<p>Anyways, hey guys! New to the forum and glad to be here. I’m a clueless (lol) freshman in hs taking the exam tomorrow for ap bio, first one ever (psyched for it), and aphg on friday. </p>
<p>So what’s up with the Barron’s MC raw score for a 5? We took a practice exam in class lst week, teacher said 67 was the approx. raw score minimum for a 5, i got an 86 and it was probably the best i could have done. I don’t think i could get an 87 as barron’s says is the estimated minimum and am really concerned. Anybody have a real chart from collegeboard for the new exam or other info? Thanks</p>
<p>There’s no chart yet and there won’t be one until after the test. But nothing is official until CB says it is so we shouldn’t worry over what Barron’s says is needed for a 5.</p>
<p>I think so… But given the restructuring of the test, no one can fully say. I mean, if you know your stuff for the exam, regardless of the curve, you should do fine :D</p>
<p>thanks, i get what your saying. Our school normally gets 1/3 5’s , and by barron’s one other student and me would be the only 5’s out of 40 (only 5% then), just doesn’t add up.</p>
<p>The plant structure and function unit was removed from the curriculum, so plants are most likely going to be used to apply to experimental questions, like FR 2 with the stomata, but saying anything about xylems or phloems is not needed.
Make sure you can do Hardy-Weinberg and Genetics, that will be on there a lot.
I’m going to go through these again and make sure I understand the type of questions they’re asking for each one, not the topics, but the type of question, ie memorization questions, graph questions, diagram/chart question, reasoning question.
Since it was posted many pages back, this is the link for the practice test, so if you didn’t save the link, you don’t have to go back and find it.
<a href=“https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byoa8-JKGIc9Tzg0c29KZTJQOGM/edit[/url]”>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byoa8-JKGIc9Tzg0c29KZTJQOGM/edit</a></p>
<p>It would be interesting to see if the latest REA has anything different relating to the new test or any other tips it gives it the end. These ambiguous free response questions are easy at first, but I see what they were looking…what!? Although I think if they’re fairly lenient grading them it may be better than to have a question asking something very specific that you don’t know much about. As long as you understand all the concepts and can apply them (indirectly) to the big ideas, then there’s a lot of room to just write down information and get points.</p>
<p>Hey! this is my first time making an appearance in the thread, but we took the official practice exam for the AP Bio test and I figured I should talk about what I thought about it, seeing as I actually thought it was somewhat challenging. </p>
<p>I got a 51/63 on the test and a 1/6 on the grid-ins. This was my 2nd AP test and I’m a sophomore (my first was AP Chinese, which was a whole lot different…), so I didn’t really do well with time management whooops. My advice to everyone would be to IGNORE THE HUGE BLOCKS OF TEXT. When you see the problems that take up an entire page just skim past. I only did one grid-in problem because I thought I had enough time on the multiple choice to read them all </p>
<p>Multiple choice: I did a lot of memorization the night before because I honestly had no idea what the test was going to be like. The actual test though fluctuated between being really easy and really challenging. There were questions that were common sense, and questions that made me go like “really i just have no idea, haha let’s fill in a random bubble”. I would suggest knowing your concepts really well, and reviewing parts of the year which were kind of hazy to you… also knowing the labs and major scientists. </p>
<p>Grid-ins: Chi-squared, hardy weinberg you can definitely count on those being on there. I kind of freaked out and didn’t end up having time to do most of them which brought my overall score down way low; fortunately, they didn’t look too hard, but make sure to give yourself more time than just a normal multiple choice question.</p>
<p>FRQs: My teacher only made us do evens/odds. I got odds which means I didn’t get the weird transpiration question, but I know a lot of my really smart friends didn’t do well on that. There was a ribosome question that got me, but otherwise they were pretty self-explanatory: if you throw out bits of information that you know, chances are you’ll get some of the points. Just don’t be wrong. My advice on this would just be to review all the processes and concepts completely… you don’t have to know all the specifics, but knowing the general idea of everything would be good so you can at least bs your way through the response. </p>
<p>ok that’s all I got. Hope I can help you all in some way, sorry for this massive wall of text!</p>
<p>Those FRQs really freaked me out. I didn’t find the multiple choice too difficult, but I had no idea how to answer most of the free response…ugh.</p>
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