<p>Does anyone have released exams or practice tests? I mean legal ones, I don’t want trouble.</p>
<p>^It’s not allowed to trade exams on this board.</p>
<p>Not if the released exam is on AP Central.</p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>So I’m doing taking AP Enviro self-study and I’ve never taken an advanced Biology class (just Honors, which was pretty easy) and the regular Environmental Science class that I’m in is a joke. Unfortunately procrastination took hold of me and I didn’t look at any of the material over March or early April like I said I would. Could I still get a 5 on this test or should I just not bother going through the trouble of taking it (I already ordered it)?</p>
<p>If you can effectively read, review, and retain the material go ahead and take the APES exam. Most of it is just following logical cause and effect chains which you’ve been learning throughout all sciences.</p>
<p>Yes, you can definitely get a five, but you’re going to have to do some reading of some sort. At this point, if you can get it today or tomorrow, but the Princeton Review APES book. It’s pretty condensed, so you can get through it pretty fast. You really need to know everything in there and if you do, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Also, just for anyone in general. On the multiple choice, if you have no idea what the answer is, just pick the choice that sounds most environmentally friendly. I did this for the mock exam my teacher gave yesterday, and I got nearly a perfect score even though I didn’t really know most of the material.</p>
<p>For the essays, think outside the box, and if it asks for a law, in the worst case scenario, some how connect the Clean Air Act or Clean Water Act to what the question is asking for.</p>
<p>Lastly, make sure you know how to do the math problems that the AP gives for one of the essays. These are free points if you know how to do long division and know your conversions.</p>
<p>Overall, just use common sense and you can get a lot of the questions correct doing just that.</p>
<p>Lol ^ that sounds reasonable. =P</p>
<p>Just wondering are you guys using PR or Barrons or something else? Cause I read PR and it was reallllly easy and then Barrons has soo much more stuff. Is it really worth it to read Barrons? or no… I took the class btw, but my teacher was so-so</p>
<p>Get Princeton. Barron’s sucks.</p>
<p>I’m already nervous for the exam.</p>
<p>The Smartypants’ Guide to the AP Environmental Science Exam is perfect. It’s about 100 pages, way thin, straight to the point.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Smartypants’ Guide to the AP Environmental Science Exam (9781411644779): Michelle Mahanian: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Smartypants-Guide-Environmental-Science-Exam/dp/1411644778]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Smartypants-Guide-Environmental-Science-Exam/dp/1411644778)</p>
<p>NEPA = most usable piece of environmental legislation for the essays. Environmental Impact Statements can pretty much be applied to any environmental issue.</p>
<p>Don’t be nervous, I took this exam last year without really studying with a prep book or anything. I received a 5 in the summer but wasn’t really expecting it. It is mainly common sense and answer questions within the greater framework of environmental science not just with fact based responses. Write a BEE-Essay (BS) if you aren’t quite sure how to address the prompt. I was really passionate about the subject so that helped me. Make sure to know joules and electricity math problems and the causes and chemicals of photochemical smog. And always always always think sustainably.</p>
<p>I was supposed to be taking the APES exam right now… but I live in the South and my power is still out from the storms last Wednesday… and we aren’t having school until this Wednesday. I don’t know what’s going to happen. But good luck everyone!</p>
<p>That was…Hard!!!</p>
<p>I agree with the above.
In 2 days can we discuss the crap out of those frqs?</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry piedpilko, I hope everything works out. You’ll probably just take the make up day!</p>
<p>Here’s a list of questions I struggled with…hopefully they will be answered by more knowledgeable cc-ers soon.
-Freshwater problem? They said something along the lines of, agricultural poses the largest problems, what is the second largest? Choices were “urban area in place with limited precipitation”, “urban runoff into estuarine waterway”, “acid precipitation”, and I forget the rest.
-The EM spectrum on the Earth is mostly what? Either visible or infrared, I think.
-What two factors determine how fast a landfill decomposes (something like that)? Aeration and moisture?</p>
<p>For these next two I was 50-50 between two choices:
-Something about what ESA entails/is. “Only applicable to federal lands”, or “based on biological data”.
-Integrated Pest Management: using “a variety of techniques” or “eliminating synthetic and inorganic pesticides.” Wikipedia gives both answers -<em>- (<a href=“Integration - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated</a></em>pest_management#Principles and “It is an ecological approach with a main goal of significantly reducing or eliminating the use of pesticides while at the same time managing pest populations at an acceptable level.”)</p>
<p>It was much harder than the 2008 MC. :(</p>
<p>MC was EASY. Like, overall, this was way easier than I thought it was going to be. I self-studied. But that one FRQ…the math one…omgggg. I had to leave all of letter C blank (the calculations part). <em>shot</em> Hoping for a solid 4.</p>
<p>I thought the MC was hard…at least, as just4ivaylo said, much harder than the 2008 test was…yeah, they would have to increase the difficulty of these tests…still wishing for a 5 though!</p>