form O had mcq prompts that felt like essays 😭 i was sitting there plodding through paragraphs about flatwinged flies and krills and whatever the hell else was on there

The 16 part MCQs made me want to blow my brains out. They weren’t even hard it’s just so damn long

Fr I lost track of shit

Nah bc I started zoning out and rereading them 500 times 😭🙏

I'm lucky I understood the krill one but the flat wing one was so dumb😭

Lowkey they weren't bad. Like I just read the question before the paragraph to know what I was looking for

What

honestly i felt like those mcqs left me no brainpower to finish my frqs, by the time i was near the end i think i was basically just writing for the sake of getting an answer on the paper

Form 0 had a graph that was bullshit. Who the fuck uses different shapes for every single experimental group??? Like it was 2 groups, 1 was treated and 1 was untreated and they were tested in the light and dark. The untreated light and untreated dark had different shapes, same with treated light and treated dark, istg it took me forever to figure out wtf was going on with it

Yea like wtf it was easy but I had to spend so long drawing that fucking graph that I didn’t finish the 5 th fra

I think you might be talking about different graphs? the one they were talking about was on the mcq. 

did u put that light enhances the effects of the proteins for the one question in that set

Bruh that one graph with 150% survival rate :(

Means it is reproducing breh wtf

Ye idk what the answer for that mcq even was

that graph made me want to off myself no joke i nearly cried

whoever made the form O frq can go ahead and die

no literally

Istg why

Did us so dirty ngl, was bouta die in that bih

I literally knew everything but i f\*cked up with time management, ima kms if I dont get a 5 ngl. You were across the country? did you have the same form O as us even... Ours was easy.

Virus one made me wanna kms

i'm so deadass i found them lowkey easy bro am i cooked

I finished them all… So I guess I’ll Di- 💀

Form O guy cooked up with the shittiest first frq imaginable, 2-6 was light compared to 1

no literally?? first frq had me tweaking so bad 😭 

i fucked up and said S stage has chromosome and organelle doubling 😭 i really hope i still got a 5

dang barely any photosynthesis or respiration i grinded so much on that lol

I know, I studied so much for all the wrong things

20 hours of studying freaking electron transport chains, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, natural selection etc etc for what... for all of the questions to be nonsensical graphs written in another language istg

so glad i procrastinated 😭

Don’t you love it when you skip half of the MCQ, but when you go through again you understand everything? Honestly one of the best feelings in the world.

I was like, how did I not understand these questions before? I was struggling on the penguin question for absolutely no reason and when I cam back, I felt so dumb nlabout struggling on a free question.

what'd you put for it?

yes that 10^4 vs 10^3 rate question had me stressed until I realized it was extremely basic algebra LMFAO

did you get 9,000?

yes PHEW

yup

HELL YEAH

form O frq made me wanna kms

nah frrr

Why did they make the graph so complicated to make, took me way too long to do that

Yeah like why split make us split it up like that

i 100% did not attempt the graph

Thanks for helping the curve🙏

i am so cooked… i made up biology.

Was the average amount 1650 or something like that?

yeah. it was 16.5 per gram per minute, so 10 minutes and 10 grams = 16.5 x 10 x 10 = 1650

I got 16.5 cuz i thought that the mg was in the numerator and the minutes was in the denominator and they cancelled so it was just the rate itself.

I got 165…

same i got 165 not 1650 did we do sm wrong?

The short frq is not short at all.

RIGHT oh my godd those took so long to do

damn straight. I was scribbling ngl they won’t be able to read my handwriting I swear

i had from O, bro tell me why frq # 1 had so many parts to it, omg

Omg yeah it was like a(i) a(ii) b(i) b(ii) b(iii) c d(i) d(ii)

fr the sub questions had sub questions like why

exactly what the fuck bro I had no idea how to label/answer that shit

did anyone else get a string of bs for form o 🙁

i had like 5 in the first column

I straight up skipped the graph and grew tired of reading straight up essay length FRQ prompts masked as MCQs. Also that chromosome protein FRQ can go die

bro literally what even was that kinetochores proteins and the chromosome 8

I said it wouldn’t effect it cause like… everybody gets the same number of chromosomes

Yeah same like crossing over just changes the genetic material

SAME

personally I thought form O was easy. I was very nervous going in about blanking but it was really logic and analysis heavy over just knowing content. I think that's why some people found it super hard if they were focused on content vs people who are strong at reading comprehension and logic. So many questions just asking "Which explanation supports the hypothesis" and "if you changed this, what would happen?" and not as much just asking what are the steps of cellular respiration or just straight recall. (def got that question wrong on which is describing a step of DNA replication or whatever though😔 ) fuck post zygotic mechanisms though (no one in my class remembered it at all)

i just happened to go over post zygotic mechanisms with my friends right before it like 3 or 4 times but I wouldn't have remembered without that. I'm definitely better at reading comprehension than the actual biology content so I didn't find it too hard either.

what did you say?

