2013 Distributions (reference for those who are curious)

<p>Hey, don’t throw yourself under a bus yet. There are still plenty of people who did well. Instead of looking at it from a percentage standpoint, look at the number of people who scored well. You could be one of those people.
Of course, we won’t know our actual scores for another two and a half weeks.</p>

<p>BC wasn’t even that hard…</p>

<p>@darthpwner</p>

<p>I hear you, but I believe the reason that the 5 rate went down is because I think like 6000-7000 more people took the exams than last year, which is a big jump. I think more people who weren’t capable of self studying BC took it, which is why we ended up with more 3’s and 1’s, and no increase in 4’s. (If the test was harder than last year, then wouldn’t we see an increase in 4’s as well?) Basically, if you were getting 5’s on practice tests and A’s in the class, you most likely got a 5 on this 2013 BC test. It wasn’t like World History, where they actually made the exam more difficult.
That’s my logic, it may be totally wrong. </p>

<p>Anyways:
Statistics:
5: 12.6%. 4: 20.2%. 3: 25%. 2: 18.8%. 1: 23.4%. <— No significant change.</p>

<p>I’m just waiting for biology… There’s no telling what that’ll be</p>

<p>Less than 10% got 5 on AP Lang, one of the easiest APs according to CC, yet close to 50% got a 5 on Calc BC. Hmm I wonder if that indicates Lang is much harder than we thought or that more smarter people take BC because the less-smart ones won’t even get to that.</p>

<p>That is typically the case. (Difficulty of exams are only relative to the person and to a population, but the relative difficulty in both cases could be different).</p>

<p>AP Lang is typically an AP junior class, and as such has people taking the class from all over.
Most people take Calc AB before they graduate, as that class is typically offered at the senior level. However, those who take Calc BC tend to be prepared for that kind of accelerated course work, hense higher percentage of 5s on BC than nearly all other exams.</p>

<p>Now, AP Biology scores would be quite intresting to see. I really want to see where I stack up on the new exam.</p>

<p>AP Lang is kind of automatic for most people in that of what to take.
It doesn’t take any “REALLY ADVANCED” ability to do lang , at least how it is seen by people. so that means with higher number of test takes percentages are harder to get since you can’t get everyone a 5 when there are that many people taking it</p>

<p>Whereas for Calc BC its the more advanced/faster paced students who take it so there are less takers so its easier to get percentages</p>

<p>Thanks for the site. We won’t be hearing any more distributions until Monday, I have a feeling the rest will be posted then. (Hopefully)</p>

<p>Are you kidding me? AP Language and Composition was the HARDEST AP exam I’ve ever taken, except AP Spanish, while AP Calculus is the easiest exam.</p>

<p>Reason being, at this point in our education English can be you have it or you don’t–as my AP Lang teacher said, there’s not much he can do about you not reading a lot in the past and your essays can go up only so much, 6-7 range but 8-9 is supposedly mastery attained by the individual not the teacher.</p>

<p>The reason AP Calc went down, was that it was simply a harder test… We had polar, for many including the self-studiers (at my school skipped this) it was an unusual curveball. For my school, last year people said the BC test was easy (I can only judge from taking the AB), this year a lot of them said it was hard, which I can arguably agree that the problems aren’t the typical memorize the process but problem solving types.</p>

<p>As well, will the Revised AP Biology exam turn out with percentages like the revised AP World Exam? We’ll see!</p>

<p>Pretty useless thoughts on AP Bio’s score distribution:</p>

<p>The AP Spanish Literature exam was revised this year, also. And the results are really, really weird. Seriously, less than 5% scored a 1 and nearly 40% scored a 3. 77% passed the exam. Last year, 22.5% scored a 1, and about 60% passed. I just think it’s strange that AP allowed nearly a fifth of test-takers pass this year that may have failed last year. </p>

<p>Am I expecting a +20% increase in AP Bio’s pass rate? Not really. Collegeboard doesn’t have a history of wildly changing the scoring distributions year to year. But, I’m pointing out that the scoring distribution may be very, very different from last years. Guess we’ll find out when Trev tweets us.</p>

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a lot of people didn’t know how to integrate polars. I’m surprised that there’s no “x percent of students got 0 points on an FRQ.” I’m pretty sure that’s the case, but they just didn’t mention it for some reason</p>

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<p>I think they had to rescale the exam to meet the standards of college students. There just happens to be more people who meet those standards than before, or those standards could’ve been lowered a bit. It’s hard to say as we know nothing about the actual results. But yes, it is intresting, and may or may not happen with the Bio curve. That’s what college board is working on right now, the bio curve, with various college students.</p>

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<p>I am too, however there are other parts of the question that people could snag some points from (after all, integrating polars was only the first part of the question, the next part was parametrics with polars, then the last part was parametrics with differentiation).</p>

<p>Darn, AP Bio distributions get released in Tuesday. Bummer</p>

<p>AP Biology scores, 2013:
5: 5.4%. 4: 21.4%. 3: 36.3%. 2: 29.5%. 1: 7.4%. <— Fewest 5’s, however, way more people passed than last year. So the results, if you just want to pass AP bio, you can do it much easier now, but to get 5, became hella difficult.</p>

<p>It seems that the places of low scores was mostly from the grid-ins (which I personally thought was pretty easy), and the short answers in the free response. If people have a more broad range of Biology and remember all the main details, as well as the mathematical applications, then getting a five should be much easier to reach (or so I’m hoping).</p>

<p>But those results made my heart drop a little, but I’m still hoping for a five.</p>

<p>Same here ^ I felt great until now. Now I feel like I got a 4…</p>

<p>Yeah…I felt pretty confident that I passed World History walking out of the testing room, but after seeing the score distribution I can’t be sure.</p>

<p>Please dear god of biology let me be one of the people that passed Ap Biology with a 3 (if you love me a 4) and please dear god of calculus let me be one of the people that got a 5 (a 4 if you hate me) ! :D</p>

<p>If Collegeboard doesnt notice how coincidently their stupid change in the AP Bio test resulted in FAR fewer students receiving a 5, they are a bunch of D***** Bags. UGH. I’m so angry at them. I self studied for the test on my own, assuming the test would remain similar to how it had been for the last gazillion years. I studied everything there was to know about Biology. Heck i even started dreaming that I was studying Biology. On test day, when I saw it was 70 MCs rather than the traditional 100, I freaked. The test was a bunch of bull. After I get my scores I will write them a very strongly worded email about their dumb a** decision with the change in Bio cirriculum. Is it so important for us to learn “apparently real life situations” than have some of the hardest working students not get the score they deserve based on their knowledge of the subject?
-Btw sorry for anger, I just am so angry. I feel like theres no point to learning traditional biology when they are going to make it a game of analyzing the stupid charts.</p>

<p>I had a feeling the ap world history curve would not be so kind this year</p>