So, my sister (a sophomore), took the AP Biology exam, and she said she couldn't answer any of the frqs correctly (left half of them blank). I was curious if the graders ever feel generous and give out a few free points to those who were struggling? She really wants to get a 5 on this exam because the college she wants to go to only accepts 5s for credit (one of the ivy leagues).
She doesn't want anything less than a 5. She has been doing all sorts of potions and spells to get a perfect score on this exam.
I appreciate that she has desires, but she needs to be realistic. How can she get a perfect score on something she was unable to complete? There’s a chance, but it’s slim. I would just suggest waiting and hoping for the best, and let her know if she’s really unhappy with whatever she gets she can retake next year. Also talk it out with her and try to make her expectations more reasonable before Monday arrives. A test score doesn’t define her, especially a sophomore taking a class that many people take junior or senior year.
i’m sorry but that is not how it works. you can’t just leave half of the answers blank and expect to get a 5. if she wants a 5 so bad, she can study. 5’s are not supposed to be free for anyone who wants it. they take actual hard work and dedication
What she wants doesn't matter though
Please tell me this is a sh*tpost.
It is not. Why would it be?
No logical person is doing "spells and potions" after the AP exam to get a 5, especially not someone who has any chance of getting a 5.
Don't mock my sister bro.
It's not mocking, it's reality. No amount of just wanting it will get you a 5. If you don't perform well on the test, you will not get a 5, and nothing you do after the fact will change that.
Because you’re being delusional. You can’t get a 5 leaving half the frqs blank period. Even if you got everything else right that would only be a 4
Eh?? What kind of potions and spells? Does she have magical powers? If so, why didn’t she use it before she took the test to get a 5?
Nah they grade on a rubric. If she doesn’t get a 5 life will go on, people are dying. Should have studied more if she wanted it that bad.
tuffest comment ever 😭😭😭
facts tho
A 5 is almost impossible, unless you earned almost every point on the parts you did answer.
Unfortunately, AP Graders grade on a hard rubric, and while there’s some room for interpretation, I’m assuming if they are stuck between two sections of a rubric, they’ll probably give you the lower one.
She did the thing where u can send a free report to a college of your choice. She sent the scores to Dartmouth and is now freaking out trying to cast spells and crap.
Trust me, they literally won’t care about the scores of someone that hasn’t even been accepted yet. Grades are way more important than Ap scores in the admissions process. In the future, she should not send scores to random universities, as the score send is really meant for students already committed to college or dual enrolled at a university
She should be worried about getting a 4 let alone a 5. Assuming a perfect multiple choice, she would still need to get 8/36 points on the frqs, which seems unlikely. I would predict a 2-3 as a score, nowhere near a 5
At first she said ap bio was free, so I think she still has a fair shot at a 5 lmao.
? She left half of the frqs blank and thinks its free?
She managed to answer all the mcqs without leaving any blank
Listen man, I don't wanna be disrespectful especially since I don't knpw the whole situation but you can answer every single mcq and get a bad percentage. If she missed half the frqs with no guarantee she got the stuff she filled in right, its likely that mcq results follow a similar trend.(also around a 75% to get a 5 and with half the frqs missed you're basically on the cutoff already. You would need a perfect score on all the other parts)
Okay, she still wants a 5.
Yeah not happening, you need to confidently answer every question to get a 5
Ok I wouldn't go that far. I would say around 80-90% of the questions assuming you get some of them wrong anyways. Either way, idt thats the scenario here.
Yeah, the thing is for bio you need more than a 75% for a 5, so even if ops sister got 1/2 the frqs right they are not getting a 5. I think to be confident in a 5 you should be able to answer 90+% confidently to give wiggle room, but yeah probably not all of them
Oh wait you were talking about her situation specifically with the confident on everything? Yeah I agree with that, I thought you were generalizing it to everyone with the confident on every question lmao
you can’t always get what you want. especially if you don’t work hard.
