I feel like we lucked out this year, the DBQ was pretty simple, and it wasn’t like there wasn’t an easy FRQ in each section. In fact, it seems to me like almost everyone chose #4. I feel really lucky since my teacher was good at covering things that were in the DBQ/FRQ, but really bad with details that would have been on the FRQ. Luckily I had PR which saved my life in the MC section.</p>
I was one with the test. </p>
The M/C section was a breeze. I used the REA Crash Course and it seems as if the M/C section was designed around the book or vice versa ;).</p>
The essays were nice too - I had to throw away a couple of documents for the DBQ though. </p>
I did #4 and 7 for the FRQ. Easy easy easy. My main textbook - Western Civ. (Spielvogel) had 2 entire pages dedicated to the events leading up to the English Civil War. #7 was easy because all the material was recent and fresh on my mind. My only regret is that I forgot to include the Helsinki Accords in my essay for #7 :(. I realized that after I had started a new paragraph and I couldn’t go back and insert another sentence or two.</p>
gseymour, i was about to put warsaw pact but didnt. but nothing can hurt you, you can only go up in points, so don’t worry!</p>
I failed on Question 4 on FRQ so bad :((</p>
I thought that Henry tudor was in power when Cromwell came around and I didn’t remember anything from it so I just talked about France first and aljfldjflajf</p>
I need a 4 on this test and idk what I’ll get :((</p>
my teacher said if you answer 1/2 the question well, and the other (kinda bombed it) you can still potentially earn up to a 5 on the frq</p>
Don’t talk about the test just yet. I think CB has spies on cc. I’m worried now.</p>
Am I the only one who feels that the MC was a lot harder than the released exam and pratice?
I feel that this year’s MC tend to be more specific. I have like 5 questions that I have completely no idea and another 10ish questions that I guessed by elimanition. Cauz I usually get 78/79 for practice, I felt so bad during the test and it affects my latter performance.
The DBQ was easy. I think I got at least a 7 or 8 on it.
I screwd both of my essays. For #4, I thought that James 1 was the son and Charles 1 was the father. Despite that, I think it was a fairly strong essay. Does that error really going to affect my score??
I picked #6 for my second essay. Cauz I spent too much time on the DBQ, I did not have enough time, I only wrote 1 1/2 pages. It was poorly organized, but I have packed it with a lots of terms and policies in short sentences. guess it’s like a 3 or 4 essay.
Does anyone have an idea of how the curve is going to be like this year? So worried right now, I really need a 5.</p>
I actually didn’t think the DBQ was that easy :(</p>
The MC was okay, not too bad, though there were some straange questions</p>
When I did #4, I didn’t even mention Cromwell or the Commonwealth because the question was talking about what led to it. is this gonna be bad? :(</p>
Haah, and totally BSed the 3rd body paragraph of #6 (Stalin/Lenin). Oh well, hopefully it’s still a 4/5</p>
And 458981355, isn’t 1 1/2 pages enough? Especially if you have a lot of info in it.</p>
I think the curve’s gonna be harsher because we can now guess on the questions w/o penalty T__T</p>
iiClickSend, I am pretty sure that #4 was asking about situations prior to and that led to the wars. I actually kind of feel bad about those who actually mentioned Cromwell and Commonwealth, it has nothing to do with the cause of wars, right?</p>
that DBQ was the most amazing thing, haha. i read the question and i litteraly smiled and looked up and one of the proctors was laughing at me, haha.</p>
but i did 3 and 5 frq’s. i really, really regret not really reading what choice 4 was. like i saw the words “enlightenment” and “romanticism” and honed in on that one and didn’t read the rest. but once i finished (with like, 25 minutes to spare. D: i hate finishing early.) i read the other ones and was like great, i would have written 4 ten times better. 
but i still don’t think i did too terrible.</p>
the questions on mc were definitely easier than those in the barrons book.</p>
I did essays #4 and #7, and I thought they were the easiest by far. I didn’t mention Cromwell at all for #4 either, I talked about things like the Scottish rebellion, long/ short parliament, and the gunpowder plot.</p>
I thought the multiple choice was fairly difficult, but that’s because I didn’t study all that much.</p>
The DBQ confused me for some reason, maybe I was just panicking…is it ok if I talked about how they thought gender made her a bad queen, how it didn’t affect their viewpoint, and how she reacted?</p>
I did the fourth and fifth questions on the FRQ. The fourth one was ok, but I kinda bsed english civil war. The fifth one i talked about how industrialization made items cheaper and easier to make, so there was mass production. For imperialism, I put how cheap labor and raw materials from the area helped make items more accessible and cheaper for everyone to buy. But my answer seemed different from others…I’m so screwed.</p>
@AnnieZ</p>
THE DBQ CONFUSED ME TOO!! D:
like I couldn’t figure out a way to incorporate her responses into the paragraphs, so I just tacked them on at the end of the 2nd body.</p>
Anyways, just wondering, how did y’all group the docs?</p>
i grouped mine by positive, negative, and her reactions. my friend did some really complicated grouping though, so i hope mine is okay.</p>
i don’t know how your exam environments are set up, but the way my city does it is that all of the schools in the area go to the town convention center and take it all together. (and we all get to miss school for the day, and most of the time everybody goes to the beach afterwards as celebration since we’re like, 5 minutes away from it. it’s just kind of intense though because theres over 500 kids there, haha.) it turns out that one of the schools there had never written a DBQ before. all they had gotten was handouts about how to do them. i like, yeahhh… you’re all screwed.</p>
@ skatie80, i did the exact same thing. AWESOME! Thought i was the only one who did that, grouping the DBQ into positves, negatives, and Elizabeth’s responses. My DBQ was 5 pgs LOL
I felt like i had carpal tunnel after that, 5 pg DBQ, 4 pg FRQ1 and 3 1/2 pg FRQ2</p>
does anyone remember the question that had a quote and asked which person was talking about which country. like montesquei on blank, ect. I think I put someone on the USA.
Also, what was the answer to the question that compared the treaty of versailles to the treaty of vienna? I think i put it was run by diplomats.</p>
I put England for Montesquieu because I remembered reading that he accidentaly thought that England had separation of powers.</p>
Yeah, I put Montesquieu for England as well, because he did mistakenly think that England had a separation of powers.</p>
My DBQ groups: Church reaction (opposition), Elizabeth’s closed individuals (positive), how she was an “active monarch” in society, and how she was an authoritarian politique ruler. </p>
I didn’t do a conclusion, though, since my thesis kicked butt.</p>
Uhh… I honestly don’t remember that question. I don’t remember much about the mc except that the first three pages were amazingly easy, and that the second to last page completely kicked my butt except for the animal farm question.</p>