<p>I'm taking AP Environmental Science and have taken an honors level freshman bio course at my high school, a very competitive public high school. I'm wondering if the AP Environmental Science curriculum prepares a student (who is willing to study as much as necessary) for the SAT II Biology (Ecology, NOT molecular).</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>No, it definitely does not.</p>
<p>Why wouldn't it? A.P. Enviro is biological communities, energy flows, and populations, animals, plants, etc. I take it right now at a very competitive prep school and I took Bio H as a freshman. I did sample questions of SAT II Bio E and the questions were similar if not the same to A.P. Enviro material. Can the person above me explain why they said, "No, definitely not."</p>
<p>Only 20 questions of the SAT II E is ecology. The rest (and the majority) is a combination of ALL types of biology, including human and animal physiology, metabolic processes, human anatomy, evolutionary biology, molecular and cell biology, and genetics. If you are aiming for a good score and have only taking AP Environmental Science, you may not have covered a large portion of the material on this test. And the biology curve is not like the physics curve, which is so generous that you can literally have no knowledge about 1 or 2 aspects of physics, like optics or modern physics, and still get an 800. You should probably take a few practice tests and see what you are scoring, and then flip through a review book and see if you think it's reasonable to self-study what you haven't learned in school. It depends partially on how much your honors biology course covered.</p>
<p>Thanks, I think this is helpful information for the original poster as well as for me. I appreciate it.</p>
<p>If your Honors Biology course was good, you're probably okay. As amb3r says though, you should see how you feel after you take some practice tests.</p>