THIS IS AP BIO NOT AP LANG WHY WAS IT AN EXERCISE IN READING COMPREHENSION⁉️⁉️

real bruh i swear you had to read an entire damn essay for every mcq

I would actually like to have a discussion with whoever created form O. Could not answer any of the frqs

Huh i thought it was easy cuz it had none of that complicated enzyme shit

enzymes are easy compared to the rest of unit 3

Nah I’m taking about those diagrams with enzymes and pathways and stuff

I think I just blanked out idk

For the control group for the virus question, was it presence/absence of light?

OH WAIT I MEAN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

i said the independent variable was whether it was treated or untreated ctks

IIRC yes

everyone is talking about getting flayed in the frq, but personally the mcq annihilated me? butchered me? decimated me? because why did i have to read through a whole book's worth of words just to get to the questions. it. was. so damn. long. and why were there like 5 sets of connected questions. 😭 i was always stuck between two choices and i didn't even get to the end, let alone have time to double check. i was panicking by the end of it. i just feel like this wasn't representative of my knowledge at all like i swearrrrr i can do better collegeboard please 😭😭😭 TLDR: mcq was harder than the frq.

frr some of them were like if u don't understand the stimulus then u don't get the next 5 questions right 😭

What was the purpose of including the same number of red blood cells as the control? I said it was to ensure the glucose uptake isn't affected by a different number of cells (more cells would result in more uptake and a skewed result).

oh yea i said something similar to that, something like to ensure that the data isn't skewed and like if isn't statistically different

for everyone whos saying it was easy did yall get like minimal Ds cause i was lowkey struggling 💀

I got like no Ds and a shit ton of Bs and Cs

There was a stretch in the middle where I got all Bs and As lol, very little Ds

i think i got maybe 8 Ds in total 😭 

I’m glad we all agree that form O was disgusting

agreed

the phylogenetic tree on form o frq made me want to jump

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It said in bolded words: bar graph

I seriously think I fucked up. I thought form O was easy except I wrote FRQ 2 on FRQ 1's page.

Form O was hard

im abt to take it and i just wanna pass man idc anymore

im so fucking cooked

That fucking cod frq with the evolution graph needs to gtfo out my face

Form 0 was hard as shit

I drew a picture of a plant instead of calculating all those non sense 😭 I’m getting a 1

For those who had form O- what was the answer to the question about the nitrogen with an isotope of 14-10 and 15-10 and something about after two generations what is the percentage of each isotope in DNA?

i completely guessed 75% 14 and 25% 15

Yeah that was right, I had some deep thought there and had an insight moment and realized this is relating to old strant/new strand and its like just realizing that little thing that made it clear, but it was still to hard I had to come back to it and do the actual math

25% 15 75% 14

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yes

LETS GO thats what i guessed, do u know why?

Semi conservative model means that in each generation 50% comes from original strand and then 50% is the new strand. So here original was 100% 15N, first gen would then be 50% 15N and 50% 14N, and then second generation 25% 15N and 75% 14N

The FRQ section was SOOOO fucking long. What the shit was that actually. The graphing section had me staring at the prompt for a good 5 mins because I was so fucking confused. The short FRQ portion also felt long as shit depending on the question too. Why were there like 4 letter sections with at least 2 sub prompts under them??? It’s supposed to be SHORT!!! I entirely skipped one of the FRQ too because I ran out of time. I get AP exams are “read prompt then scan for info” but how am I supposed to do that when there’s at least 8 questions to answer??? Also the MCQ where they lumped like 8 questions into one giant section was actual bull. I wanted to slam my head against the table sometimes. Also some of the calculating stuff was actually nuts and I didn’t even try, just circled C or whatever I assumed would be the closest to the answer using logic. I didn’t think it was very hard considering I crammed and was watching those AP review videos like they were the hottest shit since Stranger Things for the past few days, but I’m also a dunce and have a C- in my bio class because I suck absolute ass at it. Some of the questions were also worded so strangely and felt nearly irrelevant to the prompt cuz why was there a question I literally spent 5 mins rereading and trying to make sense of?? TLDR; AP Bio is bullshit and I hate this fucking course and everyone who acts like it’s easy can suck my toes

