<p>just finished chpt 20... genetics done 50-55 25,26, 3-20... almost done...</p>
<p>Sorry, this was more of a quiz. Our tests are generally 45-50 M.C. and 1 free-response essay. She did this today because it was the day before vacation for god's sake. She had to cut us some slack!</p>
<p>**** u get off easy... we get 120 mult choice 1 essay each time... i have a take home test 150 mc over break :(</p>
<p>Wow! That is quite excessive for an in-class test. But c'mon- a take-home test! That's really good. I wish I had a take home test. We just have a take-home packet that counts as a homework assignment.</p>
<p>this is the only one we get, but we have 80 mins to complete the mult choice which is actually 140 choose 120 u want and then an essay... still hard...</p>
<p>you get to choose your MCs?</p>
<p>We get ~80 MC and 3-4 essays in 45 minutes.</p>
<p>but it's out of 140 so it's unfair if we dont' get to choose... plus the bio teachers get a free pass if they missed any material</p>
<p>My AP Bio class doesn't use the Campbells book. We use Starr and Taggert (or something like that). but, even by what you guys are saying, we are WAY behind. We are starting genetics after break. All we did so far is ecology, biochemistry, cell stuff, cell energy, and the cell cycle. We still have to do inheritence, evolution, biodiversity, and plants. Time for some independent study.</p>
<p>1-14, 16-23, 50-55...28 chapters, but those are the hard ones...and like 6 AP labs complete...oh and slipstream, our tests are exactly like yours...60 multiple choice (not AP though...so much more detailed, its crazy...hate okazaki fragments i can never remember what they do)...and then 2 essays, in 1.5 hours...and btw, chaps. 50-55, my class had to do on our own over the summer, it took like, 3 days to do it all...its easy stuff</p>
<p>Just out of curiousity- how many of you guys actually read the textbook? I haven't read it since the first week of school and I'm totally fine. I have the only A in the class right now and everyone around me studies their ass off while I don't read anything. I usually hate the person that's like that, but bio is just my thing I guess.</p>
<p>reading the campbell or mader texts cover to cover almost ensures at least a 3 or 4 on the biology exam unless your memory totally sucks. oh yeah and sat908- just remember that college board realizes that its very difficult to know everything in the whole field of biology for the ap test. you will probably need to know the mechanisms of replication and stuff like DNA polymerase and ligase and about replication forks and such, but i really dont think lagging strands or okazaki fragments would be heavily tested. i may be wrong however because last year there was a real nice question on the function of Ca2+ ions on the molecular level of muscle contraction. kind of a spaz question and not one youd expect to get. who knows. biology rules.</p>
<p>We've done 1-12, 17, 50-55 so far, and I thought we were ahead, but I guess not.</p>
<p>Our tests are supposed to be harder than the real AP test. We get 1.5 hours to answer 100+ MC, which is normally easy. Then we get 1.5 hours to answer about 15 short answer questions and then 2-3 in depth essays. What fun.</p>
<p>sat908, our mc tests are from the campbell's bank too. I know it's insane. Out of ~20 of the smartest kids at my school, I think there are like 4 or 5 As. It's not that bad for me though...I have a 99! (then I think the next highest is a 94)</p>
<p>wow i feel lucky, we only do multiple choice tests... never any free response</p>