AP+Exam+Review

=4.5.2013--Sorry for late announcement. We'll meet tomorrow, in Room A360. I will have a couple free-response sections from past AP exams that we'll spend time with, to give our meeting a focus. If you have other questions, bring them and we'll likely have a bit of extra time for them. Breakfast (pancakes, OJ/milk/coffee) will be started at 8 am! See you there.=

=3.10.2013--Going to modify this page for this year, as there is plenty of still-good information and linkage down below.=

=5.3.2012--Have you tried the slightly-shortened practice exam found here? I'll be passing this out in class tomorrow, but if you've got time, start it tonite!= = = =4.30.2012--You can bank on being asked to explain a property, conceptually, based on intermolecular forces (comparing boiling points, melting points, vapor pressures, etc.) or on atomic reasons for periodic trends (ionization energy comparisons between different elements). Digging through past exams, I feel, is critical for a) seeing how these questions are asked, and b) seeing what they're looking for by reading the scoring guidelines. Look at the 2008 test, questions 5a-5c, and question 6. Then look at the scoring guideline. Soak in the goodness. Be able to repeat the process for similar questions.= = = =4.28.2012--By special request:= == =...and here's my PDF of solutions for the 2011 form B free response portion. (Very seriously, it's fine but probably less valuable than looking at the scoring guide available at the link here.=

=4.21.2012--Here's a PDF which explains my thoughts about how to answer the mulitple choice section of the 1999 AP exam (tests and my PDF are linked below). I spent 6 hours last night putting it together, so give me some feedback: Is it useful to you? For anyone coming to Pancake Saturday next week (4/28/2012), I'd like you to tackle some free response questions. From the other link (for free-response tests), try these on, preferably in this order.= =2011 FR 'form B', 2008 FR, 2007 FR, 2010 FR 'form B'. The only reason I'm picking these is that the first few, at least, have problem 1 (The equilibrium problem) that is not just Ka/Kb/Kw, since it seemed that the four examples we previously did in class were all acid/base equilibrium. Take, and correct, as many as you can before 5/7.= =We'll have a discussion Saturday & work out problems, talk strategy, etc.= =My answer PDF: =

=4.6.2012--Here's links to 2 Multiple Choice "Released Exams" from College Board (who are the real AP people) this represents our most accurate practice tests. You must take as many as you can, and not just the two days before the exam. Take the test according to the parameters (no calculator, 90 minutes, no givens other than what's given (Periodic table) in the multiple choice packet .)= =**__After__** you take the test, you must go back and dissect it: What did you do well at? What did you miss? Do corrections--The multiple choice is similar year-to-year (not identical!) so by correcting your practice test you are studying for the actual exam in a powerful way.=

=Download Practice PDFs here .=

=On this page, there are links to released Free-Response materials. Here you'll find= =1) The tests= =2) The scoring rubrics and= =3) Student examples, shown with what grades were earned for each question (and why). This is //really// valuable as the free response is based on showing work; looking over these will coach you on what you need to put down (and what not to put down!) Concentrate especially (first) on the 2008 and newer tests, as the format changed to its current one in that year. The previous tests' questions are still very good practice, but have a different "feel" (you used to have a choice of which question to answer in one place; you used to have to do 5 net ionic equations (choosing from 8 sets of reactants)).=