<p>@pringles97 I am in the US and got the form you did (E I’m guessing). Most people appear to have gotten form O on here. Some people in my testing room had form E, and others had form O. I didn’t know there were multiple forms, but there apparently were this year and they had vastly different material covered on them.</p>
<p>What were the frq questions?? Were they difficult?
Im taking the late exam</p>
<p>@heptagirl do you know if collegeboard is releasing all the forms? because they seem to release only one form… idk why </p>
<p>form O FRQ questions are released!</p>
<p>Do you guys think the curve will be better or worse this year than last year? It looks like my chances for a 5 is 0% (freaking FRQs) unless the curve is lenient (I think my score is just below the 78)</p>
<p>Oh, also, do you guys know when the scoring rubric for the FRQs will be released?</p>
<p>I know that at my school, half of us received Form O while the other half of us received a Form D. I was unlucky enough to have received Form O, so I can sympathize with the overwhelming anxiety that we’re all feeling. I do feel that our MC was easy and fair enough. A lot of it was interpreting graphs, describing diagrams, or just regurgitating material and info, if not things we had already covered thoroughly before. As for the math problems, I didn’t feel too bad about them (except for the Chi-Square, that was a bit much) – that is, until the Form D people shared their problems. They had two rate questions, NO Chi Square, a different Hardy-Weinberg, a counting problem, and then the same zucchini and blood type problems that we had. I found the FRQs, on the other hand, to be very demanding and quite out of line with what we had prepared for and expected. Not to mention that they were lengthy and they required a lot more time than we were given. That first long response was supposed to be our “lab-based question”, says our teacher. However, I feel that it was too Statistics-y – and that’s coming from someone who took Stats last year. I wasn’t too sure about the graph until I saw the guppies question later on, so I based mine off of that. But my teacher did say that the whole SEM was very surprising, and that it’s so rare that very few teachers actually cover it – hence why we were all caught off guard. The second long response wasn’t nearly as bad, but I feel like its focus went from apples to oranges and relied on the slightest correlation between the two. I could sit here and ramble on about every question for the rest of the night, but I won’t. To cut it short and provide comparison, the Form D people had one long response about some dinosaur speciation scenario, and another – if I remember correctly – about DNA components and their interactions, or something like that. All I know is that Form D people were loving their exam, while us Form O people sat and sulked and sighed and cried over ours. I’m also worried about the distribution curve that’ll come of this one. Especially since Form O was the “common” exam, and since we seem to collectively agree that the FRQs were oddly difficult, and in comparison with the results of the Form D – which will likely be great – I’m anxious to see whether they recalibrate their scale or how they choose to handle the scenario. I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping that the majority of it was pilot material. Let me dream.</p>
<p>I screwed up so badly lol. Confident I got a 5 on the MCQ portion (it was extremely easy), but I didn’t budget my time well during the FRQs. I got caught up in trying to understand no. 1, and I ended up spending ~1 hour on the first two questions. I had to answer the next six in 20 minutes; I ended up skipping part A on the last one in favour of parts B/C because I didn’t have enough time to answer them all. Also drew a probably inaccurate line on the guppy graph. </p>
<p>@nickraposo some people at our school got form D but there were lots of people who said it was hard
and some who got Form O said it was easy
so I guess it won’t be like totally easy for alll Form D people and totally hard for all form O people
dont worry!! </p>
<p>People had different FRQ questions lol. Mine was pertaining to an isotope of nitrogen. @doodledork </p>
<p>@alijasmined Oh, I didn’t know that. I thought FRQs were different only if you got different versions, like Form O or Form D.</p>
<p>@doodledork wait yeah they are lol. I had Form O.</p>
<p>hey guys, just wondering which prep book did you use to prepare for the exam and how useful would you say th information/practice tests in it were?</p>
<p>@College123college I’ve heards good things about both Barrons and Cliffnotes ( @Qmansbc 's comment should provide you the major differences between the two <a href=“Cliffs vs Barrons 2014 AP Bio - AP Sciences - College Confidential Forums”>Cliffs vs Barrons 2014 AP Bio - AP Sciences - College Confidential Forums), but I personally used Barrons</p>
<p>Whether the information was helpful, I never really studied studied for the exam (I studied, but to an extent) as the MC is a joke and doesn’t really require studying as long as your an A student, but skimming over Barrons, I thought it looked good. The Barron practice tests were a little hard, though the FRQs are more of the previous type of exam than the actual. If I were you, just scrounge the web for College Board Practice Exams for the new exam, those will help tremendously in my opinion, because you’ll see what exactly the FRQs and MC are like</p>
<p>Not sure if I fully answered your question but hoped that helped</p>