*** Official AP Biology Thread 2012-2013 ***

Test Preparation AP Sciences
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<p>On the note of review books, literally none of the books I picked up were useful EXCEPT for Crash Course. They somehow did an excellent job of summarizing necessary info that I ended up seeing on the MC. Our teacher didn’t change the content of his class whatsoever for the new curriculum so I purely relied on Crash Course and felt pretty good.</p>

<p>Overall, I felt like the MC was good; I probably got a few points docked on the free response section, but all in all I’m pleased with the test.</p>

1042

<p>yeah… i was expecting it to be like previous years’ tests. but all it was graphs and application. no real biology heavy knowledge.</p>

1043

<p>What was the answer to the 1st MC about dogs and smells? i got c
And what did you guys put for the last MC about the release of beatles and trees? i put that the beetles will travel from the water streams and reach the trees in the other 3 states</p>

1044

<p>@Lanie49, I said chlorophyll a absorbed green light and the bacteria absorbed purple… Kind of ridiculous of me in retrospect…</p>

1045

<p>Don’t we have to wait 2 days to discuss the FRQs…</p>

1046

<p>Yep… an ACT thread got shut down because people were discussing answers</p>

1047

<p>Cell Z couldn’t have been a prokaryote. It said on the instructions all cells are eukaryote. I said Cell Z was a somatic cell.</p>

1048

<p>@casafron awww im so sorry!
thats what i did for my chi square. i failed to reject when i was supposed to reject cuz i got it messed up. stupid me. i hate myself for it! and i made the same mistake on the ap stat…
but on the ap bio exam i forgot to do the last two question…(i wanna kill myself)
I hope we both can still get 5’s!!</p>

1049

<p>Somatic cells are just any cell other than gametes…</p>

1050

<p>Yes, we do have to wait and this is actually a good way to get your scores cancelled ha. I like your username by the way, Augustus Waters</p>

1051

<p>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… i mixed up graph 1 and graph 2… i totally forgot that lowest absorbance is reflected… there goes 10 pts :frowning:
ughhhhhhhh. ***
also i was going really slow, i got caught off guard with the time due to such long reading interpretations that i didnt answer 13 of the mc. i think i got around a 55% :(</p>

<p>OVERALL: i feel like the test was unfair because it didnt test knowlege of biology but rather science inference/analyzing. I couldve took that test in 9th grade and got the same grade.</p>

<p>CURVE: The curve will be terrible this year. The test was very easy and nearly everyone in my school answered every mc and frq with like 10 mins remaining (except me)

  • THE PEOPLE THAT GOT THOSE QUESTIONS WRONG WERE THE ONES WHO RAN OUT OF TIME OR WERE EXTREMELY WEAK AND HAD NO BACKGROUND IN BIO.</p>

<p>im guessing 75%=5 65%=4 50%=3 35%=2 <0-34>=1</p>

1052

<p>I know… I’m not saying that I was right but prokaryote is definitely wrong…</p>

1053

<p>It looks like there was multiple versions of the MC as well, only a few people have mentioned (even though you’re not supposed to) questions that were on mine.</p>

1054

<p>did you guys did 710 million years for the fossil one?</p>

1055

<p>What happens if we used pencil on the frqs…I discovered when there was 20 minutes left and went over as much of it as I could with pen, but didn’t erase the pencil. So now it’s just harder to read…and I told my proctor and she pretty much just gave me a “sucks for you” look</p>

1056

<p>idk if someone already responded to this…i dont really know how this site works…but i got that for one of the grid ins…it doesnt really matter what combination they were asking for i dont think for the wxyz one with the alleles and gametes and stuff? it was like 1/16?</p>

1057

<p>they don’t take off for pencil, they only problem is that pencil smears…</p>

1058

<p>@foreverhope. pencil wont scan when grading and it will come up as blank and the reader will asume you left it blank</p>

<p>they scan and grade it electronically not by actual booklet infront of them.</p>

1059

<p>it was what ever year was between the two…i dont remember what the options were for the fossils tho
ok so im posting in reply to something but its just showing up in the list so nobody knows what im talking about i think
dude im so confused on how this works</p>

1060

<p>i put 390 million years ago. it said the the (name of thing i forgot) must be 380 million years ago to analyze or something so it must have beeen 390</p>