I got a 1. WARNING: skip the rant and go to the end if you just took the exam.
The MC were the hardest 69 questions that I’ve had to answer in my entire life. I haven’t taken the ACT yet as I’m. Not a junior, but the ap bio questions were DIFFICULT. I guessed on all of the questions that asked us to read a passage and answer questions because I thought I wasn’t going to finish
FRQ was ok because I spent over 1000 hours studying for the exam in the past month! However, all of this studying was relatively useless for the MCQs. I don’t like how the new curriculum doesn’t test us on the content…I know people that didn’t study a minute for the exam who are going to get a 5, while I studied so much and probably won’t get more than a 2 (I got almost all the grid ins wrong and all of the passage questions wrong=~20 questions off). I hope that APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Gov will not hold the same fate for me. For future test takers: if you are bad at ACT science or Reasoning type questions, start practicing now!!!
Sorry for the rant but I’m really disappointed with the test and how the curve is so low. Like what’s with 6% of the nation can only get a 5??? The new tests made my college board are really weeding out the intelligent individuals that don’t work hard from the less smart people that do work hard. Like the AP Physics 1 exam had all these qualitative conceptual questions, so all of the hard work that I put in throughout the year on thousands of practice quantitative practice problems was relatively useless. Well, this is good news for the 99% of smart people that have 36s on the ACT without even taking a practice test, but for people like me who have to work extremely hard in order to do well, I guess we have to just bite the bullet. I just hope in the future other tests like the MCAT, USMILE, or whatever graduate school tests follow suit with CB.
SKIP THE RANT TO HERE———Does anyone know how bad it looks to colleges if we retake an AP exam next year?
I felt like there wasn’t enough time given to both parts of the exam. Either give us more time or don’t give that many questions for mc cause half of it were analyzing experiments and interpreting graphs and there was no way you could study for that.
If I guessed on 13 mcq’s and got 20/41 on the frq is that a 3 lol? Time was my problem I felt the test was relatively easy but that there was not enough time! (Explains why I probably got 20 on frq and guessed on mcq’s because of time constraints)
@instanteco same here lol. I skipped like 8 questions and had to guess cause I literally had like 3 minutes left. I think if you just were descriptive on the Frqs, you may get a 4. I felt like the Frqs were pretty easy except for the fact that I didn’t have time to finish one of them.
I found the multiple choice section of the exam to be extremely easy compared to other mock exams I had taken earlier. A lot of the questions as mentioned earlier were graphs and experiments that you had to to read and then answer questions, but i found that most of the times I didn’t have to read because the question was easily visible from the graph or it was a concept based question using the example of the experiment. The frq’s, I found the first 2 to be extremely easy, as a lot of the information was given to you in the diagrams and or was based on logical reasoning. The shorter frq’s were also logical but some presented brand new info that I had never seen before, so I was forced to make educated guesses. They also were very time consuming, I finished with 30 seconds left on the timer.
I realized that I still had to do 3 FRQs when they called 10 minutes left… I finished everything and wrote down as much as I could but don’t know how well I did. MC wasn’t too bad, though.
@akmadu, same! We barely had to use formulas or anything, which was crazy surprising.
Honestly, I didn’t feel rushed at all on either portion. I finished the MC with about 5 or 10 minutes to spare, and likewise for the FR. Did you guys get form O or E of the exam? I think my school was one of the few that got two different forms for statistical purposes and I got form O. It seems from people I’ve talked to that O was easier than E.
I found this to be a lot better than the APUSH exam. I spent like 15 minutes per on the two long responses and 10 minutes per on the rest, but I finished early so I just went back and checked. Only thing that I think I might’ve messed up on is that I thought I had to do 75 MC so I was rushing quickly and I did misread some things at first (pseudogenome question set). I was able to go back and fix some after I was done but I hope I didn’t skip over any
This is my first AP exam (I’m a sophomore), and I have mixed feelings. I finished with approximately 5-10 minutes left on each section, and I felt that the free response and multiple choice questions were very fair; however, I can see the frustration about the AP Bio exam morphing into a test similar to the ACT Science test. I agree that the test, specifically the multiple choice, should have tested prior knowledge AND ability to find correlations or notice patterns rather than either one. I almost feel that one could have taken the multiple choice section without a Biology course and pass. Any thought or feelings?
I think I messed up one of the four point FRQs :/. I may have still managed 2-3 out of the four points. If I did decently on the multiple choice and the rest of the FRQs (maybe missed a point here and there) do you think I could still get a 5?
I don’t like the new format because you really don’t have a way to prepare for it. I wish the exam consisted more of information we learned in the actual course so you didn’t have to spend as much time on one questions because you either know it or don’t. This is also one of my first AP exams and I feel like I need to pace myself in a better manner and not spend as much time on some of the questions.
So I finished all the FRQs (except one where I pretty much wrote a bunch of nonsense) but I was finishing question 2 (I already had part a and b done) and I accidentally wrote c and d on the page for question 3. I tried to rewrite them on the question 2 page but I only got half my answers rewritten when time was called. On the question 3 page I wrote that I wrote it on the wrong page, do you think they will count it because I’m pretty sure I got the c and d (q:2) part right, and I just wrote it on the wrong page. For some reason I was having problems flipping through the pages during the whole test, maybe it was just me but I think I was just nervous.
I also had a moment. I only applied one of the sealing stickers because I thought the others were extra and we were rushed. To be honest I’m 100% more worried about that than I am the actual test.
