I am really paranoid about my score because I really want the 5 on the ap bio exam
So far, I’ve been reading the forum and talking about FRQs with my friends. In the test, I had about 21 questions (2 Grid Ins I didn’t finish) that i wasn’t sure about. However, I consider questions “unsure” if I have a small tiny bit of doubt in them. I usually get more than half of my unsure questions right but I don’t know if the questions I was confident in would get marked wrong.
My questions are
Do you get a lot of the questions you felt good about wrong? If so, how many would you get wrong out of 45 confident questions?
Is it possible to get a 5 even though I got about 29-30/41 on FRQ and around 53-56/69 on my mc?
My criteria for “unsure” is not the same as yours (I probably marked only about 5 questions as unsure when I took AP Bio yesterday). With those I can definitely narrow it down to 2 options and guess with 60-70% confidence. However sometimes I get questions wrong that I DID felt confident about from misinterpreting the question or a silly mistake.
You are right on the borderline I’d say. Yes it’s possible to get a 5 although you could very well get a 4. However you do not know your exact numbers and you won’t really know how you did until you see your score online.
FYI guys, think of this logically… if they took off 10 experimental questions that you possibly have gotten right, that’s unfair. The test is out of 69 QUESTIONS not 59. So please, they will give you all the points possible.
I think apcalculator makes the curve seem too generous, since it says we only need a 60% to get a 5 but i’m pretty sure it’s like 80%
I think those scores are still in the 5 range though with http://appass.com/calculators/biology
@gkdudtlffj I don’t think it’s fair either but I’m pretty sure they’re not going to let you get over a hundred after throwing out experimental questions, which would probably be the case for a lot of people if they got most of the experimental questions right
why would they take off 10 experimental questions? it just doesn’t make sense. and it seems like many people would have gotten those correct. so that is very unfair. it would be fair if we still got the points even if the question wasn’t counted.
@peachypo101 if they gave us the points even if question wasn’t counted, and there was 10 questions they did that for, it would mean a 10 point curve for a 69 point mc test, which is way too generous lol. That would mean you could get over 100 on the mc section, which I’m certain they would not let us do
@neehal120 what if someone theoretically gets all the of non experimental questions correct and then gets some if not all of the experimental questions correct. They would have greater than 100% correct.
There was a kid who was texting on his phone during the test. The proctor confiscated his phone, kicked him out of the test, and sent a report to the CollegeBoard. Since this all occurred during the test, do you think my test will still get invalidated???
@greeneggsandsam9 Probably not since the proctor took appropriate action. If the proctor ignored it and details arose later, you would be in trouble of having your score cancelled.
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It wouldn’t make sense that they would give you points for experimental questions you got right. I guess it would be as if they were never there. I’m just going off of logic, though…
Well I think it is that it increases the total amount of questions you have so say Somone gets all of them wrong and they got 5 of the real ones wrong then they would have 53/58 however if someone gets all of the experimental right and 5 of the real ones wrong then they get 64/69 so they have a better percentage and therefore benefit where as the other person is not hurt by getting a 53/69
I personally thought that mc was easier than the sample questions… was it just me??
Feel like that I messed up on the free response… hoping for a 75% on free response.
It’s not that complicated. Your MC/grid in score is out of 58. Experimental don’t count period. Getting all 69 right is a 58. Getting all but the 11 experimental right is still a 58.
@pillowspillows also that means you are saying that people that spend time on the experimental questions and get them right and people that don’t spend any time on the experiential questions and get them wrong both are neither rewarded nor punished for their performance on those questions. How is that fair for people spending large amounts of time on the experimental questions?
