<p>For anyone who's planning to take the APES test in 2010!</p>
<p>Questions, or anything about APES!</p>
<p>Those who are self-studying are welcome!</p>
<p>First question: How do you plan to study for APES?</p>
<p>Please, AP envi sci was so last decade. =P</p>
<p>Last decade?</p>
<p>Well uh for self-studying I got Smartypants’ Guide to Environmental Science…and I guess taking AP Biology helps a lot too?</p>
<p>How long did you take to study it?</p>
<p>Answer my question, please?</p>
<p>Oh I’m sorry! If you didn’t bump this thread I would have forgotten it altogether. >.<</p>
<p>To your question, I can’t answer it–I meant I’m in the process of self-studying it now. O.o From the comments on CC, I would imagine that it would be a semester or less if you have a good background in the life sciences. It’s supposed to be easy compared to Biology and Chemistry I suppose.</p>
<p>Thanks for replying!</p>
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<p>Yeah, I look for dying threads sometimes.</p>
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I find biology hard but chemistry easy so that makes APES not very hard?</p>
<p>My AP Bio teacher says APES is just AP Bio for dummies, if that’s what you’re asking.</p>
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<p>Actually by real AP scores, its quite the contrary. My teacher showed his classes the stats at the start of the ear because APES has such an “easy class” stigma. Last year it was the 2nd lowest scoring AP with a median score of 2.59 among about 8,000 testers. </p>
<p>The only lowest was “human Geography” with 2.56 but no one at my school takes it ever (we take geography as freshman, and the AP covers much more than we do in class… maybe hence the low scores?)</p>
<p>Comparatively Bio earns a 2.7 and chem a 2.77… physics B is a 2.84</p>
<p>You can download the national scores at the top of this page [AP:</a> Exam Grades: Summary Reports: 2009](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>AP Program Results – Reports | College Board) they separate the scores out by race, but the totals are a the bottom. Its really quite interesting. </p>
<p>Generally the higher level classes (Physics C and CompSci AB) have higher test scores, probably because only people who know their stuff actually take the class. So maybe APES has a lower pass rate because it is seen as easy and more flunkees end up taking it?</p>
<p>Its also an extremely nit-picky test. Our final last semester was killer, and it was based off an AP test. I scraped a Mid B, but it was full of more fact/pick the right data questions and less general concept questions that I always nail. </p>
<p>Our teacher assigns text book reading for the test, but we rarely talk about it in class. He has more of the approach :lets do interesting thisgns and the test will teach itself". I’m really enjoying it, and our school historically has had stellar scores. Every year their is an ongoing project to restore a bit of land back to it’s original tall grass prairie. Essentially my public school tends its own nature preserve. We took soil samples for microorganisms and took a grasshopper population survey (the Lincoln method). Very fun. Not all of it will be on the test, but sure bests reading to book and lecturing every class.</p>
<p>I just bought a used review book That I’ll go over starting in March probably. I’m also taking really detailed book notes (because there are no lectures)</p>
<p>I’m in AP Bio currently as well and I work way harder in that class and we are far behind on the curriculum, so it seems like Enviro is easier as a class, but the AP test could be harder than the class is making it out to be. My teacher frequently complains about the strange specificity of the test. </p>
<p>Example question form our final was something like the developed world is ___<strong><em>% of the worlds population but uses _</em></strong>% of the world resources
A. 30/70
B. 25/50
c. 20/70
d. 20/90
e. 10/80
I don’t know if those were the exact stats, but hey were equally picky. You might be able to cross off a few (like B), but eventually you have to guess.</p>
<p>Yes, APES has a lot of Bio material in it. If you’ve taken a good biology course, you probably have a nice background. </p>
<p>My suggestions for studying:
as for all my APs, I like making flashcards, they seem to improve my retention of material. Also, I would avoid both the Barron’s and Kaplan prep books- useless waste of time. Smartypants is the way to go.</p>
<p>I think I got PR. </p>
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Add that to the stickied thread about the consolidated book list.</p>
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<p>I spent the last four years doing biology, though towards the end I disliked it even more so.</p>
<p>Four years of bio is great experience for the APES exam. And I’m afraid that I share your dislike of biology after my horrific teacher last year :(</p>
<p>I’ve only taken one year of Biology, and that was a basic course. My teacher was awesome though. </p>
<p>In terms of self-studying APES, is it better to do it after AP Bio? The only problem is, I’m doing Bio Senior year, so I can’t put that on my apps.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the 1998, 2003, or the 2008 answers? I took AP Biology last year and it goes into far more depth. The only real overlap occurs in answering the experiment essay</p>
<p>Anyone know a place to get the The Smartypants book online as a e-book? Where’s a cheap place to get it?</p>
<p>Anyone know a place to get the The Smartypants book online as a e-book? Where’s a cheap place to get it?</p>
<p>----------I need this info too. Is it available anywhere as an ebook.</p>