<p>I honestly don’t think the people on this forum are very good indicators of whether or not the exam was difficult. I personally didn’t find it very arduous. However, the majority of my class felt like it was medium-difficult. You have to remember the curve is based off of EVERYONE taking the exam. College Confidential is only representative of the nerdy students who care so much that they are spending their time on an online forum discussing the test AFTER it’s already over… No offense to everyone because I’m talking about myself as well. But you have to understand that CC is a forum of mostly students that excel…</p>
<p>That’s what I was thinking about as well lol</p>
<p>very good point…</p>
<p>So wait… Jellyfish… Intra or Extracellular</p>
<p>I didn’t think the test was TOO hard. I mean it was way easier than the practice AP we got and the CliffsNotes test…that one had me worried. I was mad about how much physiology stuff there was on the MC though because our class got way behind (probably around 1.5-2 weeks) and didn’t cover that section too well. The first FR was really easy (pretty much the exact same question as a FR from a previous year…which we used for a test in class)…#2 and 3 were so-so (didn’t study digestion or asexual reproduction at all) and #4 was cake except for the water potential part. Completely forgot about that. 
I agree with hearbr8cker124… however I’ve seen pretty much mixed reviews on here as well as from other people I’ve talked to at school. Some said it was really hard and some said it was super easy. So I’m assuming it was pretty much mid-difficulty. I just hope the curve is good to me :P</p>
<p>I think it’s bad that our test scores are based on the scores of college students. At least where i’m from, high school teachers go nowhere near teaching the amount and depth of information covered in General Biology and other intro classes. A lot of students skip intro classes in college and they find that they are way behind in an upper level class because the college’s intro class covered twice as much as its corresponding class. Also (as stated above) a lot of high school students don’t care what they get on the Ap test while most college students work a lot harder in the same subject. Of course this suggests the whole AP system could be ineffective.</p>
<p>[Cnidarians</a> - Study All About Them](<a href=“http://www.biology-questions-and-answers.com/cnidarians.html]Cnidarians”>Cnidarians)</p>
<p>According to this page, jellyfish and other cnidaria do intra and extracellular digestion.</p>
<p>My teacher told me</p>
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<li><p>That the college board said that they weren’t gonna change the curve when they got rid of the guessing penalty</p></li>
<li><p>That the credit we receive and the material we cover counts for like three semesters of classes and that one semester does only like 20 chapters, and so I think it would be dumb to base it off college students</p></li>
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<p>Isn’t AP Bio supposed to make it so we are exempt from taking the introductory science stuff for the base classes? Well I’ve talked to a lot of people and my friends have siblings who are taking the same class in college and they have said that it’s nowhere near what we have to do.</p>
<p>Hey! I know this is irrlevant in this post’s discussion, but I have a question. I have Barron’s and Cliff Notes AP Bio prep books and wants to keep them. Are they goingto help me in college if I bring these books to the cllege or further studying?</p>
<p>I remember someone saying that they took their Cliffnotes bio book to college but i never heard anything else about it. I would assume the book would be useful to understand the concepts but it wouldn’t go into enough detail to be used solely for studying, as it can be used for AP Bio. For example, if you don’t understand Cellular Respiration, the Cliffs book will help with basics but not about the very specific details of each stage. This is just my guess, though.</p>
<p>^
Thank you for your answer. I have kind of “book collector” behavior and wants to keep all of my books. I was curious if like Schaum’s Biology or College Biology study guides are useful when I am actually in college.</p>
<p>Even if we butcher up the information we write in the FRQs, do we still get a few points for writing at least SOME thing? just wondering because I messed up on some parts of the questions :((</p>
<p>No. There’s a very specific rubric used and if you dont mention what it says, you don’t get the point. When they grade your FRQ, they look for key details or phrases. Either you get it or you don’t unfortunately.</p>
<p>would it be difficult to get around a 4 or 5 on each FRQ if I messed up on some examples (like the intra and extra)?</p>
<p>I really messed up on the free response :\ the last one caught me off guard and I didn’t really write anything. The one about digestion I had in the bag, but then I didn’t read it right (stupid me) and I thought it said a part of the digestive system, so I did the stomach as a whole and the mouth. I even drew a picture of the mouth and where the glands are and whatnot ugh</p>
<p>wait can you guys answer a couple of question,
for the first frq if i wrote mitochondria as a part of prokaryotes (stupid me) but got everything else and messed up insane with the endosymbiotic theory, how many point would that be out of 12?</p>
<p>secondly if i wrote geographical isolation instead of habitat isolation but had the exact same description would i lose the entire point. and same for temporal isolation, i wrote climate isolation but with the exact same definition, are they going to be logical about it and give me point or will they act like robots in which they’re running my essays through a f***ing essay reading scantron machine requiring me have the exact name and description?</p>
<p>temporal isn’t the correct way to label something about climate…temporal means they mate at different times…</p>
<p>Fffff… According to Google, a snake is a vertebrate animal. I kind of panicked and tried to put any animal that wasn’t a mammal. ■■■.</p>
<p>MC was medium/hard, while the essays were really easy, expecting 4ish maybe 5, which I would be happy with since I didn’t really study nor did I really pay attention this year due to senioritis lol.</p>
<p>Lol ^ I thought the complete opposite. MC was easy, essays were semi-hard.</p>
<p>I dont think it would be hard to get a 4 or a 5 just because they have a lot of ways to give you points. There rubric shows more than 10 places to get points (I think like 12-14 points) but theres a maximum amount of points you can get in each area. If you’re curious look in the practice exams at the back of Cliffs.</p>