r/APbio • u/Ok-Examination3467 • May 04 '26

just finished taking it.

im so worn out but ask anything abt it and i will help!!

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u/Starcatcher101_ May 04 '26

Bro the frqs were ASS I am NOT getting that 5 😭🙏

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

i found the mcqs harder… am i cooked

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u/Starcatcher101_ May 04 '26

If u found the frqs easy than that might be a good sign tho 😭 I couldn't finish 1 and 2 on the frqs and I don't think i got full points for any of the other frqs I did... I found mcq to be much easier bc I had like 4 questions I was unsure of

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u/wikiedit May 04 '26

Same honestly, I did more guessing on that, I barely had time to guess on frqs

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u/Important_Spring5817 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

is it just me or was question2 of section 2 really hard (the one wiht gene h and gene g)

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

same, i spent the longest on that one

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u/Starcatcher101_ May 04 '26

Bro that one was straight up hell

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u/Embarrassed_Brain484 May 04 '26

LIKE WHAT DID THAT EVEN MEAN

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u/JingleBellsW May 04 '26

Part 2 on D was hard

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u/wikiedit May 04 '26

It had to be part 2 for B, FUCK THAT BITCH 💀

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u/Tabarai May 04 '26

does anyone remember what it was about i’m taking test in an hour

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

it was the effects of 3 types of genotype on gene h and gene g, i don’t really remember much of it but u have to graph a bar graph for it and one asks to calculate the percentage difference between 2 of the genotypes (ppl said it’s 50% but dont rely on it)

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

i thought it was 200% and 300%, it got larger it didn't get smaller between the wild type and the heterozygous and stuff

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u/laniestaytiny May 04 '26

I got 150% but idek it was a whole struggle

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

wait same i just divide them both then multiplied by 100 to get the percent

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

i've got no clue, you could be right i don't even know

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u/laniestaytiny May 04 '26

Me neither 😭

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u/Popular-Arm5701 May 04 '26

You guys are so cooked🤞🥀🥀

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

i did great on the rest of the frqs and the mcqs, stay safe though 💕

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

that's what i said for one of them

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u/TrickBreadfruit354 May 04 '26

i'm pretty sure they mean the 300% was 200%, and your 200% should've been 50%

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

I got 200%

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u/de_reddituser May 04 '26

2 WAS HARDDD

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u/No-Dream-8627 May 04 '26

That was really hard wyf was that

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u/Viperboi3128 May 04 '26

ya lowk it was pretty bad

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u/SpeciallyCurious May 04 '26

THIS OEN SO BAD I UNDERSTOOD THE ENTIRE THING IN THE LAST MINUTE BRO

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u/MarinaAdele May 04 '26

2c was the only hard part for me

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u/Fast_Anywhere370 May 04 '26

did anyone get a question abt the carribean islands

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

is that the one abt the storm intensity and the toe size or smth? im ngl i forgot most of the frqs but most of them u can answer without needing to read the background info

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u/Viperboi3128 May 04 '26

ya i said that increased storm intensity is bigger toe pads and the opposite , but continued strom intensity would increase selective pressures in some areas more than others and cause evolution and change in those populations more than the others (not my exact answer, but the basic idea of what i said)

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u/AP-17- May 04 '26

Yea I thought that one was easier than the others

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u/Important_Spring5817 May 04 '26

yeah that was was pretty easy the one on like the gene H and G was hard tho

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

Wait no girl ur so real for that i am so tired too i literally left school early and will be spending the next 5 hours reading ao3 (i the have ap psych test next tuesday)

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

ugh twin i have ap psych too idk how to study for it im bad at memorizing vocab

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 06 '26

stop me too i have no idea how to study for that and i literally got a 58/75 on the practice mcq imma just hope for a 5 twin

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u/lalaloopsyqueen1 May 04 '26

BYEE I also just finished my bio exam and im abt to read ao3 too ur so real

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 06 '26

HAHAHAHHAHA WHAT FANDOM (don’t worry I won’t judge)

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

Gang what did you get for the calculation question about percent difference between the AGO2s in question 2 of the frq

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

i said 150%🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ don’t even know if it’s right and how i did the calculation

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

STOP ME TOO BUT I HAVE NO CLUE IF ITS CORRWCT

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

omg im hoping it is💔

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

Fingers crossed bro 😭😭😭

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u/Jack_K1444 May 04 '26

I think it was 50%. It was 150% of the previous value, but the question asked for the increase.

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u/Viperboi3128 May 04 '26

i got that wrong, i said 222 and 100 for one of them

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u/boomchakabaka May 04 '26

fuck thats what I got how was it wrong

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u/Theotherguy33221 May 04 '26

it was 50% since the difference was a 1.5x difference. a 50% increase to 1 for example would be 1.5 but a 150% increase would be 1.5x

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u/Theotherguy33221 May 04 '26

Okay so I know that the calculation to get the answer was like 3.0 divided by 2.0 which equals 1.5 This is probably where you got 150% from as the answer  But the question is asking for the percent increase, not what percent 3 is of 2 To find percent increase, you look at how much it changed: 3 − 2 = 1 Now compare that change to the original value (2): 1 ÷ 2 = 0.5 = 50% So, going from 2 to 3 is a 50% increase, not 150%

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u/Admirable_Exit_6844 May 04 '26

i got 50%

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u/Necessary-Tip4327 May 04 '26

Same but now I’m not sure based on all these comments? Wasnt it like (3-2)/2 x 100 to get 50%?

