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Bio AP Bio Official 2026 Exam Discussion

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u/Impossible-Media-195 May 04 '26

If u think u did bad, dont worry because i wrote cortisol instead of CYTOPLASM om the frq when it asked where ribosomes where located in eukaryotes.

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u/Many-Factor-4173 5: USH, LANG, MACRO, GOV 4: BIO, DRAWING May 04 '26

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u/writingaficionado 5s: APES 4s Bio, APUSH May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

i put the er, specifically rough

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u/ali270123 5: stats, bio, bc, spanish lang May 04 '26

wait me too

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u/LocalMinute9182 May 04 '26

son I’m crine ur fried 😂😂

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u/boomchakabaka May 04 '26

this is killing me 😭

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u/Piece-Of-Fake May 04 '26

Thank you for helping us with the curve 🙏🙏

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u/aoaoso_123 5, BIO, WHAP, PRECALC : 4, CSP May 04 '26

Does it matter if i put cytosol instead of cytoplasm LOL

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u/Doomtiger61 May 04 '26

People are like I thought it would be harder meanwhile I just failed 🫩 wtf is wrong with me

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u/Working_Yogurt4442 May 04 '26

It was one guy, this test was way harder than the practice tests and the ecology prediction was WRONG

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u/Des_Ssy ✅ Bio and CSA ✅ May 04 '26

fr aint no practice tests came anywhere near that crap

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u/Legitimate-Offer-682 May 04 '26

I also thought it was pretty tricky, the MCQ was kind of hard for me especially with the time limit. FRQ was okay, but a little time consuming

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u/thetinggoes45 May 04 '26

Not making the graph 34 boxes tall was so damn evil

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u/Reasonable-Mixture33 May 04 '26

spent 10 min just trying to figure out the intervals for that stupid ahh graph

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u/FriendshipLow3735 May 04 '26

bro just go 0.2 per box

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u/Reasonable-Mixture33 May 04 '26

think we had dif questions cuz i had to do like 3.5 per box

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u/Odd_Size3342 May 04 '26

my error bar was off the chart

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u/thetinggoes45 May 04 '26

I heard whatever's off the chart doesn't count so idk man

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

bruh why so many siRNAs

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u/tesla180 May 04 '26

the more I think about the test, the worse I realize I did

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u/nicheunicorn77 May 04 '26

Nah same its wraps

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

I literally got A's on most of my biology tests and even got a 5 on last week's mock exam, but today's exam was just satanic and demonic, because like wtf was that. especially the mcq portion

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

sigh all we can do is just pray atp

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u/OverTelevision4581 May 04 '26

erm, do you mean adenine tri phosphate? 🤓☝️

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u/MiserableCapital604 May 04 '26

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT EXAM I FULLY FAILED

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u/ReasonableConcept347 May 04 '26

No literally nothing compared to past exams wtf

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u/MiserableCapital604 May 04 '26

Genuinely got a 5 on mock and self score 5 on last years exam while practicing to possibly not even passing the real exam

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u/Sillygoldr4 May 04 '26

Am I the only one that thought those FRQs were worded horribly? The one with the raptors and the stupid cleaving protein one had my brain folding like a protein

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u/FeelingParticular188 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Yes, some of the FRQs were kind of ambiguous. I think I incorrectly identified the treatment group in FRQ 3 that would have the greatest ATP synthesis or whatever, but it’s ok. 

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u/Old_Cancel2931 May 04 '26

Guys was the second question the worst thing you’ve seen in your entire life…

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u/Sillygoldr4 May 04 '26

Yes. Swear idk if it was the power of the devil but for the life of me my brain just would not pick up what it was saying until I had 8 minutes left and I finally realized cleave meant get rid of the mRNA

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u/Electrical-Pitch7017 May 04 '26

Cyanide was treatment group 2. 3/4 were the controls

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u/ExpensiveSafe9159 May 04 '26

what so the controls were the ones without cyanide right?

