by le cool cat » Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:27 pm
yeah. biology is really important. even if it's just freshmen biology. i mean our team isn't that hurt by it because our chemistry program is really strong, and we can still bring up good scores, but we could be better if we didn't have to have seniors in AP bio to bring up our scores. i can usually finish chemistry with at most 2 missed, and answer about 15 physics, depending on how well i read the book. Bio is EXTREMELY variable because sometimes it'll be questions i remember, and sometimes it'll be questions i can't. i've scored in the single digits, but i've also scored higher in bio than physics. so bio is a must remember. even if you only remember freshmen stuff, it's better than an 8. -_-
the book questions in physics are up for grabs for anyone. with physics experience or not. just read the book. simple. the chapters for which the specific test will be posted #. ie, Inv a is usually over the first x chapters, then b is the next, then district is the next x chapters etc.
chemistry by the opinion of everyone on my team, is the easiest to get perfect. i'm not saying it's easy, but bio has those stupid human history questions, physics has an extremely broad range of topics, ie: everyone at my school does physics c and the topics covered on uil are physics b.
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