Will the AP Biology exam be harder this year?

Test Preparation AP Test Preparation
1

<p>What do you think? And does anyone have any essay predictions?</p>

2

<p>Considering how ridiculously easy last year's exam was, I wouldn't be surprised if this year's is harder.</p>

3

<p>oh ****.. then im fudged... if its really hard. i hope its easy and i think one of the essays might be cell respiration.</p>

4

<p>The harder it is, the less you have to get right. Duh.... Seriously, every year is the same in difficulty, because they change the curve.</p>

5

<p>Speaking of the curve--does anyone know what the raw points ranges are like for Bio? I know to get a 5 in Chem it was around 115/150 (I think--don't quote me on that) raw points, and for Calc AB it's around 75/120.</p>

<p>And is there any place where I could find that information? I know the curves/ranges change every year, but there must be a rough estimate/average somewhere...</p>

6

<p>Didn't they change the AP Bio exam this year? Aren't there fewer questions than last year now? Anyways, this is from CliffsAP 2001:</p>

<p>94-150: 5
73-93: 4
54-72: 3
34-53: 2
0-33: 1</p>

<p>Multiple your multiple choice score (after subtracting for those that you got wrong) by .75. Multiply your FRQ by 1.5. Add the two together.</p>

7

<p>it was harder.</p>

8

<p>^^ agreed.</p>

<p>MC was easy, essays were hard.</p>

9

<p>
[quote]
MC was easy, essays were hard.

[/quote]
I second that.</p>

10

<p>^^ I, erm, third it?</p>

11

<p>yeah. those frq were insane.....</p>

12

<p>woww, i heard this year's exam was sooo much harder than last year's. I took last year's which was sooooooooooooooooo easy. i feel sorry for this year people.</p>

13

<p>But since it was hard then the curve should be nice?</p>

14

<p>"^^ I, erm, third it?"</p>

<p>I fourth that, then.</p>

<p>Overall, I think I got a five though. I hope the curve is kind too. :D</p>

15

<p>Do you think there's any way that they'll like throwout an essay question or make the curve lower and out of less questions if say 95% of people didn't get it right? (I know one MC question was thrown out last year due to a statistical error but I'm not sure what that means.)</p>

<p>Eh, one can dream.</p>