Official 2011 Self-Studied AP Scores Thread

APManiac
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:19:11 +0000

@zMatrix

10 APs in one year? Are you crazy? (rhetorical question) :)

Bio. ------------ (5 Steps to a 5) + (Raven 9th Ed.) + (McGraw-Hill Online Animations)

Calc. AB -------- (Larson 9th Ed.)

I haven’t gotten my scores back yet (I did late testing).

I hate cramming so I started at the beginning of the school year. I didn’t plan it out very well though and ended up still cramming in May.

Tips for studying from a Bio. textbook: Some chapters are stand-alones and don’t require outside knowledge. If you get stuck on a hard chapter start studying one of these. Also, you should frequently review to get things solid in your memory.

Tips for studying from a Calc. textbook: Work the problems. If you learned related rates early on in the year don’t forget to do frequent practice problems. (I didn’t and that was a big mistake.)

If you have multiple APs to study I switching it up definitely helps. I’d try to do like 10 minutes of Bio. and then 10 of Calc. for 3 cycles and get a good hour of studying done every day. It usually didn’t happen but it was a lot funner to mix it up.