This weekend and upcoming week are all about the midterm exam! It is essential that you prepare yourself to succeed on your midterm! The midterm exam is a mini AP exam, so it gives us our first "real" prediction about how we might score in May! Prepare yourself just as you will for the AP Exam! I'm looking forward to you all making me proud next week! :)
- There is an outline of the midterm exam topics under the "Classroom Powerpoints and Assignments" link on the right! (60 min = 28 MC, 60 min = 5 FR)
- Look over this list and identify your strengths and weaknesses!
- Then, use your Barron's book to review/practice the skills you need to work on!
- Use the table of contents to find specific topics and review/practice those skills!
- Then, use some practice exams in the back of the book to get ready for the AP Exam!
- Here's a list of the questions you can do for Practice Exam 1 in the back of your Barron's book:
- MC: 1,2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 38, 40
- FR: 1
- You can also do the following from the free-response section of Practice Exam 2:
- FR: 2, 3, 5
- Here are some other suggestions/ideas for studying:
- Look over your unit tests! These tests summarize many of the "main ideas" from each chapter!
- Look over your past quizzes!
- Read through your notes--maybe even create an outline (handwritten/typed) that summarizes all of your notes! Then you'll be doing lots of studying by creating the outline, and you'll have the outline to read over on the bus or as you walk to school or whenever you have free time! (This is how I studied for lots of stuff in college)
- You'll also have this outline to look back at for the AP exam!
- Work with your classmates/friends--have a study group hangout!
- Some of the things you need help in might be a friend's strength (and vise versa)! Work together and help each other!
- Watch AP Stats Guy (and other) videos to refresh your memory on various concepts!
- Go to the link below for all of the released Free Response with their scoring rubrics!
Update After I Finalized Our Exams -- A Few Specifics to Study....
- I just put the finishing touches our our midterm (it's a masterpiece)!
- Here are some specific things you should be sure to review that may not have shown up in our midterm review stamps--this is NOT a list of all the content on your exam, just some specifics you definitely want to review!
- Be sure you know the difference between stratifed, cluster, and simple random samples and how to write "procedures" for each
- Look over the 2011 Free Response we discussed in class on Friday (about apartments)--look at the rubric online! (link above)
- Study normalcdf (to find % or probabilities) and invnorm (to find a cutoff for a given percentile)!
- Shifting and Rescaling!
- Be sure you know how to create stemplots (or back to back stemplots), boxplots, and histograms!
- Combining random variables to find a "new" standard deviation--Pythagorean Theorem of Stats!
- What is standard deviation? What does it measure?
- Know how to interpret slope, y-intercept, and R^2!
- Review leverage, residual, and influential points!
- Calculate residuals! (or, find an actual value given an equation and a residual)
- Know how to determine if a linear model is appropriate
- Study all of your probability!
- Conditional, expected value, binomial/geometric, look over the "airlines" problem (a stamp)
- Review all of your sampling methods (again) based on our sub work!
- Be sure you understand the "number breakdowns" for simulating with a random number table!
- Understand what population a sample represents!
- Be sure you can create a scatterplot given some data and describe the association seen in a scatterplot!
- Practice writing everything in context--be specific and detailed, but also be concise! No fluff or "extra stuff!"
- Stamps are due by the day of your exam! (but just get them in tomorrow!)
- Count up your stamps...twice (double check)
- Fasten them together/put them in an envelope/bag/something...
- Write your name and the total on the front
- Double check!
- I will randomly select 5 or 6 students per class and double check your count...if it's off you get a 0!
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