<p>John rolfe died in 1622</p>
<p>I used all of the documents on my DBQ, and I think my thesis was pretty good. Is that the kind of stuff that gets 7/9-9/9?</p>
<p>No to get 7-9s you need perfect thesis topic sentence and analysis, and on dbqs you need to pull outside info and not let the documents control your paper</p>
<p>Thesis, topic sentences, and analysis</p>
<p>I only used 6 documents, is that bad?</p>
<p>How much outside info did you have, if a lot your fine</p>
<p>for DBQ, i wrote about Kansas-Nebraska, and bleeding kansas in one section but thats out of time period…will that hurt me? i discussed things within time frame as well but i’m worried since theres a paragraph on kansas-nebraska.</p>
<p>my whole essay was outside info, i just referenced the documents.</p>
<p>I don’t think I let the documents control my paper really, I did expand and go further on some of them, and I had outside info.</p>
<p>Kansas-Nebraska Act was only 2 years beyond the time frame so I doubt they’ll penalize for that showing up. In general I don’t think much is lost by having inaccurate info, unless it’s a lot or fabricated. I’ve seen essays scored as an 8 have flaws.</p>
<p>I misread #3</p>
<p>And talked about international affairs from 1879 to 1921 instead of 1779-1821</p>
<p>Oops. There’s a 1. </p>
<p>But considering it was still a good essay, how does scoring work for that kind of situation? :p</p>
<p>Other two essays were easily 7+ so I’m hoping I can still pull a 5</p>
<p>if the time frame was extended 5 more years, I could’ve put down kansas-nebraska and Dred Scott. My essay would’ve been atleast 5 pages lul</p>
<p>I really hope that everyone posting on here is a genius, and that there are tons of people out there that thought the test was hard. I’m afraid that the test was really easy, which will result in a harsh curve and the possibility of a 5 nearly impossible.</p>
<p>Not to add insult to injury, but an off-topic essay is a 0 (not a 1)</p>
<p>@booapush: Yes, the vast majority of us here are very intelligent. However, most of the people who took the test that I know thought it was easy, and someone told my teacher the FRQ’s because he said that he thought that they were some of the easier ones that he’s seen. AP Pass has you needing 111/180 to get a 5, I’d say that if you have anything over around 120 or so, you’re good, since curves don’t usually change more than that. Also, I thought that the MC was above average difficulty, so that should even the scores out a bit.</p>
<p>@jenn: Graders give points for what you did right, not take off points for what you did wrong, so you shouldn’t loose any points for that, but won’t gain them either. If you wrote a solid essay aside from that though, I don’t see any reason why you can’t score highly.</p>
<p>@ vemane: I do the exact same thing!!! Omg is a 5 impossible now with a 65ish mc ?</p>
<p>Multiple choice was doable, there were a handful of questions that I literally had to guess between two choices.
As for the DBQ, I almost screwed up my thesis that didn’t answer the prompt but I saved myself there.</p>
<h1>2 FRQ, I didn’t realize that trans-Atlantic trade meant the Middle Passage! So, I talked how the North’s diverse economy allowed smuggling with other nations :(</h1>
<h1>5 FRQ, I almost didn’t answer the prompt again! Praise the lord that I caught myself and didn’t just ramble off protests.</h1>
<p>@Etshine: According to AP Pass(based off old AP tests and I’ve found to be very accurate), if you got a 65ish MC, a 1 on the off topic essay, and 7’s on the DBQ and other FRQ, that’s 123.9/180, or a low 5, but with the easy essays the curve might be slightly higher. It’s borderline, but not impossible whatsoever. If you wrote good essays (5+), you’re basically guaranteed a 4 though.</p>
<p>0 is when there is no relevance (ie… You write “hi, I didn’t learn this”)</p>
<p>A 1/2 is when either the essay is complete crap or you have, essentially, a major inherent error</p>
<p>@working123: I felt like the definition of trans-Atlantic trade was open to debate, you could either do strictly the middle passage, or do a broader interpretation of it, with trade for goods and services as well. Not sure if that’s just my crazy thinking going off, but I’d think that if they were referring to the middle passage directly, they would have mentioned it, Collegeboard is usually fairly specific. Also, the inclusion of mercantilism in the question makes me think that they were thinking of a broader scope than just the middle passage, but, again, might be my crazy thinking again :)</p>