*** Official AP Biology Thread 2012-2013 ***

<p>I have Pearson’s and I’m covering photosynthesis/Respiration, natural selection, genetics, etc, but stuff like animal and plant form and function and “illustrative examples,” are these really necessary?</p>

<p>@lilkoolj577 Is that one from the shmoop, if that’s a legitimate problem that they would use then I don’t know what I’m going to do…I’ll throw my little four function calculator on the floor.</p>

<p>probably should have gotten Barron’s/Cliff, but I just decided to use the prep book that I used to study for tests…</p>

<p>@ xjenzzz Look at the pH equation… you need log</p>

<p>as far as we were told, you do not need to know much (or really anything) about animal form and function, animal reproduction, plants. There may be little amounts of classification on the exam too. Make sure you know homeostasis and an example for both kinds (negative and positive) and how the structure of a molecule or cell relates to it’s function (for example neurons). There are other themes that are goo dot know too. I pray that the FRQs arent too hard…</p>

<p>@jonhs123 no but i just realized it on the equation sheet and wondered how to do a problem like that if it came up. I just hope it’s not up there</p>

<p>you won’t really need the log function for that, since ap bio has it’s solutions in a format like [H+] = 1.0 x 10^-4. That basically tells you the pH is 4. It’s pretty simple.</p>

<p>Knowing about animal form and function is absolutely not necessary, it will only help you answer questions about enzymes and gene expression and diseases if you are a little more familiar with what they’re actually doing. Now that I’m reading all four answers carefully, I’m going through the MC again and getting pretty much them all right and the questions make sense.
And also is there anyone that finds the multiple choice being the hard part and the FR being easy.</p>

<p>temperature coefficents most likely won’t show up on the test as far as I have been informed.</p>

<p>On the revised exam, what parts of the body systems are still included?</p>

<p>@drageer thanks for the clarification. But where did 10^-4 come from? will that be given? Or do you have to calculate it?</p>

<p>@lilkoolj577 and Drageer, yes, those problems are straightforward, but on shmoop it said the pH is 5.3 whats the H+ concentration. 10^-5.3 is 5.01X10^-6 ???</p>

<p>I thought Pearson reflected the update in the curriculum, but I guess not some parts. Like they have 10 short “extra chapters” for illustrative examples that aren’t on the framework. 2 totally separate topics for the animal/plant function, which is prob 10 chapters total, then finally ecology. I guess I’ll work on the practice collegeboard mc and look over bigger topics instead.</p>

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<p>@johns123 and lilkoolj577 they won’t give us problems that we cannot do because that simply would not make sense. I don’t know what shmoop is but it was probably testing that you could apply the formula. Throughout this class I have never seen a pH question where it wasn’t in a form like 1.0x10^-4. You shouldn’t have to worry. They also will supply the information (to answer lilkoolj577’s question)</p>

<p>@jonhs123 I think H+ would be 1 x 10^-5.3</p>

<p>Can anyone explain #13 for me in practice exam?</p>

<p>@yimjy96
Adenine and Thymine bonds are double hydrogen bonds and Guanine and Cytosine bonds are triple hydrogen bonds (just a fact you should know) and from basic chemistry you know that as temperature increases, bonds start to denature/break up and the more hydrogen bonds you have the higher temperature you will need to denature them so it would be C</p>

<p>whoever had the google drive up, with all the practice stuff for every AP, could you put up the link again? please? it really helped, and i was in the middle of a practice test when the page closed and i can’t access it anymore… :frowning: private message me the link, if you can. otherwise i totally understand. thanks!</p>

<p>I did the practice exam (minus the essays) and got an 81% on the MC and 5/6 on the grid ins. How am I looking for the real test? Is that 5 quality? I’ll probably just review a couple of the things i missed and go watch that bozeman video before i call it a day.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone tomorow!</p>