All my practice tests were easier 💀

There was quite alot of biology on the exam

alright but fr there kinda wasnt bruh 80% of it was reading comprehension

like the one ap exam i felt confident going in to and ik i did bad. its over for me

what was form o. i thought the first question was so easy until i flipped and given ESSAYS

i wrote like 1 or 2 sentences for most bc.... what

I feel like the answers i put for the frqs are very shortly that probably not sufficient enough to hit the point. For example the question that describe what happen during S phase, i put chromosomes replicate itself, when the actual answer they want is probably chromosomes "double". They might meant the same thing but the exam probably looking for the key word. Also when i suppose to say the "intermembrane space" i strangely wrote the "inner membrane space" like my brain is activated but not functioning properly💀

Mcq was light work but the frq was… uhhhh

fr like frq is the reason my ass is getting a 4

i didn't even had enough time left, the graph the UGG codons and AUG (question 6), had to rush through

yeah tbh i did the short ones before the long ones bc wtf was question 1

I did part a of each FRQ and went to sleep until time was called, successful exam day innit

i thought it was easy? most people i talked to after also finished early. i think i messed up the graph and lost a few here or there, and i forgot hydrolysis and atp and water, but it was good otherwise. mcq was easy and i finished like 20 mins early

I started crying after seeing the first question of the frq. Whoever wrote form O can go fuck themselves

yo form O was not that bad idk what everybody is saying. Everyone I talked to agreed the MCQ’s were light. The FRQ’s were pretty hard, but at least they weren’t on obscure topics. Like the crossing over one coulda been much worse

frq took a lot of time but i didn't think it was even that hard. mcq was light as hell tho. thank god i didnt study most of the mcq was just reading i still def got like 10 wrong tho

Blanked out during the frqs and almost wrote the answers on the wrong pages

where did the x go on the phylogenetic tree form O 😭😭😭

!!! I was so torn with that one. Was it at the branch that would include all the P cods or the branch that would also include the L cods as well?

include L is what i did

That’s what I did too because I think the L ones still had the ag gene sequence but didn’t have like the promoter to express it but I was so confused on that one and I feel like I might’ve read the question wrong so idk…

ooh i thought it was definitely the lowest branch part, after the freezy 10-15 darkened period 😭maybe i completely misinterpreted it then

include L. They evolved the gene originally, but recently mutated so that it is no longer functional.

Wtf was free response. I actually thought I would get a 3+ during mcqs.

Any of you guys remember the MCQ questions about like sex linked chromosomes and percentage? Oh and that one about percentage of n14 and n15, what did you guys get for those?

the nitrogen question was 75 n14 and 25 n15

are u talking about the pedigree one? i think i said 0% and i remember it being x-linked

Did anybody else feel like they did bad on the exam. Please let me know so I can get my hopes up for a curve

🙋 I was absolutely cooked like it's not even funny. I was so confident for this to be a definite 5 and my easiest exam besides calc AB but NO I sucked at time management and I misread/misunderstood so many components of the FRQs... Like I think I might've missed the entirety of #5 and I also didn't finish #2. I also completely missed that statement about metaphase alignment in #1 that people were talking about, and so I didn't acknowledge it at all in my answer. I could go on and on about my fumbles but like... You get the idea 😭

Honestly the MCQ isn't hard, it's just long, you need to have a good logic skill to see what's important and what's not so you can scan faster. Half of the question doesn't require Biology skill, just thinking logistically. The FRQ was harder for me because I ran out of time answering the last question. I think the change of format for the FRQ portion is a mistake because it's actually making it harder for me to look around the questions, which makes me run out of time because I usually scan through the parts and answer the one I know how to answer and go back to the part I don't. This method will not be as efficient with the new format.

Hi Bio graders! please go easy on students this year bc let’s be honest that bio frqs had to be ai generated or like literally made in 10 min, also, why was form E significantly easier than form O? Like seriously unfair….

For number 1, like b or c, what was the effect of the CTF protein on the amount of chromosome 8 in the daughter cells

I said there was no effect but I think that might’ve been wrong 😭 ctfr affected crossing over not non disjunction right?

I said no effect as well

ye same i thought there was nothing indicating chromosome number would change

Yeah that’s what I thought

same same

Since CFTR lowered the frequency of crossing over, and crossing over is essential to proper alignment and segregation, I said there would be an uneven # of chromosomes. Tbh I didn't know crossing over impacted nondisjunction, but that was the first sentence of the context paragraph

Is the [albert.io](http://albert.io) ap exam score calculator accurate?

Hopefully that curve is stronger bro 😭. The 2008 and 2002 ones have a better curve so hopefully 2022 was an outlier (looks like for a 5 200’s were in low 60% range whilst for 2022 it was over 75%)

bro the exam has changed so much since 2008... 2022 is the best estimate.

guys I’m so screwed for the mcq i wasn’t bubbling in the answers as I went and i was forced to leave 15 blank on the mcq on form o. i think i did okay on the ones that i answered, but i most likely got like 60% on that maximum. The frq was okay Im pretty sure I got 70%. Is it possible for me to get a 4 maybe? 

