<p>im sorry. i left the test center (my high school; i cut school for three days to study) hella happy but now im depressed after reading all this. i should cancel. im a freshman & colleges are gonna think that i didnt prepare well & that i rushed.</p>
<p>Wow, a freshman? You're ahead of the curve! I'm a sophomore so I guess I am as well. I wouldn't cancel unless you know you did really badly, you can always retake. Colleges will probably take into account that you were a freshman at the time of testing. </p>
<p>I cut school one day, but all except two classes were just AP prep anyway. I'm probably going to be missing a lot of school in the next two weeks. Sigh.</p>
<p>I should have trusted my instincts on these questions. On some of them I ended up "over-analyzing" and getting it wrong. ;/ I think I will cancel though, not because I think I did horribly, but because I think I could do a lot better if I actually spent some more time. Hopefully the June one will be better =D</p>
<p>ppl! just b/c other ppl got different answers doesnt mean that ur wrong! i usually test very well but i think that i prepared too much for this & i actually brought prep books to the testing center & studied in the room. ppl were staring at me so i stopped, lol. i think that the curve will be big b/c that test was simply badly written. when i opened the booklet - i was like - whoah - two cells? i wasnt expecting those type of questions. they mightve been too easy or too hard. i hate it when theyre like that b/c it messes up ur confidence. i was literally burning inside. the labs were weird. some stuff didnt seem very sciency - u know what i mean? lol
great - ap bio, here i come. any advice would be helpful. thanks a million:)</p>
<p>and reversepsych:
thats very impressive. ap bio & ap chem. how do u manage that? what prep materials are u using?
thanks:)</p>
<p>I don't think you guys should cancel.. As long as you're not planning on taking it more than three times, I doubt adcoms will care that you went from like 700 to 800. And you never know, we might get a lenient curve..</p>
<p>skatj:
do u take ap bio?
i hope so about the curve. but we also have to take into consideration all the other ppl who took this test. are you actually from hawaii? im from ca...some ca schools are pretty bad but i shouldnt be complaining. no ap students at my school took this test, at yours? i think a lot of them take it in june.</p>
<p>Yes to both. I'm taking it online but the students who are taking AP Bio at my school are mostly preoccupied with SAT Is and the AP exam, so I think I'm the only one who took the subject test.</p>
<p>TBH you don't really need an AP class, just a thorough read of the textbook, followed by a thorough review of Cliffsnotes AP Bio + Practice tests to weed out all the details you've missed will give you a perfect SAT Bio score.</p>
<p>I took chemistry H freshman year, along with physics. I wasn't planning on taking AP bio this year as well, as I hadn't taken bio yet, but with schedule conflicts I just opted to take the class and see what happened. Unfortunately, our teacher had to leave in December for medical reasons and our new teacher has not prepared us well at all for the ap test. I'm using Barron's (ugh). I have pr for chem, but will not be spending time studying because our chem class is great and have been reviewing for a month, i actually get to go back to school for a full length practice test tomorrow morning. how fun. </p>
<p>I'm also in CA, our school will probably be flagged as a underperforming school under the no child left behind law thing next year, which will probably mess up admissions for us. It's strange at our school because we have a lot of high performing students and then half of the student body who don't make any attempts at all, and of course some in the middle.</p>
<p>WOW. thanks for the advice. i go to a really big school but ap bio is not a popular class. ap chem is very popular, though, although everyone at my school is failing it. my school is already an underperforming school:( some ppl are failing ap bio too. reversepsych: wow, physics freshman yr?!</p>
<p>ive been reading lots of prep books. i dont really like any. pr seems too general. im reading both barrons & cliffs. barrons is much more difficult than cliffs, but i dont like the way cliffs is organized. </p>
