<p>I’m not in college, but I don’t feel like this the test would model tests of an intro-level Bio course. It felt like a lot more like a reasoning test than a test on what I’ve actually learned. I guess that was a better senario in my case, since I really didn’t know my stuff.</p>
<p>I got a 5 (yay!), and I’ll be majoring in bio. I thought the test was actually pretty good. The multiple choice questions tested critical thinking and application of some things that are learned (they could be better though, all you really had to know was basic biology), while the free responses were more detail oriented (but still were pretty easy, allowing you to infer certain things, but still having certain questions that you really had to know certain things for). </p>
<p>The test this year was easier to pass (3 or higher), but harder to get a 5 on. Out of 15 people in my class, I was the only one who scored a 5 (which is good I guess, because, essentially, only 1 out of 20 got a 5).</p>
<p>If you are taking the test next year, definitely do not take old tests. They contain way too many details that you don’t need to know, and will just make you feel sad because you will get so many of the questions wrong (if you’re gonna take the subject test, though, you have to learn everything). Just focus on learning the big objectives and main ideas.</p>
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<p>I think the score distributions are extremely fair. It showed how, as a whole, high school students are not good at critical thinking.</p>
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<p>it just shows how the AP Biology exam is ludicrously critical thinking+reading based.</p>
<p>They HAD to put more bio stuff in there, I mean literally half of the questions were solvable by my 8th grade brother who’s learning 8th grade science. </p>
<p>But he took a long time to do so. </p>
<p>The test is meant to test your “knowledge” and your ability to “apply that knowledge,” not to read 60 pages of bull shi* and think about it to come up with answers.</p>
<p>The test was filled with questions that can be solved with a little bit of common sense + logical thinking + amazing ability to read SAT Reading passages. </p>
<p>Furthermore, they took out 90% of the curriculum…I read like 40 chapters of Campbell, I regret it so much. I could have read like first 10 chapters still scored a 5 with common sense and patience to read 60 pages worth of useless fuc*ing questions.</p>
<p>While i agree that previous tests were too fact and knowledge based, CB had to be more patient and cautious when making a new fuc*ing test. </p>
<p>They could have
1.shortened the number of questions or lengths of questions
2.put more questions that require some kind of biological knowledge to be applied, not give all the knowledge needed and expect you to critically think about it to come up with answers.
3.turned questions into less FRQ-kind questions, to more MC-kind questions.
4.Gave more than 1 fuc<em>ing test to study.
5.Included more stuff than fuc</em>ing competition, evolution and respiration. Include more than 10% of what we learned.
6.Just do better. The test was ****<em>y. I know a person who read a review book and scored same as I did, which is total bull shi</em> and shows how this test has nothing to do with biological knowledge and appliance of it, but just ability to concentrate and think critically for 3 1/2 hours.</p>