<p>i just bought the sparknotes powerpack for ap biology and it says that to get a 5 you need about 86 out of 150 points, but this seems really low. can anyone confirm if this is actually the scale?</p>
<p>Well I doubt it would be so low, but you must remember that 57% also includes the 0.25 point error on each question gotten wrong. If you take this into account the percentage is higher but I can't give you an exact number because I don't know the % of MC questions in the test (0.25 penalty is only for MC).</p>
<p>But if I were you, I would aim for 70% with the MC penalty.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's around 65% or higher.</p>
<p>i have the ap bio exam coming up, you can do all the multiple choice and not do any essays and still get a 5, so 57% sounds feasible.</p>
<p>Doesn't it say the test aims for roughly a 50% on multiple choice questions? (I may be thinking of gov there though.) If so, does that mean for a 3 or a 5 or what?</p>
<p>Amit. How sure are you that you do not do any essays and u can get a 5. My teacher said that if you dont write something on any four essays.. you end up with a 1.. no matter if u aced the multiple choice.. </p>
<p>jonathan.</p>
<p>Well, your teacher is wrong.</p>
<p>One more question.. do ap bio mc questions ever repeat on AP tests?</p>
<p>yeah they do, but not the released questions.</p>
<p>The 100 MC questions count as 60% of the total AP score. Technically, you can get enough points from the MC to score a 5, but (a) that assumes you get a perfect score (no skipped questions, no wrong answers) and (b) it's borderline whether that will be enough points to get a 5 (the curve varies from year to year). There is nothing in the college board literature that says a student is automatically given a 1 if they don't answer the essays - everything I've seen indicates grades are based purely on points earned. There may be an unpublished policy that only the college board and the graders know?</p>
<p>LOL, I'd never take the test if that were the scoring ranges. >_></p>
<p>my ap bio teacher grades some of the essays for the collegeboard. The MC questions are 60% of your grade, and you only need 57% to get a 5. </p>
<p>Not doing the essays will not automatically give you a 1, since the AP Bio essays only add points to your score. Also, whatever you write on the essay cannot deduct points, the essays just add more points to your final grade. </p>
<p>Consider them grid-in questions on the SAT, - they have the same purpose, to just "add" more to your score, because the collegeboard knows the AP Bio test covers A LOT of material, and they can't possibly test you on ALL of it, so thats why the 57% range is allotted.</p>
<p>The thing you must study is Ecology unit for AP Biology, since 10% of the MC questions are guaranteed to be from Ecology. If you have the Campbell / Reece book, this is chapters 51 - 59</p>
<p>Just took a practice test and got about 80% with the .25 pt. penalty on the multiple choice, and I got all the points on the essays. Does that get me a 5? If it does thats insane because I have not studied AT ALL.</p>
<p>at least i was told so.</p>