<p>what were the FR Q’s that you got then? o-o</p>
<p>for those of you who also took the AP biology form B exam for 2012 ,
what did you guys think about the difficulty?</p>
<p>and do you know when we will get the scores back? will we get our scores back along with the form A students or will our scores be delayed?</p>
<p>the test was pretty hard ):</p>
<p>Do you think it would be possible to get a 5 if I skipped two sections of the FRQ?
I didn’t study protostome/deuterostome, and forgot to answer one really easy part about environmental factors that increase mutation rate in organisms. (I thought it would take a long time to write so I skipped it and planned to go back to it… lol worst choice ever.)</p>
<p>Probably not. You would have to have gotten near perfect on the other two, along with a stellar MC score. Possible but not probable</p>
<p>Oh darn. I think I got around 70% of the multiple choice right. I think I did fine on the other parts of the FRQ, but since collegeboard often looks for really in depth explanations and gives points out as such, I may have bombed the frq…</p>
<p>I missed part c of questions 1 and 3. If I missed a few points on other parts of the FRQ, is a 5 out of the question?</p>
<p>I think it could still be a 5…use this to calculate [AP</a> Pass - AP Biology Calculator](<a href=“http://appass.com/calculators/biology]AP”>AP Biology Test Score Calculator - AP Pass)
apparently you can get 70% on mc and 21/40 on essays and still get a 5</p>
<p>Oh nice I didn’t know about that, thanks!</p>
<p>Wait why’re we allowed to discuss SAT IIs in depth but not AP exams?</p>
<p>Actually, we’re not supposed to discuss the SAT either, but the :“word” on the board is that it’s OK. A misconception.</p>
<p>I’m taking this class next year and I want to make the most of my summer to prepare and get familiar with the topics covered in the class. Any tips on how I can do this? Thanks!</p>
<p>Go through the campbell textbook and look at the summary sections and ESPECIALLY the awesome diagrams of cellular processes such as mitosis, cell respiration, DNA replication, photosynthesis, embryonic development. Those systems usually take the longest time to comprehend and if you get a head start on it, it would help you greatly in the class. Whereas the ecology and animal behavior stuff is mostly memorization, when you come to that in the class just use online flashcards.</p>
<p>Thank you for the reply! Very much appreciated.</p>
<p>saving this post ` thanks</p>
<p>From AP_Trevor’s twitter page:</p>
<p>“Count them: 5 students (out of ~200,000) earned every point, perfect scores of 150/150, on this year’s AP Biology Exam.”</p>
<p>“Overall, performance on this year’s AP Biology Exam represents slightly higher student ability levels this year than last.”</p>
<p>“AP Biology 2012 results: 19.4%=5; 16.9%=4; 14.3%=3; 14.6%=2; 34.8%=1. These may shift slightly as late exams are scored.”</p>
<p>“The AP Bio free-response question on oxygen consumption (#2) earned the highest mean score on this year’s exam.”</p>
<p>"~50,000 AP Bio students (~25%) earned 0 out of 10 points on Q3 (information flow in cells), the question with the lowest mean on this exam."</p>
<p>I wonder who those 5 are (IBO people?).</p>
<p>So, what did everyone get?</p>
<p>I got a 4. ■■■</p>
<p>Got a 5 suckers</p>
<p>I got a 5, which I did NOT deserve.
I don’t think I got a fourth of the FRQ points. I only expected a 3 because I was pretty sure of about 80 of the MC questions.</p>
<p>Not complaining :)</p>