<p>which ap courses don't require word problems or essays but alot of memorization.</p>
<p>none. why do so many people ask this?</p>
<p>Bio is a lot of memorization, but to really understand it, a knowledge of physics and chemistry is useful. You can't avoid essays. Seriously people, if you have trouble with a certain type of question, practice! Don't try to go through life avoiding it.</p>
<p>Bio and the histories (especially world; the others are more narrow in their subject field) have the most memorization.</p>
<p>Bio does not need any understanding of physics whatsoever and a general knowledge of chemistry (particularly organic molecule makeups and hydrogen-bonding in water).</p>
<p>THE BAD NEWS:The AP Bio class and exam both have free response.
THE GOOD NEWS:You can get a 5 on the AP Bio exam without even doing the free response. You need to do well on the MC questions to get a 5 without doing free response questions.</p>
<p>I know this because we took an actual AP practice exam in AP bio and graded it with the AP scale. We took this test (only MC) before even discussing embryology and other subjects and I still got a 5 even if there were FR questions and I skipped them by accident. What also, helped was that our teacher told us which questions we shouldn't have been able to answer, so I didn't answer them (answering wrong counts AGAINST you). We still graded the exam as if those MC questions were part of your grade and there were free response questions.</p>
<p>That's interesting.
The AP Biology multiple choice counts for 60% of the total score right? So getting 60% can = a 5?
I also heard that writing wrong information doesn't count against you because the AP graders reward you for correct information.</p>
<p>I got 94/116 questions correct and I answered about 102 questions adn that was a 5 without even having to take the FR's.</p>
<p>AP tests have big curves.</p>
<p>That is correct, AP graders reward for correct info and don't take off for false information. Any good AP Bio teacher will go over the FR rubric with you at least once.</p>
<p>Look, seriously, you can't avoid essay questions. But, practice does make perfect. The Collegeboard has at least 5 previous FRs from almost every exam, so there isn't anything keeping you from practicing.</p>
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I got 94/116 questions correct and I answered about 102 questions adn that was a 5 without even having to take the FR's.</p>
<p>AP tests have big curves.</p>
<p>That is correct, AP graders reward for correct info and don't take off for false information. Any good AP Bio teacher will go over the FR rubric with you at least once.
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<p>impossible, that would mean that you scored around 92/116 *60% which is like 47%, thats DEFINETLY not a five, maybe a four , most lkely a three but no way is it a five, you have to at least do SOME of the essays, if u just BS u could easily get like half credit and then get a five ....
Theres noway u can get a five without essays btw.UNLESS: The test was so hard that the curve was like 60% or a bit less(usually its around 65% or higher) which is highly unlikly ..AND : you score all the MC right. which is impossible (Especially since if the test was that hard you wouldnt be scoring that high)</p>
<p>Btw: The test is now out of 100 Questions, the old format was out of 120, just thought id point out that..</p>
<p>Good point.</p>
<p>However, no one else post anything else in this thread ever again, because it's completely useless.</p>
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<p>If this is true, it gives you a raw score of 92. The 2002 released exam had 119 questions scored, so that probably isn't the correct test, but let's use that scale for an example.</p>
<p>Raw score of 92 x .7563 = scaled score of 70, which is the cutoff for a 4. A scaled score of 69 would earn a 3. </p>
<p>In order to earn a 5 with a MC scaled score of 70, you would need to boost your scaled score to 91 (in 2002). You would need to earn a raw score of 14 on the essay x 1.5 to receive 21 additional scaled points. The mean raw score on the essays for 2002 was 12.7, so you would have to be better than average by two points or so. As there is a relatively high correlation between performance on the two points, it's a good bet with a 70 on MC you would do better than average on the CR.</p>
<p>And that's the way it works.</p>
<p>So... no essays, no 5.</p>
<p>Hmm.. I'm gonna have to go back and check the scale again. I'd also like to point out, that I got the second highest score in the class. we took it before doing several chapters (endocrine, animal development, nervous, animal reproduction, etc.).</p>
<p>Is a 94/116 good with about 14 questions unanswered?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the confusion I may have caused.</p>
<p>Oh and this was the 1999 exam.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I got a 5 on that test if it were real. You guys were talking about the 2002 test. The 1999 test has a different curve and I checked my score several times when I calculated my score. I don't remember how many questions I answered, just that I skipped around 10 but got 94 correct.</p>