<p>AHHH i'm so scared for my apush and ab!!!!</p>
<p>i mean, did anyone else get raped on their ab calc exam? so frickin hard!</p>
<p>and i'm just scared for history cuz well, i suck and i really want a 4 on it...=[
does anyone know what score we should get around to get a 4?
like, if we get half of the MC right, about how many points do we need on the essays?</p>
<p>What a coincidence, the exact same texts I took this year.
Yeah, I've been really insecure about my AP Calc AB exam, because not only was it wickedly hard I self-studied it. It was a very stressful month, since I really didn't start self-studying till April. But yeah, I got raped by the exam. Paper cuts all over, left scars. Will be crushed if I don't get at least a four.</p>
<p>I personally feel that I rule AP history class, but I came out of that test feel at least molested. I loathed the DBQ, I haven't heard of such a boring DBQ in all my short time on earth. Agriculture!! Are they kidding me. I literally sat their godsmacked for a full minute. I skipped the DBQ and did FR #2 then keep not any more happy and did the DBQ out of neccesity. Totally bs'd my way through. I knew very little outside information about the time period & topic. Why oh why? In class I never got less than an 8 on a DBQ, but I honestly didn't expect & wasn't prepared for that. Then I did FR#4 in like 10min;pure adrenaline at that point. Plus the Proctor didn't give us any time warning for the MC, even though I asked if she was since she's a *****. I know it's going to get censored. But I still think I did pretty well on MC.</p>
<p>blah....wow.
yea, the only times that I take anything, it's the hardest year. =[
if only i was born either a year earlier or later...</p>
<p>calc ab FR.........man i'm still having nightmares. that was cruel of collegeboard to give that specific FRQ right after the incredibly easy MC</p>
<p>I took Calculus AB this year and just got my scores. I know I did real well on the multiple choice and got killed by the FRQ's. I ended up with a 4 though...way better than I expected.</p>
<p>ya.
i bet the curve was like, 30 points = 5
HAHA.</p>
<p>eeeek</p>
<p>No
Well I guess I know what 10 chars means now.</p>
<p>i thought the mc section of the calc ab exam was extremely straightforward...with a small twist in a few problems. i did though answer all of them (perfect mc score?=p) though. as for the frq section...o man! i answered at least 2/6 completely and surely, correctly. as for the other four
-- i don't know what happened. i doubt i received more than 33% of the points for these four questions...surprisingly, i scored a 5.</p>
<p>i also took us history though i self-studied. i thought the mc was pretty much straightforward. there were about 5-7 i wasn't completely sure about, but again i didn't leave any blank. as for the frq section, i was delighted to see that the dbq was on the time period they gave us (1865-1900). i had predicted that it would be on the gilded age the night before and so i had been able to review the time period thoroughly. i had never written a dbq before the exam, though. the two other frqs that i chose were easy. i scored a 5, to my surprise (i thought a 5 was reserved for the 90%+ getters...)</p>
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Then I did FR#4 in like 10min;pure adrenaline at that point
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lol, me too
last yr was roughly 100 pts for a 5, then like 80 for a 4 (im not 100% sure, so u can check just by googling ap grade distribution)
i dont see this yr being that different from last, so yea</p>
<p>MCow- There are only 108 points available for the entire test.
Generally, 60/70-108 is a 5.</p>
<p>Repeating what everyone above me said, Calculus MC was very simple, however the Free Response (I took the BC test) was like a slap in the face. Then the other side of the face when I ripped out the insert for the non-mc.</p>
<p>The US History test wasn't easy either; I wasn't very confident about the multiple-choice, but my DBQ was pretty good and my comparing presidents one was pretty good as well.</p>
<p>Hoping for a 4 on both!</p>
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the multiple choice alone is 50-55% of ur score, which is 75 pts. do the math, and there are 135-150 pts on the test</p>
<p>for ap calc ab,no. your wrong, unless your talking about the apush exam, but lildude was talking about calc. the test is out of 108. multiple choice=50%, free response=50%. free response adds up to 54 on its own, so no adjusting. multiple choice you multiply by 1.2. 45 multiple choice=#correct-1/4(number incorrect)=raw, raw*1.2=multiple choice adjusted out of 54.</p>
<p>so is it worth paying 8 dollars for over the phone? Cuz I took AP biology, AP US, and AP English.</p>
<p>gar_spartan: lol, i was talking abt apush. that would explain the confusion</p>
<p>Ah. Never mind MCow. When you said FR4, I thought you were talking about the Calc Test. Sorry!</p>
<p>Ok, I did not take AP US, but I did take Calc AB, and if I may share my story, it may put your mind at ease.</p>
<p>Like most people, I thought the multiple choice was rather straightforward. Then the FR came... I died... It was not just mean. It was ruthless. It was not just ugly. It was hideous. It was not just bad. It was evil. And I wanted to cry. </p>
<p>Knowing the multiple choice might have saved me, I thought I was on the borderline between a 3 and a 4. I was PRAYING for a 4. I got a 5. I do not know how, nor why this happened. I really think it best not to question it. </p>
<p>Anyway, the point of my post is, you may have done a lot better than you think, since if you thought it was hard, it may have been hard for everyone since the exam is graded on a curve, you might still end up with a commendable passing grade.</p>
<p>yeah, I thought FR4 was Calc, but wondered why doing a problem in 10 minutes when you get 15 was a big deal. Doing a problem in 10 minutes when you get 30, different story.</p>
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Knowing the multiple choice might have saved me, I thought I was on the borderline between a 3 and a 4. I was PRAYING for a 4. I got a 5. I do not know how, nor why this happened. I really think it best not to question it.
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how many questions are you positive that you got wrong and how many questions did you leave completely blank (sections or a whole question)</p>
<p>Well, on the short answer, there was only one that I got completely right. I believe it was the second question, the one about the water-tank piecewise function. On the others, I got anywhere from two-thirds right to half-right to a third-right to one part of the question right to "how the hell did you get THAT answer?" WRONG.</p>
<p>On the multiple choice, I didn't leave any blank, but there's no way I could know how many questions I definitely got wrong since the the MC isn't discussed. There were a couple questions (3-4) I considered omitting, but I have this strange aversion to omitting problems... I can't do it... So I tried eliminating answers on the ones I could (which, as you may know, is rather difficult in calculus), and the ones I couldn't eliminate answers for I just guessed ("D is an awfully pretty letter, don't you think?".)</p>