<p>I am completely unprepared for this exam. We got through Fungi and that’s it, plus we barely learned what we did get through. The teacher was getting too specific about things we didn’t need to know and explaining them and the rest we barely brushed over. He tried to get us to review cliffs’ for body systems for the past week, but none of it sunk in. Oh well, I knew I’d have to retake this class in college anyways. Good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>We definitely did not cover as much as we should have for this exam. I looked on the bio review thread and seriously have never heard of more than half of what is being discussed. Tomorrow is not going to be a fun day.</p>
<p>^I wouldn’t worry so much about the review thread. Everyone is going into so much detail that is really not needed. You can be fairly general and pick up quite a few points.</p>
<p>Does anyone know where I could find a list of chemicals, hormones, and/or neurotransmitters that we need to know for the AP Bio exam?</p>
<p>I know that you should never skip too many multiple choice questions on an AP exam, but let’s say I can answer somewhere between 60-75 correctly. Would it be fine to skip that many questions? I’m self-studying for bio, and points are going to be hard to come by so I don’t want to lose a ton of points for guessing.</p>
<p>I’m aiming to skip 10. But i think you could probably think about skipping anywhere from 10 to 20 and you should be good.</p>
<p>if I get 40 right and 60 wrong/skipped and meet the minimum number of points on frq whats the chance of me getting a 3?</p>
<p>AP Bio makes me cry too. :'(</p>
<p>But I really don’t care what I get, because I’ll just have to take it again in college. I’ll probably just semi-try. …xD</p>
<p>I wanna cry!!!
I feel like i know nothing and I am very underprepared
Is it true that the 5 range last year was like 115-150??</p>
<p>Woah, that makes no sense at all, where did you hear that from?</p>
<p>^ I wouldn’t believe that</p>
<p>It depends on how many you actually skipped.</p>
<p>If you got 40 correct, 50 wrong, and 10 skipped, your raw score for the MC would be:</p>
<p>40 (1)= 40 - ((50(.25)) = 27.5 out of a total possible 100 points (Raw score for MC)</p>
<p>Let’s say you get straight 5’s on all of your essays:</p>
<p>5(4) = 20 out of a total possible 40 points (Raw score for the FRQ’s)</p>
<p>For the combined score, the conversion used (at least in the Cliffs book) is .6 for the MC raw score and 1 for the FRQ raw score:</p>
<p>27.5(.6)= 16.5 + 20(1) = 36.5 or 37 when rounded up</p>
<p>The Cliffs book states that a score of 3 is 39-46 points out of a possible 100, so by these standards you would make a high 2, but this is from Cliffs, not from CollegeBoard itself. Basically if you get a few more questions right and maybe a point or two higher on the FRQ’s, you’re pretty much set for a 3.</p>
<p>That’s crazy, sportfreak. Even though 35% of the kids did get 1’s last year…
I’d say 90-150 would be a 5…</p>
<p>Yeah,
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<p>I really doubt ~20% of the people scored at or above 77%.</p>
<p>lockdown, that’s incorrect. The MC is usually multiplied by .9, and the FRQs each by 1.5. So that might give the person a 3 (RAW score would be like 55, not 37…)</p>
<p>I like those odds lockdown lol. Plus I hear they give massive curves as well so I can expect a few points on top of those, I just really want a 3, I don’t want to let my teacher down…</p>
<p>Well I’m out, im going to study a bit more then go to sleep, good night all and good luck.</p>
<p>Like I said, I used the format used in Cliffs.</p>
<p>^ both formats equate to the same thing. and by that i mean that both cliffs and the cb use the same weighing— they just ahve different ways of getting it.</p>
<p>Senior0991, a perfect score :). But otherwise, no. It’s done on a year-by-year basis. If one year, the exam is particularly difficult, it would be unfair to set a high bar. I’m not completely sure how score ranges are determined, but from previous years, bio usually has around a 20% rate of 5’s.</p>
<p>I haven’t been in high school in 2 years and I took bio 3 years ago so I’m somewhat detached from bio’s scoring system, but if you can answer 75-80 MC’s correctly and score 6-8 on all of your essays, that should be a 5. But I don’t completely remember.</p>