<p>Ok, so I am currently a freshamn who is taking an AP Biology Preparation course(just another name for Honors Biology, but the you dont get 5 points added onto your average) at my high school. I do really well in the course because I have a 99 average and thats without the 5 points. I have decided to take the bio sat, but I am really worried about it. Currently, I am studying from the Barrons 2009 review book and will my sat on June 6. Ive been a bit worried because in my class we just finished reproduction and we still have to do genetics, ecology and evolution before the end of the year(btw my finals are like the 3rd week of June). Ive tried to take some practice tests online at sparknotes and the highest I got was like 640 because I had to leave all the questions about ecology, evolution and genetics as blanks. I really dont know if thats a great score or a bad one, but I am really shooting for an 800. Also, is there anything else that you think I could do to prepare for the test. This is also the first subject test I am going to take, so some tips would be great.</p>
<p>You are a freshman. There’s plenty of time for you to do your exams. If you don’t feel you can somehow cram all the information you need to get the 800, study it over the summer and take it early sophomore year. But you have the time.</p>
<p>ya, unfortunately though i have already signed up for the june bio sat 2, unless you suggest that if I do poorly I retake it in like October of my softmore year of something</p>
<p>Something along those lines. I’m sure there’s some sort of cancellation fee, so don’t cancel unless you really have to. Although I think there’s some way to cancel scores after you take the test? Otherwise, get a few review books from barrons, princeton review, etc., and look up those topics you don’t know yet, figuring out the basic concepts and facts that are mentioned in each of the books. Also find connections/different ways of explaining the same concept, it helps with understanding the material. That way, at least you will have some idea.</p>
<p>perhaps my biggest concerns is my time constraints because obviously everything I learn in my bio class isnt enough for the sat II, and although I have the barron’s I am a little bit skethcy about reading the topics I havent covered in class yet. So, I have read through everything ive done in class and have taken some notes and just decided to review those until I start genetics or something</p>
<p>My advice would be to use the princeton review book, that is what I used and I scored an 800. Also, if you are concerned that your class will not finish the material, then you have to teach it to yourself (Most of the concepts are easy to understand.) Lastly,get your hands on actual tests. The tests are online and in the review book are not good indicators of how you will do.</p>
<p>wow spelling fail</p>
<p>so would you say princeton’s is better than barron’s and are concepts like genetics, evolution and ecology that simple to grasp and do you have any other tips on how to get an 800</p>
<p>i personally feel that princeton is the best way to go, however, you should supplement your studying by also reading another review book. This is because sometime princeton lacks information. I got an 800 by reading the princeton review twice, and taking about 6 practice tests. Over the course of the year i also read the Kaplan book. If you do the above you will surely get a 750+ score.</p>
<p>ok then i am currently reading barron’s and probably will get princeton’s and what would you say is the best way to go about from studying from these books, especially topics not covered in class.</p>
<p>hey i am in the sameboat i am freshmen and currently taking biology with a 100 averge and taking the sat bio in october. i am currently practicing with the pinceton book. my class hasent touch upon genectics and ecology. i need some helpful advice how to advance my study, because eventhough i am taking the bio m the first 60 questions are based on ecology and i only have a basic foundation of ecology.</p>
<p>i have that same issueon ecology and btw are you taking an honors biology course</p>
<p>hey could some one answer this question these two questions I dont get</p>
<p>1) A students cut a 2cm^3 block out of a potato and massed the block. She then placed the block in distilled water and waited an hour. If she remassed the block she could expect which of the following?
a) the mass to increase due to plasmoylsis
b) the mass to increase by the potato is hypertonic to the water
c)the mass to decrease because the potato will loose water
d) the mass to decrease because of the higher water potential in the potato
e) the mass to reamin the same because there are no living components in this system</p>
<p>2) Radioactively labeled amino acids introduced into a growing cell culture would be incorporated by the cells. If the cells were involved in protein synthesis and secretion the labeled amino acids would appear in the following organelles in which order over a period of time
a) smooth ER-rough ER-golgi apparatus-nucleus
b)rough ER-smooth ER-golgi apparatus-plasma membrane
c)rough ER- golgi apparstus-smooth Er-plasma membrane
d)smooth ER-rough ER-golgi apparatus-plasma membrane
e) smooth ER-rough ER-golgi apparatus-lysosome</p>
<p>*these are just questions from a barrons practice test</p>
<p>The answer for 1 is b and the answer for 2 is b, though for this I am not sure.</p>
<p>1 is easy- if you remember what hypertonic means (it means that it is less dilute than the substance outside of it, which in this case is true). Because the water is more dilute than the potato, water will flow into it by osmosis.</p>
<p>how do you figure out #2? sohaibshaikh, what answers does the book give?</p>
<p>but if the soulte is greater on the inside than insnt is hypotonic and for 2 the answer the book said was A</p>
<p>Wow, I guess I am pretty rusty in biology, and it’s only been about half a year since I took the test. </p>
<p>As I implied, my answer for #2 is on a whim, and I was not confident that I had it correct at all. However, I did eliminate A first, since amino acids don’t end up back into the nucleus if I am not mistaken. They are formed in the rough ER or the ribosomes, and then travel someplace…and that is basically how I derived my incorrect answer. </p>
<p>As for the first answer, check your terms again…more solute=hypertonic.</p>
<p>i didnt really understand the second either, but I think your right because when my calss did biology our example of a hypertonic solution was an RBC surrounded by salt water so plasmolysis would cause it to loose and water, and our hypotonic example was an RBC in distilled water that would burst due to cytolysis, so I was confused when it said the potato is hypertonic to the water so it will increase in size</p>
<p>wow i am really going to fail this. i need to study badly. i hate my bio class. my teacher is brand new in teaching and she can not control the class it is insane. i pretty much self taech myself to get the grades i recieve. thank god i am strong in biology. any more advice in how to study. by the way #1 dosent make sense either- their are some times that the book might be wrong</p>
<p>ok then and ya see i have been craefuly planning out what to do with the bio sat ii and have decided to review all the stuff i have done in the next two weeks. So what I do is that I read chapters from the barron’s book and take notes on them and study those notes along with any of my class notes. Then, after i have finished that in about 2-2.5 weeks I am going to begin to start self teaching my self some ecology and evolution because I know that my bio class will just barely finish the course(our final unit is ecology) and that wont give me a lot of time to review for it so why not start early. Plus here in New York my final exams are after the SAT II so we may not cover all thbe subjects I need to know. So basically the next six weeks of my life will suck, but if it will get me an 800 on bio sat II M then its a sacrifice that I will have to make. So what do you think of my strategy</p>