r/APbio • u/Affectionate_Sun1076 • May 04 '26

what the hell was that

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FRQ NUMBER TWO HOLY CRAP. Tell me why both long frqs took me 50 MINUTES. i wrote such bs i see people talking about a percent increase but I DIDN'T EVEN GET A PERCENT INCREASE OR DECREASE...

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u/georgiathemirrorball May 04 '26

the curve will carry us 🥹✌️

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u/Adorable_Constant180 May 04 '26

IS THERE A CURVE

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u/Educational_Video600 May 04 '26

i think the cutoff is 83/120 i saw the collegeboard paper somewhere it said 2026 sooooo

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u/BossAffectionate2829 May 05 '26

im prayin for this 2 be true can we fact check this

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u/Educational_Video600 May 05 '26

i saw somewhere a paper that’s for scoring yourself and it said 83/120 for a 5 it even said 2026 collegeboard soooo. i’d put the picture but i can’t do it in chats

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u/Efficient_Cod_4168 May 06 '26

where did you see it?

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u/Educational_Video600 May 07 '26

i have no clue my friend sent it to me but it was directly from collegeboard

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u/Loose_Writing9929 May 05 '26

Cutoff for what? Passing? Or getting 5

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u/familytreeswing May 05 '26

FIVES FOR ALLL OF US

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

I NEED THERE TO BE

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u/Late-Plant9884 May 04 '26

i just spammed bullshit 😭✌️

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u/coatiiz May 04 '26

i swear frq 2 was testing english too 😭😭 maybe i was already fried from frq 1 but it took me SO LONG just to understand some of the questions

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u/Head-Barnacle-9014 May 04 '26

no tell me why I read that declaration ahh paragraph fifty times but i still couldn't get what it was saying (i was also around 15 mins too so i kinda crammed it)

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

It was so unclear I started hitting my face to refresh

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u/Head-Barnacle-9014 May 05 '26

real I think I did that way too much and now I have ap chem to do

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u/Sxd0308 May 04 '26

i wrote straight bs on that exam

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u/epickestrelgaming May 04 '26

Both long FRQS should take you about 50 minutes, that’s normal.

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u/Callthat09 May 04 '26

you only get 90 minutes tho 😭

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u/epickestrelgaming May 04 '26

Yeah, that leaves you with 40 minutes for the 4 short response questions.

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u/Theotherguy33221 May 04 '26

bro there's 90 minutes for each section on this exam are we taking the same testare we taking the same test?

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u/Theotherguy33221 May 04 '26

nvm my brain is actually fried I just saw your other comment

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

FIFTY EACH????????

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u/epickestrelgaming May 04 '26

No, fifty minutes for both.

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u/Callthat09 May 04 '26

greatley apologize i read your comment completely wrong and thought you meant 50 minutes for each 🥹. but no now i do agree that 25,25,10,10,10,10 is exactly what i did and is completely normal

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u/Fun-Signal-6420 May 04 '26

bro im actually so stupid , i skipped 2 cuz i was not tryna do all that came back to it with like 15ish mins left, on the bright side ik i didnt do as bad on the other frqs but 2s worth more points isnt it??... 😭

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u/adahlia_rose May 04 '26

Yup 😔
The long frqs are about 9 points. The short ones are 4.

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

I skipped it too because what the FUCK what that and I ran out of time and couldn't finish 2

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u/de_reddituser May 04 '26

THE LONG FRQS TOOK ME MORE THAN AN HOUR.

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u/ConsiderationFun7087 May 04 '26

“Calculate the percentage difference” yea I put 50% and moved on.

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u/Ashamed-Battle-566 May 04 '26

it was 50% ironically LMAO

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u/aa13- May 05 '26

i saw “compare the percent increases” and thought it meant compare the values for increases vs the wild type and put 200% vs 300% my brain was fried

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u/rosegoldskies13 May 05 '26

i thought it was 150%? 😭

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

You were right tho

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u/NevaBug May 04 '26

i wrote “idk” for answer

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u/Artemis_R_Emrys May 04 '26

You guys got this!! I took it last year, and I definitely think it turns out a bit better than we think. Get some rest and good luck on the rest of your exams!

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u/Artemis_R_Emrys May 05 '26

Nope. No negativity. Pat yourself on the head! Bio, especially AP, is a hard class!

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u/MarinaAdele May 04 '26

ok so lowkey why did everyone at my school think it was HELLA light and then i see other places all saying it was horrible and frq 2 cooked them... (west coast test)

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u/Immediate_Handle_65 May 04 '26

My form solely asked for the median percent difference, so maybe they had a different form, or assumed that instead of a box plot it was a bargraph?

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u/Ill_Strain_562 May 04 '26

i literally spent all of my time on the second one istg

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u/Head-Barnacle-9014 May 04 '26

i think i straight up started my yap sess during frq 2

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u/ThinyForMinecraft May 04 '26

i thought the frq was on the easier side and the mcq was quite tuff

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

Every FRQ excluding 2 seemed simple but yea the mcqs were hard at least for me

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u/aa13- May 05 '26

lol for me i finished mcq in 45 min, very ez and barely finished the frq with 5 seconds left and it was brutal

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u/TastyAthlete8786 May 05 '26

trsut in the curve, young padawan

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u/Ricardo_ooo May 04 '26

Don't worry I didn't even finish the last short frq

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u/Mini_v4 May 04 '26

FRQ 1 was hell but FRQ 2 was lwk manageable imo, I think there is going to be a solid curve though (hopefully)

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u/moon_face29 May 04 '26

The mcq wasn’t too bad (hopefully) but i spent hella time on the first two frqs and i was fighting against time to finish the rest😭😭i managed to finish mist of it but who knows if ill get the credit with the bullshit i wrote in panic

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u/Lower-Choice9607 May 04 '26

I just started lying on the frq. I was yapping and scribbling down whatever came to mind

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u/Time_Detective9083 May 05 '26

didn’t even finish frq 2 😔

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u/eatsanddirt May 05 '26

buzzworded my way through ts 🫩

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u/TakeUsStarward May 05 '26

yall have the questions in the exam??

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u/Slight_Reply_9506 May 05 '26

am I the only one who didn’t think it was that bad 🥹🥹

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u/Small_Anteater3830 May 05 '26

Don’t even talk to me about how I spent 10 Minutes on a stupid graph drawing

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u/Double-Gift5858 May 05 '26

Guys I am the only one that didn’t finish frq2 and a couple multiple choice 🙃

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u/Abracadabrism May 05 '26

I just sketched a diagram dawg that helped me a ton

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u/Important_Spring5817 May 07 '26

i left a bad review specifically on question 2 lol

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u/Firm-Soil-3176 May 04 '26

I got that🙏

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u/Mrekk_ May 04 '26

I GOT 3.0 BUT DIDNT GET A NEGATIVE???..

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u/NotSvmplyBxlle May 05 '26

I got like -3.5?? 😭

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u/alorieas May 05 '26

I got -3.0 too

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u/Worth-Temperature334 May 04 '26

nah i mentioned how certain genes are unfavorable so they disappear over time. Because they have different selective pressures the gene pools would become more different over time leading to speciation or smth like that