1. Testing Strategies

2. The Test
Part I: 100 Multiple Choice Minutes  1.11 questions Per Minute
Part II: 4 Essay Questions Minutes

3. Multiple Choice What to expect? - Easier questions to begin
- Harder questions
- Graphs and Data Questions
- interpretation

4. Scoring
1 point for correct answers
0 points for answers left blank

5. Should you guess?
YES!

6. The Essays Answer the question you feel most confident about first.
Write for 22 minutes and move the next best question.
Allot 22 minutes per question.
If you finish a question early, go back and work on any that you could add information.

7. Essay Tips
If the essay is broken into parts (a, b, c, etc.), answer the essay in parts.
YOU MUST WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES! Outlines and bullet forms are not read.
Write legibly.
Any math problem, no matter how simple, must have WORK and UNITS!
- no matter how stupid you think it is

8. 5. DON’T RESTATE THE QUESTION. 6
5. DON’T RESTATE THE QUESTION. 6. If asked for a specific number of examples, give ONLY that number. They will not read the extras. 7. Address the question. Your opinion is irrelevant. 8. DEFINE ALL TERMS. Assume the graders are dumb. Give examples.

9. 9. Develop your thoughts and elaborate, but don’t be repetitive or blabber incessantly. 10. Don’t “word vomit” everything you know. ANSWER THE QUESTION. 11. TITLE AND LABEL YOUR GRAPHS! PLOT POINTS. DRAW THE LINES – see if any particular directions are given. If there are two lines, make a key.

10. 12. You may add diagrams, charts, or graphs to AID in your explanation, but they must be described! These WILL NOT substitute for the essay.

11. Experimental Design Questions:
Generate a hypothesis as a question.
Test ONE variable.
Identify the control and the standards.
Describe how the variable will be tested.
Give a simple but clear description of the experimental set up.
Describe how the results will be measured.
State what type of results will indicate for your hypothesis/conclusion.

12. REMEMBER!
These essays are designed to make you draw relationships between different topics.
This means you may not “know” the info right away. Not all the answers are simply factual.
Take the time given, think and process.

13. The Essays 1 Data Set Question 1 Document Based Question
2 Synthesis Questions

14. Document Based Questions
Given a small article to read
Prompt for some type of environmental issue
Respond to the issue (pros/cons)

15. Math Problems Set up a conversion table (fence post)
Calculate the 2 year cost of power for a factor that uses 120 GWh of electricity per month at a rate of 0.05 dollars per KWh
0.05 $
120 GWh
24 months
1000 KWh
1 GWh
KWh
month

16. Math Problems Set up a conversion table (fence post)
Calculate the 2 year cost of power for a factor that uses 120 GWh of electricity per month at a rate of 0.05 dollars per KWh
0.05 $
120 GWh
24 months
1000 KWh
1 GWh
KWh
month

17. Legal Arsenal CAA CWA SDWA ESA
RCRA -Resouce Conservation and Recovery Act
CERCLA (Super Fund) -Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
FIFRA – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act
NEPA - EIS

18. Processes: Know theses Back to Front
Primary and Secondary Succession
Water Treatment: Primary and Secondary
Nuclear Power Generation/Generation of Electricity
Global Warming/Climate Change
Ozone Degradation (equations)
Photochemical Smog Production
Biomagnification of Methyl Mercury
Nutrient Cycles
Demographic Transition Model
Formation of Acid Rain (equations)

19. Correct Multiple Choice
What do I need for a ____ ?
AP SCORE
Correct Multiple Choice
Correct Free Response 5
100
3 (75%) 75
4 (100%) 4
2 (50%) 80 60 3
1 (25%) 50

20. Two Days Before the AP Test (Sat)
Review the Study Guides
- at this point you should have gone through everything thoroughly
Review the Major Themes
Do a practice Math Essay
Get a good night’s sleep – don’t get sleep deprived

21. Test Day Eve (the day before)
Review the stuff you are not as familiar with
Review the themes
Hug a tree and tell the Earth you love it
GET A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP 10:00 p.m.

22. TEST DAY Get up! EAT BREAKFAST – your brain needs energy to work
- some carbs (cereal, toast or bagel)
- some protein (eggs or yogurt)
- a smidge of Caffeine
GET TO SCHOOL ON TIME (7:45) – I will personally track you down and remove your spleen with my stapler and affix it to my wall if you are late
RELAX – do your best that is all I can ask