<p>I was wondering if anyone has an AP Psychology released exams OR can tell me what main subject areas to study for essays. I know how it's broken down into things like therapy, consciousness, intelligence, etc. But, in terms of essays, what do you guys think will be tested or what should i focus on?</p>
<p>for ap biology: ANYONE HAVE ANY LAST MINUTE RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHAT TO STUDY FOR THE ESSAY. I HAD A REALLY BAD TEACHER AND I'VE BEEN CRAMMING FOR BIO WITH THE CLIFFS, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL IF SOMEONE COULD GIVE SUGGESTIONS ON ESSAYS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN GIVEN IN A WHILE, ETC.</p>
<p>ap ENLISH LANGUAGE: I've been taking a lot of practice exams and doing sample essays, but my scores suck. ANY SUGGESTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS??</p>
<p>Hey, I am taking Biology and Psychology and I took English Language last year</p>
<p>Um..for AP psychology I just bought a book (Princeton, I believe) but I don't like it too much. Psychology is very conceptual though so it shouldn't be terribly difficult. I came across AP</a> Psychology Community so maybe that will help you as far as how it may be broken down? But I'm pretty unsure as well about what the essays could be like...</p>
<p>For Ap Biology I have been going through Barrons (AND it is awesome!). I also just got Cliffnotes from my school library. I heard that Cliffs was really good for labs. Make you sure you DEFINITELY look over the labs (as it is that one of the essays' is going to be on a lab). My teacher told me that they haven't done the Dapnia Heart Lab in a while (Circulatory) and that they just recently did respiration/photosynthesis so it may not be on that (BUT NO GUARANTEES). And last year they asked about the Transformation -Plasmid lab. </p>
<p>It has the recent Free Response questions just to give you an idea. I would focus on overall theme of Structure and how that contributes to Function. That's a big idea. Don't worry about details too much just make sure you at least have overall pictures. They're not looking for these crazy amounts of detail and they don't expect you to know everything.</p>
<p>Ah, and for English language...I took that last year.
I didn't have a great teacher and I didn't study and got a 3. =(
Umm..the multiple choice for me wasn't easy at all. But I had other friends who didn't think that they did that well and got a 5. It's really hard to gauge how well you're going to do on that test though. At this point I don't think there's much that can be done. It's rather difficult to alter your mode of thinking/analyzing and how you really approach a question or essay question/passage. </p>
<p>AP Lang: You really, really need to pace yourself. The first passage on last year's MC was difficult and I ended up wasting a good 10 minutes trying to answer the first 5 questions. Cut your losses and move on. On your essays, DO NOT RESTATE THE PROMPT and stay on task. Also, a lot of kids start to write their papers and forget what they were writing about; they just put analysis on the paper. MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE PROMPT. If you answer the prompt and the answer is somewhat coherent, you'll get at least a 5 on that essay. </p>
<p>Bottom line: look over all the MC passages and find the ones you think you can answer well. Answer those first. Answer the harder questions later. You don't get more points for answering hard questions. Essays: Stay on task and answer the prompt. Make sure your evidence supports (and is relevant) to your thesis.</p>
<p>I got a 5 and after than initial MC passage, I thought the test was easy. But I don't think I'm the norm.</p>
<p>Psych was SO easy. I finished the Mc section within 10 minutes and slept the rest of the time. And on the free response, I had a good 15-20 minutes left so I took a nap too. Buy the Barron's prep book and do the practice tests. A lot of the questions on there were similar to the MC of the psych test.</p>