Princeton Review - 550 AP Biology Practice Questions

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Your route to a high score on the AP Biology Exam depends a lot on how you plan to use this book. Start thinking about your plan by responding to the following questions.

1. What is your level of confidence about your knowledge of the content tested by the AP Biology Exam?

   A. Very confidentI know it all

   B. Im pretty confident, but there are topics for which I could use help

   C. Not confidentI need quite a bit of support

   D. Im not sure

2. If you have a goal score in mind, circle your goal score for the AP Biology Exam:
   
3. What do you expect to learn from this book? Circle all that apply to you.

   A. A general overview of the test and what to expect

   B. Strategies for how to approach the test

   C. The content tested by this exam

   D. Im not sure yet

This book is organized to provide as muchor as littlesupport as you need, so you can use this book in whatever way will be most helpful to improving your score on the AP Biology Exam.

• The remainder of will provide guidance on how to use this book and help you determine your strengths and weaknesses.
• of this book

• provides information about the structure, scoring, and content of the AP Biology Exam
• helps you to make a study plan
• points you toward additional resources

• of this book explores various strategies including

• how to attack multiple-choice questions
• how to write high scoring free-response answers
• how to manage your time to maximize the number of points available to you

• of this book contains practice drills covering all of the AP Biology concepts you will find on the exams.
• of this book contains practice tests.

You may choose to use some parts of this book over others, or you may work through the entire book. Your approach will depend on your needs and how much time you have. Lets now look at how to make this determination.

1. Take the Diagnostic Test

   Before you can decide how to use this book, you need to take a practice test. Doing so will give you insight into your strengths and weaknesses, and the test will also help you make an effective study plan. If youre feeling test-phobic, remind yourself that a practice test is a tool for diagnosing yourselfits not how well you do that matters but how you use information gleaned from your performance to guide your preparation.

   So, before you read further, take the AP Biology Diagnostic Test starting at of this book. Be sure to do so in one sitting, following the instructions that appear before the test.

2. Check Your Answers

   Using the answer key that starts on , count the number of questions you got right and how many you missed. Dont worry about the explanations for now, and dont worry about why you missed questions. Well get to that soon.

3. Reflect on the Test

   After you take your first test, respond to the following questions:

   • How much time did you spend on the multiple-choice questions?
   • How much time did you spend on each essay?
   • How many multiple-choice questions did you miss?
   • Do you feel you had the knowledge to address the subject matter of the essays?
   • Do you feel you wrote well organized, thoughtful responses to the free-response questions?
4. Read of this Book and Complete the Self-Evaluation

   As discussed on will provide information on how the test is structured and scored. It will also set out areas of content that are tested.

   As you read , you will revisit the questions above and refine your answers to them. You will then be able to make a study plan, based on your needs and time available, that will allow you to use this book most effectively.

5. Engage with as Needed

   Notice the word engage. Youll get more out of this book if you use it intentionally than if you read it passively, hoping for an improved score through osmosis.

   will open with a reminder to think about how you approach questions now and then close with a reflection section asking you to think about how and whether you will change your approach in the future.

   contains drills which are designed to give you the opportunity to assess your mastery of the concepts taught in AP Biology through test-appropriate questions.

6. Take the Practice Test, and Assess Your Performance