@AnniiT I quessed 8 mc and rushed 4 grid in because no time. I’m hoping something landed lol
@TopOne Same here lol the grid ins were not hard at all but I didn’t know what one of them was asking so I just randomly added numbers together. I wish they put actual math so it was more direct what they wanted. For example, they should have included “rate of change”, “hardy-Weinberg” and things of that nature because we practiced so much of that during class.
No. Just the questions.
pretty surprised that frq didn’t ask any insane water potential questions, graphing or pedigree construction. I think the long response from previous years were complex and confusing. (opinions)
@TopOne I thought last year’s practice exam was much easier than the one we just took. Of course, this is my opinion.
@AnniiT I agree with you. This year’s free response was a bit obscure. There were some that were easy though.
I think I got lucky because I happened to watch videos on aerobic respiration, nervous system, cells and immune system. I honestly had an unclear concept of those units last week.
How did you do on the first free response, though. All of us should discuss the answers tomorrow when collgeboard posts the test.
@ChemFire085 If you have seen the rubric from previous exams, they literally give points for the most basic answers. Don’t worry about it too much. Like if I remember correctly, if you just predicted a result (doesn’t matter if it sounds stupid), they give you points. It’s the MC I’m scared about because it’s either right or wrong.
Thanks @AnniiT. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see until July or whenever the scores come out.
we took the 2014 exam as our practice and final exam and i thought that the multiple choice last year was way harder than this year’s
MC wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Many of the possibilities could be ruled out by process of elimination with just a little bit of understanding of each topic in question. Grid-ins were ridiculously easy! I was prepared for Hardy-Weinburg, Chi-square and others to take a long time. Thanks, CollegeBoard! @AnniiT I agree; the response can nearly be anything … the result has to be explained and reasonable, or at least logical (which makes sense). One thing never ceases to annoy me; so little of what is learned during the year is applicable during the test. And i’m a nerd about biology.
@microversal but still, for the mc, you had to at least read the experiments and interpret information in a quick manner beforehand because you have no idea what the choices mean prior to reading the given information. Personally, I’m better at content based questions because you move in a fast manner (you know it or you don’t) and it’s all information that you learned in class and nothing new. I think the grid-ins were easy, but I personally felt like 1 or 2 of them weren’t straightforward with what they wanted (maybe because I was reading fast and ran out of time).
@AnniiT Very true. I personally find comfort in the fact of “right or wrong” for one big reason, and its obvious but it makes sense to me. Three of the four possible answers MUST be wrong, therefore there must be something all of those three wrong answers that is either ( i ) completely wrong or ( i ) slightly wrong. If it asks for the ‘most likely’ phenomenon, then answer with either the least specific, or the least conditional (the one that assumes the least about the situation). The question provides everything you need to know besides some background knowledge and some logic (in my opinion). I’m alright with content based, but I tend to overthink the obvious in favor of the first, more complicated hypothetical answer that I come up with.
This test was dumb in my opinion. No hardy-weinberg, no chi square, no water potential, NOTHING that we spent the most time on. I honestly think the test writers were being “weird” (if you guys know what I mean) by adding that tropism question with the tip.
@RoadtotheIvies98 That question was a model from an experiment done by, I believe Darwin and his son (don’t quote me on that) however it did show some main ideas of the concept of plant hormones and signaling. I agree, I wish such questions had been included, so we could actually demonstrate the things we learned
HELP I accidentally wrote the FRQ with pencil instead of pen and now I’m really worried that the markers won’t be able to read it 
I did press hard and write big though, do you guys think it’ll be okay? omg
But on the exam overall I thought the MC was pretty easy, FRQ definitely harder and crunched for time.
@jc6687 I’m pretty sure you’ll be fine, it’s not that big of a deal.
Are the scoring guidelines posted with the free response questions tomorrow?
No it isn’t. That is posted when AP graders congregate and create a rubric