@shiftydraw Yup I got 50%.
@shiftydraw i got 50% no idea if it was correct tho.
Hey guys this is my first post on college board
This year I changed schools and wanted to self study ap bio
I basically used the cliff notes Barron’s and bozemans science. I had a really hard time getting practice since the exam changed recently… But I did all the released frqs and tests in the back of the books, as well as the official 2012 practice exam.
Unfortunately, I didnt really get any good MC practice and didn’t have a teacher to give me old exams like I hear some people did
Anywayssssss
You can imagine how I felt after spending my whole year self studying when PRACTICALLY NOTHING I studied was on MC. I thought this was an AP exam!!! This was nothing like gov, econ, or world histor . Seems like something you would see on a ACT or SAT. grid ins were easy though, I hopefully got them all but could of missed one. I thought MC was hard though, and can’t really gauge how many I missed. It was probably anywhere between 4-12.
Thankfully I was able to use my knowledge on the frqs. Was worried about time but managed to do them all fairly thoroughly. I guess practiced helped with those.
I’m REALLLLLYYYY hoping for a 5 after all my time spent in my room studying and cramming and watching those bozeman videos. Do you think a 5 is reasonable if I did how I described? Is the bio curve different than most AP’s?
Any one else here self study?? I’m curious…
Is it possible for sunlight to stimulate stem growth too though? I didn’t explain this in my FRQ because they only asked for us to identify something, but plant stems grow toward light because the shoot tip produces the hormone auxin that helps the plant grow.
So those of you saying you had form O do you mean (O) or (OO)???
hmm im confused now haha. i probably got that question wrong. ur definitely right about plant stem elongation due to auxin, but i dont think i ever talked about that either haha. was the answer to the first part, about the part that grew the most in the first week the leaves? was it the top section that had the greatest negative slope in that first week?
@shiftydraw Oh I thought the part that grew most was the stem…
Its just the part shaded in most no?
youre probably right, i think i interpreted the graph completely wrong. but it seemed like it was asking for the max growth in the timeframe of the week. i was honsetly just confused with the graph and question overall.
I wasn’t completely sure either because I’d never seen a graph like that before. But I assumed that the amount shaded was representative of the % mass parts of the plant occupied and thus the amount of growth of those parts.
yea same thing i thought, but for that question, i interpreted it as asking the max amount of increase in growth, and wasnt sure if the roots underwent the most change.
but at the end of the first week, 80% of the mass was made up of the roots but idk
that was literally such a strange question lol
Any estimates for the score cutoffs at all? Generous curve or no? The consensus seems to be at two ends of the spectrum; some people seem to think it was ridiculously easy while some people think it was difficult.
Praying for a generous curve tbh
yea such a weird question, i think im pretty solid with all the questions besides the meiosis, which i was happy to realize that I got some points on, and this plant one. long answers seemed pretty easy.
So those of you saying you had form O do you mean (O) or (OO)???
what did you guys get for the chromosome drawing one? think i did that wrong, i put one of each chromosome in each and a pair of heterozygote alleles for both, rushed through that so much. also did the mussels one have to do with the lap94 helping to reabsorb more water? and the disperal one was able each mussel adapting to their specific salinity?
Uh, what was the limiting nutrient question? I didn’t understand those curves at all. I said that Nutrient II was the limiting one because it sustained the bacteria the longest (thus making it the most important) but I’m pretty sure I’m wrong. Does my explanation offer any validity whatsoever?
Seems like most of the discrepancies with peoples’ opinion on the difficulty is due to people having different forms. Do you think they curve each form individually, or just do one overall curve?
I’m really worried that I skipped a couple frq questions by accident. Aren’t there 8? I can only remember the topics for 6