<p>hey. i'm taking ap bio this year, and i don't really know much about the course.</p>
<p>what's fun about the course?</p>
<p>what's hard about the course?</p>
<p>why did you love/hate it?</p>
<p>fun - learning things that are applicable to daily life</p>
<p>hard - loads of information</p>
<p>love: made some great friends while learning some good stuff
hate: teacher did not cover all the AP exam material :o, though it wasn’t necessary for a 5.</p>
<p>(typical AP, imo)</p>
<p>I’m going to rant about the exam. I self-studied my ass off, and what I get on the test are cursory questions in feeble attempts to cover everything and middle-school level graph inferences. The supposed “lab” question was to summarize the location of fish in a tank, and the follow up questions just begged some BS. The class is harder and more worthy on all levels. Getting a 5 isn’t something big. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, I love biology. The fun parts are always the labs. As I experienced, the molecular biology labs are very much essential for insititutional research. The concepts of biology are never difficult to grasp. The volume of material, especially following an AP curriculum, makes the tests seem harder, and homework never-ending. But if you keep up with the reading and try to imagine the marvels of biological processes in action, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>The hard part about ap bio is that there is so much information. Whenever you think you have the information down to the core, you kinda don’t lol. </p>
<p>But I liked learning about it so overall I had a good time. </p>
<p>p.s. Yeah what was up with the fish question?!</p>
<p>=/ please don’t bring up the fish question. It was so simple I overanalyzed it and probably got it wrong. Got a 5, but im betting just barely…</p>
<p>So: AP bio is really fun! You can learn about so many difference things in biology on the cellular level, tissue level, organ level, organism level … etc.</p>
<p>It does get very hard at points where it just becomes meaningless memorization >_<. Especially when you hit organ systems…</p>
<p>fun - the way it connects lots of stuff together…like the first part is basically chemistry</p>
<p>hard - you have to do lots of reading</p>
<p>fun: nap time
hard: staying awake
hate: boredom</p>
<p>Then again I really didn’t quite stay awake in any of my classes this year. Just studied like the week before the test (well actually I spent the day before the test cramming) and got a 5. The test is insanely easy. There’s so much stuff to learn that 80%+ of the time you’ll be learning about something you don’t give a crap about (e.g. plants, animals, environment). Somehow my teacher managed to make even the interesting stuff (e.g. molecular bio, physiology, etc) boring as hell. But hey that was just my experience and maybe you’ll have a better one.</p>
<p>watch out for those bigot teachers that find out you decided not to take the AP test and treat you like pond scum for the remaining 2 months. Apparently it (the teacher) doesn’t get as much funding from the school if less students take it.</p>
<p>really interresting and amazing
sure believe me</p>
<p>Let’s see…
good:yay for class parties, oh and all those mafia games…
bad: my teacher did nothing, WE DIDN’T GET TO DO THE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS CUZ WE DIDN’T HAVE RESTRICTION ENZYMES T.T
ugly: my teacher’s tests, and cramming for ap…though i’m naturally good at sciences, so i got a 5</p>
<p>fun: pretty chilax AP overall. Also just pwning some of the tests was pretty fun. </p>
<p>hard: you have to know some concepts at such an indepth level (at least I did). Not really for the AP test but for the in-class tests. I wouldn’t say memorization of like random info, it’s more like memorization of concepts and knowing the trivial stuff as a by-product (both types of memorization are difficult to do imo). There is also a lot of reading, and since my teacher used a test bank reading was a must.</p>
<p>why love: I am/was damn good at bio (think of like Hermione in Harry Potter. I knew almost every question the teacher asked), I liked the connections to chem, and I like that what we learn is applicable to our lives moreso than say chemistry or computer science or whatever.</p>
<p>I thought the beginning stuff was pretty hard, like organic chemistry. i thought the ending stuff was more interesting, ie plants, animals, evolution. i got a 4- i thought it was easy to know everything on a shallow level, enough to do well on the mc part of the test, but it was pretty hard to guess what they were going to ask on the free response. for those, you needed to have a much deeper understanding.</p>
<p>I didn’t pay attention during my AP bio class times because the stuff our teacher taught weren’t on the test she gave so I just studied the day before each exam. Oh, and no matter what grades you get on the tests during the class still take the AP Exam. I failed the majority of the tests during the year and got a 58 on the final, but still got a 5.</p>
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<p>Actually it was pretty easy after I saw the MC. Because I finished the MC early and was bored, I decided to count how many questions were in each category, and I saw the deficient categories that were pretty important. I then went on to guess the 4 free response topics, and I got 3 of those pretty close to right. I told some friends my guesses and we did some last second review in the break. I recommend someone take my advice and do this next year.</p>
<p>i took AP Biology as a sophomore, so no introductory course first. looking back, the class seems to be not-too-bad, but the whole way through, i worked incredibly hard. at my school, we plowed through the information so fast (we covered everything) that my teacher gave us the notes, rather than us taking them. it meant a lot of outside studying and reading, especially for the tests. come time for the ap, i didn’t need to cram. although i was scared because it was my first ap, i didn’t have to study hard the nights right before. (i got a 5)</p>
<p>i love my ap biology class but my teacher is so stupid. he want us to pass the test even though we skiped whole lessons and only did like 4 labs. i need to review, my ap is on monday!!!
he wont stay after school for tutorials or come on saturdays. I HATE HIM!</p>