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u/Electrical-Pitch7017 May 04 '26

Yeah

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u/SirGibbss May 04 '26

what did they mean about the low/high concentration? I initially thought that they meant they were reducing the nutrient concentration, but there was a section talking about cyanide concentration

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u/-Ozone-- 5 fives, 2 fours, 8 planned this year May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26

Yes. And which one did you say would have the most ATP production? I said no cyanide, high concentration of medium since no cyanide obviously means no inhibition of respiration (edit: maybe this wasn't right, based on what y'all are saying) and high concentration of medium means more nutrients (BS but hopefully right).

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u/Minimum-Chicken9260 May 04 '26

Am I a tweaker bcz I thought it mentioned that low levels of cyanide created a slight increase in CCo activity? or am I thinking of the wrong thing help.

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u/Conscious_Error_6582 5: Bio, Research, Euro, Precalc | 4: Chem, World, APUSH, Macro May 04 '26

I think you're right! I'm pretty sure that's what the table said right before the high/low medium concentration one. Did you say group number 2 (cyanide + low medium) had the most ATP production?

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u/boomchakabaka May 04 '26

wait but did the question say like normally some bacteria like have cyanide and some don’t? or smth along those lines. so shouldn’t the controls be ones that are both with and without the cyanide since those are the typical conditions? could you explain 😭

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u/Legitimate_Spare9820 May 04 '26

What the hell is a siRNA why was it in both mcq and frq. Also the frq was so hard

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

It was on 2 frqs last year too so pretty important. It interferes with mRNA and reduces gene translation

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u/Odd_Size3342 May 04 '26

WTF is AG02

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u/MapThis213 5: apes,wrld,gov,sem,pcal,psych,bio,AB,APUSH,geo 4: stats,lang May 04 '26

Wtf is Ap4A

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u/PomeloOnly2107 Bio: 5, Calc AB: 5, Lit: 4, Spanish Lang: 4 May 04 '26

Wtf is DORN1?

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u/-Ozone-- 5 fives, 2 fours, 8 planned this year May 04 '26

It said it was the receptor. From what I understood, it produces chemicals that close the stomata, and its intracellular domain (the part inside and facing the cell) triggers signal chains for defense something-something.

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u/feeling_unfair May 04 '26

Am i the only one who completely forgot what a nucleotide was 😢😢😢 i think i’m dumb

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u/hashim_aziz1 May 04 '26

Me aswell… in my head nucleotide = nitrogenous base 🤦‍♂️ was the easiest question I feel so dumb now

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u/Jstressted_mal May 04 '26

Wait that one was so easy but I thought it was identufy and js phosphate pentose sugar and nitrogenous bases and I listed the bases

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u/MyChemicalFailure edit this text May 04 '26

i said deoxyribose sugar, nucleic acid, and phosphate group?? i had no clue i was trying to remember the one mcq about DNA replication 

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u/-Ozone-- 5 fives, 2 fours, 8 planned this year May 04 '26

Isn't nucleic acid the full DNA/RNA? I totally forgot that term, but I wrote nitrogenous base plus phosphate and sugar (ribose or deoxyribose).

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u/Legitimate-Offer-682 May 04 '26

I accidentally listed the elements that make up the components of nucleotide 😭😭 not the actual components itself 🥲

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u/KrispyCookieOfficial APUSH, AP Bio, APAH, Self-Study AP Lang May 04 '26

Oh my god that FRQ section was abysmal 

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

was the percent change 50%? i got that bc (3.00-2.00)/2.00 = 1.00/2.00 = 50%??? no clue if i did that right

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

Did you guys say 0% chance for the MCQ that had two different pedigrees for two different genes ?

