<p>people from my school who took AP chem said the college course is so much easier...
i guess it varies with the school</p>
<p>^^^agreed. Source:my sister</p>
<p>Evidently, the College Board plans to re-verify the scores for all exams this way periodically. I don't have a schedule for which tests are up for review in which years.....</p>
<p>If you do well enough on the MCQ's, you don't even need to do the free response questions.</p>
<p>Well, I was poor on time management and managed to completely only around 2/3 of them, the rest which I didn't have time to write, and still got my 5.</p>
<p>In other news, having used my AP Bio credit to take a 300-level course in neurobiology, I just spent three sleepless nights prepping for my neurobio exam and I still found myself stuck on 5 of the 40 questions my prof gave me. Well, hopefully 88% is good enough for an A in my class. But really, AP credit didn't prepare me for this at all ... so recognising that there's a standards gap is necessary.</p>
<p>ah, crap. any suggestions for what i should study next year on the MC? i heard that only 75% of the multiple choice gets recycled so i’m hoping for some help. i’m a junior and i really really want to get a 5 on this test. so far i’ve been borderline 5 on the practice tests and my teacher really digs deep with the plant section. do i stand a chance?</p>
<p>Study your plants! I was scared after taking the MC because there were so many plant questions, and I barely skimmed the plant sections of my CliffsNotes book.
But of course you’d need to know more than that. I’d go for a more general course of study since bio is a really broad subject.</p>
<p>How much do you think we’ll need to know about plants? I read through the plant chapters on campbell and skimmed through the plant section in cliffnotes. I might read it a few more times before the ap exam starts. Are the questions going to be really in depth? Or will it only ask for the surface materials?</p>
<p>see the thing is, you never know until you actually take the test. for all you know, you may end up with an entire essay on plants</p>
<p>This is surprising. They shouldn’t have done this without a prior announcement. What if it’s one of the exams this year?</p>
<p>Xylem/phloem/more tree stuff, flower reproduction… that was some of the stuff I remember from last year’s exam.</p>
<p>Yeah, you never really know what you’ll get for the FRQs. Last year, there was an ecology question (and bits of ecology in another) that most of the people in my class didn’t know how to answer because our bio class didn’t focus much on ecology. Thankfully, I managed to bluff my way through it. It really is kinda luck of the draw.</p>