<p>I got a 5 and I’m ecstatic, although I seriously have no idea how I got it. I screwed up the chi square analysis completely and randomly made up something for another FRQ because I didn’t know what to do. I also guessed a lot of the MC and changed my answer for the grid-ins a bazillion times. Our school doesn’t offer the AP Bio course and I started studying for AP Bio from the Barron’s book maybe a week before the exam. There are tons of really smart people from my school who were studying for much longer than I was and only got a 4. I didn’t actually even use half the stuff I learnt from the prep books. Maybe I’m just good at inferencing, or had some really darn good luck. Either way, a 4 or a 3 on AP Bio is pretty good considering this year’s curve :)</p>
<p>I got a 5, and I feel extremely lucky. I took AP Statistics this year as well and as a result did not find the Chi-Square / null hypothesis question difficult, but seeing how in my AP Bio class we only briefly dealt with calculating Chi-Square without even discussing the null hypothesis, I can sympathize with those who weren’t as fortunate. I also wonder why the organelle question on the free response was the one with the lowest average score - my guess is that some misread the question and gave possible names for the cells rather than a probable function? It was sort of like Q3 on the World History exam in 2011, the one that talked about the rise of certain empires.</p>
<p>Yup. Might as well enroll in community college buddy!</p>
<p>I got a 4 whic is pretty damn good considering I didn’t do half of the essays</p>
<p>I know that a lot of people had trouble with the FRQs. Does anybody know why they changed the curve so drastically this year?</p>
<p>Probably because college students did so well. The cut-offs for tests is based on the ability of the college students that they had take the test, and probably from seeing some of the tests from those in high-schools. The cut-offs for 5s (and probably for the rest of the scores) were pretty high because of this, yet most high-schoolers were able to meet the cut-off for 3s, but not that high for 5s.</p>
<p>@MedicalBoy you’re probably a frail little boy who is raging over the lack of CB 5s received.</p>
<p>I got a 4 and was devastated since my college only accepts a 5 for credit. After seeing the new score distributions I was hanging onto a frail thread of hope that my college might somehow make an exception this year and take a 4 xD</p>
<p>I feel it is kind of unfair that this year’s test was so different. I took a practice AP from the year before and breezed through effortlessly. I’m conflicted as to whether the higher AP standards are a good thing or a bad thing. </p>
<p>My teacher kept saying how the AP this year was probably even easier since they gave you more time and less MC questions, and I kind of went in expecting that. It wasn’t really easier or harder…just different. You kind of had to think a little more though.</p>
<p>scoring guidelines are up!</p>
<p>So which review book was the best? Barron’s 4th edition or Cliffs 4th edition?</p>
<p>which review book was the best?</p>
<p>Barron’s 4th edition or Cliffs 4th edition? Which is better? Should I wait for the 2014 PR book?</p>