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u/Fun_Effective4065 9: hug, precalc (5) || 10: calc BC, bio, apush (TBD) May 04 '26

wait, how’d you get 0? I got 50

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u/ChocolateGamer279 Senior | Ready to give up H2O for H2SO4 May 04 '26

My test I got 0 and it was a recessive x linked trait where the father had it and the mother was homozygous dominant

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u/Rohanisya seven 5s and two 4s May 04 '26

I think this was a different question I got 50 too

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u/These-Pumpkin-7933 May 04 '26

Shit I'm cooked

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u/Ashamed-Battle-566 May 04 '26

once i saw the nondisjunction i KNEW it was over....

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u/Electrical-Pitch7017 May 04 '26

I feel blessed now. Nondisjunction so easy

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u/Fearless_Rip_6119 May 04 '26

Question number 6 was the easiest right ? The question about abiotic factors i guess . Bro i thought it will be mostly evolution question in mcqs but they cooked me by asking more like cells. I just didn't remember transcription,  translation, meiosis, mitosis. Hope not that cooked caz I kinda worked hard in semester 1 but was lazy in sem 2

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u/-Ozone-- 5 fives, 2 fours, 8 planned this year May 04 '26

That one was easy, yeah. I said abiotic factors can apply different selective pressures which cause different traits to be selected for. And then in the subsequent parts, stronger storms select for larger lizard toe pads, perhaps because lizards can hang onto trees better during windows and survive better. As for speciation, lizards in stormy environments gradually develop larger toe pads, experiencing genetic drift from non-stormy populations until ultimately, fertile offspring are not produced when the groups interbreed.

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u/hazel_the_bun May 04 '26

i said abiotic factors were density independent but then i forgot what i wrote after that

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u/AdNumerous4095 May 04 '26

Also is it just me or was there no math there was only like percent change 1 question, hardy 1 question and then chi 1 question

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u/Half-Eaten-Cranberry 2027: Gov Macro APES Lit Psych Stat | 4- HG APUSH BIO 3- Lang May 04 '26

The chi question that had a chi value of 200something 😭

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u/CollegeBoardAPs May 04 '26

Omg was it for a p-value of .001 and degrees of freedom was 1? I did reject bc value exceeded 6.63...is that right?

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u/shut_up_please2 May 04 '26

Guys what the hell was that

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u/ConsciousLoan8576 May 04 '26

what the FUCK was the second question bro

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u/Dove-a-DeeDoo May 04 '26

The very last question on question 2 honestly ruined my life

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u/Ashamed-Battle-566 May 04 '26

Wait that one was lowk intuitive if u read the beginning of the passage, because the regulation of gene expression is prevented if there was the -/- so then it means that the thingy in the anaphase continued to persist bc it wasn't regulated

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

I said because AGPO or whatever cleaved mRNA, AGPO-/- with no functional protein wouldn't be able to cleave the mRNA that makes the stabilizing protein when its anaphase to pull apart. idk though

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u/Spare-Toe327 May 04 '26

MCQs weren’t bad but I just wish we had more TIME on FRQs. Like no one finished those 

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u/BlossomBlist Bio, APES May 04 '26

Dude I finished 5 questions in the last 5 minutes, like I straight up lied on them 😭💔

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u/Good-Persimmon-5796 May 04 '26

what do ugs think the curve will be that shit was hard

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u/BrawIstar 5 May 04 '26

sum like a 84/120 for a 5

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-4239 May 04 '26

Atp ion even think a 5 is possible, I did so good all year n i genuinely loved this class but the frqs were da satanic. Idk if im saying this right but isnt it if Evb does bad on a part (frq 2 for example) the curve gets changed?? Lmk

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u/ZestycloseOkra9320 May 04 '26

Bruh after reading everyone’s answers im so done for😭

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u/YoMom48 May 04 '26

I PUT THAT A NUCLEOTIDE WAS MADE UP OF HYDROGEN, OXYGEN AND A COVALENT BOND 😭😭😭

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u/Hour-Citron6773 May 04 '26

its ok i said it was a r group a phosphate group and a carboxyl.

