<p>Okay, well I took the 1999 released exam and a few other sample model examinations that my teacher gave us and I did okay on those… (okay as in about 60% right…I had a really horrible teacher and we only covered up to molecular genetics; I’ve been teaching myself everything past that. The class was last semester, also.) </p>
<p>But then when I look at the Cliffs practice exams in the back of the book, the questions seem a lotttt more difficult than on those practice exams…which test is more accurate to the real exam? And what’s the best source for the most realistic AP Bio exams?</p>
<p>IMO the cliffnotes tests were just dam easier than collegeboard. Most of the questions are asking skimming knowledge what the sections are about. I scored high on the M/C in the cliffnotes. I recommend getting the additional 5 ap bio test cliff notes offering b/c it starts asking more specific subjects which my m/c score was slowly dropping. When I took the may exam last year, hit me like a ton of bricks, 45% i know them well but the others were too specific that i barely knew the answers. But really, study the cliffnotes, it hass all the infomation need, and i really like the FRs, I felt i least did well on that portion.</p>
<p>I JUST did the 1999 one and I dunno there seems to be more on plants than there should have been.
And of course it’s out of 120 questions, whereas now it’s only 100. (Means less graph/experiment questions at the end) Those graph/experiment questions really killed me.</p>
<p>My biggest deficiency with AP Bio is plants. My teacher never got around to anything past chapter 28 of Campbell/Reece, but human systems are easy, and ecology is just memorizing key terms. I do need to review the labs.</p>
<p>I think the problem with AP Biology is that it covers such a huge breadth of material in such a short amount of time. Almost no teacher will be able to finish the textbook curriculum, perform all 12 labs, and still squeeze in time for review. We are especially pressed for time at my school because of block scheduling. You get less done in one block period than you do in two regular periods, trust me.</p>
<p>My teacher has a strong feeling that a Chi-square analysis question will show up on the free responses section and thus plans to educate us on how to perform one by using a bag of M&Ms. We never got around to that lab. In fact, the only ones we did were 1, 2, 4, 6 (which ended up being a huge failure, seeing as not a single person electrophoresed correctly), and 8.</p>
<p>Would any of you recommend the Barron’s flashcards? I’m self-studying for the exam, but I’m focusing more on APUSH, Micro, and Macro. I’m also studying out of the Cliffs book.</p>
<p>Keasbey Nights, you are wrong that no teacher can finish the book with all 12 labs and still have time for review. I just have that teacher, we finished all 55 chapters of that book last week, this week and the next 2 weeks we will be reviewing like hell taking 3 or more previous released exams. Our school has a overall 88% passing rate on this exam.</p>
<p>jeudi14- obviously you have a good teacher, but not us. My teacher doesn’t even lecture. During his lectures he literally quotes from the tests so we actually pass the tests in class. Our passing rate is terrible for AP. Last year no one got a 5 in AP Chem and only a few got 5 in bio…T_T</p>
<p>Princeton review is the closest but it may not cover material in close detail.</p>
<p>I self studied all of human/plant anatomy/physiology, ecology, and reproduction because my class did not cover it with Barron’s. There’s a lot of information and you can’t go wrong but at this point just study until you can get close to all of them right. (Barron’s traditionially has more detailed information but a lot is unnecessary)</p>
<p>No point in speculating how much work you have to do.</p>
<p>Jeudi14, I said “almost no teacher” can complete the curriculum. That seems to be the trend on CC, judging from a quick survey of AP Biology threads. You are blessed to have a teacher that can finish the workload; most students do not.</p>
<p>I say this is a BAD teacher. Half of these chapters are not even on the test. If you’re going that fast, I wonder how much information you guys absorb and remember.A good teacher gets the important information across, if he/she can’t finish the book it doesn’t matter. You don’t need 100% for a 5.</p>
<p>We’ve JUST managed to finish 53 chapters (skipped the first 2) and are spending the last week reviewing. I disagree that going fast necessarily means that we dont absorb anything. For one thing, my teacher is well aware that some chapters are covered less heavily on the test than others. For those chapters, we read faster and spent less time going over them. But still having that basic runthrough of the topic is useful, especially since so much of Bio is interconnected. While phylogeny may not be so essential to the test itself, understanding it helps greatly with the Survey of Organisms chapters. Same with genetics -> evolution. Although I agree that it seems like most teachers barely even get halfway through the Campbell book. 1200 pages is pretty hefty. We’ve had to read 8-12 pages a day, every single day, without exception, since September, to get to Chapter 55.</p>
<p>Aghhh I have waited to the last minute. Hey do you guys think a week of studying for the ap bio exam will be enough to be able to get a decent 3 or above?? Or am I hopeless? ? ? Maybe if I divide and conquer…</p>
<p>we did chapts 1-10, 12, 13-17, 19-25, 27-34 (we did these mostly on our own, i.e. she gave us a packet and we answered questions, lol), 35, 38 (maybe? not sure lol), 40-42, and we did video projects on ecology (50-54) i.e. no we did not learn them lol</p>