<p>@lucaria1 Sorry I just meant this one: <a href=“AP Biology Review | AP Practice Exams”>http://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-biology</a> I don’t know why I said apcentral, I was probably thinking about something else</p>
<p>@ThePariah basically those investigations should have been the labs done in your AP class. You won’t be specifically tested on the labs but you should know the concepts outlined in those investigations. Also, they really help with forming your labs when answering the FRQs.
Seems like mostly everyone’s using the Barron’s book, including me. Hopefully it will suffice for this exam.</p>
<p>Yea my teacher didn’t do anything about those…hahahaa lame,</p>
<p>Woah, AP Biology! I’m definitely not ready for the AP exam.</p>
<p>Hey guys…?? um… after the 2013 change… it seems like you don’t really have to write “essays” per say, on the frqs anymore… like the 2013 released frq questions… none of them seemed like they would take a page to answer (even the long ones)… is that right?? or am i underestimating things???</p>
<p>From the practice questions I’ve done, they seem more like short response questions.
<a href=“https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/biology/ap-2013-biology-free-response-questions.pdf”>https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/biology/ap-2013-biology-free-response-questions.pdf</a></p>
<p>I just took a practice exam for the new format at school (distributed by college board to ap teachers) and I actually did pretty decent on the multiple choice (73%) even though I know almost nothing. The questions seemed to just be about interpreting hypothetical experiments and data. However, the grid-ins were kind of challenging. Gotta brush up on chi-square. Did anyone else take the new practice exam and feel the same way?</p>
<p>Hello everyone! From what everyone has said about last year’s exam, it looks like there’s not much prep you can do for the MC. I’m really worried about the FRQ’s. Did the style of the FRQ’s change with the new exam format? And if they did, does anyone have sample FRQ questions or know what topics they would most likely cover? </p>
<p>Should I skip animal development and reproduction IN my prep book. I have no time for it!!</p>
<p>I think you should always expect one or two calculation ones like I think there is almost always a population genetics one(p squared + q squared +2pq stuff)</p>
<p>We took last year’s AP Biology exam in class a couple of weeks ago and to be honest the multiple choice wasn’t too bad. There were a fair amount of questions about embryology and all the other topics were covered lightly but the questions themselves weren’t too hard. The passage questions were also pretty easy but I blew one of the passages and missed 3 of the 4 questions they asked on that passage. I also did forget most of the calculations on the grid-in questions so that was bad.</p>
<p>As far as the FRQs, I would say that’s the hardest part because that’s when the rote memorization comes in. The first FRQ was actually fairly difficult but the rest of the questions asked are fairly simple when I think about it.</p>
<p>Overall, I got 39 out of 53 on the multiple choice, 2 out of 5 on the grid-in, and 26 out of 41 on the FRQs which was a raw score of about 67, good for a 4 with last year’s raw scoring. I would say that’s pretty decent seeing as though I didn’t study for it.</p>
<p>I would just say that as long as you can get the gist of the paragraphs they write in there and you have a general enough knowledge of biology to apply concepts to those paragraphs then you’ll be fine because all the other biology questions not related to paragraphs are very easy. You should definitely have a general knowledge of some of the more famous labs in biology, such as the protein injection into embryos. Make sure you know the formulas for the grid-ins and as far as FRQs again just make sure you understand what they’re asking before you try to answer the question and hopefully you’ll have a general enough understanding of biology concepts to answer those questions.</p>
<p>I’m currently using the CliffsNotes book to study for the 2014 exam. Also if you have the time I would suggest reading the book “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin. It helped a lot answering some of the evolutionary based questions on the exam and it also addressed embryology.</p>
<p>@reddyr17 Wait you can retake AP exams? o_0
Also thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>@DaneBrick I didn’t take the College Board organized exam last year. My biology teacher got her hands on last’ year’s exam somehow and she gave it to us to take. She didn’t let us keep it, it was more of a diagnostic test for us.</p>
<p>Also if you want a practice exam this is the one released by the College Board.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/davideidem/files/ap%20biology%20practice%20exam_effective%20fall%202012.pdf”>http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/davideidem/files/ap%20biology%20practice%20exam_effective%20fall%202012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Wait how come your test had 53 questions and 5 grid ins? The practice test has 63 mc and 6 grid ins?</p>
<p>@cheesy18 its bc 10 mc and 1 grid in questions did not count for grading</p>
<p>Just did the practice exam. the grid in questions are easy but there is so much reading in the MC and I didn’t have time to finish a 5 questions passage. It surprised me so much, since I did not study at all before the exam and I thought I am gonna fail it. but I don’t think study will make any difference since its all about comprehension and critical thinking. The new exam is taking a whole new approach and its no longer knowledge based. You do not have to know anything about details of human physiology, photosynthesis or cellular respiration</p>
<p>@sjz1997 what were the frq’s on?</p>
<p>@DaneBrick haven’t taken the frq yet but I heard that part is pure memorization </p>
<p>less than 2 weeks left ! im freaking out already… i feel so unprepared…! I feel like my teacher did not cover everything… and since i live outside the US, its almost impossible to get hands on review books… I only have the PR book… is it helpful??</p>
<p>i recently took some frqs and yea… u have to know everything for those</p>