<p>Hi, I am a junior going into senior year, and I plan on self studying AP Physics B. Although I have taken AP's before, I have never self-studied one. So, I want to get advice from you CC'ers. I will be in Honors Phyics next year and AP Calc AB. Will I need to study some extra stuff? How much time a day should I dedicate this?</p>
<p>You don’t need to study extra stuff, you need to actually learn it in the first place, Honors Physics won’t be enough to teach you everything. An extra 2-4 hours each week (in addition to your class) should be enough time for you to go over the material you need to know for the test.</p>
<p>I’m a rising junior and I self-studied the Physics B exam concurrently with an honors physics course this past year. I’m not sure what your “honors” course entails, but at my school the honors course was closer to the AP course than it was to the regents level course…Depending on the actual rigor of your couse, you’ll have to study in varying amounts.</p>
<p>I bought the PR review book at the end of January and slowly worked my way through the entire thing, including the chapters which we had previously covered in class. I had to learn Fluids, Thermodynamics, Nuclear Physics, and parts of Magnetism by myself though. I didn’t actually finally get through all of the chapters until late April because I procrastinated. Then I took the PR practice tests and the CB’s released 1998 exam. I wish I had had more time to hunt down more past exams, but I didn’t plan my time too well 
I got low 5’s on all of the practice tests, but then I sat down for the exam and it was BRUTAL. The free response blew my mind… No word yet on my score but I’ll let you know as soon as I get it.</p>
<p>The best advice I can give you I think is to be realistic about what you can do. I don’t know what kind of student you are, but do your extra studying according to what you think you will need. And remember that it is inevitable that you will have to teach some units to yourself; a regular honors course lasts through June, but the AP is given in early May. And practice past FRQ’s!!! You’ll get a better sense of what the CB normally looks for in an answer. If you have any more questions, I’d be happy to help :)</p>
<p>Get the princeton review, read every page and work out every problem, if you cant get a free response question use the back to guide you but understand how to arrive at the solution. This is what I did for about a month before the exam, it will get challenging and discouraging but it led me to a five this year.</p>
<p>I used princeton review for about 4-5 hours before the exam and got a 4. However, I really didn’t learn anything (I forgot everything by the next morning) and if it weren’t for the extremely generous curve I would easily have gotten a 1 or 2. I didn’t even answer two of the free responses!</p>
<p>Update: I got a 5 :)</p>