**OFFICIAL** 2013-2014 AP Biology Thread

<p>hey guys, for the ectotherm/endotherm one, would you get credit for part b on the graph even if you said the wrong thing?</p>

<p>for example, if you said endotherm and graphed the endotherm, would you get points for a correct graph?</p>

<p>I’m asking because I know in chemistry if you don’t know part a or b you can just make up an answers and use that to solve all the other parts and get credit for everything but part a</p>

<p>i’ve literally had form O for everything… chem, calc, and now bio… great.</p>

<p>i think you would be fine @Remembrance</p>

<p>@catheriney2004 Nope, mine was about enzymes, nerves, mitochondria, dominant alleles…it really wasn’t that difficult. This is weird, have they usually had multiple FR forms for the national test date?</p>

<p>There were different forms? I had O as well. Do you guys know if and which MC questions arent counted?</p>

<p>i took the ap bio test last year as well and on the FR last year there were a lot more biological “big idea” concepts… like this year you didn’t even need to know bio to do well on the test… the FR was mostly predicting the outcomes or experimental design… wayyy too many graphs and tables though (a lot like ACT - except more tedious and longer and less straightforward)</p>

<p>it seems like form o was probably the most common/hardest since I had form O and i recognize all the questions posted.</p>

<p>@heptagirl‌ Okay thanks for the response…well at least I know there was at least one other person who got a different form in general. I have a friend who got what she thought was the international exam last year, and her questions were totally different from those of other test takers. I’m just hoping that I did well since it didn’t seem bad (except the FR was so pressing in terms of time).</p>

<p>This test really did seem like a souped up version of the ACT science section. I think that’s good…I got a 36 on that ish two years ago</p>

<p>Form E (I think that’s what I had) was honestly quite easy, in comparison to all of the sample essay prompts I’ve read. There were a few parts to the questions that stumped me, but for the most part it was very basic and didn’t require very much in-depth background knowledge. (Certainly nothing specific like immune system defense or anything like that.) I’m not sure if I should feel worried or not now!</p>

<p>Okay if anyone at all had Form D I’d really appreciate a shoutout haha.</p>

<p>form D. Did anyone have the question about breast cancer? I’m not sure about the ethical one </p>

<p>@catheriney2004 i had form d too! anyone else in the minority who had form d who wants to discuss it should go here <a href=“Live video chat rooms, simple and easy. - Tinychat”>Live video chat rooms, simple and easy. - Tinychat;

<p>Ethical was the insurance company… Form O frq= ridiculous
I did three lines for the graph, dont see how everyone did a bar graph???
Also i screwed up the proposal on how to fix the roided plant… any ideas on that?
Also what did you guys but on how variation would be created in the genetically modified fruit fly?</p>

<p>It said to graph the mean with standard error…so doing all the points wouldn’t work. </p>

<p>you were only supposed to graph the means, not each plant for each population. only a bar graph or a scatterplot made sense</p>

<p>to fix GMO you could make them sterile </p>

<p>a lot of things could create variation, i put crossing over</p>

<p>I know that you were not supposed to graph all the plants… i made a line for each confidence interval with a point representing the center…, also for the variation, would a transcription error work?</p>

<p>i said the splicing of introns in the mRNA</p>

<p>I said for the genetic variation that the fixing of errors may create new proteins because you are fixing mutations and possibly making new genotypes…I was half bs-ing…for the crops I said that they could keep some normal plants in to increase variation and to provide some food or else the insect population would completely die and could effect other animals as well. </p>

<p>does the curve differ depending on test form or is it all the same? bc some say some forms are easier while some are harder</p>