Friday, April 15, 2005
AP Prep
Dear Octet:
We fortunately made it through the main course on time. Now we have only the dessert of steady daily exam prep (with small dollops of nuclear and organic sauce sprinkled in there) until May 10. I am planning a mock AP exam ( identical AP conditions; actual recent full AP exam with scoring scale) for the Saturday morning two weeks before the exam (so that you have time to thoroughly analyze and correct any mistakes) in the Board Room (where you are actually taking the AP exam). Please clear your calendar for that day. We will start sometime in the (gulp.) morning (10 or 11 AM).
This weekend, we begin our AP Prep course with a multiple choice section. Time yourself strictly: 90 minutes. You should skip around and do the problems that are easiest for you first and then go back to the more time consuming questions. The test writers purposely vary the difficulty level among the questions and the change can be great from one question to another. Circle any question that you are not highly confident about and bring me questions that we can address in class next week. If you can get about 70 of them right in 90 minutes, you are off to a solid start. Also, using different ink, be sure to do any questions that you could not get to in the first 90 minutes
Looking forward to a successful denouement to our arduous course. I am here for you if you have any questions or problems. Let's make the big sacrifice by thoroughly prepping for this exam so that we can look back with a sense of great accomplishment. Hard earned victories tend to be the most satisfying.
We fortunately made it through the main course on time. Now we have only the dessert of steady daily exam prep (with small dollops of nuclear and organic sauce sprinkled in there) until May 10. I am planning a mock AP exam ( identical AP conditions; actual recent full AP exam with scoring scale) for the Saturday morning two weeks before the exam (so that you have time to thoroughly analyze and correct any mistakes) in the Board Room (where you are actually taking the AP exam). Please clear your calendar for that day. We will start sometime in the (gulp.) morning (10 or 11 AM).
This weekend, we begin our AP Prep course with a multiple choice section. Time yourself strictly: 90 minutes. You should skip around and do the problems that are easiest for you first and then go back to the more time consuming questions. The test writers purposely vary the difficulty level among the questions and the change can be great from one question to another. Circle any question that you are not highly confident about and bring me questions that we can address in class next week. If you can get about 70 of them right in 90 minutes, you are off to a solid start. Also, using different ink, be sure to do any questions that you could not get to in the first 90 minutes
Looking forward to a successful denouement to our arduous course. I am here for you if you have any questions or problems. Let's make the big sacrifice by thoroughly prepping for this exam so that we can look back with a sense of great accomplishment. Hard earned victories tend to be the most satisfying.
# posted by C @ 10:39 PM 
