<p>As we all know the AP Bio test is in 2 days...
feeling pretty good about the MC but don't know about the essay.</p>
<p>Can anyone provide a quick rundown of the essay section, such as what questions usually cover what, predictions for this year, and essay-writing strategies? How long should a good response be, and how broad should an answer be?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for any insight :)</p>
<p>You don't have to write bio free response in essay format.</p>
<p>All you have to write down is the key words and important parts. You could just list (not write in an essay format) and still get the maximum score.</p>
<p>What do they mean when the direction say "not outline form"?</p>
<p>If you were given a question with different parts, could you answer them separately in paragraph form?</p>
<p>a. yada yada
b. yada yada
c. yada yada</p>
<p>ahmadh007, yes.. that would be actually make it easier for the grader.</p>
<p>sweet</p>
<p>I was a bit apprehensive at first because our teacher showed us sample responses where students had written essays.</p>
<p>I took bio last year and I got a 5. My strategy was simply to write any info that was related to the prompt at all. I more or less did it in bullet form....well just without the bullets. So bullets in paragraph form. My english teacher would probably have hurt me if she read them because they were just me simply spitting facts out, not writing well. Each of my responses was about a page and half.</p>
<p>Be ready to design an experiment because that is always one of the topics. And there is always one about like transcription/translation or some other process. they expect you to talk about stuff down to the structural levels. Then usually an ecology question and a body system.</p>
<p>fully in agreement with zfox, write a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>one thing i did different for the same score was not write a page and half but write 3-4 pages for all.</p>
<p>And check sample student responses at AP Central. I find that they help a lot. And that you don't get penalized (the person got the max 2 points for talking about them) if you say the phosphid heads of phospholipids are hydrophobic, as long as you have other correct info. So scattershot works.</p>
<p>is it true that they dont mark points off for incorrect info, you only get points for correct info?</p>
<p>and can u give me the site with sample responses? i cant find it.</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips guys</p>
<p>and heres the AP Central page with released questions and student responses:
AP</a> Central - Welcome to AP Central</p>
<p>can anyone give an example of a lab question they might ask, and the answer for it? meaning how to go about setting up the experiment.</p>
<p>zfox, and consenting above...</p>
<p>How do you people write so much? My Bio essays were maybe one page each, and I got a five, despite blanking somewhat on the plasmid digest and electrophoresis question. Diagram the plasmid, flaaaaah...</p>
<p>Does anyone know if ur allowed to use a calculator on the test? Like for genetics or hardy weinberg?</p>
<p>floatingsaturn, no calculators are allowed, but you should not worry the numbers provided can be equated in ur mind. For example they will give u something like p^2 = .09, so its easy to know that p=.3.</p>
<p>they always give perfect squares, and if they dont there just helping u understand the question better so u know if u have something like .80 thats the allele frequency and they expect u to use P+Q= 1</p>
<p>thanks! That's actually a really smart way to figure out whats what in the equations...</p>