AP Testing!, YAY! |
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 Apr 13 2007, 08:38 PM
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 Home is where your rump rests!  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969  |
Sense the sarcasm of the sub-title, por favor. I only wrote it because my stack of Barron's and SparkNotes's AP practice books are staring me down. And frightening me. Threatening me, actually. Okay, I'll stop now.
Sooo yes, the season has begun. In less than a month, they begin. Are you ready? |
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Apr 13 2007, 08:55 PM
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te quiero Group: Banned Posts: 472 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 467,840 |
I signed up for AP tests before knowing what college I'd be going to.
Now I'm realizing that the AP tests I'm taking wont do jack shit for me. So I really couldn't care less about them. I remember I took like... 5 junior year. The constant studying and practicing was terrible. |
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Apr 17 2007, 06:33 PM
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 Peggy. Group: Member Posts: 2,508 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 214,025 |
5/11 for AP European History! *dies*
It's my first one ever, I am nervous, VERY nervous because I am scared of getting essay questions that I have absolutely no idea on. |
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Apr 18 2007, 08:49 PM
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 i lost weight with Mulder! Group: Official Designer Posts: 4,070 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 79,019 |
i'm taking 5 AP tests just to get out of taking my finals.
I have no chance of getting a 3 on any of them. |
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Apr 24 2007, 03:50 PM
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Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
If I get a 2 on the Calc BC test, I will host a huge party. SRSLY.
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| *digital.fragrance* |
Apr 24 2007, 10:33 PM
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^ I took that one last year... it was a Doozy, but I made it through.
Now I'm taking the Calc AB. Dang. |
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Apr 24 2007, 10:51 PM
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Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
 Are you...studying on your own?
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Apr 26 2007, 02:02 PM
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 yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
Actually, I really liked IB/AP testing. =\
Because I had Study Leave and all, so my senior year, I pretty much had all of May off due to study leave and test days. And the fact that I basically didn't have to do any hwk for the rest of my classes. |
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Apr 26 2007, 09:23 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,025 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,051 |
Yeah haven't started studying for that. Probably should get on that.
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Apr 26 2007, 10:00 PM
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 Mr. Bad Guy Group: Member Posts: 38 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 519,021 |
I'm not ready. I won't be ready. I've realized this. I'll pass English, for sure, but everything else...no. I've kind of given up hope on most AP tests.
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| *digital.fragrance* |
Apr 26 2007, 10:05 PM
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In APSUH, it's really important to under stand concepts of why things happened, and what happened as a result. If you know all of those for the important aspects of UShistory, you can bluff through any aspect of the free response.
But... it's also good to memorize key people and key laws/movements for each time period so that you can act like you know exactly what you're talking about...  It all worked for me!
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Apr 28 2007, 09:30 AM
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 durian Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 |
SUFFERRRRR
AS I DID LAST YEAR! SUFFFFEERRRR!!!!!!!  JK JK JK! Actually, I never even used my books. I still have that crap in my closet. I call it crap because they're wasting space. I want to give them to anyone who will take them (they're old, though -- no I'm not advertising!), but no one wants them, lol. I should go recycle them.. *sigh* So heavy. :/ The AP Calc book was the ONLY ONE that helped me prepare for APs, and it was the book that we HAD TO BUY for my class when I took it junior year. |
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| *onewaysalcha* |
Apr 28 2007, 09:57 PM
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QUOTE(Just_Dream @ Apr 28 2007, 7:30 AM)  Actually, I never even used my books. I still have that crap in my closet. I call it crap because they're wasting space. I want to give them to anyone who will take them (they're old, though -- no I'm not advertising!), but no one wants them, lol. I should go recycle them.. *sigh* So heavy. :/ You can make a lot if you sell them on ebay, esp if they are unused. I bought old prep books for about $10-20 each. Calc will be a breeze, Bio not so much. I read 3/18 chapters of Barron's Bio prep book...SOOOOOOO FREAKING BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Apr 29 2007, 01:09 PM
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Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
Heh, I actually really loved Bio. And the Barron's book was a freakin' life-saver. Just know your physiology, guaranteed one of the free response will be about some sort of system.
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Apr 29 2007, 05:52 PM
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 i go RawR! Group: Member Posts: 46 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 174,635 |
Wow, no AP Bio takers? o_O
I'm only taking one this year, and I'm already suffering.  Grrrrrrr...this is what I get for slacking off second semester. And my tutor thinks I'm a total retard because I'm barely improving. Rawrrr! One week until all hell breaks loose! G'luck to everyone! |
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May 1 2007, 07:43 PM
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Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
AP Bio is the easiest off all three. All factual, not a bit of conceptual.
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May 2 2007, 10:31 PM
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yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
i remember when AP Psych screwed me over. Because I was taking IBHL Psych, and a couple other students and I decided to register for AP Psych before taking a look at how hard the exam was. And half the stuff was completely different from the IB Psych stuff.
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May 4 2007, 03:16 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 241 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 110,316 |
i got one on monday
= ( AP GOVT i dont know a thing about our government |
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May 4 2007, 11:03 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 38 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 521,207 |
AP Bio is easier than Chem and Physics DEFINITELY. But, maybe just because I was really interested in the subject. The lab section is really a no brainer. Just remember your processes and your cycles and basic concepts and you're good to go. Critical think your way through it.
APUSH isn't really that hard either. If you know what was happening when most of the Presidents were in office, you should be fine. digital.fragrance is right. You have to think chronologically: cause, event, effect. I have Government on Monday and Statistics on Tuesday. I'm not really worried about Stats but I'm so screwed for Stats, it's unbelievable. :( |
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May 8 2007, 02:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,025 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,051 |
The AP American Gov. test was a bitch.
Dreading Enviornmental and Psych back to back on the same day 
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May 8 2007, 05:42 PM
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 i'm maggie =] Group: Member Posts: 3,607 Joined: Jan 2006 Member No: 361,616 |
^psych is suppose to be the easier AP test. my friend took the practice one during class and said that no one got lower than a 4.
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May 8 2007, 05:53 PM
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Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
So I woke up at six o'clock this morning and said, I have
TWENTY FIVE HOURS to learn ALL THINGS CALCULUS. I stop studying two hours before the test tomorrow. Fourteen hours to go! 
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May 8 2007, 05:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,025 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,051 |
QUOTE(cup noodles @ May 8 2007, 6:42 PM) ^psych is suppose to be the easier AP test. my friend took the practice one during class and said that no one got lower than a 4. My class won't finish the course before the AP test, I've been going through the review book and we've done like 6/12 chapters. It's only a semester course. |
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May 8 2007, 05:59 PM
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i'm maggie =] Group: Member Posts: 3,607 Joined: Jan 2006 Member No: 361,616 |
QUOTE(Gypsy Eyes @ May 8 2007, 3:57 PM) My class won't finish the course before the AP test, I've been going through the review book and we've done like 6/12 chapters. It's only a semester course. ours was too. im not taking it till next year, though. |
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May 8 2007, 07:51 PM
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Peggy. Group: Member Posts: 2,508 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 214,025 |
QUOTE(cup noodles @ May 8 2007, 3:42 PM) ^psych is suppose to be the easier AP test. my friend took the practice one during class and said that no one got lower than a 4. My school doesn't even offer AP psychology. There is ONLY ONE class of psychology honors and it's fulled already for non-IB students...not to mention, my school doesn't offer IB psychology as well.  Friday afternoon session for AP European History. I wonder how much I can cramp in these three nights. I am not ready for it...at all.
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