A bio question

[happysunnyshine]

<p>I am now flipping through cliffnotes and I have a question for the FRQs. One question is to discuss how a geographic barrier contributes to evolutionary change. The answer gives 6 points but also in the bracket it says "3 points maximum". Does it mean that we only need to talk about 3 out of the possible 6 points to get a full mark?</p>

[packer22]

<p>For each FRQ, you can get up to 10 points. However, all of these can not come from the same section of the FRQ (a,b,c, etc).</p>

<p>So, for that part, once you got three points, they would stop giving you points for that section, and try to give you points for sections b and c, etc.</p>

<p>So, for most FRQs, there are 16-20 points available, but you can only get/need ten. That being said, if you could even average 6 or 7 with a good MC section, you’d get a 5</p>

[JFetrov]

<p>Three points maximum means that even if you talk about a huge amount of good facts, you can still only get 3 points on it. It means you should only talk about necessary stuff–no more, no less–and move on to the next part of the question.</p>

[SeekingUni]

<p>From a post I recently made:</p>

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@SeekingUni

Basically, you can only have a maximum of 10 points per FRQ, even if you fulfill all the opportunities to earn a point. They give you more than one way to earn the 10 points, which is why you see a total of more than 10 possible points. If they only had 10 possibilities for each answer, chances are that very few people would hit every exact point that the rubric requires.</p>

<p>The way they do it makes it easier to earn maximum points, in a variety of different ways.</p>

<p>Essentially, if you fulfill all 12 opportunities to earn points, you still only get 10 points. Once you reach 10, or the maximum of each section, the reader will move on to the next question or the next section, respectively.

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[happysunnyshine]

<p>But what would happen if one answers 3 points correctly and 1 point incorrectly?</p>

[SeekingUni]

<p>You just don’t get the fourth point. You don’t lose points on FRQs. You only earn points for what you write that is correct. Check out this 2008 rubric, for example: <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;

<p>Look at part (b), the first (muscle contraction) section. There are four bullet points. If you mention those in your FRQ, you get one point for each. But also note that you can only earn a max of two points in this area. If you mention all four, you still only get 2 points. If you mention none of them, you don’t get points in that section, but you can still earn points elsewhere in your response.</p>

[happysunnyshine]

<p>Thanks guys!
And what would you say about the accuracy of the prediction of AP pass on Bio? I find it quite lenient.</p>

[SeekingUni]

<p>It’s pretty accurate. :)</p>