How was AP Biology?

<p>ya i thought it was really hard.</p>

<p>i thought it was medium...well easier than calc bc for me</p>

<p>i hope the the curve is very nice</p>

<p>for FRQ, what's a good length for answer? I wrote about 1/3 to 1/2 for each sub question (like 1a) or 1b))...is that normal? more? too little?</p>

<p>For those seniors suffering from senioritis (like my D who is in the process of doing it), and who have been at the point of not caring anymore, I hope this test isn't going to be a complete disaster. Yikes.</p>

<p>lol see this was the epitome of my LAST big test in high school as I have become afflicted with senioritis BUT we still have to take final exams since some teacher's don't know HOW TO PLAN correctly :/</p>

<p>in compared to last 3-4 years, I believe today's MC was the hardest and the FRQ's were average/ some ppl may have felt unprepared for some of the topics</p>

<p>I thought the FRQs weren't that bad... I saw the first one and was like "yes!" b/c that was the only thing i remembered from the beginning period of the class. Then i got to 3 & 4 and parts of those made me go -_-.... Otherwise, I thought the MC was a lot easier than the 2008 audit.</p>

<p>Is this CURVE accurate AT ALL? someone posted it on the thread for AP exams curve...I thought u need 70% to get a 5?</p>

<p>AP Bio:
5: 60.7%
4: 46.6%
3: 34.8%
2: 21.4%
1: 0-21%</p>

<p>yeah, 60% is about right...in cliffs, it's 61%</p>

<p>There is no argument here. The MCs were hard and the FR was hard as well. I compared this with all the last 8 years and no argument here. I think the curve is going to drop to 55% for a '5' and a 45% for a '4'.</p>

<p>If they use the bell shaped curve, it is going to be a right-skew. No kidding. There may be some lucky people here and there, but overall sentiment is very sour and negative. I am used to getting '5' in all the practice exams. I am hopeful that I can get a '4', but need one extra help from the curve 'GOD' to get a 5.</p>

<p>JAY</p>

<p>oh god i hope it's 55% for a 5.
oh well, at least i'm done with that :D </p>

<p>now psych and human geography left D:</p>

<p>whats the 2008 audit??</p>

<p>OH MY GOD. IT WAS AWFUL. I am hoping for a three, seriously. It was so bad.</p>

<p>Our teacher did not prepare us at ALL. We didn't know anything about anything about the blood/hemoglobin questions, or net productivity, or anything. I am so angry that we weren't prepared...</p>

<p>We were well-prepared; my teacher really knows what she's doing. Last year, the average score in her class was 4.4 or something.</p>

<p>Some of my FRQs got a little BS-y, but I still knew enough to throw around the right terms and vague descriptions.</p>

<p>Haha, with the exception of two of them, my FQRs were utter bull, completely wrong. I'm glad that section is worth 40% and not the 60%.</p>

<p>whats the 2008 audit?</p>

<p>The Collegeboard asked AP teachers to fill out an audit, which is basically a syllabus but a lot longer and more in depth, to make sure that the teachers were actually doing what they were supposed to do, since there were a lot of classes that were called AP, but weren't at that level for some reason. This year, the teachers that filled the audit and passed received a practice test from the Collegeboard, and this is what everyone is talking about.</p>

<p>I didn't think it was that bad, but it's only because our teacher gave us "practice" tests that were RIDICULOUSLY hard, so compared to those...</p>

<p>With the MC you either knew it or you didn't. Not alot of thought, just alot of remembering...<em>brain hurts</em></p>

<p>BTW, what was UP with #2 on the FR? Did anybody else cover that???</p>

<p>^ Haha yea, our class JUST did that... except, my group split it up so I didn't do any work related to it =/ So I totally made stuff up...</p>

<p>"If a person leaves 30 blank, and get 10-15 wrong on MC, what will be the MC score for that person?</p>

<p>I think I did decent about 25 pts on FRQ and probably more...? so what is that for FRQ score? and overall score?"</p>

<p>Assuming the worst case scenarios and you got 15 wrong on the MC, your score is about 60.089. With 25 FRQ points, thats about 37.5. Altogether that's 97.589 (65%), which should be a 5. So I wouldn't worry about it.</p>

<p>I did'nt find it that hard so i'm thinking a 5.. mc was easier than frq</p>