How are you POSSIBLY surviving AP Stats?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I hate this class so much!! I never have any idea what's going on and I've failed almost every test the first time I took it.</p>

<p>Today we learned Chi-Square tests of Independence and after the lecture I was almost in tears because I was SOOOO oblivious to what the heckkkk was going on.</p>

<p>And it's sooo not the first time either. I could NOT grasp the concept of logarithmic transformations, stratification/clustering, residuals, or really anything. The only thing I've really understood all year was calculating confidence intervals and test statistics but the interpretations of them DO NOT FLOW for me you guys!! How on earth are we supposed to know what a p-value means in relation to a T-Value or a Z-value? Or a Chi-Square?</p>

<p>I'm sooooooooo outraged.. I need advice on how to actually learn the whole class before the AP exam. And what did you do to actually understand this stuff???</p>

<p>Oh. My. God.</p>

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<p>Don’t scare me. I signed up for that instead of Calculus next year. o.O</p>

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<p>Are you a senior? Aren’t you going to Emory?</p>

<p>Relax. If you can get accepted into Emory, you can handle AP Stats.</p>

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<p>I would cut back on the shampoo if I were you.</p>

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<p>amg I don’t remember that.</p>

<p>It’s not too bad. I didn’t even do that one question that’s worth like 1/6 of the total score, and I still got a 4</p>

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<p>Wow, I gotta say, AP Statistics is one of the easiest AP’s out there. But clearly you haven’t learned the definitions.</p>

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<p>How is one supposed to know the difference between addition and multiplication? Just learn the definitions!</p>

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<p>It’s the easiest course I’ve ever taken. I am in physical pain sometimes because it is so boring. If you’re using The Practice of Statistics as a text, beware. Every section basically has one question that is restated over and over in many different ways. What a joke.</p>

<p>I looked at some MIT OCW resources for a stats course there yesterday. The subject could be wonderfully rigorous but instead has no mathematical value because CollegeBoard/ETS set such a pathetic curriculum.</p>

<p>I still have fun sometimes because my teacher is awesome and I just mess around with other people in the class.</p>

<p>My advice for the OP: buy a prep book and read it. Do practice tests from the prep book. Be one with your calculator.</p>

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<p>A p-value is just the probability that data like yours would arise if the null hypothesis is true.</p>

<p>AP Stats was the easiest AP test I’ve taken, definitely. Just learn what everything means, internalize it, keep practicing.</p>

<p>Most stats textbooks are crap, by the way. That might be your problem.</p>

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<p>^^ I’ve never seen TCBH use an exclamation point unless it was in song lyrics. Without the chill influences of Maplelafs26, et al., who knows what is possible</p>

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<p>Yes this. I wanted to leave 30 minutes into the AP Test. I wanted to stand up, pick up my desk and hurl it as far as I could. I really wanted to hurt someone - or myself.</p>

<p>And I got a 5, quite comfortably I presume.</p>

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<p>Logarithmic Transformations are kinda easy. All you do is go Stat->Edit on your calculator and if you’re in L1 and L2 put L3 and L4 as natural log of L1 and natural log of L2. Then go Stat->Calc->1 Var Stats-> Enter and there ya go. You only do that if your sample is skewed and wanna make it normal.</p>

<p>Other than that I’m pretty much in the same boat. I got a C first semester, and that was after retaking some of the chapter tests 4 times. </p>

<p>Just get reallyyyy good at significance testing and you’ll be all fine and dandy.</p>

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<p>^Well, that’s how to do it on a calculator - it’s still important to know what that means, and how to turn the regression of a logarithmic transformation into a regular regression. But that’s just basic algebra…</p>

<p>Right, I know nobody who took more than half the time allotted for multiple choice. It was ridiculous. Half the kids fell asleep and still got 5s.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah uhh I have no idea how to do that.</p>

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<p>I actually took most of the allotted time, which is probably why I was feeling quite so violent.</p>

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<p>If only the AP Chem exam were so easy … ;|</p>

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<p>^ It’s easier.</p>

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<p>lol I’m going to fail the AP Chem exam so badly :/</p>

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<p>Hahah I got a 1 on it. But it’s still easier than stats.</p>

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<p>that sucks. That’s probably not a good sign for me</p>

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<p>Ahh, I was sick as hell and had to leave the exam room 3 times to barf. That probably had something to do with it.</p>