The Bottled Ocean of Biology

Nisarg Desai

Feb 2017 · Partridge Publishing

About this ebook

The author of this handbook, Nisarg Desai, has created a guide that will assist 11th and 12th grade students in India prepare for premedical tests such as the NEET, AIIMS, and JIPMER. The work is based upon the authors own notes on a broad range of biology topics taken while preparing for PMTs himself. Key chapters include Classification, Cell, Human Physiology, Plant Physiology, Genetics & Evolution, Biotechnology and well organized sections on each chapter of high school biology. This timely and useful handbook features a collection of over 150 mnemonics, important statements and diagrams from NCERT textbooks, For Your Information material. Included are abundant tables and flowcharts designed to help students quickly grasp key concepts. There is ample room at the end of each chapter for students own notes. Detailed concepts are presented concisely in the way students make their notes, hence the name Bottled Ocean.

Ratings and reviews

From the teacher's point of view, my biology teacher had very frankly dissected the pros and cons of this book. While it has a beautifully written preface with the author's experience and his tips, the rest of the book is his notes while he prepared for entrance exams. The key point to note is, we are always encouraged to make our own notes because when we devise our own shortcuts, we not only remember, but also understand it better. We were warned against trying to remember all the mnemonics instead of creating our own. And how many do we need by the way? I cleared neet with only one, which I had devised back in class 10 to remember the crazy animal classification.

Good book.

Excellent

About the author

Nisarg Desai is currently a first year MBBS Student at Government Medical College, MSU Vadodara. He cracked the NEET with 551/720, the GUJCET with 100/120 (State Rank 10—CBSE), and the AIIMS with a 98.28 percentile score. His online endeavor called “Counsellr” provides tips and guidance to national level competitive exam aspirants ranging from JEE and PMTs to NTSE and Junior Olympiads in India.