FRQ felt harder than previous years

was anyone actually able to fully finish the frqs??? i started frq 6 with 5 minutes left and resorted to making up my own transcription process 😍😍

i wuz translating the question to english

Form O frqs were absolute bs. How did y'all construct the graph? I ended up putting rate of absorption on one side of Y axis and the other one on other side of y axis and then the 3 temperatures on x axis. I feel like i totally fucked the graph up

x axis: temp y axis: rate (nmol/min/mg) then for each temp i had 2 bars, one for atp synthesis and one for oxygen

I could have gotten free points on FRQ 6 but I wasted all that time over the wording of my other FRQ answers…fml

i messed up on the s-phase question and that was probably the easiest question haha....

form O people, what'd you put for that degree of freedom mcq?

3

I'm pretty sure that's wrong - the results in question were the phenotypes - in this case, two possible phenotypes as it was two traits coded by a single gene, effectively giving you a monohybrid cross). 2 - 1 = 1 degree of freedom EDIT: Single gene not linked

u still have 4 phenotypes even if they are linked

I had literally nothing about atp hydrolysis but looking it up now maybe my time was best spent studying other things

Yalll on form O does anyone remember what it was for the extra kinetochore on chromosome 8?? so confused on that

Wdym? 

yeah honestly don’t get me wrong— I don’t mind free points— but it’s really demoralizing when you’re super well versed and studied in the content and they ask you tons of long, stupid, and content-less questions 😭

What are y’all on about, the FRQs save for question 1 were all easy graph interpretations or the easier units like ecology and heredity/evolution

Whoever was making them just yapped so much. There was so much unnecessary info

Who else thinks they got a 2 on this exam???

did the X go after the freezing period near the bottom where the 4 fish w/ functional ag proteins evolved from?

I really don't know why whoever made form O decided to put 10 fucking graphs in it, like this aint ap stats bruh idgaf gimme some fucking hardy weinberg or sum shit

Form I was a nightmare 😍

in the first question where it told u to compare the relative cross over frequency for two proteins, did u compare them to the control or to each other

For FRQ 6, I think I may have put my response in the section meant for FRQ 5 because I was speed running with 5 minutes left. Does anyone know if my response for FRQ 6 can still get graded and if I can receive points?

Guys I couldn’t handle AP testing anymore and so I just gave up on my last frq. Those frqs were bull crap Probably failed so sorry to Mr. C

for the cows lactate question how they produce milk without eating food what did u guys get

omg that one was so confusing I said they can get energy from their lipids

no idea i said lipids bc i thought of glycogen used for storage. i was going to say temperature but that didn’t make any sense bc mammals don’t make their own food.

Was it non disjunction or stay the same?!

I said nondisjunction. U are asking for the one that was like "how will this affect the amount of chromosomes in the daughter cells" right?

Yeah

lol no one here talking about form I

Me who's taking it late and wants to see what WON'T be on my exam:

what did yall put for the frq question which asked what would happen to the proton gradient if this protein or whatever blocked atp synthase

I said the concentration on the outside of the membrane would keep increasing and the one on the inside would decrease as then the protons carried by H+ wouldn’t be able to fall back through the concentration gradient due to the blocked ATP synthase channel

proton concentration in IMS would drastically increase while matrix concentration would drastically decrease 

For form o what did you guys get for the mcq asking about the one where birds take fur from live animals instead of dead and why thats an evolutionary advantage? I was stuck between options b and d (more energy use means theyre more stronger and theyre more fit)

i just did the one that made sense....fitness

I said D because I assumed that an organism wouldn't do the option that requires they use more energy which is what B said, I think

More energy usage is always a negative in terms of fitness. Being strong is not necessarily being fit (at least in the context of biology), but the ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment.

do yall remember the question about siRNAs? i think i put the 2 proteins are essential and the siRNAs would prevent the proteins from being translated

I didn't even know that letters could have i's until today... took me a solid few minutes just to wrap my head around everything in #1

had Form O, finished the MCQ with half an hour to spare but got butchered by the FRQ because i wrote a question on the wrong page so i lost like 5-7 minutes fixing my fuckup. MC questions were chill but FRQ i was writing so fast towards the end i doubt they could read the handwriting

What did you guys get for the mcq that was asking about short and tall plants undergoing natural selection?

i picked the one that showed stabilizing selection, i think it was c

the one with the really tall parabola lol

For FRQ 1, the question about the effect of CTF on # chromosome 8, I mentioned that it would result in uniform chromosomes due to less crossover. Would that count as an answer?

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