That means virtually nothing. I answered every FRQ and MCQ on my AP Calc test, and drew a bunch of pictures and pleading notes on the FRQs after because our teacher got fired for being a pedo midway through the year and we had to restart the class online in the second semester with no one in the building who knew the class material. Did I answer everything? Yes. But did I know what I was doing? Could I be sure that I was going to get a 5? Hell no, I’ll be happy with a 2 but realistically I’m getting a 1.
No she doesn’t, stop the cap
the ap test reflects how well you know the content of the course, so evidently she wasn't aptly prepared for the test. it's not the end of the word, she just needs to learn from her mistakes and try harder next year
I love how this entire thread is just OP being delulu
She is not getting a 5 if she left half the FRQs blank. It doesn't matter how much she wants it.
Your sister is 100% not getting a 5 if she left half of them blank. Move on
And if she doesn’t get a 5 on ap bio it’s not that big of a deal lmao. If she has other 5s, she can fs use them and still get into an ivy
Her teacher wanted at least one student to get a 5 thooo
So obvious that “sister” is u. Why else would u care so much over someone else’s life
Your sister is probably not gonna be that student I’m afraid.
No chance at all. She would have to get the mcqs and the frqs she answered perfect, but if she could she wouldn’t have let them blank. They grade by a hard rubric, which allows little room for pity points. They also grade thousands of tests. Your sister isn’t the only one they grade with half their FRQs unanswered, so they’re just gonna mark their points and move on with no care.
Just take this as a lesson to study more and learn the typical grading criteria to know what the graders expect on the FRQs.
They score against a grading rubric. If she left the question blank, she won't get points. There are no pity points awarded in this situation
Will they give her pity points on the questions she managed to write something for?
Only if the answer she wrote is correct and follows the rubric
Depends on how close her response is to the rubric.
At the end of the test, she put "sending hugs have a fantastic day 🤗 "
To be quite frank, I don’t think that’s gonna do shit
You are the “sister” stop trying not to embarrass urself
It's not perfect because curves are different from year to year, but use this score calculator to predict her score. https://www.albert.io/blog/ap-biology-score-calculator/ From your details (literally nothing right on FRQ), the best she is getting is a 3, and that's what it said when I gave her a hypothetical 60/60 on MCQs, which is very unlikely.
They can’t be generous. They have to follow the scoring guidelines. And the scoring work gets checked and reviewed by multiple graders anyways
hundreds of thousands of students take AP exams each year, no amount of potions or praying or writing nice messages will earn you pity points. If it was as simple as that, don’t you think everyone would do that?
AP graders have a boss who reads behind them - it’s called backreading - and the graders have to grade accurately or else they can’t grade anymore. So no they’re not allowed to be generous.
Looking at your history, you post on Reddit about 6 times a day and shitpost a lot of the time, which is why a lot of people think this post is no different. You also post a lot of motivational stuff about AP scores not defining you, after being upset by your own AP scores. I would recommend sharing this sentiment with your sister. Start by being loving, give her that same encouragement you gave others on this subreddit that you hope she scores well, but also tell her that you were looking into it and realistically she should prepare for a 3 or 4 at best. If she still doesn’t get the memo, then tough love it out. Tell her your own scores, tell her the scores of others who didn’t pass for various circumstances, tell her how lucky she is to have been able to study and try and get a passing grade, and then tell her that she can always try again later if she’s that unhappy with it. Life is too short to get this stressed over a test score that some colleges may not even take for credit. And it’s not going to impact her admissions anywhere, I failed APUSH and still got into a pretty decent university for my major.
my teacher told me AP graders are “generous” when things are written MOSTLY correct, but idek if this is accurate. i’d assume they’re human too and feel empathetic toward ppl but they can’t give credit where credit is not due (on blank questions) :/ but best of luck to your sister!! i hope she gets a grade she’s satisfied with 💓💓
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If she left half of them blank she is most likely not going to get a 5 unless she did really well on the multiple choice and got pretty much all the points on the FRQs she did. AP graders grade by a rubric, and can’t really give out ‘pity points’ because they’re just regular school teachers from around the country working under college board