<p>How did you study? What would you recommend?</p>
<p>bumpppppppp!</p>
<p>same question…I did really poor on the mock exam…</p>
<p>hey, I somehow managed a 5 last year. first thing you should know is the curve is extremely lenient. I think I skipped at least 10-15 or maybe even 20 multiple choice questions and still got a 5. I basically studied using a prep book. I think I used 5 Steps to a 5 mostly, and maybe a little bit of Princeton Review for some topics that I thought weren’t adequately covered in my other book. I may have skimmed the text book… but not too much, because, honestly, the textbook goes into so much unnecessary detail. It’s all about really understanding the concepts and knowing how to use the formulas in problem solving. good luck!</p>
<p>I also got a 5 last year. I answered nearly all of the MC (skipped maybe 2 or 3) and got maybe 85% right…I was not nearly as confident on the free response, I maybe got 60% right. Like the poster above me said, the curve is very lenient. I used Princeton Review and it was very helpful for MC. Some of them nearly verbatim matched the ones on the exam. Memorize most of your formulas for the multiple choice-sometimes you really do need to know them, and it is always helpful on the relationship questions (i.e. what happens to current as resistance increases) to be able to write down the formula to avoid dumb mistakes. Obviously answer everything for the free response, even if you have no clue, because there’s always a chance of picking up a point or two. Good luck-you can do it!</p>
<p>^ great advice. </p>
<p>i have the most incompetent teacher i have ever had for ap physics B and i took a practice and got 30 raw mc and im afraid of getting 0 points on the frq.</p>
<p>what can i do between now and monday to ensure me getting a 3 on it. i have princteon review. and i do not know very many formulas at all we didnt even finish “learning”, if thats what you want to call it, the material (just did capacitance)</p>
<p>^ make flashcards with all the formulas from the equation sheet they give you. Go through the scoring guides on collegeboard’s website for the past years free response. If you learn how to deal with a few basic problems, you’ll be OK. I’d say most important FRQs to know how to answer would be one about a simple circuit, and a very simple one on atomic/nuclear physics (these are almost always pretty simple), a simple magnetism one. The parts of the question (a,b,c,d,e) go roughly in order of increasing difficulty. Usually you can do at least a and b just by simple plugging and chugging into a formula. </p>
<p>Forget about any topics you really don’t understand. Don’t waste time trying to learn them, review the things you already have a loose grasp on and get them down cold. You only need about 45% on the exam to get a 3. Newtownian mechanics covers about 35% of the exam…if you can get this stuff down cold and have a loose grasp on a few other topics, you should be fine.</p>
<p>EDIT: according to another thread, last year you only needed about 31% to get a 3. Even better!</p>
<p>A 5 on that exam equates to approximately a 65 so there is a lot of room for error. Spend the weekend with 2 review books and you should be ok.</p>
<p>What formulas are emphasized the most on the exam?</p>
<p>Definitely know that W = F*d, the work energy theorem, ohm’s law, and the two-dimensional motion equations. That alone should net you a ton of points.</p>
<p>I was getting 45-50/70 on my MC’s and I did really bad on FR #1 last year and I still got a 5. The exam has a great curve.</p>
<p>Thanks! You guys are great!</p>