<p>IMO of course... i wont tell u the questions tho cuz thats against the rule and plus i dont want u to have an unfair advantage lol</p>
<p>correction : anyoen who has a good teacher in ap bio</p>
<p>my teacher puts out classes of 4's and 5's every year she says so i hope i dont break her trend</p>
<p>It was a gift!</p>
<p>does anyone know when/if they post the rubric for the essays on collegeboard?</p>
<p>I enjoyed the MC; definately nailed #1 on the FR. But #3... wasn't expecting it.</p>
<p>It's basically about how much time you put into the class. My AP Biology teacher was not good to say the least...she often skipped talking about molecular and enzymatic interactions because she herself didn't understand them. Also, we were only up to about chapter 38 in Campbell's with 2 weeks to go.</p>
<p>Luckily, I planned for this, read and taught myself, and thought the test was easy today.</p>
<p>The MC was pretty straightforward, knowledge based questions with only a few real trick ones. The labs in MC were alright, most paralleled what we had done in class. Also, the matching descriptions were really, really easy. I can't see myself getting less than a 75% on this section.</p>
<p>FRQ was for a bit tougher than MC in my opinion. The first question was simple, but the second one was a bit vague and I didn't have as much outside info. The first two parts of third were relatively easy, I had trouble with part c, but only cause i didn't know specifics. And...thank you for question 4, I know most of the details and vocabulary words for the question.</p>
<p>Overall, I hopefully got the 5 I studied for and need for credit, :), but also knock on wood.</p>
<p>i'm still confused, the highest score is not 150, but 135 right?</p>
<p>i dont understand why we cant discuss actual questions, is it cause they re-use them?</p>
<p>yea it is. btw, anyone know the answer to my question? It's a couple pages back.</p>
<p>i found the mc to be a little different, tried it out. the frqs were okay, i rambled a bit on #2 =/</p>
<p>we'll see what happens. hopefully by mid-july we'll all be happy with our scores... knock on wood =/</p>
<p>kirby, that's how i feel with my SAT II's that i took because of stupid mistakes that I made; I really hope I still did well though (knock on wood). Oh, the Biology test today wasn't bad at all--we went over the general ideas within the room that review room that we had, and I'm sure you did study on the side.</p>
<p>ivy, yeah... i didn't do as well on the MC as i wanted to; left a few blank (the lab question >_>, it didn't come to me until after the test). but overall, hopefully it came out well. thanks for the room; it helped a lot. i actually like the test questions from 1999 and 1994 better.</p>
<p>honestly i don't think i can really gauge how well i did. i've never taken the class or any practice exams, never ever written a biology free response question so whatever....I just read cliffs once and princeton review. </p>
<p>The multiple choice was a little bit difficult; i had to skip around 10 or 15 so at the end because i ran out of time. Otherwise the questions were okay. I think....worst case senario, i left about 15 blank, and maybe 15 wrong?
according to xindianx's calculations, (70) - (.25 x 15) x .9 = about 60
as for the essays, they felt okay....but...i still don't know what score a dismal essay would receive, what a middle of the road essay might be like, a top scoring one.....
would anyone be so kind as to clue me in on some kind of criteria? what, for instance, would earn a 3, 5, 7, or 10?
if i averaged 5 on all four essays, then i've got more or less 90 points out of 150....
is it like...the more information, the greater the score, or what...?</p>
<p>The essays.. all of them.. KILLED me .. i COULD have done well but because of 3 and 4 i got slautered. We never covered that material in depth in my class. we only briefly went over those two subject areas about 2 weeks prior to the exam... I completley BSed the last one. and a little bit of the 3rd one. </p>
<p>U dont get negetive points right? LIke, if u give incorrect info they dont take away points, u just dont get points? right?</p>
<p>yeah, they use the "asset model", so you can write "POOP POOP POOP POOP" in the middle of an essay and they don't care. which I did on history :P.</p>
<p>seashell they don't want u to discuss for 48 hours about the FR because someone may not have taken it yet in another timezone.. or something to that effect.. for MC they NEVER want you to talk about those b/c they don't release them on collegeboard and they may reuse the question in some way , but with different wording, later on</p>
<p>wow, that MC completely killed my chances of a 5. I think I did somewhat decent on the essays (compared to the MC). I don't know if its my teacher, but we haven't had a 5 in like 2 years, we got like two 4's last yr :(. Then again, only like 4 people took the exam this year. heh...</p>
<p>nevermind, i get how they figure out the scores now. for some reason i thought the MC was multiplied by .75</p>
<p>i didnt think the MC was that bad, nor the free response</p>
<p>My BS skills definitely came into play for the free response. ;) Quite well, may I add. I think a lot of people will have the same pattern regarding the FR: nailing the first question, and stumbling on the third and/or fourth. Oh well. I think I did well enough on my MC to compensate.</p>