<p>Now, hopefully, the Essential Content should be as good for the Subject Test as it was for the AP Test</p>
<p>That was sarcasm.</p>
<p>I’m taking the makeup next Wednesdays…Will it be the same test you guys took yesterday?</p>
<p>No. ^ That would allow cheating.</p>
<p>Then how do they work the curve? It would be unfair to base a curve after the only few hundred students who take the AP a different date.</p>
<p>Taking the subject test June 1st. I also hope that Essential Content gets me through it. I’m taking a break this weekend, though.</p>
<p>I am kind of unique. I took the test in 2011 (w/ the Nixon DBQ) and got a three. I took this one partially for entertainment. I took the class in 2011, but only studied for the exam for about an hour or two the night before.</p>
<p>With that said, I thought I killed it.</p>
<p>MC - A lot of the stuff I either knew right off the bat or was able to eliminate others and single in on a most likely answer. I thought it went pretty well.</p>
<p>DBQ - WAYYYY easier than Nixon. I wrote a LOT on the DBQ, got onto my 5th page. I found myself with so much outside information, I had to start picking and choosing what to include because the topic was so broad and for such an extended period of time. I did not include Dred Scott, John Brown, or the Kansas-Nebraska Act like some did.</p>
<p>Essays - I did 3&4, found them both pretty easy. On three, my thesis was not as strong as I would have liked, but it was a strong paper… On four, I chose factory workers and middle class urbanites, and I kind of stretched the idea of technologies a bit, but I think it’ll work… </p>
<p>My guesses?</p>
<p>MC - 60/80
DBQ - 7-8, MAYBE 9 if I get a nice grader
FR3 - 6-7
FR4 - 5-6</p>
<p>Which should make for a solid 4 or 5 I think.</p>
<p>Here’s a question for ya’ll…</p>
<p>I was one of the few people in the exam room who had taken an AP exam before, so I knew exactly how to pace myself and take the exam.</p>
<p>Others? Not so much. Half of the students did not complete the entire MC portion because they thought they would receive a five minute warning. One student for whatever reason circled answers on his test booklet, and planned on going to the answer sheet to bubble at the five minute warning. He only bubbled 15 answers on the booklet as a result. She did give a ten minute warning at the end of the essay portion.</p>
<p>The proctor of the exam was a complete B****. She yelled at multiple students for doing nothing wrong and delayed the exam ten minutes between the mandatory reading session and the writing portion of the exam while having what I believe was a personal conversation with the AP Coordinator of the district… There were two doors leading to the outside in the exam room, both were open the entire exam, and the proctor refused to close these doors to the exam room, even when specifically requested by a student. It made the room freezing cold with the wind.</p>
<p>There were two proctors, the mean one was there the entire time, there was also a quiet nice one who showed up a little late, but the first proctor did not give out exams until she was there.</p>
<p>As far as timing went, there was only one clock in the entire room, and it was a very small 12-hand clock on a wall. Due to positioning of the students and the odd shape of the room, some students (coincidentally including our friend who bubbled only 15 answers) were positioned underneath the clock, with no way of seeing it. The proctor used the time on her watch anyway.</p>
<p>The AP teacher has asked students to dig for either A) a loophole (inconsistency) that would allow the 15 answer bubbler to retake the exam without it costing the entire room, and/or B) to look for mistakes the AP proctors and room had, and how they could be corrected in future years.</p>
<p>Thoughts??</p>
<p>You took the exam twice? Lol dude get a life</p>
<p>Lol! Hey, it got me out of school for the day, and I get free lunches, which equates to free exams… So why not?</p>
<p>FWIW, I thought this exam was ten billion times easier than the 2011 one.</p>
<p>Hey guys. I’m taking the makeup AP US test next week on Wednesday since I couldn’t take it on the normal date. Almost certain it’s a different test. Makeup exams from previous years aren’t released. Do you guys think/know (especially those who have graded AP US in the past) whether the level of difficulty for the makeup is similar to the regular? Most people here are saying it was easy this year, so I’m hoping the makeup will also be easy, but I fear that since it’s a makeup, it will naturally be harder, and the curve will also screw me up (since the overall curve will be tougher).</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Should I be worried?</p>
<p>@Manganese: There are rumors that go around every year that the makeup is harder, but I don’t believe that’s true. I think it will be the same level of difficulty, different topic… It all just depends on what you’ve studied.</p>
<p>For example, you could really study hard on Cold War policies, but neglect Reconstruction.</p>
<p>If the original is on Cold War, and you take the makeup on Reconstruction, obviously it’ll be harder. And vice versa.</p>
<p>It all depends on luck and what you studied.</p>
<p>Do they base the curve off of the scores of the roughy 500 students who take the makeup? Bc that’s not too fair considering that’s not such a high population to make a statistical score judgement…</p>
<p>@mjr2013, I did the same FRQs that you did, could you clear something up for me? For Q3, would my essay be relevant to the prompt if I talked about the War of 1812, republican motherhood, and Hamilton’s economic plan? For the final two, I talked about how the US propagated republican values and ideals of democracy in order to establish itself in light of other nations/enact these values in its dealing with other nations, and that the US wanted to create a strong economy in order to be “a force to be reckoned with” and compete with other nations economically. I’m kind of freaking out about this, since I haven’t seen other people use those factors. Help me out please? Thanks.</p>
<p>No^ irrelevant</p>
<p>Would saying that students protested the draft age being lowered to 18 be a valid reason for essay 5?</p>
<p>Because the draft age was lowered in 1942.Sorry for double post.</p>
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<p>No, RM and Ham’s economic plan are not germane to the topic; neither involve anything about foreign affairs</p>
<p>Are points still deducted for getting an answer wrong (1/4 a point) or did they get rid of that for APUSH also, and now you might as well guess?</p>
<p>Yes, they got rid of the guessing penalty for all AP exams.</p>