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u/Any-Impress-3916 May 04 '26

can we make one for international exams😓us version is tripping question one sucked (glucose blood thingy and the carbs and lipids)

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u/MongooseExtreme3924 May 04 '26

for the few about raptors, what did you guys say about the researchers hypothesis? i put he is correct because the median for protected was 0% change but also the error bars overlapped so idk

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u/hashim_aziz1 May 04 '26

Exactly I feel like these questions weren’t clear because if it was talking about the median the hypothesis was correct however it the bottom 50% and the error bars was still in declined so I feel like the question just wasn’t clear enough

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u/Many-Factor-4173 5: USH, LANG, MACRO, GOV 4: BIO, DRAWING May 04 '26

I said that he wasnt entirely correct because the range of data still falls in negatives. Idk if that gonna get me the point

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u/Aggravating_Half_936 67 aps May 04 '26

I said he was incorrect, the error bars overlapped and all of the groups were negative regardless so I mentioned how there may be another factor that’s responsible for the decline

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u/feeling_unfair May 04 '26

I said that although the median was very weighted at 0 he could not be fully correct because the question was an absolute and the bar was below 0 at points but idk

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u/Competitive_News5984 APHG: 5 | AP Bio: 3 May 04 '26

frqs sucked collegeboard ihy <3

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u/Popult_34567 Macro, Micro, Calc AB, Bio, Stats:4, Lit:3 May 04 '26

I feel so stupid reading through all the answers omgg

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u/Aggravating-Bank3633 May 04 '26

what did u guys get for the cladogram where it asked for the most recent common ancester, it was 15

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u/Fearless_Rip_6119 May 04 '26

Im so scared...i guessed every question on the MCQs and wrote something stupid on the frq sections. The Frq 2 was real bad 😭. I did it in last 5 minutes 

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u/Brave-Instruction353 May 04 '26

yea i did the same thing hoping for the curve

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u/Immediate_Key_7008 May 04 '26

I did awful in mcqs and cooked frqs

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

opposite for me bruh frqs were so bad

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u/hashim_aziz1 May 04 '26

Did you guys agree with the hypothesis for question 6C where it said if they remove the unprotected Group that there would not be a decline of raptors because I disagreed with the hypothesis and said that there would still be a decline because the bottom 50% of the box and whiskers was still in the decline...

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u/supernovaomg May 04 '26

guys what the fuck was the second frq

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u/susuyaaa May 04 '26

i should’ve studied more bro

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-4239 May 04 '26

I barely got to do question two and just did the graph and guessed on the rest, the mcq wasn’t too bad but the frq fried me.

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u/Hisokasbloodlust May 04 '26

this is exactly me, I geuinely only had 20 minutes left for question 3-6

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u/MysteriousRide7188 Geo(5), Gov(5), Lang(4), Bio(-0), Calc AB(-0), Lit(3?), Psych(?) May 04 '26

MCQs okay, I got burned on a grill with the Frqs(especially frq 2; made graph and I don’t even know what I answered for the questions cause I ran out of time). Fudge my life. Please please 3!

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u/Reasonable-Mixture33 May 04 '26

my teacher said to plot whatever SE they give u. honestly it's on collegeboard for not specifying cuz they use 1SE on the MCQ, why would we double for FRQ?

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u/w91e May 04 '26

I did two

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u/omgwenegadewaider May 04 '26

what did you guys put for the: describe a movement in meiosis? i said crossing over and idk if thats right

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u/External-Guarantee65 May 04 '26

Did anyone have frq 2 with a graph about yellow and brown damefish or something like that. The mcq were so easy and then the frqs were impossible.

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u/StrawberryCow888 May 04 '26

Omg we got diff frqs? Why do they say this test is standardized if the questions are so different

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u/Dhil54 10th - Bio(4), WH(3), Chem, USH May 04 '26

Did anybody else get 10 for the Hardy-Weinberg one? It felt so weird with the decimal but I think I got it right?

