• How To Pass the AP Statistics Exam
    May 8, 2025 8am Pavilion
     
    First, a WARNING!  
    This warning is a quote from Dave Bock writing on the AP Statistics instructors listserve/daily email.  Bock has written Stats: Modeling the World, which is an excellent supplemental book to our textbook.  Bock also assisted in writing the AP Statistics exam.
    "...Calculus is MECHANICALLY more difficult than statistics.  It requires a far greater facility with algebra.  But the concepts (in my opinion) easier; the analysis far more straightforward, and the exam is highly predictable.  I taught BC Calc for many years, and I don't hesitate to say that the AP Stats exam is tougher.  The level of reading, creative thinking, analysis, and communication required is much higher than calculus--but accessible to a far wider audience of kids than just the algebra jocks."
     
     
    Now, some of my tips:
     
    1.   Attend Class Every Day
    2.   Take Notes
    3.   Talk/Participate in class about stats and how our subject connects to life
    4.   Do ALL the HW...actually think about, no ponder, the data highlights & linking concepts (end of each chapter) 
    5.   READ the book
    6.   READ the supplemental material I share on Google Classroom
    7.   Read and DO problems from the College Board AP Statistics site, OR an AP review book
    8.   Visit collegeboard.com, familiarizing yourself with the test, recorded lessons, and released exams from the past
    9.  Spend Spring Break with STATISTICS, not Steve
    10.  Attend 15+ study sessions in the Fabulous Forum in late April & early May
    11.  Rest/Study/Be Boring for a full week prior to our AP exam
    12.  Write assumptions & conclusions during our quizzes/tests so it becomes a natural good habit for the APExam!
     
    APRVW2016  
     
    Period 7 May 12, 2015  
    AP Students at review session May, 2012
     

    Character is the discipline to

    do what you aspired to,even

    after the initial inspiration

    has passed.

     
     
    HOW NOT TO PASS
     
    1.    Skip class for any reason...college visits, life skills retreat, tummy ache, track/softball/baseball/golf/Laker riot, peer counseling trip, youth & gov trip, parents take you to Paris, dentist appt, music performance, art exhibit, play rehearsal went late into the night...
     2.   Think that the AP Stats exam is easy, and thus prepare only a little
     3.   Let classmates calculate answers while you coast in class
     4.   Take 5-6 other AP exams this year
     5.   Skip the test because your silly college won't accept the score.  (Just "ace" the exam, then negotiate at your Univ for elective credit at least, or the satisfaction of beating the APE...that is the AP Exam)