<p>Bio marathon month just began for us. Starting from the animal structure chapter in Campbell, we're doing 1 chapter a day until the very last day before the ap exam. lol.</p>
<p>We only have a week to review. We learn up to the first week of AP tests.</p>
<p>This site has AP bio free response questions back to 1968
<a href="http://apbio.biosci.uga.edu/exam/Essays/html/%5B/url%5D">http://apbio.biosci.uga.edu/exam/Essays/html/</a></p>
<p>We just finished everything in Campbell's yesterday. Now we have a month to review (and do a few labs).</p>
<p>whoa, question 3 of 2000 took multiple chapters to cover and they expect us to write it all down, along with three other answers?!?</p>
<p>my teacher has us practice real ap bio past fr questions ALL the time, while it's a pain in the butt now, I hope it'll pay off in june</p>
<p>what do you guys think is the best way to study besides just reading the review book or test book a couple times? would flash cards help, or not since the test includes a lot of proccesses??
TAKE THE SPARKNOTES TEST!! they offfer a free ap test with a score, but it doesnt include the essays. it gives you a lot of nice feedback though i dont know how reliable it is. i got a 4.</p>
<p>Cool. Sparknotes now does AP Biology.</p>
<p>I took the practice test and scored a 5. But, I still need to review... :)</p>
<p>Are we allowed to cancel the class and take the AP exam (still coming to the class and taking tests, but it won't count into a GPA) if we don't want the class on our transcripts?</p>
<p>depends on your school</p>
<p>do we have to contact our colleges and tell them?</p>
<p>i've heard sparknotes' questions don't simulate the questions accurately, but this is mainly only their sat questions. i dunno about bio tho.</p>
<p>My teacher worships CliffsAP.</p>
<p>She also made all 3 of her sections purchase the REA Review book. From what I can see, it's useless. She likes the practice tests, I think.</p>
<p>REA's review is no where as good as CliffsAP, but they do have six practice tests.</p>
<p>About the sparknotes questions: I got 42/45 on the sample MC questions that CollegeBoard provides and 44/50 on the sparknotes test, so it seems like they are fairly accurate.</p>
<p>omg... APs are in what... a month... I late test though... yay... But we still have around 15 chapters of Life: The SCience of Biology to get through... a few hundred pages... Anyway, all i can really say is that i dont particualrly recommend princeton review's book. Some parts were useful, liek on behavior, but other parts were like, no duh, i learned that in Bio1. Anyay, ive heard that Cliff's is better, both here and past AP takers.</p>
<p>omg you sound so excited. anyhow i think i'm screwed becuase i have yet to start preparing and i'm self-studying for it.. i did take a "enriched bio" course last year but i don't remember much and somehow i don't think it's up to snuff. is the free response really killer? cuz i think i can get by on the multiple choice</p>
<p>free responses can be really iffy. We take old AP free responses, and their difficulties are quite varied. Some integrate several chapters of information, some several units, and some you only need limited knowledge. Our first test was pretty easy. If you knew the enzyme lab, you were guaranteed a good score. Our diversity of life test was murder, integrating several chapters and critical thinking that we didnt go over in class or in the book. They are all fairly difficult, however, because of time constraints. 90 minutes to write a coherent and in depth essays are not that easy.</p>
<p>I've heard that if you read CliffsAP Biology 3-5 times, you get a 5.</p>
<p>Sounds good to me...</p>
<p>What I'm doing is reading CliffsAP in-depth as many times as I can and doing practice problems for each section and from tests from Barron's, 5 Steps To A 5, and Princeton Review to solidify my knowledge.</p>
<p>5 Steps to a 5 is good for diagrams as well, which CliffsAP seems to lack, but a Campbell book is sufficient, if not better.</p>
<p>Have any of you ap bio students taken anatomy/physiology or plan to take it? Do you think it helps to take anatomy before or concurrently with ap bio?</p>