Tips for taking the GRE Biology Subject test?

[BattlePope]

Hi guys,

 

I'm going to be taking the GRE Biology Subject test this coming April and was wondering if anyone had any tips for taking it. 

 

Any particular strategies that worked well for you? I've heard that if you can narrow it down to 3 answers to make an educated guess, otherwise just skip the question. Thoughts?

 

Any material I should focus on? Any material that I can gloss over? One specific question that I did have is how well should I know cellular respiration? I'm terrible at this particular subject and learning all the individual steps is taking me forever, time I feel that could be better spent studying other material. I'm thinking about just learning the main points and moving on.

 

Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

[BattlePope]

Another quick question (for anyone), how well do you need to know specific clades/species of organisms? For example, the protist chapter in Campbell-Reece is extremely dense with specific characteristics about each clade. Is this something I will need to know? Or should I just be more familiar with the general biology/structure/life cycles of bryophytes? I'm going to try to learn all the generalities of the main clades but think trying to learn some of the super nitty-gritty stuff is just unrealistic.

[Monochrome Spring]

I had detailed questions about clades on my exam. Continue to read through the Campbell-Reese and hope that you can absorb enough information by the time the test comes. You should got gotten a practice test in the mail. Work through it and make sure to understand the answers to all of the questions. I had a bunch of questions repeated on my actual exam from the practice one. It's free points, and you don't want to kick yourself later for not taking a few hours to go through a free resource like that.