**AP Biology Forum 2018-2019**

mm1572019
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 06:35:07 +0000

Hey! So I used the Pearson Education Test Prep Series book (its a brown cover) that my school gave us. I thought this book was really helpful and had all of the diagrams you could ever need!!

For studying, I would recommend finding a study group! Especially for topics like immunology, which I thought was super super hard, It was helpful to talk it over with people. In our class, we got notes packets and never had to take plain handwritten notes, but if you end up having to, I think you should have the textbook on hand so you can follow along in that too and understand diagrams and processes. On the majority of the tests I took, there are barely any questions that are straight memorization (and my teacher’s tests were like 75% of previous AP questions). You should know the material inside and out, being able to relate the topics to each other. I sometimes made word webs, so you relate each vocab word to another word (like a simple example could be ** population - made of only one – species**

I didn’t think I had a tremendous amount of homework. I would say most of the homework was online quizzes on the chapters, called MasteringBio (you can find the answers on quizlet!!!) and take home quizzes (also on quizlet). Other things included lab write ups. They aren’t like the normal like chemistry lab write ups with your procedure and whatever, they were only analysis questions. Also, my teacher assigned many projects. One was a cell story, where we had to include 20 different parts of a cell in a story (I wrote about a queen in a castle). Another project was a metaphor for protein synthesis, where my group related it to phineas and ferb when they built a roller coaster. The topics I picked for the projects seem fun, but you have to put a lot of hard work into it – I did, and I got over 100% on all projects (my teacher gave EC for creativity and memes) THIS IS NOT A BLOW OFF CLASS!!! you need to thoroughly analyze data and answers to questions.

Hope this helps!! If you need anything else answered, I’m here!!