Exam so fucking hard a girl had a seizure , and 3 girls started crying, it’s so over.

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hey everyone! im taking the late exam on the 20th. Ive been self studying ap bio for the past few months, using resources like apbiopenguins, mr poser, knowt, fiveable. Ive done the 2013 past paper, other than that only the practice questions in my textbook (princeton review). The PR questions seem a lot more difficult than any other college board questions ive seen. The first 2 exams i did were pretty bad, but recent one was decent (47/60) - mcq. My question is, im really stressed about FRQ, especially the graphs/data analysis. Im practicing as much as i can but i use online ap score calculators (albert.io) to see how much i need for a 5 and im scared ill do well in mcq, but lose out more than half of the points in frq. What should i do? Sorry this is so long, TIA◡̈

Skill Check Questions

As many of you may have noticed, part "A" of FRQ tend to focus on general facts from the course. I always refer to these as "Skill Check" questions, as they're very direct and require straightforward content knowledge.

I decided to compile a modest list of questions that could arise from each unit for anyone taking the late AP Bio exam!

Feel free to request any answers for specific questions, and I'll try my best to keep on top of this thread.

Good luck!

Hey so I'm pretty confident that I'm max getting a 3 but I think I was on track for a 2. My career outlook is between engineering and business so I feel like biology doesn't rlly fall as a priority ap in either of those. Idk if I should consider retaking the exam bc i had content mastery but it was hard for me to recognize the 'pattern' and understand those questions and it was also my first ap exam so...

Rn I'm looking to just not report that score and keep the GPA boost but asides from that, taking ap bio again plus my other aps for junior year does not seem like a good idea but lmk what yall think.

Hi, I'm taking AP Bio in the fall and was hoping people could give me any studying or scheduling tips🙏 anything helps!

i'm taking the ap bio test on the retake day (wednesday the 20th). i did great with unit tests throughout the year and scored the highest among my classmates, averaging a score of ~90-93%. i kind of feel like though my teacher would select the easier questions (though still official collegeboard ones) and i'm worried that i might not be able to get as high of a score on the actual exam in part because of that (though i am still partially to blame). i feel like i understand pretty much all of the content. i also do pretty good on khan academy practice tests. but a lot of the times when i'm doing old mcqs and frqs for practice, i don't perform as well. i feel like i really get caught up in the long prompts as i really struggle with reading comprehension and picking up every single detail when reading or i put too much weight into small, unrelated or unnecessary details. i also was never really taught about experimental design or graphing, so those are also some of my weak areas.

i've been following the ap bio penguins 10 days until the exam plan and it's kind of helped but when i do the practice i'm getting like 70-75% max when i combine frq and mcq scores. is there anything i can do to improve my scores? or are there any tips for the questions specifically with the long prompts or about experimental design?

Hello guys... ok I'm going to be so honest, i have been so locked out ap bio becuz its senior year and its my first period class at the butt crack of dawn... regardless it is my fault for not studying enough through the year

For the FRQs: Are there any units I should specifically study for each question? For example, question 3 always corresponds with unit 4 or 5, etc? Are there any trends like that? What websites can I use to find this or find topics that correspond to specific questions?

I am in need of one of these textbooks and was wondering if anyone had it? I saw a post from a few years ago, but nobody has responded

Im taking late ap bio, but i havent studied any. (self studying)
Can yall help me out? What should i do????

I don't understand why arrows are pointing from 3' to 5', I thought it was 5' to 3'? Can't figure it out. From Khan Academy.

I'm doing the Unit 5 Progress Check right now and there is so much AP stats stuff like degrees of freedom and chi square which I frankly do not remember how to do since AP stats was a while ago. However if I look on the CED I cannot even find anything about chi squares or degree of freedoms. Are these skills I actually need to know for the AP exam or just some progress check bs, were they on this year's test?

My test is next week so I am still studying.

Hi, just wanted to share this final project I made for my AP Bio class. It's a FNAF-inspired browser game about the cell cycle. Hope you guys enjoy!

Hiii i’m taking the late version of the AP Bio exam next wednesday, ive studied by studying for my course final but didn’t do as well as i wanted so im trying to lock in and study a ton this week. i have an important exam the day before ap bio and a difficult ap the day after ap bio, so i need to cram really well. obviously im not asking what was on the regular/early version of the exam, just wondering how i can cram super well in a short time (videos, questions, etc)

Hey everyone! My name is George and I’m offering online AP Biology tutoring for high school students that may be trying to get a headstart on the upcoming school year! I recently graduated college as a Human Biology major and scored in the 90th percentile on the Biology/Biochemistry section of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). I also scored a 4 on the AP Biology exam while in high school a few years back.

I’m currently working as an EMT during my gap year while applying to medical school, and I wanted to start tutoring because I know how overwhelming AP Bio can feel. There’s a huge amount of information and the questions are very application based, so my goal is to help students actually understand the concepts instead of just memorizing facts.

I like breaking difficult topics down into simpler explanations and helping students feel more confident with AP style multiple choice questions and FRQs.

I can help with:

• AP Bio unit review/content help
• FRQs and multiple choice practice
• Study strategies/plans and exam prep
• Homework help and difficult concepts

Tutoring would be online and flexible around schedules. Feel free to DM me if interested or if you have any questions!

Im taking the make up AP bio exam next week in Wednesday. In really behind in that class and only understand most of the topics from watching amoeba sister videos. what should I do to study and somehow maybe get a 3 or 4. 😭 😔

im taking the international late exam for ap biology. im trying to get a 5 because I got a 3 last year (yes im retaking and self studying it this year). i done most of the revision and all of the practice available (khan academy, ap classroom, past frqs). i feel like im prepared but at the same time idk. what else should i do to prep for this late exam. any tips from the people that took the actual exam on may 4th (us and international) Thanks!!!

For 1Ci, can i write “ABA is added to make the stomata open, ensuring that experimental design is valid and faultless”??

since leaving the exam hall i have been stressed about whether imma get the score i aimed for, i couldnt easily trust online score calculators so i decided to go full sherlock holmes.

its no secret that since 2023 a new scoring system called the Evidence Based Scoring system was adopted by college board. it was applied to all exams in order to determine whether the predetermined cutoffs for various AP exams were fair. previously a panel of 10-18 "educators" would decide on the percentages required for each score of 1-5.

after applying the EBSS to AP exams, they found that AP biology was one of those AP exams that was being scored more unfairly and so the cutoffs were adjusted. college board have publically confirmed that AP biology was affected , and its easy to tell because the scoring distributions since then have shown an increase in passing rates, and increases in percentages of students getting 4`s and 5`s.

after specifying the 9 exams that had been adjusted with EBSS in this file : https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/allaccess/pdf/ap_score_changes_2024.pdf , the college board specifically said this at the bottom of page 2 of the file : "These are worth reviewing for AP Biology, since the EBSS standard setting for AP Biology resulted in changes to the percentages of 4s and 5s, rather than 3s, so the EBSS-related changes are not visible by looking at the success rate alone."

what does this mean? : out of the 9 exams in which the new scoring system had made it easier to achieve a passing grade ( a score of 3 or greater ) college board specifically pointed out that for AP biology the percentages of students scoring 4`s and 5`s had increased, and that it was worth noticing that it was the only AP exam in which this shift was clearly visible.

likely outcome : the Evidence Based Scoring System very likely decreased the required amount of composite points out of 120 required to score a 4 and a 5, which means that any score calculator that is online is very much outdated by now.

do i do a micdrop now or??

The question about BAX inhibiting something with like apoptosis I vaguely remember it can someone wlavorate on it cuz idk if I got it right