About: AP Biology Exam is May 16th at 12pm
(click here for a calendar of the 2024 exam schedule and click here for detailed information about the AP Biology exam)
Format:
Click here for format of the exam and what topics are covered
New Format will focus on:
- an increased emphases on quantitative skills
- application of mathematical methods
- Four Big Ideas:
1) Process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life
2) Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic equilibrium
3) Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes
4) Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties
- Seven Science Practices:
1) Students can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems
2) Student can use mathematics appropriately
3) Student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course
4) Student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate to a particular scientific question
5) Student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence
6) Student can work with scientific explanations and theories
7) Student can connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains
(click here for a calendar of the 2024 exam schedule and click here for detailed information about the AP Biology exam)
Format:
Click here for format of the exam and what topics are covered
New Format will focus on:
- an increased emphases on quantitative skills
- application of mathematical methods
- Four Big Ideas:
1) Process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life
2) Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic equilibrium
3) Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes
4) Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties
- Seven Science Practices:
1) Students can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems
2) Student can use mathematics appropriately
3) Student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course
4) Student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate to a particular scientific question
5) Student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence
6) Student can work with scientific explanations and theories
7) Student can connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains