<p>Has anyone ever thought of adding a funny little sentence into there FRQ to try and make the grader laugh in hopes of bringing their spirits up to judge a bit better?</p>
<p>@mss1206</p>
<p>For videos on embryonic development, go here and look under PART THREE DEVELOPMENT: [Animated</a> Tutorials](<a href=“http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp00/00020.html]Animated”>http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp00/00020.html)</p>
<p>Here is a YouTube video on it: [YouTube</a> - khanacademy’s Channel](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64/10/-yCIMk1x0Pk]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64/10/-yCIMk1x0Pk)</p>
<p>Here are some good ones:
[YouTube</a> - human development](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgT5rUQ9EmQ&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgT5rUQ9EmQ&feature=related)
[YouTube</a> - cell fate-](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3IOLnVXAz4&feature=channel]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3IOLnVXAz4&feature=channel)</p>
<p>@froggyman </p>
<p>I Rick Rolled my grader last year and got a 2.</p>
<p>@thehulk88 …that video is in spanish! 
that was my problem.</p>
<p>are the Barons practice tests considered easier or harder than the actual exam?</p>
<p>anyone know if we have to know about organization of vascular tissue within monocots and dicots? or just organization of vascular plants in general?</p>
<p>Knowing Barron’s I’d assume significantly harder.</p>
<p>@doctorate: I suggest you know the broad differences between monocots and dicots and two examples (corn and pea plants).</p>
<p>does anyone else find classification to be crazy hard to memorize? cnidarins, anelids, ***?</p>
<p>It is if you’re cramming. If you learned it in class, it’s much easier (thank God). The only unit I BSed in class was evolution, which was pretty easy to pick up on. If I had breezed through classification, I’d be screwed. :p</p>
<p>It’s not a large part of the test, anyways. Unless you get an FRQ on it. :p</p>
<p>yeah taxonomy is not my strong part. im sorta confused by the phylogenies and clades or w/e but i got the rest. care to explain those?</p>
<p>for classification, i’d just memorize a quick table with number of germ layers, development type and coelom for each of the things, and know what they look like. i sat around doodling them for around half an hour so i was familiar with them. you should be fine with just that for the most part i think…</p>
<p>Yes, classification is the only question(s) that I ever get wrong!</p>
<p>Here are some little cues that I use to remember a lot of the info:</p>
<p>Porifera (sponges) are the odd-ones-out: they lack true tissues. Everything (other than porifera) are eumetazoa. Cnidarians are only classified by their symmetry (radial); not tissues.</p>
<p>The only deuterostomes (anus forms from the blastopore) are echinoderms and chordates. The rest are protostomes.
Platyhelmithes (flatworms) are acoelomates, while rotifers and nematoda are pseudocoelomates; everything else (mollusca, annelida, arthropoda, echinodermata, chordata) are all coelomates.</p>
<p>Everything has bilateral symmetry except cnidaria and porifera.</p>
<p>Everything has two gut openings except for platyhelminthes (1), cnidaria (1), and porifera (0).</p>
<p>It’s much easier to group the info like this (at least for me) than it is to memorize every feature of each individual phylum.</p>
<p>All the prep books have a specific chapter for all the biology experiments. Beside the ones on molecular biology (genetic engineering/e coli/electrophoresis) and Hardy-weinburg eq, are the other ones important for the AP test?</p>
<p>They’re all of equal importance, so to speak, but we never know which they are going to ask about.</p>
<p>In all honesty, the lab-based FRQs hardly require lab knowledge. You just use what is given and either analyze the experiment and create a graph using your Bio knowledge, or design an experiment testing whatever is asked. The lab-based MCs all include experiment information and data which suffice for answering the question.</p>
<p>Are the menstrual/ovulation cycles worth memorizing?</p>
<p>Barons vs Real exam…harder or easier? I got a 77/100 on MC</p>
<p>No. I’ve taken 5 old AP tests and menstrual cycles and that sort of thing wasn’t mentioned in one MC question out of all of them.</p>