Mark Anestis - 5 Steps to a 5 AP Biology, 2014-2015 Edition

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MARK ANESTIS was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Connecticut since the age of six. He graduated from Weston High School in Weston, Connecticut, in 1993 and attended Yale University. While taking science courses in preparation for medical school, he earned a bachelors degree cum laude in economics. He attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine for two years and passed the step 1 boards, then chose to redirect his energy toward educating students in a one-on-one environment. He is the founder and director of The Learning Edge, a tutoring company based in Hamden, Connecticut ( www.thelearningedge.net ). Since January 2000, he has been tutoring high school students in math, the sciences, and standardized test preparation (including the SAT, ACT, and SAT Subject Tests). In addition to this review book, he has coauthored McGraw-Hills SAT, McGraw-Hills PSAT/NMSQT, and McGraw-Hills 12 SAT Practice Tests and PSAT. He lives with his wife and sons in Hamden, Connecticut.

The author also created the SAT Ladder app ( www.satladder.com ), which allows students to prepare for the SAT while competing against other students to see how high they can climb on the SAT Ladder. The app is available on the App Store.

KELLIE PLOEGER COX is from Spokane, Washington. She earned her PhD in microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry from the University of Idaho. She now lives in Connecticut, where she has been a member of the science department at Hopkins School since 1999. Kellie teaches Introductory Biology, AP Biology, and Contemporary Issues in Biology and loves all things nerdy. She lives in Southington with her husband, Bobby, and her two girls, Raina and Kenley, along with a gaggle of critters.

Hello, and welcome to the new edition of the AP Biology review book that promises to be the most fun you have ever had!!!! Well, OK. It will not be the most fun you have ever had but maybe you will enjoy yourself a little bit. If you let yourself, you may at least learn a lot from this book. It contains the major concepts and ideas to which you were exposed over the past year in your AP Biology classroom, written in a manner that, we hope, will be pleasing to your eyes and your brain.

Many books on the market contain the same information that you will find in this book. However, we have approached the material a bit differently. We have tried to make this book as conversational and understandable as possible. We have had to review for countless standardized tests and cannot think of anything more annoying than a review book that is a total snoozer. In fact, we had this book snooze-tested by more than five thousand students, and the average reader could go 84 pages before falling asleep. This is better than the other review books whose average snooze time fell within the range of 1443 pages. OK, we made up those statistics but we promise that this book will not put you to sleep.

While preparing this book, we spoke to 154,076 students who had taken the AP exam and asked them how they prepared for the test. They indicated which study techniques were most helpful to them and which topics in this book they considered vital to success on this test. Throughout the book there are notes in the margins with these students comments and tips. Pay heed to these comments because these folks know what they are talking about. They have taken this test and may have advice that will be useful to you.