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- May 8, 2006
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Section/Standard Score/Percentile
PAT / 25 / 99.7
QR / 17/ 65.7
RC / 23 / 94.5
Bio / 20 / 86.9
GC / 23 / 95.0
OC / 20 / 81.3
TS / 21 / 92.4
AA / 21 / 93
I was placed in a different room since there weren't any seats available in their main room. There was a printer that went off thrice during the test and that was a huge distraction 😡
Thoughts on each section:
PAT: TFE felt much much easier than Achiever. Key hole, Angle ranking and paper folding was about the same. Hole punches/cube counting were easy.
QR: only 2 trig questions, about 10 simple calculations and the rest were time consuming. If I knew the question would take time setting up I just skipped it and came back to it later. I guessed on about 10.
RC: I used search and destroy method. I actually thought I was going to get 15-16. English is my second language. Passages were about DNA/RNA, brain and calcium.
Bio: questions were fairly straightforward, like many have said its either you know it or you dont. Felt like the questions were a bit easier than Achiever
GChem: straightforward, the usual questions...more conceptual than calculations. know your formulas. there was maybe 1-2 that I wasn't sure. I felt like Kaplan and Achiever helped prepare me well.
OChem: straightforward again, know your concepts and mechanisms.
Study habits/Materials/Thoughts:
I started about 2 months ago and tried studying. Maybe 2-3 hours every two days. One month ago, I studied everyday until I got into a car accident a week ago. The past week of studying increased to 13 hours at one point. I went to Barnes and nobles for 2 days and checked out Cliff notes AP Bio and Sparknotes AP Bio. The Cliff notes AP Bio was helpful, I did not do any reading but did do all their questions which gave me a good idea of what I was weak on. Light studying the day before, tried to relax and hung out with friends.
Kaplan BB: I read this first
Achiever: used this my last two weeks.
Schaum's Bio: not bad, expanded a bit more than kaplan but lacked info in some areas like plants
Other texts I used were my chem textbooks from class
Wikipedia: I also used wiki alot for bio but felt that was overkill cause most of the notes I had taken for bio didn't show up on the test.
Cliff notes AP Bio: used just for questions, just go to barnes and nobles or books a million and practice there, don't bother buying.
Advice on QR is practice and exposure. I used these three sites, Link 1, Link 2, Link3.
My achiever scores:
PAT: 19-21
QR: 18-20
RC: 19-21
Bio: 17-19
GC: 17-19
OC: 17-21
PAT / 25 / 99.7
QR / 17/ 65.7
RC / 23 / 94.5
Bio / 20 / 86.9
GC / 23 / 95.0
OC / 20 / 81.3
TS / 21 / 92.4
AA / 21 / 93
I was placed in a different room since there weren't any seats available in their main room. There was a printer that went off thrice during the test and that was a huge distraction 😡
Thoughts on each section:
PAT: TFE felt much much easier than Achiever. Key hole, Angle ranking and paper folding was about the same. Hole punches/cube counting were easy.
QR: only 2 trig questions, about 10 simple calculations and the rest were time consuming. If I knew the question would take time setting up I just skipped it and came back to it later. I guessed on about 10.
RC: I used search and destroy method. I actually thought I was going to get 15-16. English is my second language. Passages were about DNA/RNA, brain and calcium.
Bio: questions were fairly straightforward, like many have said its either you know it or you dont. Felt like the questions were a bit easier than Achiever
GChem: straightforward, the usual questions...more conceptual than calculations. know your formulas. there was maybe 1-2 that I wasn't sure. I felt like Kaplan and Achiever helped prepare me well.
OChem: straightforward again, know your concepts and mechanisms.
Study habits/Materials/Thoughts:
I started about 2 months ago and tried studying. Maybe 2-3 hours every two days. One month ago, I studied everyday until I got into a car accident a week ago. The past week of studying increased to 13 hours at one point. I went to Barnes and nobles for 2 days and checked out Cliff notes AP Bio and Sparknotes AP Bio. The Cliff notes AP Bio was helpful, I did not do any reading but did do all their questions which gave me a good idea of what I was weak on. Light studying the day before, tried to relax and hung out with friends.
Kaplan BB: I read this first
Achiever: used this my last two weeks.
Schaum's Bio: not bad, expanded a bit more than kaplan but lacked info in some areas like plants
Other texts I used were my chem textbooks from class
Wikipedia: I also used wiki alot for bio but felt that was overkill cause most of the notes I had taken for bio didn't show up on the test.
Cliff notes AP Bio: used just for questions, just go to barnes and nobles or books a million and practice there, don't bother buying.
Advice on QR is practice and exposure. I used these three sites, Link 1, Link 2, Link3.
My achiever scores:
PAT: 19-21
QR: 18-20
RC: 19-21
Bio: 17-19
GC: 17-19
OC: 17-21
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