All these freakin’ laws are a pain
@icequeenforever For AB or ES? If ES, skim through your prep book and look for specific terms or concepts that you had trouble remembering and study those. For AB, GL :/// I would advise just to learn all the formulas and learn the specific FRQ that tend to repeat each year. Then, do practice problems or work on specific concepts.
@sjwon3789 I meant ES, but thanks for the AB tips too! Okay, I’m going to finish up studying for AB and be back on this thread at around six. poofs
Is it true the curve is that you only need 105/150? That’s what PR says, where each MC is 0.9 and the FR is 1.5 each.
Hey guys… This is really embarrassing so I’m just gonna say it and hope that someone can come up with a good and helpful response… I’m currently cramming for APES but the thing is I’m not even in the course and I’m just starting to cram from PR, like literally just started 20 minutes ago. I’m a junior and haven’t taken AP bio or chem yet (next year) so… Should I still put my effort into this cram session or honestly just bs this exam and cancel my scores… I need to get a 4 or a 5 and if in my situation right now it’s unrealistic, I would love it if one of you could tell me. 
@PinkMist Unless you got anything going on tomorrow, I’d say go for it! I literally started studying today and I’m a REALLY slow reader. I should’ve skimmed through some of it but I zoned out in specific areas but I spent around 6 hours to get through half of this material. I hear other people saying it took 6 hours to get through the whole thing.
It really depends on how efficiently you think you can do this but I think it is realistic for some people (not me though, but even if I were in that scenario, I would go for it).
@PinkMist I would study the biogeochemical cycles! If you know all about the carbon cycle, water cycle, nitrogen cycle and how humans (AND ENERGY USAGE) alter it, you will at least get a 3.
@PinkMist if you know only one environmental law, know the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) b/c if you’re asked to apply a law on the FRQ, this one literally applies to every environmental situation. Skim through graphs of the different pieces of energy creating things like nuclear power plants and coal burning plants and yada yada. My AP teacher made a 16 page cram list of everything that you need to know to pass if you want it! Pm me if you do!
I just got a 5 on the 1998 released AP exam! (130/150)
@sjwon3789 yes! check out this calculator http://appass.com/calculators/environmentalscience?curve=2008
Do we have to know ALL of the legislation + international agreements? There’s way too many! I’m using PR.
@sjwon3789 @NectarInASieve thanks so much for the responses guys! I just got through the first chapter and am feeling pretty confident with Earth’s interdependent systems. However, I have like 8 more to go and I’m pretty sure it’s going to get a lot harder and more complicated… Do you guys honestly think I could cram the rest of this in by tomorrow’s test and still score a 4 or 5? xD I just did the the mc at the end of the first chapter and got them all right but had no clue as to what the free response was asking. Do you guys know if those end of chapter questions are fairly representative of the level of the actual AP questions? Thanks so much guys, this means a lot!
So does anybody have any helpful links or anything? Im using PR and got 4’s on both practice exams…
@PinkMist Yes. Know which chemicals are “pollutants” and where they come from too. I have Barron’s and the FRQs are ridiculously difficult and the MC questions are reasonable but once I take an actually administered AP exam, the AP exam seems easy. I would definitely take the 1998 administered exam so you can see how a real exam will look. You can get a 4 easily.
From what I’ve heard the mc in PR are around the same level of difficulty as the AP exam pinkmist
@Penguin007 take a collegeboard exam! Also, my APES teacher is friends with an AP grader/creator (idk which one) and the grader person sent him a 16 page cram study guide of everything that you need to know if you want it! PM me! You can get a 5 if you know Pollution, the Biogeochemical cycles, and Energy perfectly I guarantee it.
@PinkMist Wow, I found the first chapter quite challenging haha. Maybe because it was the very first one (4) and I wasn’t in the zone? I don’t know. But I found the second and third chapters (5 and 6) a lot easier. There’s a lot of legislation and terminology for the 4th one (chapter 7). I did the drill for chapters 4 and 5 and I got maybe one or two wrong and I understood it right away. I’m not sure if it’s a good representative though 
I’m not sure what to do about the FRQ though. How are you guys preparing for those?
@Penguin007 take a collegeboard exam! Also, my APES teacher is friends with an AP grader/creator (idk which one) and the grader person sent him a 16 page cram study guide of everything that you need to know if you want it! PM me! You can get a 5 if you know Pollution, the Biogeochemical cycles, and Energy perfectly I guarantee it.
Also, my APES teacher predicted that an FRQ will be on soil science or geology this year. I’m not sure if this is true but study up on humus and plate tectonics lol
@NectarInASieve Do you know how much the legislations are emphasized? I’m having a bit of trouble with mining + those pollutants related stuff, since the rest are all bio related materials haha.