If you want a five on your AP Physics 1 exam, then you've come to the right place.
In this video, we're going to go over seven steps that you can take to
score five on your AP Physics 1 exam.
By the end of this video, you're going to have a strategy that you
can start using today as you start studying for your AP Physics 1 exam.
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getting a five on AP Physics 1.
The first step, when it comes to scoring a five on your AP Physics
1 exam is to get a feel for what the exam actually looks like.
This means that you need to carve out three hours to take
a full length practice test.
You can use a diagnostic test from us at Albert, or you can use a
practice test that you might have in one of your old school review
books that you may have picked up.
The purpose of this, though for you is to prioritize mimicking the set up
for test day and to see how you might have paced before you start actively
practicing for your AP Physics 1 exam.
Tip number two is to use your results to prioritize your studying.
This should take you about one to two weeks hours, but what you're going
to want to do is you're going to want to look at what you got right
as well as what you got wrong in the diagnostic exam that you took.
From here, you'll be able to prioritize certain concepts that you may have
struggled with in your practice session.
For example, you might have struggled with kinematics energy or dynamics.
Whatever the case may be, the main purpose of this step is to diagnose for yourself
where your weaknesses are, so that you can strengthen them for your own good.
Make sure to pay special attention to how you answer things in the free
response questions so that you understand which FRQ sorts of questions you need
to focus more of your study time on.
After you self grade your test, use a topics list to isolate for which
concepts you feel comfindent in and which concepts you still need to work on.
If you need a link to the topics list it's included in the blog post that is
referenced in the video description below.
Tip number three is to mark down study dates in your calendar.
This should only take you about 20 minutes or so, but it's really important that you
are allocating time in your schedule to actually be studying for AP Physics 1.
We recommend that you study at least 30 minutes every single day.
Feel free to include an off day once a week for you so that you can take
a break, but it's really important that you incorporate a regular study
schedule for the purposes of retention.
Content retention is really hard to do just cramming the night before an exam.
So, by spacing out your study sessions, you'll feel better prepared and less
stress about your AP Physics 1 exam.
If it helps, you can also find a friend who's also taking AP Physics 1 to study
buddy with you and pair up as you get through your study sessions together.
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Step four is to brush up on tough physics concepts with
review notes, as well as videos.
This'll take you two to five hours.
You'll want to start out by reading through your textbook or
by referencing some online notes.
Deborah Houts has a great set of class notes that are linked in the blog posts
if you want to check those out, but there are also other AP Physics 1 teachers that
publicly share their notes for students.
You may also find it helpful to check out YouTube videos like
Flipping Physics or Dan Fullerton's channel for more concept reviews.
Whatever's the best way for you to learn you want to focus your time in that sort
of methodology, that way you can relearn or remaster the concepts that you didn't
get the first time around in class.
Again, like we mentioned in the prior step, don't be afraid to
ask a friend or reach out to them friend to also study with them.
It can be helpful to try to explain different concepts to your friends or
have friends explain that concept to you in order to master that particular topic.
Step number five is to hone your skills with practice problems.
This is the biggest and most important step of all the seven
steps we're going to go over and it's going to take you anywhere
from 10 to 15 hours of study time.
This is the part where you're going to actually do take practice AP
questions and see how you're doing on these particular questions.
Using a resource such as Albert can be a great way because you're going to get
immediate feedback as you answer the AP Physics 1 question as to whether or not
you answered that question right or wrong.
If you haven't already be sure to create a free account on Albert,
to try out some of our free topics in which we break down every single
unit that is covered on AP Physics 1.
Step number six is to time yourself with another full lamp exam.
So, this is going to take you another three hours, but the purpose of
this is to see how you're pacing now that you've been practicing
all of these days leading up to it.
For AP Physics 1, you're going to have at least 90 seconds for each multiple choice
question, 13 to 15 minutes for every shorter FRQ questions and then 25 minutes
for the longer free response questions.
As you complete your practice exam, you're going to want to ask yourself afterwards
where you felt rushed and where you felt like your pacing was really good.
You may want to ask yourself questions, like, are you spending too much
time plotting points on a graph or trying to draw the line best fit?
Are you having trouble finding a particular formula on the formula sheet?
Do you have a good system for indicating where you have incomplete questions or
guesses that you want to double check?
Knowing these strengths and weaknesses for your particular situation
will allow you to focus on these weaknesses before the exam day so
you can be less stressed the day of.
Step number seven is to relax the day before the exam.
You should take at least five hours to do so.
So, you're going to want to do is you're going to want to repeat steps four
through six, as many times as necessary until you feel confident for your exam.
But then when it leads up to the day before the exam, you want to minimize your
review time just so that you don't feel too stressed, or you're not trying to cram
too much information the night before.
By this point, you should already feel pretty confident.
So, it can be a good time for you to unwind a little bit
before you take your exam.
Feel free to spend some time with friends, exercise, eat
some good food and just relax.
Make sure that the night before the exam, that you have a full night's
rest, it's super important for you to be well rested the day of the exam.
There you have it.
Seven steps to scoring a five on your AP Physics 1 exam.
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can use for tackling the multiple choice as well as the free response section.
That's it for this time though, I will catch you guys in the next one.