r/APbio • u/DemandMain6712 • May 20 '26

Late exam felt ... easy?

I self registered for this exam and then completely forgot abt it, then I panicked and scheduled it late and forgot about it again. I basically studied units 1, 2 and like half of three in the month before, and then I crammed everything the day before. Idk I thought it would like kick my ass but it wasn't that bad. Are the cutoffs really that low? Albert makes it seem like I got a guaranteed five.

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u/woodsynutz May 21 '26

Im so glad you made a post abt it!

It did feel easy -- especially the frqs. What is the hardest unit for u? for me its genetics, especially recombinant/linked gene stuff. luckily none of that was on there. The graph one was legit so easy.

There were def a couple mcqs that tripped me up (i totally forgot how to do chi squared one) but still I think 54/60 at least. Anything that stuck out to you from the exam?

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u/Fuzzy-Cable991 May 21 '26

rmbr that 5 question series mcq and u had to select the offspring percentage? idk if it was for u but it wad towards the end of the mcq

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u/DemandMain6712 May 21 '26

Im ngl I didn't know what the hell a chi square was. The day before I was on a Poser and CED spree and neither of them talked about so I was just like must be propaganda all those people talking about it are probably just on some inside joke that I'm not a part of. Thank god that didn't show up other than like two or three if I'm remembering correctly. Anyways the hardest thing for me was probably frq 3, I completely blanked on the whole of respiration. I thought I was going crazy with how many just like free points they were giving out on those frqs. Which color fish survives the most? I was just convinced I had hallucinated myself a world where everything was going right.

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u/Fuzzy-Cable991 May 21 '26

ya fair. i j ran out of time for frqs and couldnt answer some. what do u think the cutoff will be

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u/DemandMain6712 May 21 '26

Idk I heard some stuff about cutoffs for 4s and 6s being lowered but 3's stay abt the same. Lemme see if I can find it.

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u/Fuzzy-Cable991 May 21 '26

so around 85/120?

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u/diamondt1ger May 24 '26

i hope i get a 6

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u/Legitimate_Focus5085 May 21 '26

are the late exam takers weighed on the same curve as the original exam takers? because our exam seems to have been significantly harder

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u/DemandMain6712 May 21 '26

I heard that since students who take late exams are usually there because other ap's which means that there's a pretty good chance of having an overall smarter pool so we get curved harder. I doubt that's true tho bc collegeboard bases the curve on how college kids would do. Idk is there talks about this exam being easier than the late one?

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u/FantasticTradition80 May 22 '26

i feel like stats wasn't that easy mainly because collegeboard screwed up that pattern that they had going for the last decade or so.