2010 AP United States History Discussion

<p>In my opinion…</p>

<p>MC: Rather simple. I left about 6 blank, simply because I didn’t study anything past WWII Projected: 50-60 correct.</p>

<p>DBQ: I murdered this DBQ. I’m pretty sure I got an 8 or 9 on this essay :DD.</p>

<p>FRQ: #3. I knew exactly what to write for this one, but I had no idea how to organize this. Projected Score: 5-7, depending on how lenient my ap grader is.</p>

<p>FRQ: #4. These two questions were pretty difficult for me, simply because I crammed all the post-civil war studying till the night before, but I think I did alright.
Projected Score: 4-7, again depending on how lenient my grader is.</p>

<p>Overall projected score: 4, or 5, depending on the essays.</p>

<p>Wait ftw how do you know this stuff? I actually completely forgot I had to use docs so I only stuck 4 in there. Do the AP people actually count?</p>

<p>I made a HUGE mistake on the civil war choice essay (it said write about events from 1845-1865)! I wrote about the Missouri Compromise!!! And I said it happened in 1850!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Otherwise I think I owned the exam though, I just had that huge brain fart. Gah, its so frustrating. How much do you think thats that going to affect me?</p>

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No. My current APUSH teacher has been an AP Grader for over 10 years. The majority of DBQs that receive 9’s implement anywhere from 5-7 documents effectively in the response. Our teacher made sure that this was ingrained into our minds before the test.</p>

<p>Will we get our essays back like you do for the SAT? Do we even know our scores for the individual essays or is it just part of the 1-5 final score?</p>

<p>@ emmadh4- do u think what u talked about could have sounded like u meant to say the comp of 1850, and just acccidently wrote missouri comp? also, u must have discssed other points too so as long as your other examples are sufficient, u should get a fairly decent score</p>

<p>@lifewiki - We just get our scores as far as I know.</p>

<p>@lifekiwi- my teacher said that they’ve started putting in your essay subscores when they send u scores in july- though i didnt get my essay scores for euro last year so im not sure. if u really want to know, i think they send the teachers your essay/mc breakdown, so ask your teacher next year.</p>

<p>@ jersey13- what about the points of view and additional document? ive never heard of that… maybe cuz our teacher didnt give us any practice :)</p>

<p>2 points of view is moronic, although developing a stance that is neither strongly for nor strongly against the statement is usually very effective. And you don’t need an “additional document”, just plenty of outside information relevant to the topic.</p>

<p>ok thanks :slight_smile: although about the OI, i tried to put in as much as I could for about 1/2 the documents i used… is that enough? i really went into the test with no idea how to write the DBQ- its so different from the checklist euro Dbq</p>

<p>What happens if you use information out of the time frame?</p>

<p>im sure you can mention the missouri compromise if you mention how it was repealed by the kansas-nebraska act, and the effects that it being repealed had on the situation. they better not take points off for that</p>

<p>yea i thought that was strange, the whole “confine your answer to time period blah and blah”. they were really strict about that</p>

<p>Did you at least state it was in 1820? So than at least they know that you know it wasn’t in the time period etc.</p>

<p>I explained background information outside of the time frame, but I still left the bulk of the essay in the time frame, except I didn’t put the thing about 1820. Oops.</p>

<p>its been 48 hours we can talk about the questions: was halfway covenant an answer? what was one consequence of the revolutionary war that hurt british and american relations? what was the answer to the brown v board? why didnt the great society worK?</p>

<p>-Great society did not work or w/e the phrasing was , because of the war, viet war</p>

<p>Hey on the frq #3 (about slavery expansion starting civil war)</p>

<p>Was it OK to make a concession-styled argument, presenting why some would say the civil war started due to state’s rights, but then arguing why it was actually the slavery expansion debate (giving lots of outside information and analysis btw)?</p>

<p>Do you think showing both sides would be considered going off-topic, or would it be considered very knowledgeable and thus get me a higher score?</p>

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PS - I did this in my essay. I wouldn’t worry</p>

<p>on my last essay, if i wrote one half really well and used tons of outside info and analysis, but the 2nd half was pretty bad and i didn’t know that much, how will they score it?</p>