<p>A specific confirmation or a separate press release would be more assuring to me.</p>
<p>If they’re doing this, hopefully the curves become more difficult as a result. I wouldn’t want it to be easier to score higher, starting the year after I am done with APs.</p>
<p>^ I assume that the distributions would be unchanged.</p>
<p>O.O</p>
<p>WTH!!! That means there’s no penalty for guessing. Somehow, I feel I’m against this since the curve will become slightly higher though. However, in my presumption, the change in the curve won’t make much of a difference though since the penalty is always -1/4 from the beginning and missing, for example, 20 questions will just result a loss of 5 points.</p>
<p>Well, I hope for some confirmation and that the curves for the exams next year remains nearly the same every year.</p>
<p>However, overall, I’m against this and I wish the current system to stay.</p>
<p>Whatttttt…I don’t think I like this!</p>
<p>The curve is definitely going to be harder now. I bought the 2009 released exam for Physics B to prepare for the exam this year,and I just compared the old curve to the new curve on one of those new worksheets.</p>
<p>Old Curve:
107-180 (5)
78-106 (4)
48-77 (3)
29-47 (2)
0-28 (1) </p>
<p>New Curve:
112-180 (5)
85-111 (4)
57-84 (3)
40-56 (2)
0-39 (1)</p>
<p>So I guess the range for a 5 has the least change in general, but this still suckssssss :(</p>
<p>^But at least it’s not that dramatic though. Besides, there has been sometimes a 5-10 point change in previous years’ curves, and that occur with the 5 score, too.</p>
<p>Moreover, for Physics B that one year a few years ago, the score to get a 5 was 115.</p>
<p>It’s basically going to just end up canceling out though. They’ll raise it by a few points, and you’ll get a few more points for not losing any points.</p>
<p>Still, CB is rewarding people for random guessing now… wasn’t the old way more intuitive? I mean, it’s not like guessing even hurt; in the long term it all canceled out anyways.</p>
<p>I think the curve helped people more than guessing would… so they’re perhaps doing a trade-off: Allow the accumulation of points by guessing, but reduce the effect of the curve. This actually makes it harder to do well (even though it seems like it would be easier).</p>
<p>As mentioned, everything will balance out. Plus, we don’t know if there are other changes in store to counter this change.</p>
<p>Well, I got a response from CB:</p>
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<p>Not exactly what I was looking for.</p>
<p>^Stupid College Board. There’s no “best possible service” in this response.</p>
<p>How did you find the Human Geo and Psych scoring worksheets?</p>
<p>So they are going to make the curve more difficult.</p>
<p>I really hope they will keep the old system. I like it more.</p>
<p>I didn’t really like the fact that they penalized guessing before.</p>
<p>@314159265
I found the revised curves on the College Board Store. For example here’s one for Human Geography: [2006</a> AP® Human Geography Released Exam](<a href=“Store App”>Store App)</p>
<p>Just read “NOTE” since it explains about the revised curve. As you may know, College Board has created many revised curve, one for each released exams. Therefore, you can find the revised curve on each released exam of any subject and of any year.</p>
<p>@byubound The curve will increase slightly and the revised curve should be the reflection of the “no penalty” rule and I believe these revised curves should be accurate since College Board still has the data on the AP Scores for every year to do these revisions.</p>
<p>@aquamarina I like the old system, too. It just makes the AP exams more of the designs of College Board rather than of the ACT.</p>
<p>I guess as long as it balances out with a higher curve, but I’m wondering why the College Board decided to start changing everything now. It’s strange that they are starting to make changes now that I’m done with AP.</p>
<p>I want to know the reason for the change to the AP Exam rule all of a sudden, and I cannot believe no news has been conspicuously posted on AP Central.</p>
<p>Yeah, they really should have made a note of that. Changing some exams to different days also makes it weird.</p>
<p>Getting rid of the rule essentially gives more power to luck.</p>