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About the AP Biology Exam

About the AP Biology Exam. Why take the AP Exam?. Students who take the AP Exam… Stand out in the college admissions process! Earn academic scholarships and awards from colleges and universities Experience college-level academics now, while they're still in high school.

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About the AP Biology Exam

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  1. About the AP Biology Exam

  2. Why take the AP Exam? Students who take the AP Exam… Stand out in the college admissions process! • Earn academic scholarships and awards from colleges and universities • Experience college-level academics now, while they're still in high school

  3. Save time and money once they get to college, providing them with more study options and allowing them to move directly into upper-level courses in their field of interest • Earn AP Scholar Awards, an academic distinction granted each September by the College Board to students with exemplary AP Exam grades

  4. Cost of the exam: • $87

  5. Length of exam: 3 hours

  6. Number of sections: 2

  7. Section I: Multiple Choice • Time: 90 minutes • Number of questions: 69 • Percent of Overall Score: 50% • Correct answer: +1 point • NO GUESSING PENALTY • No answer: 0 points

  8. 4 Answer choices instead of 5! A. B. C. D.

  9. 6 Grid-in Questions • Assess math skills

  10. You can use a simple, 4-function calculator (including square root) on the test.No Scientific Calculators!

  11. Percentage of Questions by Topic • Molecules and Cells: 25% • Heredity and Evolution: 25% • Organisms and Populations: 50%

  12. Section II: Free Response • Time: 90 minutes (After a 10 minute reading period) • Number of Questions: 8 • Percentage of score: 50%

  13. Reading Period • Green Book • 10 minutes • Read the questions and organize response • Can refer to green book when writing essays

  14. Essays • Blue book (Can refer to green book) • 90 minutes for 8 • Each essay scored 0-10 points • 50% of total exam grade • Each question weighted equally

  15. Scoring of the exam: • 5 = Extremely well qualified • 4 = Well qualified • 3 = Qualified • 2 = Possibly qualified • 1 = No recommendation

  16. Test is scored it June

  17. Results available in July

  18. Credit for universities • Each university sets its own guidelines for credit or placement. • Some universities give full or partial credit hours for qualifying scores on the AP exam • You can research how an individual university handles AP credit at www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy

  19. Local universities: • UCR = gives credit for AP exam (elective) • CSUSB = gives credit and advanced placement in sequence of courses

  20. To help you prepare • Unit tests will consist of AP exam-type questions • There will be one essay on each unit test and you will have 22.5 minutes to write it • You will learn how to score AP essays (which will help you write them!) • You will use released test questions to review

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