<p>Senior here, going to Berkeley in the fall. :)</p>
<p>I wish I could've taken the Bio SAT II test. My school is weird, and only allow seniors to take AP Bio. I was contemplating whether or not to take the Bio SAT II the June after my junior year (took the Physics instead, and did not-so-well on it..), but I wasn't confident in my Bio knowledge since I haven't taken that subject since freshmen year with Honors Bio. Oh well.</p>
<p>SENIOR HERE TOO. Going to Penn next fall.</p>
<p>I did something dumb, I took the SAT II bio after junior year, after I had taken an intro to bio course. Not a good move (630....). But now, looking back on what I remember from that test, and what I've learned this year, there's no doubt that I'd crack AT LEAST 700.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, if EVERYONE does well & does enough to get a 5 by the rubric's standards, will everyone get a 5? Do they cap the % of 4s and 5s given out?</p>
<p>"I'm sorry if this seems completely off topic, but I am really interested in taking AP Bio. But, how good at math do you have to be to be able to do well in the class? I'm very strong in writing and reading, but not as much in math. Could I still succeed in AP Bio? A lot of my friends have A's in the class and they aren't "great" at math, but I'm just trying to get a few opinions! Thanks! "</p>
<p>This was a worry of mine before I took the class. I hate math, am only in honors level math, and only got a 590 on the SAT math (as opposed to a 770 reading). However, there is not a lot of math involved in bio and you should not let this hold you back. Hardy-Weinberg is very simple math, the logic is the hard part, and chi-square tests aren't so bad either. Other than those two things, the only math you will be doing is lab calculations, which the lab book generally explains well. It is possible to suck at math and love science!</p>
<p>asked this a while ago but it seems that everyone was too excited to respond so......
yes. anyway. i hadn't taken a bio class or practice test prior to the exam so i've got no idea whether my essays met their criteria... Is it more of a subjective decision on the part of the grader- the more sophisticated the knowledge of the topic plus related but not-quite-so-necessary information that earns a nearly impossible 10? (i'm thinking of AP english lit style essays)
Or is it very possible to get a high score on the bio essay, given that you address the question and certain specifics?
What does an average essay look like?</p>
<p>also....a total of how many points is the minimum for a 5, now that the MC is down to 100?</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>I think I got a 3. Which sucks bc I got 5s on all of my practice tests. I did NOT like essay 3 or 4. Or most of the MC.</p>
<p>min mc correct for a 5 is roughly around 75ish, assuming you dont completely bomb the essays </p>
<p>as far as grading goes, 10/10 is rare but you do get points for elaborating on certain topics or sub-sections of the essay and those elaboration points may help make up for your lack of points in other areas of the essay</p>
<p>however theres a thing where it says like "you cannot be awarded more than 4 points" for a specific part of an essay</p>
<p>that was confusing... sorry =/</p>
<p>i imagine essay 4 would have been really hard for me had i not studied that exact topic 4 days earlier in great depth
essay 3 was a long shot for the majority of us i'd think</p>
<p>Hm, I honestly didn't think essay 3 was troublesome at all. I mean, the most difficulut part of question three was the third "sub-question." Even so, that was generally easy--you could have drawn a diagram and explained it. Grr, I wish we could talk about the test already.</p>
<p>i know not talking about it is driving me crazy. do we have to wait until the day after tomorrow, or just tomorrow?
and the only reason question 3 bothered me so much was cause of my lack of studying devoted to that topic and my utter dislike for it to begin with lol, that was by far the worst unit for me all year - SO boring</p>
<p>what is the "sub = question" , ivy robust?</p>
<p>all it had was a b c d in quesiton 3.</p>
<p>Right--I'm talking about a specific segment of question "3."</p>
<p>the CIA will see this and cancel your scores for all your ap tests if you mention any topics and you will cry yourself to sleep in college cause you passed freshman bio with a C instead of an A that UT could have given you for a 5 on the ap test</p>
<p>hey who said anything about a specific topic? i didnt think anybody did. some of this has been too vague for even me to understand</p>
<p>girlfriend mb, it's not the cia dummy</p>
<p>it's the Office of Testing Integrity. </p>
<p>"ooooo"</p>
<p>is the total numerical score for calculating the grade out of 150, 145, or 100? those are the 3 numbers i've heard lol and i'm wondering if its gonna be different this year cause of the -20 questions</p>
<p>will we find out what we scored in each essay?</p>
<p>no we dont find out</p>
<p>No, it's not different because of the -20 questions. The relative weights of MC/FR are still the same, so it means that every question on the MC is worth slightly more to your overall grade, though the entire MC section is still worth the same percentage. My formula (adjusted from cliffs)
(MC Raw Score out of 100)<em>.9 +(FR score out of 40)</em>1.5= Combined score</p>
<p>94-150 5
73-94 4
54-72 3
34-53 2
0-33 1</p>
<p>sarcasm plz</p>
<p>blah its a frickin long way till july for sure.....just forget about it cause i stressed when i was soph about how i did on the ap chem and calulated over and over my chances of certain scores haha and did better than all the seniors who took it too....Sadly every1 is doing that here....lol but i do expect the percent of 5s to be high this year lol : p</p>
<p>thanks seashell, and nikeswoosh :)
absolute worst case senario....average 5's on essays and 60/100 MC....equals a 4 according to nikeswoosh's scale...Hope i did better than this. Would really like a 5, although i know it was far from perfect....</p>