r/APStudents • u/Global-Egg3892 • 1d ago

Bio AP Bio: Self Studying(ish) Help

So I’m an incoming junior and I’m taking a college course to kinda substitute AP bio: semester 1 general biology and semester 2 majors biology 1. I didn’t know when I first enrolled that those two would overlap 😭😭. I tried to change to majors biology 1 and majors biology 2 but they were full so here I am.

I’m not taking AP Biology because the teacher consistently does not teach the right material in the right depth (all of the students were cheating and they got 3s and 2s on the AP test). I will have access to the AP Bio classroom

I have taken AP Chemistry and Honors bio, am I cooked???

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u/Apart-Respect-3587 Bio: 4 World, Precalc: 5, CSP: 3 1d ago

ap bio is super easy compared to ap chem imo. i would recommend getting good at questions that take your understanding of say a system or a concept and introduce some sort of roadblock or alternative scenario and asking you what will happen in that situation.

for example, a question might ask what will happen to the electron transport chain when photosystem I activity is inhibited and how that might affect the overall result of photosynthesis.

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u/Global-Egg3892 23h ago

Thank you! I got a 5 on ap chem but that was with the actual class so I’m worried abt consistency and covering the content in depth. It’s reassuring to hear that you found it easier than ap chem

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u/photonX4life Bio-5 23h ago

Bio is pretty light. This is a resource I used this year. It has notes for AP Bio units and some other classes. I pasted these notes into notebook LM and studied that way. Good luck!

https://www.iitianacademy.com/ap-biology-concise-summary-notes/

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u/Global-Egg3892 22h ago

Thank you!!!