❮ 3What You Need to Know About
the AP Biology Exam
IN THIS CHAPTER
Summary:Learn what topics are tested, how the test is scored, and basic
test-taking information.Key Ideas
✪Some colleges will award credit for a score of 4 or 5.
✪Multiple-choice and grid-in questions account for 50 percent of your final
score.
✪Points are no longer deducted for incorrect answers to multiple-choice
questions. You should try to eliminate incorrect answer choices and then
guess; there is no penalty for guessing.
✪Free-response questions account for 50 percent of your final score.
✪Your composite score on the two test sections is converted into a score
on the 1-to-5 scale.Background of the Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program was begun by the College Board in 1955 to construct
standard achievement exams that would allow highly motivated high school students the
opportunity to be awarded advanced placement as first-year students in colleges and
universities in the United States. Today, more than a million students from every state
in the nation and from foreign countries take the annual AP exams in May.KEY IDEACHAPTER
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