<p>Hoping for a 60% = 5 curve!!!</p>
<p>There are no commonly expected ratios in this situation.</p>
<p>Wait isn’t the ratio supposed to be according to the null hypothesis.</p>
<p>Yes, but there was no “known” ratio.</p>
<p>@The84thline
True, but I was just correcting your statement saying “You could put anything as long as you supported it with a claim.” And yes, you could have a variety of correct answers on the Long FRQ, but I personally don’t think using the 1 minute as an expected is valid. That’s just my opinion.</p>
<p>I put 1 min as expected because I figured the difference in volumes between the 3 chambers (left, middle, right) made it uneven, but I don’t know if that’s right, just my reasoning… Also to whoever asked, I had 2 extra pages, one for question 2 and one for 3. On the pages I only needed to write like 4 or 5 more words lmao but since I wrote in pen I couldn’t erase lol</p>
<p>I had taken a couple of practice exams from previous years and I though I was going to do badly, but the changes were much more drastic than I expected (thankfully). I won’t go into much detail, but a lot of it felt more like a mix of APES, AP Chem, and ACT science rather than biology. Cell division, ecology, physiology, plants, and DNA replication were nowhere to be seen, all of which were major topics before.</p>
<p>I really liked #2 in the FRQs, it was all chem and geology, my favorite topics. Just for those of you wondering, these two links might help:</p>
<p>[Chlorophyll</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll]Chlorophyll”>Chlorophyll - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[Why</a> Are Leaves Green? Part 1 - YouTube](<a href=“Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1 - YouTube”>Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1 - YouTube)</p>
<p>Draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>I studied mostly off of Wikipedia and YouTube and I think I did reasonably well. I also had an excellent teacher, he definitely knew very well what he was doing (though we memorized a lot of unnecessary content). I also feel like the Baron’s book was pretty useless for the AP exam (again LOTS of extra stuff), but it helped me greatly with the course.</p>
<p>The exam itself was not too hard, but the MC involved a lot of reading and I didn’t get to finish. I left all the math-related questions for the end and went to the grid-ins with 25 minutes remaining, and I think both were good ideas (but even then I had to guess on the last few MC because I ran out of time). The first “computational” wasn’t actually a computation, and most didn’t involve any bio knowledge… Lots of Hardy Weinberg though, all over the place. Also, I’m dazzled by the amount of people confused by the null hypothesis, the very name implies what it’s supposed to be. FRQ’s were a lot easier, can’t wait to discuss them to the bone on Wednesday. All I’m gonna say is the wording for the paleontology question was confusing.</p>
<p>Oh, and a little tip for everyone: STOP. POSTING. YOUR ANSWERS. You’re not supposed to until Wednesday.</p>
<p>are you god or something?</p>
<p>I accidentally wrote the serial number of my answer sheet instead of the actual exam packet. Will this affect me in any way?</p>
<p>jtalley24…hahahahahhahahah</p>
<p>what was the answer to the organism that uses both photosynthesis and cellular respiration?</p>
<p>Guinea pig test… tragic</p>
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LOL no, I’m not Morgan Freeman if that’s what you’re asking xD</p>
<p>Oh, and again people, stop posting your answers. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/341965-defy-college-boards-rules-your-own-risk.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/341965-defy-college-boards-rules-your-own-risk.html</a></p>
<p>It definitely resembled the ACT Science section. You didn’t have to know any specifics, just like the college board said. I finished FRQ rapidly… I don’t think I got a single point wrong in the FRQ. MC was tougher, but not too hard. Considering my teacher is terrible, I did extremely well. I don’t see myself getting anything but a 5. Not to be cocky.</p>
<p>So no one told me you needed a calculator…</p>
<p>Also as my senioritis has kicked in, I did no studying (not to mention our teacher stopped teaching about 4 months ago) and even though I had a very limited knowledge of bio I feel like I might have pulled off a 3 somehow. This new format really doesn’t test Bio knowledge, more akin to ACT science as others have said</p>
<p>This is cuz dinasours can be found in these. This is from a question I saw on a practice test before the actual ap exam</p>
<p><em>The gamete question (WwXxYyZz) is 1/16 or 0.063. (1/2)</em>(1/2)<em>(1/2)</em>(1/2)
*Cell Z is a red blood cell (no organelles so that it can hold more hemoglobin, it doesn’t need to reproduce or make energy. Cell X is a muscle cell, Cell Y is some gland.
*I think you’re free to make up expected values on the ChiSquare. If not, as long as you did the null hypothesis and math right, they’ll give you the points for that part. I used 58/1/1.
*null hypothesis is: “If I do this experiment, any deviation from the expected is due to chance only.”
*I got 1131 for the weird capture/re-capture population size problem. I used a simple proportion with cross-multiplying.</p>
<p>I hate how indirect College Board was on this exam. You had to read a damn novel just to get to the freaking question. Not to mention, everything I studied wasn’t even on the test. You definitley had to do good throughout the majority of the year in AP biology to do good on this exam. I don’t see it as something you can simply cram for. I read Cliffsnotes & REA Crash Course, and I’ll be lucky if I even passed. The free response was a lot easier.</p>
<p>I feel extremely disappointed with the test this year. I feel that because of the new format, the people who knew more actual content were put at the same level as people who did not because the test was mostly analysis of lab situations. I feel that an honors bio class with some self study the weekend before could have done just as well. Honestly it seemed to me similar to the ACT Science section, but harder.</p>
<p>I completely agree. I came in feeling confident that I knew transcription, translation, cell cycle, embryonic development, kinases etc. - the most complex of processes that we learned, and there was nothing about any of it. I’m so disappointed that I spent a whole year preparing for an exam that wasn’t at all a test of what I had learned during the year. It’s really a shame.</p>