<p>Okay, so I'm practically freaking out, what should I do in the last remaining 12-15 hours!?! (besides relax/procrastinate)</p>
<p>I feel like I am just reading, not absorbing all of the material, hopefully the essay is a easy topic...</p>
<p>any major review topics that are MUST READ NOW?</p>
<p>also what are goals to shoot for a 4/5?</p>
<p>85 MC out of 100 says PR book and essays? 30 pts out of 40????</p>
<p>FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
I really should be studying now... I'm doing all the virtual labs....</p>
<p>The essays are going to eat me alive.</p>
<p>"85 MC out of 100 says PR book and essays? 30 pts out of 40????"</p>
<p>That would be really safe for a 5.</p>
<p>You could get 70/100 on MC (30 wrong) and 25 pts out of possible 40 on the free response and still get a 5.</p>
<p>me too lol!!! go virtual labs</p>
<p>are u KIDDING ME, seriously?</p>
<p>This is how the curve works..</p>
<p>Raw score from MC (100 pts possible) x 0.6 = 60 pts max
Each essay = 10 pts max. 4 essays = 40 pts max</p>
<p>61 - 100 = 5
47 - 60 = 4
39 - 46 = 3
30 - 38 = 2
0 - 29 = 1</p>
<p>So the curve is extremely good.</p>
<p>so is it better to guess on 20 (granted that 2 choices bull never works) or leave 20 blank?</p>
<p>I am panicking. There is waywayway too much to do. Why didn't I start reviewing earlier?</p>
<p>is leaving 10-15 blank, and then assuming you get another 20 wrong, a good plan? so lets say you get 60-65 still correct? (good plan for people that want 4-5?)</p>
<p>FREAKINGOUTfreakINGOutfreakinGOUT!!!!</p>
<p>btw I've been studying with the sparknotes book, is that bad????</p>
<p>I don't understand why you would plan to leave "x" number blank..? Just answer / guess on all the questions you can & leave the ones where you can't eliminate ANY of the choices blank....</p>
<p>by x blank i mean the ones i dont get at all, meaning it's like whoa, i can't narrow it down to even 3....and granted there aren't many like that, but i don't wanna risk getting it wrong even though it's only 1/4...am i overanalyzing to much lol</p>
<p>and any review book is good at this point</p>
<p>Well yeah, if you can't narrow the choices down then it could be advantageous to leave the question blank...the thing I don't get is how you're planning ahead for how many Qs like that there will be (?)</p>
<p>Oh and I have a question...</p>
<p>Since you get points on FRQ for what you get right but don't lose points for what you get wrong......can you just answer a question in 2 (mutually exclusive) ways & still get all points ??? (assuming one of your answers is right)</p>
<p>ANy essay predictions>?</p>
<p>lol yeah im being neurotic and kinda basing it off of practice tests in school, since my teacher didn't really prepare us well since she made us answer every question always, which always reduced my score a little, that's why i'm just trying to prepare myself a little more</p>
<p>Take the sparknotes practice test - it's really good. It times you, grades you, and has excellent explanations of answers. Just MC though. It helped me figure out what to review. If you just need to be taught again, go to MIT open courseware, the high school section, and you can watch the profs in action. Do you have the Campbell bio book? If you do you can access the labs and come helpful activities (as well as the book, if you paid for it) online.
I hope that some of these tips can alleviate the panic!</p>
<p>I believe you should answer it only 1 way, because contradicting yourself can cost you, maybe, but you can elaborate and basically do a brain-dump that is cohesive in an essay format, but if they are mutually exclusive it could work as long as there is no contradiction since that's what the review books/teacher says</p>
<p>By mutually exclusive I mean they can't both be right...and therefore would have to be contradictory...</p>