Thoughts on the new AP Bio Exam?

Zoro8888
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:48:26 +0000

No,

it just shows how the AP Biology exam is ludicrously critical thinking+reading based.

They HAD to put more bio stuff in there, I mean literally half of the questions were solvable by my 8th grade brother who’s learning 8th grade science.

But he took a long time to do so.

The test is meant to test your “knowledge” and your ability to “apply that knowledge,” not to read 60 pages of bull shi* and think about it to come up with answers.

The test was filled with questions that can be solved with a little bit of common sense + logical thinking + amazing ability to read SAT Reading passages.

Furthermore, they took out 90% of the curriculum…I read like 40 chapters of Campbell, I regret it so much. I could have read like first 10 chapters still scored a 5 with common sense and patience to read 60 pages worth of useless fuc*ing questions.

While i agree that previous tests were too fact and knowledge based, CB had to be more patient and cautious when making a new fuc*ing test.

They could have
1.shortened the number of questions or lengths of questions
2.put more questions that require some kind of biological knowledge to be applied, not give all the knowledge needed and expect you to critically think about it to come up with answers.
3.turned questions into less FRQ-kind questions, to more MC-kind questions.
4.Gave more than 1 fucing test to study.
5.Included more stuff than fucing competition, evolution and respiration. Include more than 10% of what we learned.
6.Just do better. The test was ****y. I know a person who read a review book and scored same as I did, which is total bull shi and shows how this test has nothing to do with biological knowledge and appliance of it, but just ability to concentrate and think critically for 3 1/2 hours.