Saturday, May 19, 2012

AP exam!! Finally OVER! pheeww..

I can't believe this year is almost over! and I'm done with both of my AP exams! Compared to my AP Bio, this one was so much better! The essay questions were really easy; cricket and politics: did something like that ever show up before? Because I feel like at the beginning of the year, you did show us something similar like this as in sports with politics! Anyways, it was easy for me except the time when the proctor announced that 40 mins are up out of two hours, I was still writing my DBQ and analyzing the documents! I thought there is no way I could finish all three essays in next 80 minutes, but... but surprisingly I still had time to do expanded core for every essay and I did manage to finish it on time. The multiple choice were also easy! I read the first question and I knew that this is going to be easy. 

For the review, to be honest, the review games were fun! It's more fun when everyone is sort of well prepared..  I was not really prepared during the review games which we played. I knew the stuff from second half of the year, but not the beginning of the year! I did start to study from Monday night to Wednesday night and it really helped with, of course, answering the multiple choice and essay questions. People say that you can't study the whole book and you are not supposed to be studying, but I'm glad I studied. Unfortunately, it did not pay off with AP bio exam but I feel confident about this one. 

For the next year, I think may be you should cover each period each day as in take foundational period as an example. You can just go over few important points/civilizations that people have questions on and refresh the memory. Since it was at the beginning of the year, for me, I had hardest time remembering. So, I don't know how this would work out, but may be worth a try?