The environemnt and race to save..

[fiveninerzero]

All in all, I think this exam is in the middle range as far as difficulty. It is not "easy". There were quite a few questions that I either did not know, or had to make an educated guess on. It does go into quite a bit of depth on certain topics, and the questions are worded in unusual ways. This alone prevents me from calling it "easy".


I used Instantcert to study for this one. But I also did quite a lot of external research in order to get more details on certain terms and principles. I strongly advise anyone taking this test to subsidize Instantcert with additional sources (I posted a couple of links earlier that proved to be VERY helpful). Wikipedia was also invaluable.

I have no clue how I did on this exam. I did too much guessing to be overly confident until I get my score back.

I'll let you know how I did once my score report arrives.

A couple of additional pointers...

Know what nonpoint source pollution is.
Know what the current % of world population growth is.
Know the difference between strip cropping and contour cropping.
Know which region of the US is MOST affected by Acid Rain.

Hope this helps,
Snazzlefrag

I agree with this guy. I used IC (my first IC test ever) supplemented by wikipedia. I did a little reading the night before about ecosystems, biomes and the like. There were a few questions about waste management, solid waste, landfills, etc. Every 10 questions or so there was one related to global warming, so know all about CFC's and carbon dioxide.

He wasn't kidding around about knowing the population growth rate, that was question number 1 for me, lol, also there were questions about China and India's growth rate, and there was one question requiring a calculation of exponential growth.

Quite a few on agriculture, especially fertilizer, and the different chemicals that make it up, know about topsoil and erosion, there was a diagram with a food chain and about 5 questions related to that, also know which region in the US is affected by Acid Rain.

All in all, not too bad of a test, Physical Science DSST next.