<p>hello CC,
EVERYBODY keeps talking about the new ap biology like its the same. MORE THAN 90% OF YOU ARE FORGETTING THAT THE TEST HAS CHANGED to be less memorization intensive, starting 2012-2013. </p>
<p>what does this mean! the sad thing is, no one knows. i will take ap bio this year and no one knows what the test will be like. none of the prep books will basically either. we ap biology-ers this year will be the first to experience the exam. <em>gulp</em></p>
<p>I have a cliff notes ap bio, 3rd edition prep book. will it be the same review?</p>
<p>PS does anyone know how much different/similar the new test will be like? </p>
<p>Many thanks...</p>
<p>I don’t for a minute believe that biology can become memorization free. There’s just so much stuff you have to know. </p>
<p>For now, I’d say focus on the molebio/biochem bits and spend less time on systematics, but that just might be my bias against systematics :D. Systematics tends to be more memorization, molebio/biochem less.</p>
<p>A lot of the molecular biology will remain the same. Some of the bigger changes include the loss of botany and some of the anatomy/human systems. The exam will still test general knowledge, but you’ll also have to apply that knowledge and basic scientific skills to more generic problems. Or at least that’s the impression I got from my bio teacher this year.</p>
<p>What they’re cutting out botany! Grr that’s annoying.</p>
<p>In my college introductory biology classes, we only covered 3 body systems, 1 topic in ecology, and anything that dealt with plants except evolution. There was still a lot of memorization though.</p>
<p>this effin…sucks…lol ;~; … the first ones, oh joi.</p>
<p>Hm maybe ask people who have different time zones then us? Like near the test, there’s bond to be people who’s already taken it a day or two before our test b/c of different time zones.</p>
<p>I don’t know how much that’ll help. Aw we’re all on our own…</p>
<p>Sorry, I just read what I posted above and realized that it doesn’t make sense. I meant that we skipped anything that dealt with plants except evolution. We covered all of the usual biology topics except the first two things mentioned in my previous post (making what we covered similar to the new AP Biology curriculum, though I don’t think this was the intention of the professors but rather time constraints).</p>
<p>^^That’s impossible, for good reason, because the test lasts 3-4 hours, and there’s only a maximum of 3 hours of time zone difference(except Alaska, who has to take it an hour early).</p>