OMG I got a 3! I studied so much for this exam but when I took it I wrote one of my FRQs on the wrong page so I thought for sure I didn’t pass but I guess they maybe gave it to me anyway! Congrats to everyone that passed, I’m happy about my 3 so you should be really happy if you got a 4 because thats pretty great and so is getting a 5 that amazing!
UGH. 3. Why do I only get 3’s on my AP exams?! :((
Argh! Is anybody else having trouble viewing their AP scores(In Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming at 7 a.m. CDT / 6 a.m. MDT / 5 a.m. PDT)? I’ve checked everything about 10 times… May have to wait until tomorrow @ 8:00 am EDT…
Well. Congratulations everyone on this years hard work. 
If you are an incoming freshman, take note of our pain and learn from us.
If you are in high school, hopefully you can participate in more AP’s.
If you are going college, hope you have a great life and enjoy the rest of your days.
If you are a cat, #GitGudNoob
@cavern101 couldn’t have said it any better.
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming region checking in.
D got a 5, she studied all of Barron’s and about 10% of Cliff’s…
Guy from Oregon, here.
I got a 5 on mine, and used the Pearson Biology In Focus book coupled with the Holtzclaw/Holtzclaw study guide for that book. I was pleasantly surprised, actually; I may have to owe it to my MC answers, but I cant be sure. (I didnt even answer FRQ’s 7 & 8!)
Got a 3… Really disappointed, thought that I got a 4 or 5. Accidentally used pencil on the free response and I think that cost me a bit. Oh well… I wish that the administrator actually did her job and checked that people were doing it correctly. Bleh.
Got a 5!
Had form E, thought the MC and FRQs were ridiculously simple, but then again I had an impossible school year (ended up with a B in class). We were hammered with Campbell’s textbook throughout the school year (it was our class’s bible). Tbh, I thought a lot of Campbell was pretty irrelevant for the exam itself, but helped to understand bio in general. Reviewed by skimming through Barron’s (couldn’t finish Cliffsnotes, too dry for my liking). The MC just takes stamina to read all those words, you don’t need to recall much Bio info, they provide most of what you need for you, it’s more conceptual. I think I got lucky with my FRQs, getting form E. I think the Barron’s overview helped with that a bit.
After a year of Bio, I received a 5 that I am proud of.
MC like most was too easy, I was surprised that there were problems that you were not given a stimulus, and were just fact-based questions. Fortunately, these were simple which organelle is responsible for XYZ.
The numerical questions were also a breeze once you realized there were some that didnt ask for a specific calculation but was more like a MC.
On the other hand the FRQs, DO NOT PANIC, I panicked for a brief 10 minutes in the beginning, which slowed me down, but I got back into the zone and resume the responses. The trick is to not let the terminology deceive you, you know this cause you got this. I used a mix of Barron’s and CliffNotes, both which helped very well.
Fortunately, they did not cover Plants and Reproduction, because that would have killed us. Simple Biology is the key.
@Jason63 Haha I totally agree with the plants/reprod comment…I think I might’ve cried if I saw that (7 chapters in campbell for plants alone -.-’)
@zenith99 Thank gosh my Bio teacher did not make us read that entire book. Barron’s was our textbook, and I can say that Barron’s itself can qualify as its own textbook. 
(Plus in class we did not have time to reach reproduction, but spent weeks on plants, most tests on plats, I did not do so well)
what is cc?
@collegeinspired In what context? I mean, generally on this site it stands for college confidential, I take it.
ie “Barron’s was not helpful, but cc was” or something to that extent.
Anyway, it appears this was the wrong thread… I’m looking for the ap bio for this year…
Hey, I’m a 10th grader with no basic biology or honor biology background. I have an A in my AP bio class. As far as the Hardy-Weinberg equation goes, how important is it that I know how to use it for you that got 5’s? Also, how important is biochemistry? We’re doing biochemistry right now, and I wanted to know if making sure I know the molarity and molecular mass is worth it? Basically, where should my main focus be right now?
What did the AP multiple choice questions consist of for you guys?
@Friolero First off, I think you’re panicking a lot really early in the year 
Relax, my friend
Second, the mc is less content based in that they give you all the required information but you have to analyze it/apply it//find the right answer based on that. Yes, it helps to know the underlying principles—that’s what the course is for—but it certainly isn’t panic-worthy (it just takes some stamina).
For the grid-ins, you should be able to do the mathematical bio concepts. Hardy-Weinberg almost always comes up, and you really should know how to do that easily.
The content actually comes into play for the FRQs. Molarity and molecular mass though is really unimportant for bio…that’s more of a chem thing. Biochem in general isn’t as important as the other stuff for the exam (imo).
Your main focus should (I think) be to start working on your FRQs, which helps because it helps review concepts too (in addition to having 1/2 the weight on the exam, if I recall correctly).
@zenith99 What is biochemistry came up for you?
TBH, biochemistry came up quite a bit, but not in the way ur going about. There were 0 questions about molarity and molar mass and all that. What came up was stuff about the properties of water, hydrophilic vs hydrophobic and how it relates to cell membrane. There might have some stuff about how polarity affects hydrophilic and hydrophobic but thats about as far as u go in biochem.
Actually, water and polymers is all that’s tested in biochem according to CB.