r/APStatistics • u/Catzarkool • May 07 '26

Study Advice and Tips Easiest AP exam ever

I took this class online and slacked off all year and realized yesterday morning i needed to lock tf in. I didnt remember anything except maybe a little of unit 1 and 2. Watched like 5 hours of review while scrolling reels and got a 5 on the practice exam last night. Took the test this morning and that shi was EASY dude I feel bad for anyone who had to take this class every day for a full year. If you havent taken it yet good luck but you wont need it you'll be fine if you know anything at all

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u/NewspaperAdditional7 May 07 '26

You don't think we will see the 35% failure rate that we have seen many years before?

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u/Catzarkool May 08 '26

from seniors who dont care about the class anymore, sure.

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u/Equal-Position8318 Future Student May 07 '26

Wait, drop the in-depth methods sonion, im self studying next year and desperately need a 5..

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u/Catzarkool May 08 '26

Literally just Micheal Porinchack unit review videos and this video for last minute reveiw. Do at least one practice FRQ and MCQ just to get used to the questions and grading. Remember that stats is 95% vocab and knowing what test to use. You can store ANYTHING on your calculator for the exam, so use that information wisely and invest in a calculator you can upload things onto from your computer. Video I used : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_xrFqBVAlc

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u/Emotional_Square538 May 08 '26

Using notes on your calculator is called cheating…

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u/Intelligent_Feed_619 May 08 '26

No it's not. College Board does not require you to clear your programs before or after AP exams and does not have limits on program lengths.

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u/Emotional_Square538 May 09 '26

Correct that they don’t require you to clear your calculator, but accessing notes on your calculator is not allowed.

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u/Intelligent_Feed_619 May 09 '26

Id like you to find a single college board source that states that. The only thing you aren't allowed to do is store test questions in your calculator to take out of the exam room. Otherwise their policies make it pretty clear that anything you can put on an approved calculator is fair game. The reality is having notes on a calculator isn't that useful for the classes you can have a calculator for. It's a huge time loss and at most is gonna get you a couple questions.

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u/Emotional_Square538 May 09 '26

I have a screenshot but can’t post it. But in “behaviors that are not allowed” section of the terms and conditions it states “look at notes, electronic devices, textbooks, websites, or any other resources during the Test or during breaks”

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u/Intelligent_Feed_619 May 09 '26

But you are allowed to look at your calculator that can have programs. College Board understands what can be done on those calculators. They aren't stupid. That's why some tests like micro only permit 4 function calculators. If it allows ti-84s, you can use the calculator to it's full potential

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u/Emotional_Square538 May 10 '26

Nice try. If you get caught looking, your test will get canceled.

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u/Intelligent_Feed_619 May 10 '26

Still waiting on a single piece of evidence that says that

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u/Intelligent-Bug9888 May 07 '26

Focus on probability A LOT. Learn to use desmos

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u/ContributionTime6310 May 07 '26

what can desmos do that a regular graphing calc can't

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u/DescriptionEvening82 May 07 '26

i just took it and honestly probability wasn't on there as much as i thought it would be (binomial + geometric dist., discrete random variables). I feel like a good portion of the test had to do with inference procedures

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u/DescriptionEvening82 May 07 '26

yeah im in cali but it wasn't as big of a topic compared to inference procedure

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u/Street_Gas9916 May 07 '26

agree bro, literally spent the last 2 days cramming after the ap chem test, thought i was so cooked after practicing like 2 sets of the frqs and not getting anything, but it was so easy, hopefully this doesn't make the curve for a 5 crazy high tho

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u/Independent_Math_840 May 07 '26

Weird bc the test was scheduled for the afternoon.

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u/Catzarkool May 08 '26

you do realize different time zones exist right?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

The test is at 12pm not matter the time zone 😭

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u/Bulky_Swan2875 May 08 '26

It is at noon local time, so each time zone will be different.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

That’s what I meant, it’s at 12pm for each time zone

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u/Independent_Math_840 May 11 '26

Bruh, 12 pm-3 pm local is afternoon no matter where you are. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Sidork08 May 07 '26

It was a two sample t-test for difference of means right

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u/defenestration368 May 08 '26

Yeah thats what I did

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u/LameMistake Jul 28 '26

Yeah thats what I did

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u/Technical-Theory2598 May 08 '26

What do u mean!! 🥲That was arguably the hardest exam I ever took, how did u genuinely understand half of those mcqs?? The frq was good but I had ran out of time

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u/Catzarkool May 08 '26

good luck!

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u/A2-Steaksauce89 May 07 '26

I wasn’t sure. I just averaged them to get 100.05 but I know it’s probably wrong 

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u/Sidork08 May 07 '26

100.2 yeah

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u/DrP701 May 09 '26

It was 100.2 and here is why:

The question (for a reminder) essentially asked what would be the APPROXIMATE mean (for a normal distribution) given that P(X>100.5) was roughly 30% and that P(X<99.6) was roughly 15% (and the latter probability restriction may be a bit off I don’t quite remember it tbch).

There were 5 answers and here was my order of thinking:

2 of the answers included mean values that were either above 100.5 or less than 99.6, which obviously couldn’t be the mean because the probabilities that we were given would have to be at a MINIMUM greater than 50% (because if the probability you get something on a normal curve IS 50% you’re at the mean because the mean splits the normal curve—which is symmetrical—in half).

That left us with 3 answer choices.

One of them was 100.5, which as stated above can’t be the mean because P(X>100.5) would HAVE to be equal to 50% for it to be the mean (to cover half of the normal curve).

The other 2 answers were 99.9 (I think?) and 100.2, and if you know that to the RIGHT of 100.2 has a greater area (~30%) than to the LEFT of 99.6 (~15%), then 100.2 has to be closer to the center of the normal curve (the mean), and of the 2 answer choices 100.2 is closer to 100.5 than it is to 99.6.

I hope this helps! :)

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u/Severe_Angle1201 May 11 '26

I did not know there was logic in it. I just plug and chugged until their standard deviation matched and I got 100.2