<p>sounds like both of this year’s APES exams were unusually hard, and hearing that from peers on CC makes me highly suspicious of the difficulty CollegeBoard chose for this exam. I thought APES was one of the “easier” APs.</p>
<p>I still believe it’s a pretty easy AP overall. It’s also considered “easy” because the material is simple (easy to understand/comprehend). Makes for an easy self-study and and exam you can do well on just by reading a review book. </p>
<p>Issues seem to include the broad range of facts and details that can be thrown in even though most courses/review books don’t cover them. Also, while some FRQs are simple and to the point, others just feel strange and out of place in the context of the course curriculum. It’s not good when you’re basing FRQ answers just on common sense and other classes rather than on environmenal science material…</p>
<p>I actually really enjoyed the large breathe of material. Never expected things like thermally-stratified lakes and atmospheric inversion condition to be on there. It made my overstudying seem worth it.</p>
<p>By the way, did anyone else use calculus for the last part of the last question? </p>
<p>This is the last AP test I will take in my life. What a way to go. :p</p>
<p>Several people mentioned taking the derivative of that function on 4d. Personally I just talked about the slope of the logistic growth curve.</p>
<p>Yeah, for 4d I recognized the answer by using logical thought, but I decided to take the derivative just to prove it to myself (and because it would really be a solution that was easier to follow than trying to explain the nature of the growth curve).</p>
<p>314159265 - I appreciate that a lot hahaha, but to be honest, I hardly studied for this. It’s my own fault.</p>
<p>Oy. Overall I didn’t think MC was too bad… had to guess on a handful but whatever
Got to the free response… and it was all downhill from there… #1/4 I guessed on about half of it, seemed like a bit too much math 
teacher said that #1 A might have been rate of change, but I did what most people did here (honestly didn’t know how else to approach it)… and 2/3 were okay, but I think I sort of just spewed information in an attempt to demonstrate knowledge… and #4, well… if the AP graders are nice, I probably got a 2 on that </p>
<p>At least it’s nice knowing that yall also thought it was brutal :)</p>
<p>I actually found the test overall to be manageable. I started self-studying the Sunday evening before with PR and it definitely helped a lot. Most of the matching sets were pretty straightforward (apart from perhaps the sewage treatment set). The MC overall, I thought was at about normal difficulty and there were only a few completely random questions (Gaia hypothesis, septic tank, etc.). A lot of specific topics that have appeared before on released exams appeared on this one. The Free Response was also overall pretty manageable apart from the first question (which was brutal) and the fourth question (which was also pretty bad). Despite the fact that there was an unusually high number of “LIST THREE” or “DESCRIBE THREE” questions versus the usual “LIST TWO” or “DESCRIBE TWO”, most of the questions themselves were pretty straightforward.</p>
<p>^Gaia showed up on the regular exam, so thank goodness I knew what it was since I went and looked it up. Unfortunately, I didn’t know much else stuff. :P</p>
<p>howd you guys find an x value for slope one? not used to topographic maps really…</p>
<p>^AFAIK, you had to guesstimate distance between points using the scale given on the map. I divided by lower altitude. -__-</p>
<p>^gaah crap lol. i always miss the obvious ones -.-</p>
<p>i just did change in y</p>
<p>can we discuss numerical values yet?</p>
<p>You’re never allowed to discuss MC/FRQS on the make-up exams. But feel free to make up some hypothetical situation that might answer your question.</p>
<p>Bump - I managed to get a 5 on this. How did the rest of you do?</p>
<p>^Likewise, I got a 5 on the late test!! Still don’t know how to do question 1 in the FRQ though!</p>
<p>Isn’t it true that the MC is 60%-70% the same between the make-up and the normal one?</p>
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As you said, it isn’t true.</p>
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<li>No idea how it happened.</li>
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