation, you will have mastered the content.

Let’s dive into the 4 step process:

STEP 1: BECOME A DETECTIVE

A successful detective is one who asks intelligent questions. As a student, you need to become a detective as you read the content.

Here’s how you can do it:

Firstly, create three categories of questions – EASY, TRICKY, and TOUGH. Then prepare the paragraph or the passage the way you do for the exam. Next, check the back of the chapter to see if any objective type questions have been asked from that passage. If yes, ask - is this question easy, tricky, or tough?

Depending on the difficulty level put the question under that particular category. 

 

Then read the passage again as though you are one of the professors who have been told to prepare questions from the topic. What kind of questions will you prepare based on the given content? 

Think.

 

The most common question especially in Biology and Chemistry is asked using What and Which. 

 

When you read a line in a passage, ask - What is this passage telling me? What question is it answering? How can I phrase the question?

 

Once you create the question think, is it easy, tricky or a tough question? Put the question in one of the categories.

 

STEP 2: CREATE A QUESTION BANK

 

Take a notebook or if you want you can create a word document also on your computer.

Write the chapter name on the top. As you create the questions keep on adding them to your question bank under the chapter heading. You can design your questions to be MCQ with four options. Mark the right answer so that when you revise, the right answer is in front of you.

Make sure you put the questions in the three categories discussed above – easy, tricky and tough.

 

By the time you complete your syllabus, you will have accomplished two things:

a] Revision of your syllabus

b] A nice compilation of chapter wise question banks for you to practice under the three categories.

 

STEP 3: PRACTICE 

 

Now you are ready to start taking mock tests. 

To begin with, you can seek help from your friend and ask him to randomly pick questions from the question bank created by you and prepare question papers for you. Take those tests and see how you perform.

 

Once you gain confidence, go to the next step.

 

Start solving previous years question papers one at a time to start getting the hang of what the real NEET exam feel will be like. 

 

STEP 4: MAKE SURE YOU CORRECT YOUR WRONG ANSWERS

 

After you give your mock test, check your answers. Make a proper note of all your wrong answers. Refer back to your textbook to find out if you had missed something that made you select the wrong option.

 

Never ignore the wrong answers. It’s a kind of mistake that we commit in our life. It is imperative that we learn from our mistakes and immediately correct them before it comes back to haunt us. If you don’t correct your wrong answer, who knows the same question may appear in your NEET exam making you lose valuable marks.

 

In Conclusion

 

Trust, you will find the above four tips valuable and give them a shot. Feel free to tweak it to suit your strategy. What other strategies are you using to prepare for your NEET exam? Alternately, if you have taken NEET exams do share what worked for you and what didn’t.

 

Be your Best!!!

 

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