<p>HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone pass the AP bio exam with more than a 2? I am stuggling so bad and i'm only in the third week of school. Has anyone here done extremely well or even okay? Please help!!!! I'm going nuts. Are there any sites or books that will help me? Any suggestions would help and dropping the class is not an option.</p>
<p>what specifically are you having trouble with? I found Bio to pretty much just be a "read the book and memorize the facts" sort of class. if you're using campbell's, they sell a study guide that accompanies the text, which may help to clarify anything you're unsure of. also, you may want to get cliffs AP bio to read along with the text to clear things up even more and get a "big picture" view of what you're learning.</p>
<p>Mackie, don't worry about it. You're only starting on a relatively difficult subject and its 9 months till May. I'm sure in 9 months you can learn the stuff.</p>
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<p>you use campbell's for high school? i thought that book was just for college. that book's 1200 pages long isn't it?</p>
<p>I got a 5, and I swore I would die after the first week. That was because I ended up in the class by accident, and I hadn't done the summer assignment. But then it turned out to be one of my favorite classes. The first part is hardest because it's all the molecular, chemical stuff. The sophomores who hadn't taken chem yet were drowning. But then you get into respiration, transcription/translation, taxonomy, ecology, anatomy, and it gets a lot easier. Hang in there.</p>
<p>And use Princeton Review Guide.</p>
<p>lol. I think everyone feels the same way at first. AP BIO usually involves a lot of reading. I would try talking to teacher about your reading strategy. I know I struggled in the beginning because I was trying to absorb everything, and couldn't remember anything useful. Instead I would read through all the bold terms and definitons, study the pictures and then speed read (not skim) through the other stuff. Take good notes.... that campbell's book is scary come test time.Also, if you have one of the newer editions of campbell's (like i did in ap bio) there should be a cd rom (or you should be able to register at the website). Try reviewing and what not online. THE CD-ROM IS YOUR BEST FRIEND.</p>
<p>I would recommend Cliff Notes over Princeton Review. I loved bio and when I started freaking out before exam time.... it was a less intimidating review than looking at campbell's.</p>
<p>keep at it and good luck</p>
<p>another ... nice confidence booster. You only need to get about 33 % of the multiple choice right to get a 3. I think you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Diagrams! Pay attention to the little ladder thing for photosynthesis. Memorize the formula for glucose. Put little pluses and minuses all over the nerve picture, use study guides with blanks for labeling the parts of mollusk anatomy. Dissect things, and actually pay attention. Read things once, but don't try to memorize every stage of glycolysis. And get a handle on the hormones.</p>
<p>Fall in love with Marth R. Taylor's Study Guide. It saved my neck when it came to plants.</p>
<p>I used Campbell's. We covered like 3/4 of the book, but my teacher was awful so I learned everything from the textbook. I didn't study for the AP, completely winged it, and still got a 4.</p>
<p>oh yea the campbell's book was horrible. I read like 90% of the book. Yea its really bad in the beginning with the chemistry cuz i never took chemistry when i took ap bio. (esp enthropy i never understood it). like tkm256 said it gets easier to understand later with ecology and taxomony, but more memorization. I also had a really bad bio teacher. He didn't teach, but i still got a 5. Spent mother day's weekend cramming in for it. I was surprised that i got a 5. Don't worry, my friend got a C in ap bio and a 5 on the test. Use cliff notes to study for the ap test.</p>
<p>I love campbell's book especially the chemistry part. You guys don't appriciate it only because you haven't seen worse explainations of those chemistry things. But anyway you will get over it. Read the part like a month later and you will find out it's actually very interesting :P</p>
<p>Holy crap you've been in school for three weeks? I don;t start till' sep. 8</p>
<p>I got AP Bio notes from a senior who graduated. It'll help me. She had the same teacher. If you know someone, ask them. There's a miniscule chance they've got their notes buried somewhere.</p>
<p>I highly recommend using Cliffs AP Biology. If you read it religiously, you're ensured to a 4 at least. Read the reviews here as well as at amazon. Its a great book!</p>
<p>Yeah, Cliff is good for AP Bio (although I used it only for review before the test, not for studying during the course).</p>
<p>CliffsAP is the Bible for AP Bio. Basically, it's a lot of memorization. You have to be interested in the subject. I found most of it very interesting and relevant, but the taxonomy and plant stuff was awful. Definitely my best class in high school, though, because I learned so much.</p>
<p>You've gotten a lot of good advice from other posters. Here's what I would recommend:[ul]
[<em>]Take the time to read each chapter carefully
[</em>]Take good notes as you read.
[*]Use CliffsAP as a reference as you read. There's information in Campbell that you don't need to know and Cliffs will help you pare the material down.[/ul]</p>
<p>I failed the class (62 final average [55, 62, 67, 64 for the terms]) and got a 4 on the exam without even answering all the essay questions. I don't know what the hell the AP graders were smoking, since I know I only completely answered one essay question and just rambled on about random stuff on the other three, and probably got most of the multiple choice wrong.
Fact of the matter is, the AP test is all that matters, I'm getting credit for that class even though people that got 95s in the class aren't. Bahahahahaha.</p>
<p>Thank you all!!! And yeah, i do have the cambell's book. It's like 1,000,000 pages long. I'll def. get the princeton review notes. You are all amazing and wish me a 4!!</p>
<p>i started school on the 1st of august. I'm use to starting in september. I just moved to georgia like a year ago.</p>
<p>We had to outline EVERY chapter of the Campbell's. It wasn't much fun, but it was the most helpful thing ever. If you get to a part you can't get through, try copying it straight from the book in painfully neat cursive, onto looseleaf. That always helps me.</p>
<p>And the first part of AP Bio is the hardest. Just wait until you get to ecology and evolution (generally 2nd Semester.) A walk in the park, even for the class idiot.</p>