<p>Guys I’m so conflicted and kind of worried about this test- I mean what where the collegeboard thinking? They come up with a completely new, different kind of AP test that barely requires any prior knowledge, which is most likely going to cause a lot more people to get much higher scores, which is really going to make the curve low. But this test is brand new and was messed up in so many ways- I mean we barely had any time to do the MC but I had like 20 extra minutes on the FRQs! Do you think that they are going to be lenient with the scaling of scores? I’m confident that I did fairly well (at lest 65% right MC, probably 80% at least on the FRQs), but I’m nervous that I could be on the brink of a 4 or 5, and I need a 5 to get college credit (and I’m majoring in econ, come on).</p>
<p>also, don’t know if this was previously discussed- but did anyone else have multiple patterns throughout their test? I mean obviously there were different forms, but for the majority of the MC I would get like 3 or 4 of the same letter in a row</p>
<p>Stop using CollegeConfidential and posting on these threads telling people that we shouldn’t be discussing questions this early. Every single ETS test results in a discussion of answers the same day that the test was administered. If you have a problem, send it to CF and not on this particular thread.</p>
<p>So overall, was anyone fairly disappointed with the FRQ? I was hoping and expecting them to give question that allow us to go very in depth and just impress them with a good understanding. A simple, “explain the central dogma of gene expression” would be nice, but no. I don’t get to use any of my thorough understanding of how mRNA is created from a primary transcript - its removal of introns and 5’ cap of a modified guanine for recognition and poly A tail, and then how theprimary transcript is made, and how different transcription factors will affeect gene expression, and how the tRNA gets its coordinated amino acid at the Aminoacyl tRNA syntase enzyme, and how that charged tRNA, along with the rRNA and mRNA will undergo translation, along with the E P and A sites pf the rRNA, and… All of which i studied for, what is true organic chemistry, what makes biology interesting, what i prepared, learned, and expected. Nope. It asks me about *<strong><em>ing literal rat *</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Thanks @CaptainFrost. I think I said Plankton for the Carbon short answer question. Probably not specific enough :(</p>
<p>Just as a general statement, the student users on CC are not your run-of-the-mill testers. As such, the people saying the test is easy may not necessarily represent the majority of all test-takers nationally. Therefore, I would not expect the curve to shift dramatically in either direction relative to previous years. It may go up a bit because of the relative ease of the MC questions for those prepared for it; it may go down due to those not prepared for them or the FRQs. However, other “light” sciences like APES hover around 70% for a 5, and AP Biology is not a walk-in-the-park subject to warrant its curve being much stricter than that, I would think.</p>
<p>I do think this test was a complete failure. I studied SO HARD for this THROUGHOUT the year, and honestly applied almost nothing of what I know on this test. I understand they wanted to make it less memorization and more concepts, but they didnt have to make it so that theres almost no biology at all…</p>
<p>Are the grid-ins on Part I weighted differently than the regular multiple choice? I ran out of time on the grid-ins and in the end I answered 2 questions and left 4 of them blank.</p>
<p>is there a tinychat or something? Could you guys tell me what you got for the grid ins, I made so many dumb mistakes (I think)- I mean I expected this to be a lot more straightforward, didn’t think I was going to be taking the ACT again</p>
<p>Is it just me or was in the multiple choice but most of the questions had like the same answer 3 or 4 times in a row. Half my answers for the second column were C</p>
<p>I put 100% for the alligator phenotype, BS’d that, 1/16 for the alleles, 1131 for somethhing about capturing, 33% for hardy weinberg I think, 10x the amount for the last one about concentrations.</p>
<p>No answers everybody until 2 days! And only 1 of the grid ins matched my test, so this is a different form.</p>
<p>Is on grid in equal to one multiple choice? I really need to know
thanks guys</p>
<p>Yep they’re weighted the same.</p>
<p>I think most of the people here had Form O.</p>
<p>@carter727 - I’m pretty sure that all questions in section I (MC and Grid ins) are given equal weight.</p>
<p>@thatonedude822 That kind of makes sense because some of the grid ins were really easy, just reading a graph and some of the MC were really hard.
Nobody had Form D??? Only a few people I tested with had the form D, most talked about having the other form. Form D, from what I hear about form O is way easier.</p>
<p>I had form O, and yes, it was easier than I had expected. 100% on the first grid in? I was freaking out… my thoughts, “this is way too easy to be true”</p>
<p>@jonhs123 I had Form O. I think everyone in my testing room did, actually. I haven’t heard anything about Form D. How is it easier?</p>
<p>Exactly, I just started writing and the words poured out, no hesitating, no thinking, I covered every point, there must be some sort of catch to this.</p>