IOQB India

[Shravan Chakankar]

I am a student who wants to start preparing for IOQB from zero level, from where should I start? I am in class 11th .

[Ravi Nunia]

Hi Shravan,

I cleared IOQB this year and was placed in the national top 1% so I assume you'll find my advice beneficial.

You should definitely start with Campbell. Make sure that you google the things which you find confusing rather than leaving them. Personally, google was of most help for me. Remember that reading Campbell completely is a huge task, so I suggest you start with the Genetics unit, then move on to Ethology(behavioral biology) and then read Cell Biology from it. In my opinion, if you have less time then reading anything else from it will not be that beneficial, rather you should solve lots of practice papers such as NSEB, INBO, Toronto Biology Olympiad, USABO, ABO, NZABO, etc., etc. These papers can be overwhelming at first but trust me, don't focus on the scores, rather focus on how much you can learn from analyzing the options of the questions....I will suggest you start from Toronto then move on to NSEB then on to USABO Opens, then USABO Semis, and finally INBO but it depends on you how you want to do it. You'll find all these papers on biolympiads main website. Google whatever you are doubtful about, teachers aren't of much help in olympiad preparation but trust me if you do all this, you will definitely reach at least the camp. And for international stage you can read Raven's, Sherwood, Lehninger's, Albert's, etc. but I think you should first read Campbell and solve all the practice papers as mentioned above.

Best,

Ravi. 

On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 20:53, Shravan Chakankar <shravanc...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am a student who wants to start preparing for IOQB from zero level, from where should I start? I am in class 11th .

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[Shravan Chakankar]

Thank you very much but I want to ask one last Question, should I parallely do Campbell or first complete NCERT??