<p>I'm free to help. My only conditions are that I can only help with a few subjects, namely...</p>
<p>-AP Psychology (5)
-AP Environmental Science (5)
-AP Chemistry (Will Get a 5)
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Spanish Language
-AP English Language</p>
<p>Fire away. Note that I've been in a really really comprehensive 2-year chemistry program at my school so AP prep/review has been drilled into my brain for chem since sophomore year.</p>
<p>For the AP Psychology exam, how are the FRQ set up? What I am asking is do they have to be a formal essay, or what?</p>
<p>AP Psych and AP Lang (difficulty of MC and FRQ’s? Impossible to get a 5?) and I concur with zombie dante… I’ve been using bullet points to go into separate three sentences that cover each facet of the FRQ…</p>
<p>Will reading/doing practice tests from the Barron’s book and using [this</a> vocab list](<a href=“http://quizlet.com/235769/ap-psychology-review-flash-cards/]this”>http://quizlet.com/235769/ap-psychology-review-flash-cards/) pretty much guarantee me a 5 on Psychology?</p>
<p>for psych/enviornmental, will memorizing barrons 500 flash cards be enough?</p>
<p>There is only 1 week till the AP Chem exam and I haven’t practiced.
What should I study.</p>
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<p>The FRQ do not have to be set up as a formal essay. You can write short paragraphs in kind of a bullet point format but use complete sentences. As long as you write a few sentences for each question, you should be fine.</p>
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First, both are relatively feasible and not too difficult to get a 5 on. AP Psychology’s multiple choice questions mainly consist of questions that can be answered through common sense and experiential knowledge, and specific vocabulary terms and processes learned in a AP Psychology Course/Self-Study. The free-response questions are less common sense and more specific terminology and general application based. (You’re going to need examples and you will need to know terms in order to answer them) I was on the borderline of 4/5 (my weakness was the FRQ so make sure you practice those!) during my practice examinations last year and I ended up getting a 5 because I felt above average on my multiple choice and free response. (The FRQ were strange last year so familiarize yourself with the different formats)</p>
<p>Second, I do not take AP English Language as a course but I am self-studying it currently for this year’s examination. The multiple choice is essentially the critical reading section of the SAT and should not be difficult if you handle those well. Critical reading is a skill that is difficult to study for or prepare for beyond simple practice. Try to practice as many questions as you can but it is definitely possible to get only 0-2 wrong (the questions seem a lot more straightforward in my opinion). Moreover, I am not too familiar with the style of answering the FRQ so I will not be much help there but I am aware that for the synthesis essay you need to focus more on developing an argument through fluent implementation of the sources and making sure that you have a clear, central argument that is backed up by examples, comparisons, etc. (rhetoric in general). I think most essays range from 5-6 paragraphs for that. In addition, the essay that requires an analysis of an author’s rhetoric is something that requires understanding different rhetoric and methods of developing an argument. Finally, the last question regarding a prompt that you answer from literature, history, experiences, etc. seems like a more developed SAT essay in my opinion.</p>
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<p>Yes. I personally just used Barron’s and released exams to prepare. If you use Barron’s you will be ready. The extra vocab list is not necessary unless you want to use it for review. Also, practice tests in Barron’s aren’t that good. Try to get released exams; they sometimes repeat questions, too. (They did last year for like two or three)</p>
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<p>I often find memorizing just vocabulary for some of the easier, straightforward AP like Psych and Enviro to be risky because sometimes the questions go beyond mere memorization and require understanding and implementation. However, if you are pressed for time, memorizing vocab words is probably helpful for most of the exam. Be sure to do free response questions though! Environmental science has weird free response.</p>
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<p>Well it depends. Are you reviewing in your class? How comprehensive is AP Chemistry at your school? At my school we do honors chemistry in 10th grade and AP Chemistry in 11th grade and typically everyone gets a 5 and the B students end up getting 4s - it’s comprehensive and we begin prepping for AP-style questions in 10th grade. So if you’re like me and you’ve been under a rigorous Chemistry curriculum for the last year or so, you should be fine with limited practice and prep. If not, I suggest getting Princeton Review (I’ve been reading every chapter and have been able to review the material I learned quite well). It also has decent questions in similar style to the real exam so I would definitely check it out.</p>
<p>If anyone has more questions, I am available for assistance!</p>
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So you don’t need a thesis or anything?</p>
<p>hows the AP Psych and AP Environmental Science?
