<p>YAY I GOT A 50 FOR REAL!</p>
<p>I’ve heard similar rumors that they determine the cutoff before the tests are actually distributed … something about guessing which questions will trip up students the most, idk
But, again, 0 confirm from legit source, so nobody knows</p>
<p>re: open cutoffs - are they actually that low all the time??? I keep hearing people say, it’s usually 40s, last year (27) was a big fluke, etc etc
Did I mishear??? Are the cutoffs usually so low - 20s, 30s? </p>
<p>Highest one in the past 5 years I believe was 29. Who says it’s usually 40s? That’s ridiculous. </p>
<p>wat :V
My worries are significantly assuaged. </p>
<p>also re: open cutoffs again, if they actually look at data to determine cutoffs, ChessNBio has a point. There’s so few potential students who got answers off the thread in such a huge pool of test-takers, and also when you consider the relatively small number of questions discussed … like yeah if you posted answers you should definitely still go back and edit your post (if it’s possible) to excise the answers, but it’s not going to be as colossal of a wrecker as we’re making it out to be. </p>
<p>I honestly think that this thing with people seeing answers on CC happens every year. I don’t get why you guys are so stressed about people seeing answers, cause they probably did the same thing last year and the year before</p>
<p>last year cutoff was 25, and yeah, cutoffs are generally high twenties. The highest score usually is a 40-something, though</p>
<p>well this year it will be me, with a 50.</p>
<p>Best of luck to @greenbat and everyone else on the forum. I for one would not be surprised if people pulled really high scores this year - there are a lot of really really smart people out there, and this test was relatively conducive to scores in the low to mid 40s. </p>
<p>@greenbat23 you silly goose, you ehhe heeh bio is making me sad :(</p>
<p>why? i can help you out.</p>
<p>greenbat and sciencechamp, help me out with your ingenuity since you guys can get near-perfect scores on the open exam. Why does replication require a primer but transcription doesn’t? Why is a replication process requiring a primer essential to the survivorship of an organism? What are the mechanisms involved in de novo methylation, methylation maintanece, and demethylayion? How are these mechanisms different? Please ask your genius friends too since “Both my friendS and I think we got a 43+”. I also want an “official clarification” from sciencechamp on the ridiculously easy questions you posted earlier. What was your purpose? And how my posts “give a hint of racism”?</p>
<p>Greenbat, I’m sorry but biology is not all about memorization. It’s just that you don’t know what bio is.</p>
<p>let’s just drop it, cheesebro. We can wait until after scores come out</p>
<p>also, why are primers essential for survival? Just wondering cuz I have no clue lol</p>
<p>@CheeseBro calm down lol</p>
<p>Your DNA can’t divide without primers?</p>
<p>sorry, I meant why a replication process that requires a primer essential to the survival. Why wouldn’t a replication process without a primer (assuming a made-up DNA polymerase that can directly add nucleotides) be fine as well?</p>
<p>im p sure if there were a dna polymerase that could add nucleotides directly we wouldn’t need primers at all. 
cheese’s question seems to operate on the model we have today that there exists no such dna polymerase.</p>
<p>also dude greenbat and sciencechamp clearly are trolls let’s just wait for results like actually</p>
<p>ok, thanks for the clarification :)</p>
<p>The extra hydroxyl in the primer supplies DNA Pol with a recognition site to begin replication. </p>