<p>One was doable, two was literally impossible. At least I could BS one. </p>
<p>BTW lets remind ourselves we can’t REALLY talk about these things for another 40 hours or so :)</p>
<p>I know scottkim!!! Where the flip were the biomes, the soil layers, the food webs, the laws, the food chains, the atmospheres, the biogeochemical cycles, the agriculture??? There was NONE of that on the test, NONE.</p>
<p>I guess the exam is now AP Pollution Science lmao.</p>
<p>w/ application in mathematics of course :p</p>
<p>I Earths Systems and Resources (10-15%)</p>
<p>II The Living World (10-15%)</p>
<p>III Population (10-15%)</p>
<p>IV Land and Water Use (10-15%)</p>
<p>V Energy Resources and Consumption (10-15%)</p>
<p>VI Pollution (25-30%)</p>
<p>VII Global Change (10-15%)</p>
<p>******** CB BULL ****</p>
<p>I agree with the lopsided test questions. I also skipped the math MC…I didnt have the time to do work them out and didn’t want the 1/4 deduction I would have got for them anyways haha. I can’t wait for the gag rule to finish out…I want to talk FRQ math…which I actually did try. </p>
<p><strong>Question…if on a FRQ you mix up a term, but explain it correct, is the whole thing wrong? Or do you get partial?</strong></p>
<p>You get partial credit.</p>
<p>question: I answered 75 and probably got maybe like 10-20 wrong, I know I did great on the essays, at least 6-5 points on each, do you think I have a chance of still passing?</p>
<p>I skipped anything that was mathematical or I didnt immediately know and came back to it. I did that for like 15-20 MC questions and had 35 minutes left to do those q’s.
On the FRQ I attempted to start the math but im absolutely terrible at math so i skipped it and attempted it at the end. I spent alot of time on the other essays, the Colorado river one especially. </p>
<p>Somehow I remembered a bunch of random facts and percents that i had studied the night before so i know i will be getting some elaboration points 
Im very satisfied with my work today 
13 hrs of studying haha</p>
<p>I was just upset that I spent all of my time looking over the different land management bureaus in the united states and the uses of land and the demographic translation model or whatever, and none of that was on the test… how many MC did you guys not answer? I left about 10 blank</p>
<p>I left like 3 or 4 blank because I had absolutely no clue on those. It bugs me so much to leave them blank ahhh</p>
<p>does anyone know the curve for this test?</p>
<p>I hope there is a VERY VERY generous curve for this exam.</p>
<p>I usually leave stuff blank. The curve won’t change unless a lot of people did bad. Also, the PR helped a TON. And doing FRQs online helped. The math in the middle of the MC did slow me down a ton, so I rushed at the end. I finished though. And the random guesses were for the most part in part A and anything with lots of geology. Can never remember that stuff… Idk, I thought it was easy, but I might have gotten a ton wrong, so I’m not going to get my hopes up.</p>
<p>overall i thought it wasn’t that bad
but i definitely agree about the math, it was simple but time consuming and i didn’t finish a couple parts because of it
a calculator would have been soooo nice</p>
<p>This exam was crazy easy for me, but I’m a math person. I didn’t even crack the textbook all year. Hooray for good teachers!</p>
<p>The pass rate is so low because people, like myself, who aren’t good at science take AP Enviro because they think they’re not going to have to deal with numbers/chemical properties/isotopes/atoms/all that other ****.</p>
<p>The test was outrageous in my opinion as it was dominated by math problems and questions about different gases and chemicals.</p>
<p>I’m in four APs, but this class has by far been my toughest as the workload is insane and the material includes stuff from Biology/Chemistry/Physics. I don’t understand why people call this class the “easy AP” every single year.</p>
<p>its easy because most of the stuff is common sense. a general background in bio is all that is necessary. at our school this class has no homework and is considered a joke</p>
<p>We had no real workload in my class either. You do need a background in math and bio to understand some of the stuff, but at my school Chem and Bio are pre-reqs.</p>
<p>wouldn’t it be a great marketing scheme for collegeboard to read over PR, barrons, kaplan, etc. review books and simply include information not covered in these books on their tests?</p>
<p>That way they maximize profits (nonprofit yeah right) over the increasing number of students who retake tests due to them failing it because of “misleading” review books. </p>
<p>might just be me really ticked off about today’s environmental math (oxymoron) because it really makes a hell of a lot of sense to not allow calculators on a SCIENCE test…are they testing the speed at which people can do math? It might be simple math, but four or five such questions in one FR by hand definitely eats up the time. Similarly, not allowing calculator on the calc BC Free response is also counter intuitive.</p>
<p>now I’m ranting
but it’s just something to think about…</p>
<p>To be honest, I didn’t think it was too bad at all. I am in the class, but I’m a heavy sleeper, so I’ve slept through the class the entire year. Now, I am one of those last minute crammers, so it may not apply to everyone. All I basically did was on Monday, spent the entire day reading Princeton Review, and that’s it. </p>
<p>For the most part, I thought the multiple choice was pretty decent to fairly easy. I get mixed up with some of the gasses sometimes, but that’s it. Some of the choices were obvious as answers. The Free Responses were a little tougher, but I thought they were fairly easy. The math parts I liked. I thought they were simple, as long as you convert the numbers into something manageable rather than use the decimals. I think that was the key to solving it easier. I have to agree that it was time consuming. I thought these FRQ’s were a gift point scoring wise. There were many parts that were simple to answer, so even if you didn’t understand one subsection, you have so many chances for scoring points in the other subsections.</p>
<p>Overall, Environmental Science may not be the hardest class for some, but conversely, it may not be the easiest for some as well. It requires some knowledge in biology, and chemistry. Honestly, subjects like population control, animals, and so forth should be general knowledge. But it varies with every person. PR basically saved my life. I studied it religiously the day before, and I will hopefully be reaping it’s benefits. But if you didn’t study, I mean, c’mon, you can’t expect to get a 5. People who say it’s easy either really pay attention in class, or study well before the test. You can’t do nothing and expect everything. :)</p>
<p>I hope others did well. I’m waiting for this 2 day limit so we can start discussing those free responses. :D</p>