im taking those two and it feels like this is heaven-sent since youve gotten a 5 on both of them already. (:
i feel pretty confident in AP psych but not so much on AP Environmental Science. Any advice on how i should study? i’ve got the PR review books for both.</p>
<p>Environmental Science- tips for frq, also how hard is the mc?
Spanish Language- tips for spoken part?</p>
<p>Our school is not as intensive as your school A & B student both score a 1 one the test and I haven’t really practiced intensively, so I’m nervous.
What were the biggest topics when you took the test?</p>
<p>How hard is it to get a 3 on the AP Chem test? How much do you need to know?</p>
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<p>No, sir. They’re not really essays, they’re more like short answer questions if that makes sense.</p>
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<p>Alright, I guess I can tell my story if that would elucidate any of your concerns. Last year I studied the first third of AP Psychology (Barron’s) in the summer time and got the Myer’s textbook in case I needed further clarification (which I normally didn’t) and felt pretty confident in April. Like I was certain I was at least getting a 4, if not a 5. I only felt uneasy about the free-response question because it was kind of difficult for me at first to apply what terms I knew to the FRQ, but eventually I got the hang of it and pulled it together during the exam.</p>
<p>Second, for AP Environmental Science, I bought the Barron’s book but it’s horrible. Like it’s so verbose and overly specific in certain areas and its practice questions are not geared towards the material they cover (I suppose it’s better for use if you’re in the actual class but nonetheless I did not like it and probably used 40-odd pages. Barron’s also has weird FRQ for almost all their books). I kind of gave up on APES toward the end of April and focused more on Psych, but then I found the Smartypants book and, I cannot emphasize this enough, it was the sole reason for why I got a 5. I mean it’s straightforward, balances adequate explanation with brevity of material, and is just great to read through a couple times in order to be ready for the exam. I also purchased some released exams online and got them through trades and those turned out to be VERY important. I say practicing taking the actual exam is the most important part of doing well on the test and scoring yourself and seeing what areas you need to improve on. It sounds cliched but it works. Trust me. PR is pretty solid for AP review books, from what I’ve seen. I’ve heard that PR is as good as Smartypants and is probably the most popular option since it’s more readily available (Smartypants is sold primarily on Amazon). Either one will be fine. Also, for APES, remember the nitrogen cycles and other cycles like that - and also the effects of certain pollutants (like um Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, stuff like that). Smartypants sums it up BEAUTIFULLY and if you cannot get the book/Princeton Review doesn’t help with that, I could probably try to scan it or type it up for you from my book.</p>
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<p>APES - Multiple Choice consists mostly of specific terminology and common sense. It depends how up to date you are with science and your background in other classes. I had already been exposed to advanced biology and chemistry courses, as well as some decent earth science in middle school, prior to self-studying. It wouldn’t hurt to review some of the more specific things like keystone species, etc. But most of the words you can kind of tell what they mean from their names. The free response for Env Sci is pretty straightforward. There isn’t a whole lot of math but there is some, but you can (and have to) do it without a calculator. A lot of it is providing examples and reasons for certain things like last year I had to provide an example of an invasive species that matched the description they provided (I used kudzu). It’s pretty open ended though and if you look at the rubrics there can be more than 1 answer to each bullet point. DEFINITELY practice them because Env Sci’s FRQ is unlike most of the other sciences’.</p>
<p>AP Spanish - I’m struggling with the spoken part as well but i suggest practicing using old scripts and recording yourself having the simulated conversation, look back at what you said, and look at areas of improvement. Try to come up with some good phrases that are pretty general that you can use over and over like (Me di cuenta que necesito… or Creo que soy un…) because most of the types of conversations are pretty much the same or generalized (either you are planning something with someone else, you need to get something from a store or someone else, you are applying for a job or a school, or you have to refuse going away… they’re pretty easy to prepare for in terms of content).</p>
