<p>so what prep book would all of you recommend for self-studying? smartypants? Barron's? Both?</p>
<p>Yea, I have the same question as ziggyman, but I also was wondering if anyone has any released exams for APES.</p>
<p>I would be willing to trade other science tests, and other history tests.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>My APES teacher told me the average score students get on any free response essay is about a 2. </p>
<p>We're obviously all reasonably intelligent people here, so that should make us all feel a little better, right?</p>
<p>I mean honestly, I could spit on the paper and probably score higher than a 2. That's just ridiculous.</p>
<p>LisaG, I think your teacher might not have put that information (if it's even accurate) in the proper context. For instance, last year the grade distribution on the test was as follows...</p>
<p>Score of 5, 3,551 students, 9.3% of total
Score of 4, 8,901 students, 23.4% of total
Score of 3, 7,204 students, 18.9% of total
Score of 2, 6,813 students, 17.9% of total
Score of 1, 11,635 students, 30.5% of total</p>
<p>That right there basically shows that a large perecent of the test takers don't know anything at all about the subject (which I don't think is the case for someone posting here) or just decided to fill out information part of the test and took a three hour sleeping period, so that would bring down the average quite a bit; ask him/her if there is a statistic if the don't count the 1s and 2s which takes away 49% of the scores (I don't know what's up with the pass rate nationally, my teacher has an eighty-something pass percentage, so does every other teacher stink?).</p>
<p>When I look at the same data that your instuctor has, it is not as bleak as he/she stated, but still, I think if we reduce the half that got 1s and 2s, it's better. But here's the raw free response scores that includes everyone.</p>
<p>FRQ 1, Avg. Score 4.52, Std. Deviation 2.33
FRQ 2, Avg. Score 3.5, Std. Deviation 2.49
FRQ 3, Avg. Score 3.09, Std. Deviation 1.89
FRQ 4, Avg. Score 3.6, Std. Deviation 2.14</p>
<p>So, all I have to say is that none of you should worry unless you were actively "power bullsh**ing" your essays and didn't even add one bit of support to them. And pretty much everyone is going to do get part c) of the fishing thing one wrong because I don't think any teacher really covered maritime law (thinking of that, just had an Arrested Development flash-back.)</p>
<p>I put the Endangered Species Act, does that even apply to fish?</p>
<p>EDIT: Woot! I just checked the language of the act and it does apply to fish! It's a gigantic stretch, but that made my evening.</p>
<p>Yarrr, I put the law of the sea now that me thinks about it, but that will earn me a phat zero worthy of an eyepatch</p>
<p>I used the Endangered Species Act too. I made something up about Manatee's being endangered in the Atlantic Ocean, which meant that boats had to have restrictions on them, causing the amount of fish farming to go down.</p>
<p>Most people don't study for subject thinking its going to be extremely easy (its easy but not extremely easy) and get a 1... If you study a little bit i'm pretty sure most people would pass (if you put effort of studying AP physics in to this, <em>which i don't think you should.. study for physics or some other class instead..unless you are environmental science major or something</em> you should get a 5 definately..)</p>
<p>apes exam was a joke..
MC was easy (plastic dissolves in H2O.. that was a choice on one of them for crying out loud)
and Free-response was somewhat easy (i only missed legislation one + a part of the plant remediation one)</p>
<p>I thought MC was somewhat easy (somewhat hard? mostly because i didn't review or study except for an hour (started @ 1:00 AM that night) and FRQ easy.. except the marine laws like people stated above... so backwards..</p>