<p>Just realized there wasn't a thread for the APES test so I decided to make one haha.
What did you guys think? I self-studied and it was definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be...Hoping for a 4//5</p>
<p>idk it seemed pretty good. Hoping for a 5 here.</p>
<p>Hoping for a 4, I probably got a 2 or 3.</p>
<p>Like ElMastermind said, it wasn’t that bad. I expected it to be much harder!</p>
<p>Hmm well all the practice tests I took were way easier so I don’t know… I was really hoping to get 5s on all my APs but I guess I’ll have to live with a 4 on this one :(</p>
<p>There was one thing I was paranoid about though—</p>
<p>For the high grade FRQ (actually all of them) on collegeboard, people outline there test with A,B,C, i, ii etc. But on the frq booklet it said do NOT right in an outline form, and to write in prose.</p>
<p>I wrote like a normal essay/short response. Would I be at a disadvantage for not labeling my parts/would points be taken off?</p>
<p>Like I’ve said on other threads, the MC was much harder than any of the other released exams. The FRQs were ok…I feel like they should’ve been easier for me but somehow weren’t.</p>
<p>My teacher told us to always write like a, b, c, etc just because it’s easier to follow. I didnt realize you werent supposed to do that though…by not in outline form I think they just mean dont write in phrases…aka answer w/complete sentences and more than one sentence per each part of the question (if necessary). So yeah, writing like normal shouldnt hurt you as long as you didnt contradict yourself in anything, so you should be fine.</p>
<p>I thought it was awful but then again I didn’t study…</p>
<p>Actually FRQ wasn’t so bad but I tanked on multiple choice. I can only get credit for a 5 <em>sigh</em>.</p>
<p>^^ Yeh hopefully it’s easy to follow for them. I was a little confused because all of the FRQ had them online. I was thinking hmmm WHAT IF they changed it this year.</p>
<p>^Then that would suck for like 90% of the APES testing population who wrote in that format, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah by outline form don’t write in phrases, but write in complete sentences. They like for you to label what question you’re answering</p>
<p>Eh, well I didn’t label but went in the same format given to me.</p>
<p>Hopefully they don’t get frustrated.</p>
<p>I had the Smartypants guide memorized, but am pretty sure I bombed it. I guessed on so many. And most of the free-response. Probably should’ve read a textbook.</p>
<p>hi guys, which prep books did you guys use and were they good or not? i’m self studying, but since i took ap chem today, i’m not taking enviro until two weeks from now! any advice would be helpful</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>IT WAS HELL</p>
<p>Like seriously where in the blue sky did this test descend from. No prep book had the information on this exam. Nothing this in depth. Mesothelioma? what the? I only remembered a little bit from that commercial. I’m praying for a 3 or 4. Thats only MC, on FR I was stumped for a good 10 minutes and literally bs’ed my way through. God i hope for a 3 or 4</p>
<p>the MC was much harder than the 2010 princeton and 2011 5 steps to a 5 practice tests, but i think i got a 4!
My “arduous preparation” involved NOT taking ap environmental science and reading half a chapter of a review book. So i basically used common sense and miscellaneous trivia knowledge. haha i gotta thank national geographic, animal planet, the BBC, and my sophomore chem teacher’s eco friendly tangents for the answers i put down. I guess AP bio also helped.</p>
<p>In all honesty, i felt the test pieced together knowledge from the various sciences we learned in high school–like a trivia pot. Those who enjoy science and are not environmentally blind should score well.</p>
<p>my favorite part was the question asking us to list an example of soil salinization. I wrote “When the Romans sacked Carthage and sowed salt into the fields.” XD
i thinly crossed it out of course and wrote a real response</p>
<p>I felt both parts were pretty easy. Princeton Review book preps you pretty well.</p>
<p>Then again, I felt like Enviro was a combination of Human Geo and Bio, which I have taken.</p>
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<p>It really does.</p>
<p>If you really wanna get an idea of what score you think you’ll get, use this website
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<p>But other than that, I felt really confident about it! And I totally agree with calibrationx’s comment about it being a mix between hgap and bio :D</p>