My personal developments in Science

In term 1, I learnt the periodic table and bonding. The hard part was in remembering the list of elements and bonding reactions.

In term 2, I learnt acids and bases. This was easier to remember, in terms of concepts, but needed more thinking to apply.

In term 3, i studied the human reproduction, and ecology. Both are all about cause and effect, like how food chains are affected when one organism increases or decreases, and if the ova is unfertilised, what happens to the uterus. For ecology, I just needed to know how reactions work, and for reproduction, I had to memorise the process.

I found that subjects needing memorising took more effort to remember, but very little effort to apply. They are more theory. However, subjects which have a few basic concepts that apply to many kinds of problems, those require a lot of thinking. In term 1, I think I did well because I could remember most of the info, in term 2, because I had enough practise applying the three concepts(acid+base=?). In term 3, I did ok because the test focused on theory, which I had memorised.

However, I feel that memorising makes subjects very dry, since its only about facts. Not much application there, but applying a concept is interesting but more difficult since the answer has to be processed, and thought through, but the challenge is more fun. Thus I feel that science should have more application.