<p>Who's taking Stat next year :D?! I am. I'm already starting to self-study some Stat so I'll be extra ready by the time the AP rolls around. </p>
<p>Any recommended review books and resources?</p>
<p>I am! Class is somewhat difficult at my school - easy to get around an 80 without trying but getting high grades is very hard</p>
<p>Stats is probably the easiest of the AP’s. I basically dozed off during class, BS’ed some of the homework, and got a 5 on the AP exam.</p>
<p>I am. I think self studying is unnecessary though, from what I’ve heard it’s easy. It’s only half a year in college, compared to most APs which are equal to a full year.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll learn some things over the summer that I should know but never learned like Combinations, Permutations, and Standard Deviations.</p>
<p>I’ll probably take it first semester at my local CC, and then buy a review book and work through it a few weeks before the AP exam. Is Barron’s sufficient?</p>
<p>Stats became the object of my nightmares, my teacher did it with a crazy curve (I had 76 first semester, curved into a 94) and I broke the curve second semester (100 on everything)</p>
<p>I even read/annotated the book and only got a 4 :(</p>
<p>so my advice:</p>
<p>stats might seem like a joke in some schools (in mine, 95% of the class slept since it was 7:35 in the morning) but take it seriously!
read the review book and the text book! there are some info not covered in either of them
on the AP exam itself, focus! read, read, read the questions! It’s more of a 5th grade reading comprehension exam rather than math, if you grasp what you read, you’ll easily apply concepts
use calculator! I think part of my fault was not interpretting the question correctly since I only used my calculator for 30% of the exam so “try” to use ur calculator on almost all of the questions!</p>
<p>If I’m taking AB next year, could I concurrently self study Dtats? Does stats require AB knowledge?</p>
<p>AP Stats doesn’t require any calculus (deriving some of the formulas does, though).</p>
<p>AP stats requires 1/3 of a brain & writing materials</p>
<p>^Pretty much. The other 2/3 is calculator.</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Stats this year! And I’m looking forward to it. Calculus wasn’t my thing, and BC Calc ruined my entire junior year; I’m not even kidding.</p>
<p>BUMP</p>
<p>Anyone who has started school already have any comments about the class?</p>
<p>I dont know why everyone says AP Stats is the easiest buy…In my school, NO ONE has ever gotten a 4 or higher on the test in 7 years! It seems pretty tedious and the questions are really convoluted sometimes. Any suggestions as to why some think its harder/easier?</p>
<p>I’m self-studying now as my grade in the class was abysmal but I transferred into another one before the grade counted. The tests in my class were impossible but the subject is actually extremely easy from what I’m reading in the AMSCO AP stats book. I’ve finished chapters 1-3 which is univariate/bivariate data and am now onto the “Planning and conducting studies” chapter, which is 4 of 8</p>
<p>Ah, the stats class. I’m in it right now, and while the subject itself isn’t hard, sometimes trying to remember all the details screws people over. Especially sampling and experimental design and procedures and all that other crap. XD yeah it’s easy if you work at actually understanding the questions, but at the same time you CANNOT take the exam itself lightly. Barron’s questions are great, and I’ve heard the same for 5 steps to a 5 (I think I was told the 500 mcq one, not the regular one, but I have no idea <_<;)</p>
<p>My teacher kinda sucked, but the notes really did help on the mock AP questions she gave us. (I say ‘sucked’ because we get a new teacher next semester 
but he doesn’t sound all that great either)</p>
<p>If you have an iDevice and ESPECIALLY if you are self-studying/have a terrible teacher, I would look up AP Statistics on the Podcasts app. Yeah the app itself is terrible, but the guy who makes the podcasts (I think his last name is Jaffe or something?) is a really good teacher! He prepares you well for the exam, and he is pretty experienced. The only thing I don’t like is that (on an iPod at least) all the videos are jumbled together and kinda out of order. Yes I am CDO (read ODC :P)</p>
<p>If it helps self-studiers on pacing, my class finished chapter 8 on binom/geometric series and will be starting chapter 9 next semester. Then again the teacher wasn’t all that good so…</p>
<p>Yeah Luminiz a TON of people who have gotten straight A’s before are now getting B’s or worse, and it’s mostly because of the test questions themselves not the bad teacher. But you know America, where it’s always the teacher’s fault if a kid doesn’t understand something. But yes stats does get tedious. I think some people just get it, some people work at it to get it and then everything becomes a breeze (me :)), some people don’t get it no matter how hard they work at it, and some people don’t work at it at all and consequently don’t do well. I’ve noticed all but the first kind in my class. So I started out semi-low but now I’m the best student in both of the AP Stats classes at my school. </p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>*meant to say to read it as OCD, not as ODC ;)</p>
<p>^wynter is the amsco book good? Is it actually explaining everything you need to know? How are there only 8 chapters? My class has to go through 15 tortuous ones!! XD</p>
<p>It is – in my opinion – the best one. 5 practice tests, countless practice questions and everything (so far) has been so easily explained it has honestly taken me an hour to go through half of the book.</p>
<p>Dang! That sounds sooo good O.o I need to go book shopping… XD</p>
<p>i got a “used” one on amazon for 3 cents - was completely new besides a name written on the cover.</p>
<p>Holy cow!! That’s amazing! xD Do you remember the seller? I’m looking through the used results right now and there are like three that are offering it for only 1 cent…</p>