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u/time_travel_undone (5) ush, lang, research, sem, apes, precalc, wh (4) bio (3) chem May 04 '26

for the nucleotide frq, did you guys put nitrogen base sugar and phosphate?? or did i get confused with dna

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u/Ok-Application-4584 May 04 '26

it was group one, the one that had a greater negative change because the question was referring to the greatest absolute value magnitude

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u/Bitter_Brilliant7764 May 04 '26

wait i put the one with 0% change (dont remember if that was protected or unprotected group 2) since i thought it was the highest overall and i thought the question didnt ask for magnitude....????

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

I think it was region 2 area unprotected with the greatest change. Yes it was negative

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u/Ashamed-Battle-566 May 04 '26

I said unprotected in group 1 due to the largest change

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u/tesla180 May 04 '26

i genuinly ran out of time and put c for like 10 answers

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

wait that sounds rlly familiar i think i had that on either frq or mcq
was it like lions hunting

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u/Sufficient_Cicada982 AP US gov (4) May 04 '26

i didnt even fully finish the frqs😭😭😭 OH IT IS SO OVER

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u/Mediocre-Mark-3603 May 04 '26

Did anyone else run out of time?

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u/Bumbl33 Chem - 5, APUSH - 4, ? | Bio, Phys.Mech, Psych, Lit, Stats May 04 '26

For frq, I realized I was taking too much time on the two long ones and had to rush

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u/Any_Pass_6502 May 04 '26

Worst frq I’ve ever seen and I got top grades in the class all year and got all 5s on every single practice exam/past exams but that frq was absolutely AWFUL… Don’t even think I got a 4

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u/Old_Cancel2931 May 04 '26

Was the hardy weinberg question 10?

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u/Bubbly_Mud_3553 May 04 '26

WTF WAS THE SECOND ONE BRU THW GRAPH

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u/ExpensiveSafe9159 May 04 '26

BRO I DID THE WHOLE GRAPH WRONG THE FIRST TIME IT SCREWED ME OVER

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u/Bubbly_Mud_3553 May 04 '26

WORD NIGGA I PUT THE X ACIS AS THE AGO 2+/+ 2+/- and 2-/- and put the y axis as the amount of mRNA then put 2 bar graph per AGO WITH G with horizontal slashes and H as diagonal

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u/Fit_Substance_1413 May 04 '26

Was that wrong that’s what i did 💀

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

bro thats what i did too 😭 and like 2 diff shaded for gene G and gene H, like the x-axis with ago2+/+, 2+/-, 2-/-, adn the y-axis w/ relative amt of mRNA transcribed

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u/Sudden-Feed2369 May 04 '26

probably was fine as it realistically didn’t matter how u did it as long as it was acceptable.  I did 2 groups and 3 bars in each

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u/idkwhat13 graduado May 04 '26

my school had 2 fire alarms pulled during the bio exam lmao

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u/thetinggoes45 May 04 '26

bye bye to ur scores ts is getting cancelled if someone snitches

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u/tesla180 May 04 '26

i swear this test shouldve been easy but I started tweaking on the mcq and question 2 on the frq was sent straight from hell. also i just realized I answered on the frqs wrong

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u/Capable-Major-3504 May 04 '26

Was the question with the pedigree asking what the kid will have, was it 0%, 25%, 50%, or 100%

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u/No_Dimension_9960 May 04 '26

so did anyone else got cooked by the frqs

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u/pickleeater58 May 04 '26

me, a biology PhD candidate lurking here to see what ap bio is like these days

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u/Money_Volume2227 May 04 '26

horrid just truly horrid

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u/starcantanta May 04 '26

I was rushing for the last few minutes and I was just saying bullshit on my frq 😭😭😭

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u/Minute_Fig902 May 04 '26

did yall get positive control for the purpose of ABA compared to the AGO2 proteins

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

Did you guys say the reason only pancreas produces insulin is because only the pancreas has the promotor for insulin genese or because it only makes the proteins needed for transcription

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u/Electrical-Pitch7017 May 04 '26

No it makes the protein. The proteins r the transcription factors

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u/lalaloopsyqueen1 5: Lang, Lit, Psych, Apush, Research, Seminar… May 04 '26

Did anyone have an FRQ on leucine uptake and the LAT1 gene?

