Ap biology curve

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>AP just announced that 5% of the people who took the AP Bio test got a 5. This is a HUGE decrease from last year because last year's was 19.7%.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any guess about what the curve was for the test? It was a newly constructed framework so no one knew what to expect.. Do you think the percent needed for a 5 is 60%? 65? 70? >80???</p>

<p>Also they balanced about the exam format so the multiple choice is 50% and FRQS is 50%. AP said that everybody did good on multiple choice but it was FRQS which prevented them from getting a 5.</p>

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<p>Can you give me the link to this announcement?</p>

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<p>The announcement is on Twitter @ap_trevor, the head of CB’s AP program.</p>

<p>I don’t think the curve was higher than any previous years at all. 50% of people earned 0 points on each of 3 FRQs and the average on the grid-ins was 36%.</p>

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<p>im taking the new chem next year :frowning: wish me luck hope its not bad like bio</p>

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<p>There’s a new chem? uh oh.</p>

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<p>It’s been gutted. I wouldn’t worry too much about changes in difficulty :)</p>

<p>To be a bit more accurate, they’ve taken out:
-quantum numbers (what???)
-hybridization (I can live with this)
-phase diagrams
-colligative properties of electrolytes
-Lewis acid/base concept (it’s assumed as preliminary knowledge, what?)
-Nernst equation (you’ve got to be kidding me at this point)
-computing the change in pH when an acid/base is added to a buffer solution (this is just ridiculous)
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<p>All in all, I’m glad I took the AP Chemistry exam last year. At the very least, molecular orbital theory has been reinstated.</p>

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<p>^don’t forget reactions and solubility rules</p>

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<p>okay thanks. yeah makes sense why I wouldn’t have heard of it then.</p>

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<p>I’m crying (on the inside) about this Chemistry stuff…
I was the TA and the teacher spent considerable amounts of time on all of these concepts and that was my life, grading these things. That was my high school life :’(
Reaction quizzes, we’d have them every week and I got to write a death quiz this year…</p>

<p>Maybe this says something… As I go off to college and likely take introductory Chemistry next year, I just wonder, if it’d be anything like AP Chem in high school.</p>

<p>(But I’ll admit the new course looks pretty cool! Compared to the sometimes simplistic/memory old one)</p>

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<p>Back to the main topic: the AP Bio Curve</p>

<p>I know college board tries to make the average score a 3, but they don’t curve to much, such as in AP Chinese, where there average is like a 4.47 or more</p>

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<p>Mean score this year was 2.27 :(</p>

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<p>Getting a 5 on the AP Bio exam is harder than getting into Stanford.</p>

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<p>Perhaps, but I’d assume that the percentage of people who get into Stanford have more competition/work compared to getting a 5 on AP Biology</p>

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<p>This is soo dumb. AP should know theres something unfair or just a problem in general if the percentage who got a 5 drops to 5% from 20%!</p>

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I hope this wasn’t a serious statement. . . The average Stanford applicant >>>> the average AP Biology student

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<p>I like this, actually. It’s nice to know that they aren’t handing out 5s on a guilded platter, and if anything you can settle for a 4. It’ll amount to more motivation for me when I take AP Biology next year :)</p>