<p>Second, for the presentation, I have no idea how to do those well. I struggle with them. But I’ve found it good when I practice having a conversational tone as I would if I were giving a presentation in front of a formal audience and using phrases such as Buenos dias estimados profesores… blablabla and use formal language. Practice your diction, obviously. And practice speaking! Practice and familiarization are the only things that can help with AP Spanish unless you’re already fluent or a native speaker.</p>
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<p>I have not taken it yet but basically my teacher has been making us do old free-response questions for homework and then released multiple choice exams for homework over the weekend. It’s important that you understand equilibrium (acid-base, solubility, gaseous, etc.) because every year it is guaranteed that there will be one free-response question on it. You also should know kinetics, thermodynamics, properties of liquids/solids/gases, basic organic chemistry, nuclear chemistry, stoichiometry, electrochem, orbitals/periodic trends, etc. I’ve just realized how expansive the course really is. If you’re pressed for time, review equilibrium, thermo, kinetics, and properties definitely. Electrochem/Nuclear/Orgo aren’t huge topics. </p>
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<p>I do not know how hard it is to get a 3 on the AP Chemistry exam - we’ve pretty much only focused ourselves on getting a 5. I know the cutoff for getting a 5 is like 100 out of 160 or something like that. My teacher says getting roughly ~60% = 5, so I’d imagine somewhere around 30-45% being the 3 range? Try to review the major areas like equilibrium, kinetics, stoichiometry, etc. and you will probably get a good chunk of the test correct. Sorry if that doesn’t help.</p>
<p>reading from your other post,
is there any chance that you could either scan or type up the parts from smartypants
like the cycles part or the pollutants part?</p>
<p>my teacher did not teach us a single thing and im literally self-studying for this test.
i tried looking for some practice tests but i could only find the 1998 released one( which is hear is really easy sincei ts the first released one) and one collegeboard practice exam.
threre are hardly any resources online for this class :(</p>
<p>anyways, if you could do the request above, i would be so thankful but you don’t have to… just wondering. hahah</p>
<p>“Also, for APES, remember the nitrogen cycles and other cycles like that - and also the effects of certain pollutants (like um Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, stuff like that). Smartypants sums it up BEAUTIFULLY and if you cannot get the book/Princeton Review doesn’t help with that, I could probably try to scan it or type it up for you from my book.”</p>
<p>First off, thanks for answering all of our questions!</p>
<p>I do not think that’ll be able to get ahold of the Smartypants guide. I know that AP time is coming up, but if you could do this for me I’d be very very thankfull.</p>
<p>I know this is alot to ask for, but by any chance do you have any APES or Psych released exams that I could have?</p>
<p>Thank-you so much<3</p>
<p>For AP English, how can you study for it? and also, what are the most important things to know for the essays in order to score high?</p>
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<li>I will try to scan that page sometime today or tomorrow, definitely.</li>
<li>I lost my pdfs of the released exams, but I believe you can find some audits/other practice ones online through a google search.</li>
<li>You can study for AP English by learning rhetoric and literary terms. You can also practice for it by using released tests and free response questions. If you run out, I suppose you could always turn to SAT I Critical Reading sections as they are similar.</li>
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<p>yeah i spent atleast a good hour searching for some tests for APES, PSYCH and Calculus
i found 1-2 for each.</p>
<p>and thank you!
i’ll check back on this thread tomorrow or in a few days.
seirously, thank you , again</p>
<p>can u please send me the copy of the Smartypants for apes?..</p>
<p>How does Barron’s compare to PR for AP Chem? How much are electrochemistry and organic chemistry tested? What do you think are the most important things to memorize?</p>