<p>btw...are there any typos in barrons...b/c i think that i can spot some & im worried that there are typos about the important topics. </p>
<p>aaaaaaa I dont know how ill ever finish the entire campbell book before may 12th!!!! arg. i read the audesirk textbook a while back(stupid, stupid....bad idea, but i heard that its also an ap textbook)...campbell is so thick!!!!</p>
<p>thanks everyone i hope you all get 5s:)</p>
<p>=[ i took it today.. and by the looks of this thread, i already missed 4. =[. lol</p>
<p>hey Jenife.. i used Barrons for the SAT i dont think it had any typos.. i think Barrons is usually known for overpreparing you but sometimes it misses the details but AP have more slack than SAT. i havent read campbells either and people usually recommend Cliffs for the AP Bio test so im using that also with a bunch of practice tests. hope this helped!</p>
<p>I am taking the Biology SAT II test on June 7th. Is the test hard? I plan on taking the biology M test. I don't want to know the answers to the questions, I just want to know what it is like. How much time do you have on the exam? What are some of the topics covered? What is the scoring rubric, besides the 800 SAT score? Between school and test preparation, I've covered evolution, ecology, cell biology, botany, the circulatory system, Cellular respiration, atoms and molecules, nutrition (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, etc.) and we've begun to study genetics. What else should I know before the test</p>
<p>Mer Vieir:
Genetics, you gotta know about punnett squares. It's almost a guarantee to have a punnett square question on the test. Also, you should know meiosis and mitosis. You should just get a review book like Princeton Review to get an idea of what you need to know.</p>
<p>The test shouldn't be too hard as long as you study.
You have an hour on the exam just like any other SAT subject tests.
Idk what you mean by "besides the 800 SAT score."</p>
<p>hey
does anyone rmr the choices for the bicarbonate question
i no the answer is buffer
and i rmr two of the other choices were binding to O2 and binding to hemoglobin
does anyone rmr the other two choices because i cant recall what i chose</p>
<p>thanks everyone.</p>
<p>and mer vieir:
the test doesnt go very in depth. but its not really shallow either. its not the best idea to memorize a bunch of facts like i did. i think that the labs/graphs were hard. try to practice your reasoning skills. it really helps. you have an hr for 80 questions, it sounds like a lot & it kinda is. pace yourself well, some questions can be answered very fast. i used barrons, but i dont think that it was the best. cliffs is good (an ap prep book) but dont read all the details!
good luck:)</p>
<p>to jenife - NO one can CRM the campbell book, lol trust me, its a waste of time. </p>
<p>Coming from a "magnet school" in NYC where the AP bio class ever yr gets 70% 5s and 30% 4s, (thats right, nothing 3 or below), I advise you to buy the CLIFFNOTES review book rather than attempt to finish campbell book.</p>
<p>hope this helps!</p>
<p>OK I have a semi-problem here guys and I need some advice!</p>
<p>Ok So i took the Bio SAT II yesterday and I was the only one taking a SAT II test in the room, so it was me and a proctor. She was kinda ditzy and when I finished the only SAT II that I was taking that day (Bio M) She collected my test and did not tell me to sign the thing that said "I did not cheat etc..." So she took the test when time was up and never told me like to sign that thing and she never checked that I signed before I left the testing center...</p>
<p>What do I do about this guys I am really worried!</p>
<p>"NO one can CRM the campbell book, lol trust me, its a waste of time."</p>
<p>hmm idk about this. in my ap bio class we read campbell.. practically all the chapters. i didn't have to review anything to take the sat ii bio.. it was pretty easy. and last year i think ~60 out of 70ish people got 5s...</p>
<p>but i agree that if you haven't read campbell already.. don't read it just to prepare for the sat ii.</p>
<p>I remember another question. It asked about an individual and why it needs to reproduce a lot of offpsrings. Was it because the offsprings have a lower chance of survival?</p>
<p>^That's what I said. </p>
<p>Jenife: All freshman take physics at my school, I was not in honors due to a weird confusion thing, and my friend and I basically taught the class, it was that bad.</p>