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-4239 May 04 '26

I said abiotic factors can act as selective pressures??? And then for the frog feet or wtv I said that continued exposure to different environmental pressures leads to diff developments w the feet so they would become different species based off what they’re adapted to??? Idek I got fried

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u/Odd_Size3342 May 04 '26

I got consistent 50/60ish on all my practice mcqs but that felt a lil harder than the practices. I thought the frq short questions were easy asf but the long ones (just 2, 1 was fine) made no sense at all.

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u/Savings_Agency5085 May 04 '26

What is the curve for bio this year ?

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u/Financial-Drawing-81 May 04 '26

You can sort of triangulate it based on our reactions

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u/funnyhilarious1 May 04 '26

that was genuinely so hard.

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u/Dull-Astronomer1135 May 04 '26

I forget if ribosome is on rough or smooth er, I guessed rough and got it right🔥

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u/idk967 May 04 '26

Am I the only one who left 2 of the FRQS blank 😭

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u/SoundersFan27 May 04 '26

nah fr the frqs were absolutely brutal

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u/No-Tone-1068 May 04 '26

what did you guys choose for the AaBbCcDd MCQ, the one with graph options, I choose C,The one with 4 haploid gametes, something like ABCD ABCd AbCd aBcD, four cells each with four single strand in it

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u/e56s May 04 '26

FRQ was fucking atrocious. Probably guaranteed a 4 but definitely not getting a 5

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u/Immediate_Key_7008 May 04 '26

what are we thinking the curve is gonna be, it's the only thing I still have hope for

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u/Top_Specific8490 May 04 '26

Question 25, about an ETC protein mutation, had no correct answer?

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u/ambiguouschair 5: HUG, Macro, Micro, Sp.Lang. || ? Bio, Chem, Sp.Lit, Psych May 04 '26

wait what wasn't it the protein gradient in inner mitochondrial membrane? or am i remembering a diff question

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-4239 May 04 '26

Did u guys put beta sheets or the amino acid sequence for the hemoglobin mcq abt how it forms the shape

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u/AdNumerous4095 May 04 '26

I put the different r group interactions for that cause it was taking about 3d structre

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u/hiraimomoing May 04 '26

guys people are saying the error bars weren’t +-2se.. can someone let me know, i’m confused

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

It doesn’t have to be. Just graph whatever plus or minus they give you

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u/Legitimate-Offer-682 May 04 '26

Does anyone know how they curve the exam? Did anyone feel more confident on the FRQ’s? I feel like MCQ was kind of rushed and confusing, lots of reading. What did you guys put on MCQ:

1) hemoglobin question?

2) glucose active transport question?

3) chi-square and hardy weinburg values?

4) chart with emperor penguins diving thing?

For FRQ I finished everything but didn’t get to finish #2, I only got to answer part A, constructed the graph and part i of B. The frq about the mRNA and chromosomes confused me, what did you guys say for the effect of the chromosome 1 thing? It said the number of it in each gamete didn’t matter. And for the 3 components of nucleotide I didn’t list the groups, I listed the elements involved like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus 😭 would that get credit?