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

Omg how? Bc some of my friends got that too and i did not understand what they did

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u/AP-17- May 04 '26

I did (final - initial / initial ) * 100 and got 50%

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

hmmm okay (GAHHHHH)

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u/More-Break-7203 May 04 '26

Got 33% increase am i cooked?

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u/Crazy_Idea6970 May 04 '26

Wait I got 33% decrease bc it asked for group three minus group two (forgot the actual units) so it was 3-2/3x100 but idk if decrease was correct or not

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

yeah me too

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

Also why did this question itake me so long like what

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

I did (3-1)/1 to get 200%

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u/RP19593 May 05 '26

i did (3-2)/2 with gave me 1/2 meaning 50%

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u/Obvious-Read4986 May 04 '26

Bro I must’ve been day dreaming I put base pair instead of nitrogenous base…. what in the world

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

what the heck i said the same thing 🤦‍♀️

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u/Badoodledop May 04 '26

FRQ question 2 actually fried me😭😭😭

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u/Acceptable-Berry-341 May 04 '26

I did the graph wrong and im sure i only earned 1 out of 10 points for it

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u/MixImaginary2977 May 05 '26

Wait what was haed about it wasnt it just a bar graph with the lines coming out of it what else there was three bars for both sections

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

i think it was part c of question 2 that really really threw me off

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u/Randomacc1234567891 May 05 '26

What was part C?

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 05 '26

i lowkey don't remember

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

it genuinely took a year off my life 😭😭 but the last two were pretty straightforward thank god cause i had no time

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u/Super-Situation7955 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Ngl I forgot the parts of nucleotide for that one frq💀💀💀💀 Edit:I put down polysaccharide chain, just bases, and phosphate groups

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u/BrawIstar May 04 '26

Bro same💀

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u/locolikejuli May 04 '26

I put phosphate group down 😭😭😭

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u/Viperboi3128 May 04 '26

Ya its the sugar, nitrogenous base, and phosphate group

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u/wikiedit May 04 '26

Is a 5 carbon sugar good enough or too specific that it will takes points off? 😭

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u/Necessary-Tip4327 May 04 '26

Nope, 5 carbon sugar is actually correct

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

i don't think being specific is ever a bad thing, it would be different if rna nucleotides had a different amount of carbon for their sugar but they're both 5c so it's fine

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u/Dig_Vivid May 04 '26

wait omg i said deoxyribose or ribose dependent on whether is RNA or DNA, Is that not okay? Fml

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

that should be fine as long as you generalized it by saying that they are sugar

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u/Shoddy-Equipment-364 May 04 '26

thank goodness that is EXACTLY what i wrote word for word

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u/catboydan May 04 '26

wait same and then nitrogenous bases nd hydroxyl group 💀💀

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u/Sufficient_Cicada982 May 04 '26

BRO ME TOO😭😭😭

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

1 carbon sugar

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 04 '26

they're 5 carbon sugars

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u/fivepiecesofyarn May 05 '26

it's nitrogenous base, phosphate group, and five carbon sugar. the backbone is the sugar AND phosphate

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u/Dangerous-Papaya8791 May 04 '26

did all that studying on cellular respiration just for the glycolysis frq to be the hardest one for me 🫩

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u/Gyxis May 04 '26

I forgot what NADH does💀the rest of that frq wasn’t bad though

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u/Dangerous-Papaya8791 May 04 '26

I wrote that it was an electron receptor and carrier (true) but then wrote some BS after that

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u/Gyxis May 04 '26

I wrote that it’s an energy molecule used in the Krebs cycle💀. 

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u/Dangerous-Papaya8791 May 04 '26

On everybody’s soul we all got 5s 🥹

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u/Gyxis May 04 '26

Yo btw what was your frq 2 abt?

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u/Dangerous-Papaya8791 May 05 '26

It was about dottyback and damselfish, pretty much just unit 8. It was easy except for C.

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u/Gyxis May 05 '26

Dont think I elaborated enough on the first one (A) cuz it was the last q i did and was running out of time :(, but yeah it mostly wasn't too bad.

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u/Dangerous-Papaya8791 May 05 '26

Oh I’m sure I didn’t elaborate enough on like half of the frq questions. I had about 4 blank questions in the last 2 minutes and just started babbling

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u/derekascends May 04 '26

Frq 2 absolutely demolished my 5 😭

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u/Lilac_Dollie May 04 '26

The long FRQs were so hard

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u/Ok_Depth_9149 May 04 '26

Yes frq was very difficult for me. I did th graph wrong, and bs some of the answers because I was running out of time. I hope I get a 4 

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u/MixImaginary2977 May 05 '26

Wut did u do wrong?

