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How I have been studying for physiology

I am working my way through physiology. I have changed my mine from an earlier post. I think I should start at cell biology but do physiology next because it has important implications for anatomy and pathology. Microbiology is one of those "easier reading" real life kind of subjects that would be best later on when I am losing study motivation. The course notes for physiology are brief and unhelpful. My initial plan was to convert the pdf of the course notes to word and build on this as my personal notes but i've found that it's more useful to just remake the notes on a new document. The lecture notes are all over the place and don't follow a logical sequence. I would definitely advise you to read the past paper questions before studying. I have been churning through the lectures and clarifying some points with internet searches which have helped. Once i've finished a lecture I have gone through the course notes to add on one or two bits and pieces of infor

How to study for cell biology and biochemistry

The lecture notes for this subject are fairly average and there are no course notes to supplement. What I have done is make my own course notes using the lecture notes as a guide. I would find a topic e.g insulin and glucagon and research this through a textbook or the internet. Once this was done, I would go back through the lecture to find any bits or pieces of information I had not researched and added this on but for the most part the textbook was much more in depth and accurate than the lecture notes. After I had finished a lecture i went back through the lecture objectives and noted down any topics the lecture didn't cover. There were quite a few but haven't really been examined in the past. On the second time through I will try to trim down the notes as it is very wordy (the first subject you study you will go too in depth with till you realise you're spending too much time on it). I will try to answer the  past questions and go back and write further notes on area