SAT Bio II curve

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<p>It seems like this year the Curve for Bio is particularly bad, anyone want to help contribute to a possible curve?
Many of my friends got close but not 800, and seems like they didn't miss more than 3 questions either.</p>

<p>I know i missed 1 question (unless there are bubbling mistakes) and got 800
A friend of mine said they missed 2 questions and got a 790.... is that possible?
We both did Bio M</p>

<p>or if you know about how many you've missed, perhaps we could try to figure out the curve?</p>

<p>This might be very helpful to future Bio sat II takers in June</p>

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<p>From the gen’l SAT2 posts I only saw people report these Bio M scores in the 700-800 range: 800, 770 and 740. Your friend’s 790 is the first one I’ve seen. There seems to be a lot of scores in the 600s. Didn’t see anyone report a 750, 760. this doesn’t help w/ your curve b/c I can’t answer how many ?s people think they got wrong. But I think you’re right: seems like this may have been a harsh curve b/c of the scores reported.</p>

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<p>I skipped one question and answered all the other ones. The test didn’t seem that difficult. However, I only got 730. Is it worth to do rescoring?
BTW, I got 800 in a couple of practice tests.</p>

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<p>I didnt skip any I probably got 3-5 wrong and I got a 750</p>

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<p>How many can you miss and still get an 800? cause i know i omitted one wrong and got definitely 5 wrong and my score was 740. But on practice tests, I got 800 or at least a 780 ):</p>

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<p>The scale felt very different than the practice test… </p>

<p>Right now i’m assuming the maximum you can get wrong is 2 problems and 3 wrongs (ie -4 on raw) would bring you down to 790.
At least this was for Bio M</p>

<p>Bio E i’m not sure… I bubbled in both E and M and check over them both before i choose M. seems like E’s curve wouldn’t be that much more generous because its pretty easy as well… </p>

<p>So bio score M seems like</p>

<p>800
800
800
790
780
760
750
740
… ?</p>

<p>i highly doubt rescoring changes anything unless you’re one of those people that consistently hit 770+ on practice tests but some came back with a 640 or something.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think I only missed 5 and skipped only 2 or less and ended up with a 740.</p>

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<p>I got a 760, with one omit, and I’m pretty sure I got more than 3 wrong…</p>

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<p>This seems rather discouraging so far… Perhaps when the national percentiles come out in 4 days we’ll see how the percentiles breaks down.</p>

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<p>God dammit! I’ve been getting 780-800s on my practice tests…
then I got a 630. What the hell happened.</p>

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<p>It sounds like a lot of people got low scores in May Bio exam. It 's rare.</p>

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<p>Yea… i sort of expected all my friends scores to be higher… humm, thats quite strange.</p>

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<p>The two people from my school who took it scored 670 and 680, I believe. I was suprised by their results, considering that they were both somewhat confident that they would receive 800s.</p>

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<p>@ Silver, are you taking the Bio subject test? </p>

<p>Also, to add to this thread, I’ve taken honors biology freshman year, and AP biology this junior year, and I only scored a 740 on Bio M! I think I simply overthought some of the lab questions, etc. I am retaking in June, except this time in ecology.</p>

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<p>Yes, they both took Bio-M.</p>

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<p>@ Silver again lol: Are you personally taking the bio subject test?</p>

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<p>^ Only if I get 800 on Literature this June. (I.e., probably not)</p>

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<p>I see; what else are you taking? (I myself will have taken 6 subject tests after my junior year has concluded)</p>

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<p>I took Literature, Math 2, and Chemistry this month. I got 800 on the last two, but Literature went poorly. I’ll retake that one in June and see what happens (the curve is brutal). During the summer, I will independently study U.S. History and Physics for October.</p>

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<p>I see. That sounds like a plan. I too am taking the literature in June; the only preparation I’ve had is the one collegeboard practice test. Is there anything else you intend to study?</p>