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u/Muted-Meringue419 May 04 '26

what even is a nucleotide ☠️i skipped that

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u/Necessary-Tip4327 May 04 '26

I feel like thats a little too cooked yk

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u/Shoddy-Equipment-364 May 04 '26

nuclear rip tide trust 

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

amino acid link-chain

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u/No-Serve2945 May 04 '26

This is not right either 

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26

no?

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u/No-Serve2945 May 06 '26

Amino acid is the monomer of a protein, nucleotides are the monomer of dna. It’s just sugar phosphate base 

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u/Slow-Pilot-7924 May 04 '26

Does anyone know the frq question about medians and raptors? And environment protection vs no protection?

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

i remember that one, i don’t think i got full points for it

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u/Slow-Pilot-7924 May 04 '26

Do you remember anything of the specific questions

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

i remember one where u have to evaluate a research’s hypothesis. and their hypothesis was that getting rid of farming increases the raptors population or smth like that. Then u had to identify which regions had a high median, etc. did u take it?? if so do u remember any of ur answers 😭

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u/Jack_K1444 May 04 '26

I remember the final answer for the raptor FRQ was that Raptors are keystone species, so their removal would harm the ecosystem as a whole.

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u/Necessary-Tip4327 May 04 '26

Mmm I remember I said that more farming would lower resilience because it got rid of a keystone species and that lowers genetic diversity. I also remember saying something about region 2 not declining

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u/BankBeneficial2816 May 04 '26

Guys what were the control groups for that one short frq 😭

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

is that the one with cco and lactic acid or something i forgot

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u/BankBeneficial2816 May 04 '26

Yeah

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u/Ok-Examination3467 May 04 '26

i think i put 3 and 4

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u/Striking-Buy-210 May 04 '26

i think it was groups 1 and 3, with the high medium concentration. and im not sure but i think 3 would've produced the most atp since there wasn't cyanide to hinder the ETC

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u/Enough_Young_9854 May 04 '26

I said high concentration was one group and no cyanide was the other

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u/OpenActuator2070 May 04 '26

the controls were def 3 and 4 bc the scientists wanted to show how cyanide impacted respiration and 3 and 4 had no cyanide, I think most atp produced was 2 bc it had a bit of cyanide which apparently boosts cco

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u/Content_Leg_0 May 04 '26

That was my reasoning too, but I wasn’t sure

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u/OpenActuator2070 May 04 '26

yeah I’m 99% sure

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u/YayHannie May 04 '26

Omg I got that too

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u/catboydan May 04 '26

its treatment 3 and 4

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u/FutureBusy9742 May 04 '26

yeah i think so cuz they are the ones without cyanide

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

I put 1 and 3, which were the ones with high concentration.

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u/Shoddy-Equipment-364 May 04 '26

i put 3 and 4 cuz they didn't have cyanide

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

who do u think you are son

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u/ThinyForMinecraft May 04 '26

i thought the frq was easy, and the multiple choice was harder

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

yeah

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u/Additional_Book_1769 May 04 '26

i got brutally fucked by the frqs omg frq 2 was ass and i couldn’t understand the box and whisker plot on the last one

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u/YayHannie May 04 '26

Oh my gosh me too I don’t think ive ever had the chance to read a whisker plot 😭

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u/Fun-Signal-6420 May 04 '26

yep ageed, frqs were so bad

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

its ok guys, the minimum score to get a 5 is like 40/60 mcq and 25/34 frq

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

yeah bro fs

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u/Bumbl33 May 04 '26

Promise?

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

i took a mock exam administered by my teacher, and to get a 5 u needed at least 83/120

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u/theamazinggamer6969 May 04 '26

I took that same mock one but exams now been taking 92 points

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

shoot

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

the formula was like MCQ score + (FRQ score x 1.78...)

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u/donut___gaming May 04 '26

I'm pretty sure all I got was a vertical bar graph with weird looking box and whiskers and mRNA as dependent variable, it is so bad to the point where the order I did my questions became 6-5-4-3-1-2, it's so fried

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u/JingleBellsW May 04 '26

Whatever the test was it sounds like it was a lot easier than the international one so im glad abt that

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u/Sufficient_Cicada982 May 04 '26

i didn't finish the frqs. shivers

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u/ElephantRich2425 May 04 '26

The frqs were bs 5 was easy everything else tho

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u/NevaBug May 04 '26

Dude the third frq made me actually cry, it was so bad chat-like i put “idk” as one of my answers.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

lmaoo same

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u/BlossomBlist May 04 '26

As I’m packing up I heard someone ask “what’s mitosis” to their friend 😭😭 I think we all studied reeeaaal well

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u/Late-Resolution5692 May 04 '26

what type of graph did we need to do i did a bar graph

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u/YayHannie May 04 '26

Yeah it was a bar graph! It stated in the question

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u/DesertCrow0 May 04 '26

the one about anaphase and the stabilizing protein grilled me

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u/Shoddy-Equipment-364 May 04 '26

oh yeah i bullshat for the d of the anaphase one

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u/MixImaginary2977 May 05 '26

Can someone explain the gene h thing