Testing Strategies

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Testing Strategies
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The Test

• Part I 100 Multiple Choice 90 Minutes ?
  1.11 questions Per Minute
• Part II 4 Essay Questions 90 Minutes

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Multiple Choice

• What to expect?
• - Easier questions to begin
• - Harder questions
• - Graphs and Data Questions
• - interpretation

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Scoring

• 1 point for correct answers
• 0 points for answers left blank

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Should you guess?

• YES!

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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.

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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

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• 5. DONT 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.

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• 9. Develop your thoughts and elaborate, but dont
  be repetitive or blabber incessantly.
• 10. Dont 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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The Essays

• 1 Data Set Question
• 1 Document Based Question
• 2 Synthesis Questions

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Document Based Questions

• Given a small article to read
• Prompt for some type of environmental issue
• Respond to the issue (pros/cons)

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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
1000 KWh
120 GWh
24 months
1 GWh
KWh
month
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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
1000 KWh
120 GWh
24 months
1 GWh
KWh
month
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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

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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)

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What do I need for a ____ ?
AP SCORE Correct Multiple Choice Correct Free Response
5 100 3 (75)
5 75 4 (100)
4 100 2 (50)
4 80 3 (75)
4 60 4 (100)
3 100 1 (25)
3 80 2 (50)
3 60 3 (75)
3 50 4 (100)
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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 nights sleep dont get sleep
  deprived

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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 NIGHTS SLEEP? 1000 p.m.

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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 (745) 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