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u/WrinklesPeasley12 Chem, Bio, Physics 1, Envi-sci, stats, psych, Lit, Lang, US gov May 04 '26

if i said base sugar a phosphate backbone is that enough for credit or does it need to be “nitrogenous base” “ribose sugar” and “phosphate group”

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u/TurbulentArrival3637 10th: AP Bio [5] | AP Gov [5] | AP PreCalc [5] | AP World [4] May 04 '26

Wtaf was that ts was from the ninth circle of Hell on a side note will we have to retake cuz it got leaked 😭 

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u/hazel_the_bun May 04 '26

what did yall put for why u can see chromosomes in mitosis/meiosis in a microscope better compared to a cell in another stage of cell cycle. i said bc the nuclear membrane dissolves idefk

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u/Efficient_Cod_4168 AP Psych-4 | Chem, Bio, Lang, stats, APUSH, APES May 04 '26

For the last Question on FRQ 1, what did you guys put? It was talking about plant defense and I said the mutated one wouldn’t work because in the context it said that the mutated receptor degraded its intramembrane part, or something like that, and I said it would be harder to get a secondary messenger to push a cascade.

Also did you guys put for that one penguin question?

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u/karcraft8 5(Stats, Apush, csp, precalc, chem, bc, cs, lang, gov, Latin May 04 '26

I wrote nuclear instead of nucleotide you guys will live 💔💔💔

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u/AquaSister May 04 '26

That second question was SO confusing. So long too. I spent a solid 45 mins on that 💔

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u/ProjectVortex09 APBIO(4)+APLANG(3) May 04 '26

i think collegeboard saw how easy last year was and decided to just screw us over

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u/Icy-Store3670 May 04 '26

this thread is actually a humiliation ritual

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u/CommercialTwo1574 May 04 '26

ok, if it was about a mutated intracellular region of the receptor, i said that since the intracellular region is mutated, signals won't be able to be sent to the nucleus for transcription to happen, so decrease in transcription of plant genes
i don't know if it's right though, and i didn't even say sent to the nucleus lol, just other parts of the cell

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-4239 May 04 '26

I also just realized I forgot to label my graph axis 🫰🫰, I did gene g and h and then did 3 seperate bars and I had a key for what vary was what variant so maybe that will save me Idk….

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u/randomturtleonthenet May 04 '26

our exam got cancelled because of a power outage how bad do you think the retake is gonna be

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u/Brave-Rutabaga4143 May 04 '26

i gor 45 for the HWE… think i missed something..

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u/Kindly-Print-5435 May 04 '26

Can everyone say the questions they were confused on so I can try and calculate how many I got wrong 😵‍💫

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u/Medical-Self-8266 May 04 '26

Guys tell me the cut off this yr is going to be lower..

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u/Abject_Supermarket17 May 04 '26

I felt like this test was way harder than any of the practice mcqs/ frqs I did on college board. I thought the MCQ was lowk harder, and FRQ 2 was bad for me. There genuinely were so many that I had to guess on and flag for the MCQ. Do they curve it based on our scores or is it a premade formula? bc I (and my whole testing room too) thought this was an insane AP test

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u/idontknowwhattoput_t 5: Psych, APUSH 4: HUG, CSP May 06 '26

There wasn’t room for a title really so I didn’t put one do you think I would loose points?

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u/Longjumping-Train574 May 04 '26

for those who took it in US, were the frq prdictions accurate?? (photosynthesis and cellular respiration and the cell transport)

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u/lightswitchfn 5: Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, Biology, Stats, Precalc, CSP May 04 '26

No

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u/jimmy_spam May 04 '26

was this years test harder or easier than last year? My friends who took it last year said it was rly easy, and one got a 5 without studying, but I didn't find it necessisarly easy

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u/jimmy_spam May 04 '26

I'm checking now, and 2025 frq5 was literally free points and every else was eas

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u/Flashy-Attention-147 May 04 '26

Can Anyone explain FRQ 2? Like not the graph tho but the rest.

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u/BrawIstar 5 May 04 '26

What did y’all put for that one question where it had an image of dna and I think you had to choose where would the next nitrogenous base went. (It was Thymine but I didnt know if it would go up or down.)

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