<p>Anyone wanna study together?</p>
<p>Just saying, if anyone has the collegeboard 2014 practice test, I could really use it…</p>
<p>Do you guys think a 77% should be high enough for a 5 on the new exam? Also, someone mentioned this too, I think you make lots of stupid mistakes on the practice exam because you don’t feel it matters as much.</p>
<p>I think for the bio test last year (which underwent a similar test) the cutoff for a 5 was around 78-80%. I would suggest you aim for an 80% accuracy rate. Also, there are 7 FRQs this year (3 10 point questions and 4 5 point questions). If you want a 5, you should be getting a 40/50 on the FRQs and a 50/60 on the multiple choice by tomorrow night. </p>
<p>Getting 50 on MC won’t be too hard, just the FRQ. I think I just don’t feel like it matters so I do it with silly mistakes.</p>
<p>Anyone know what’s a 4?</p>
<p>I feel like I get a lot of the MC questions wrong when I do them,do you guys have any tips for doing MC questions? I always have had problems in doing them correctly.</p>
<p>My struggle is with the frqs… And there’s not even a lot of practice ones we can do to get good at it.</p>
<p>@monstorium I thought the short frqs were 4 points apiece…</p>
<p>@meaa7130 Ya they are. </p>
<p>I think that I might do well on the multiple choice ( I got 88% on the official 2014) but I’m gonna screw up so much on the frqs due to the lab question that they will have and some other specific stuff that my teacher didnt teach us.</p>
<p>whats the lab question what does that mean? also does kp have units?</p>
<p>There will most likely be a question regarding some sort of lab procedure or experiment. They will have us create a lab design to do some specific task and additionally use data from a lab to answer questions. We may be asked about sources of errors and other things as well.</p>
<p>Does anyone think we might get a FRQ on electrochem this year seeing that they asked about it on last year’s exam? </p>
<p>To study for lab based questions Princeton lab review is great… it’s also pretty good for molecular models </p>
<p>@superscientist Don’t even try to predict what will be on it, there is absolutely NO pattern, they can put whatever on it. Especially this year, since it’s a new exam. My guess is that they will incorporate every topic into a FRQ question in like multiple parts. Example, on the 2014 practice exam there was a part a) about dissolving salt in water and a diagram and part b) was an electrochemistry question completely unrelated to part a. That’s possibly what it will be like.</p>
<p>Remember that this year the whole FRQ sections completely different. In past years it was aimed at assessing how well you could solve problems in chemistry (simply put MCQ without answer choices where procedures and justifications matter more than just the answer). In this year it is aimed at assessing you ability to explain data, justify your reasoning, and qualitatively assessing experiments and experimental data so don’t expect to do much math on this section as opposed to past years. Also remember that you have access to the new formula sheet during the entire exam (no need to remember all the equations). Regarding the curve it seems to me that it will be a 120 point scale and using data from past exams it seems a 5 will equal somewhere around +66% accuracy on the test.</p>
<p>For those asking about energy vs. interparticle distance diagrams:</p>
<p><a href=“Covalent Bonding - YouTube”>Covalent Bonding - YouTube;
<p>VERY helpful, there were two questions on the Barron’s online test that were like identical to what he was talking about.</p>
<p>@guffy13mosty I noticed that too, and I did notice some other minor typos so there is a good chance they are wrong</p>
<p>Also, the new princeton review book as soooooo many mistakes. Not just silly ones but serious ones too, so for those of you studying from it, just be careful</p>
<p>What do you think is good on the princeton practice tests (just mcq) for a 4 or a 5? </p>
<p>Does anyone know any confirmed information about the curve this year? Will it be a bell curve like the AP Biology test last year (5% of people got 5’s)?</p>