*******Official AP Biology Thread 2013-2014*******

<p>Yeah the mock test is harder IMO, but this test was the one given last year, so they’re both accurate. Really surprised at the test last year, the MC was quite easy. The mock exam, a much different story.</p>

<p>This website is really helpful about the scoring of the exam and tells you what you need for to score to earn a 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.
<a href=“AP Biology Exam Data 2013 – Mr. Chinn's Site”>http://galileoweb.org/chinnc/ap-biology-08-09/ap-biology-exam-data-2013/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And I think to score a practice exam, calculate the percent right you got on the MC, halve it, calculate the percent right for FRQ, halve it, and add the two together and see where you are on the chart from the website in the link above^ :)</p>

<p>@doodledork‌ Thank you!</p>

<p>@Verbose I’m also a bit confused as to why they’d even include that choice. The experiment seems to test how the distance from light affects the rate of photosynthesis. Concluding that a lamp can substitute for sunlight kind of seems like a given, and I don’t know why they’d make that the correct choice :/</p>

<p>Does anyone know if we have to know taxonomy and classification? my teacher says no but my review book says yes…</p>

<p>@freedie in my class we went over it but not very in depth. Like we learned the DKPCOFGS and the three domains but not really what is in them in any depth. </p>

<p>Does anyone know which body systems we have to know? My teacher just taugh nervous, immune and I think endocrine. But, Princeton has like 8</p>

<p>@MadSpaceCow also circulation</p>

<p>I think also the reproductive because that was on one of CB’s Practice Tests</p>

<p>I also forgot to mention we learned development, if that counts as a body system.</p>

<p>Ehhh, I have no drive to learn new systems. I think I will just apply the yolo method to this.</p>

<p>For AP test (this is my first), are wrong answers in the MC penalized? I think my teacher said it wasnt but i saw on something like yahoo answers that it was</p>

<p>@Zeppelin7‌ no, always make a guess</p>

<p>Also,
1.)how in depth do we have to know about plant systems
2.) Do we have to know the hormones of the endocrine system or just the general way hormones work?</p>

<p>@freedie‌ The Barrons book says to just focus on plant stimuli and transpiration
And my guess for the endocrine system is to just know the general way hormones work, the new exam is more about concept than plianout memorizing so I would be surprised if CB expected us to know the different individual hormones</p>

<p>@Zeppelin7‌ thanks!</p>

<p>Free response predictions, long & short?</p>

<p>do you think there will be any FRQs are genetic engineering, in that case, could we write about Spider man?</p>

<p>@supplysider its a possibility but I don’t think you could fit spider man into your answer…depends on the question i guess. Basically you’ll need to know that genetic engineering can manipulate the heritable information of DNA (ex: electrophoresis, restriction enzymes, PCR, etc) and real-life examples such as cloned animals or genetically modified foods. </p>

<p>What’s the minimum number of frq’s I should be answering for a 4?</p>

<p><a href=“https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RXJrqNQgIEbW84L8DZPZMaNM_W2igt7pgQAYXoakZMo/edit”>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RXJrqNQgIEbW84L8DZPZMaNM_W2igt7pgQAYXoakZMo/edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here’s a link to the review club</p>