If you want to get a five on your AP Stats exam, stay tuned.
In this video, we're going to go over seven steps that you can take to
score a five on your AP Stats exam.
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Before we get started, it's really important to note that these seven
steps we're going to outline here are intended to be done with more than
20 hours left to your study plan.
If you don't have that much time, just try to adapt these seven steps
to fit your particular use case, but understand that the students that are
going to do best with this plan are the students that have more than 20 hours
left in study time for AP Statistics.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's dig into step number one.
The first step on our road to scoring five is to you take a
full length diagnostic exam.
This is going to take you about three hours to complete.
You can use the 2012 officially released exam by the College Board
and online review resource, such as Albert, which has full length practice
exams or you can use an old school review book if you happen to have one.
Whatever the case may be.
Just make sure that you're doing the entire full length exam with the
allocated time that is permitted.
Step number two is going to take you anywhere from one to two hours.
And what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to
grade your diagnostic exam and look at what you did well, as well
as what you didn't do so well in.
This is going to be super crucial because if you can identify the three core areas
that you need to focus more of your study time in, you'll be able to be more
efficient and effective in your studying.
Make sure to pay special attention when you get to your free responses
and you're reviewing the guidelines provided because this can be an area
that can be a little bit tricky for the student did grade themselves.
If you don't feel confident and you can also ask a friend or family member, or
even your teacher for extra help here.
Once you've reviewed everything, you should look at the topic list for AP
statistics and isolate for specifically what is a topic you've mastered, what
is a topic that needs a little bit more work, but you're close to mastery
and what topic needs a lot of help?
I recommend that you use three different colored highlighters for this.
Green for your good to go, yellow for your close to mastering, and then pink for
you didn't work on this particular area.
Step number three is to map out your study calendar.
This should only take you about 20 minutes to do, but it's really important
that you block out studying time in your schedule, leading up to the exam.
This will make sure that you're not just cramming eight hours the night before.
In fact, in some situations just studying for 15 to 20 minutes a night
for several weeks can do wonders compared to cramming the night before.
If you can, it can be also super helpful for you to find a study partner to help
join along and help you get through the grind of studying through all of
the past AP Statistics, free response questions, as well as practice questions.
Remember the quotation by Robert Collier, which goes "Success is the sum of small
efforts repeated day in and day out."
The fourth step is to relearn tricky concepts with the help
of notes, as well as video.
This step is going to take you anywhere from two to five hours to complete.
What you're going to want to do here is you're going to want to review the chapter
notes that you took over the course of the school year or any online notes about
the topics that you're struggling with.
You may also find YouTube videos by Rob Tarrou to be helpful.
He goes over for all sorts of AP Statistics topics on his channel, which
can be a helpful way for you to visually follow along and relearn a tricky concept.
Two other great sites are Mr.
Holloman's, AP Statistics page, as well as Dan Schuster's chapter notes.
Ensuring that you have a strong understanding of these key concepts can be
a great way for you to make sure that you truly have mastered the things that are
going to be tested of you come test day.
Step number five is the most obvious one, which is you're going to have
to do a lot of practice problems.
And so, for this step, we recommend that you allocate anywhere from
10 to 15 hours of studying.
It's really important that as you work through sample questions
that you figuring out why you got a particular question wrong.
That way you can correct that mistake the next time that
you see that particular topic.
We've done all the prep work for you on Albert.
Our AP Statistics course has hundreds of practice questions as well as
detailed explanations that are organized by unit as well as topic area so
that you can isolate and pinpoint your biggest areas for improvement.
Furthermore, we also have full length practice exams that you
can practice your pacing and feel comfortable with both the multiple
choice as well as the free response sections of the AP Statistics exam.
If you don't have an Albert subscription to AP Stats, you can also use some
of the previously released questions by the College Board or use an
old school review book that you might find at a local bookstore.
The most important part of this step is to make sure that you're
understanding the why behind why you got a particular question wrong.
If you can't articulate that and you haven't truly mastered that topic.
So, make sure that you can isolate for that in your review.
The sixth step is to take another full length test under pressure.
So this is going to take you another three hours.
It's really important that this time around you are being
very mindful with your pacing.
On average, you're going to have about two minutes for every
multiple choice question, 13 minutes every FRQ, and then 25 minutes
for the investigative tasks FRQ.
After you're done with this full length exam, you're going to want to
ask yourself where you felt rushed, where you felt like your pacing was
good and then try to improve on those areas in your future study sessions.
It can be helpful to ask yourself questions like, did you feel like you had
enough time with the instigate a task?
Typically, we recommend that you complete the investigative tasks
as the second free response in your overall allocated free response time.
Another question you might ask yourself, is, are you losing time by typing numbers
into your calculator when it comes to trying to visualize a regression?
Lastly, you might ask yourself a question, like, are you spending too
much time when it comes to solving multiple choice questions that
relate to probability calculations?
If so, there might be something that you can improve upon when
it comes to using your calculator for these sorts of questions.
Ultimately, AP Statistics is no different than any other exam in that it's all about
knowing your strengths and knowing your weaknesses and leaning into your strengths
and being able to support the weaknesses.
Step number seven to getting a five on your AP Stats exam is to
rest up the day before the exam.
This is going to take you about five hours or so, but pretty much what you're
going to want to do is you're gonna want to cycle through steps four through six,
as many times, as you feel as necessary until you feel confident for the exam.
Then when the time comes and you feel confident about yourself, you should
take a step back from the content of the course and then simply do something else.
You could go work out, hanging out with friends, meditate,
whatever the case may be.
The purpose of this time is to recharge yourself leading up to the
exam so that you are not burnt out with all this AP Stats content that
you've been reviewing so feverishly.
It's really important that you get a good night's sleep and that you're well rested.
So make sure that you're doing so in the days, leading up to the exam.
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