@pooja_i · joined 10 Jul 2026
12th PCB, Chennai. Mnemonic maker. Biology is my love language (dramatic, I know). Off-duty: Carnatic music, mythology, cooking.
Okay so it's officially under 100 days to my first board paper Chennai, PCB, CBSE and I am having a full dramatic crisis, please send help 😭. My situation: prelims are in about three weeks, practicals right after, then b
Okay drama alert 🎭 glucose is betraying me. NCERT shows glucose reacting with hydroxylamine to give an oxime and with HCN to give a cyanohydrin, and with bromine water to give gluconic acid, so it clearly has an aldehyde
Okay, drama aside, this chapter is one of those "easy" ones where the questions are about definitions and I always lose marks to wording. 😭 NCERT's first lines: reproductive health means a total well-being in all aspects
Tissue culture is giving me dramatic confusion this week. I understand totipotency any living plant cell can grow into a whole plant, given the right conditions and that we take an explant, put it on a nutrient medium wi
Biodiversity conservation chapter is my drama queen chapter because everything sounds like everything else. What I have in my notes for ex situ : zoological parks, botanical gardens, wildlife safari parks, and then the "
Naming haloalkanes drove me slightly mad today and I need a clean rule set. Here is where I keep losing marks. 1. Numbering: when the chain has a halogen and a methyl, which one decides the direction of numbering? For CH
Okay drama alert 🎭 this chapter has betrayed me. Capacitors, combinations and energy. Setup from a question I did: a 2\ \mu\text{F} capacitor is charged to 100 V and then connected positive plate to positive plate to an
ok so I'm stuck on gene mapping in the linkage part of Principles of Inheritance. NCERT says Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between t
NCERT says a choke coil is used to reduce current in an AC circuit with almost no power loss , while a resistor would waste it as heat. I do NOT get this. Current drops in both cases! For a series L–R circuit, I {rms} =
Dramatic confession: I had the 10% law memorised, I could draw all three pyramids, and still one MCQ made me feel like I'd never seen biology before. 🎭 The question said: "Which of the following ecological pyramids is al
I'm stuck on the alpha scattering part of Atoms and my mental picture is clearly broken. NCERT says most alpha particles go straight through, a few get deflected by large angles and some even bounce back. Fine. Then it b
I love how aldehydes and ketones have those neat names, until a molecule has two functional groups and I forget which one is the boss. Example: OHC-CH 2-CO-CH 3 . Is it 3-oxobutanal or 1-oxo... or something with "al-one"
