<p>sahernaqvi-</p>
<p>I’m sorry that happened to you, but the responsibility/fault for your situation falls on you. A quick internet search would have told you that Bio was changing this year. Do not blame College Board.</p>
<p>^^Yeah, I agree with this.</p>
<p>In fact, I think they were headed into the right direction with the change in the cirriculum. Although the test is easy to pass now, it’s not a test to be taken lightly, not at all. The fact that no one (as of now) has made a perfect score on this test (as opposed to pretty much every year prior) demonstrates this. We need to be applying biology concepts to think about various situations in life anyway, instead of purely memorizing facts. We need to be thinking about the world in different ways. </p>
<p>That’s just my two cents though.</p>
<p>Anyway, here’s an update to the score distributions:</p>
<p>Music Theory: 5: 18.9%. 4: 16.6%. 3: 25.6%. 2: 25%. 1: 13.9%. ← Slightly higher 3s and 1s, yet solid scores throughout. </p>
<p>Comparative Government and Politics: 5: 18.7%. 4: 21%. 3: 19.8%. 2: 23%. 1: 17.5%. <—Slightly higher 2s and 3s, slightly lower 4s and 5s. Nearly 30% of students earned 3/3 points on Q3, about 40% of students earned 6-8 points (out of 8) on Q7, yet about 18% of students earned 0/7 points on Q8.</p>
<p>US Government and Politics: 5: 11.2%. 4: 14.3%. 3: 26.2%. 2: 24.9%. 1: 23.4%. <— Slightly higher 3s and slightly lower 4s and 5s. There were similar scores throughout the exam, especially on the free response section, where many apparently struggled in. About 20% to 25% of students earned 0 points on each of the four free response questions.</p>
<p>The redesigned AP Latin exam, given this year for the 1st time, focuses on both poetry (Vergil’s Aeneid) & prose (Caesar’s Gallic War).</p>
<p>AP Latin multiple-choice: students generally earned higher scores on Vergil than Caesar, & higher scores on sight reading prose than poetry.</p>
<p>AP Latin scores, 2013. 5: 14.2%. 4: 21.1%. 3: 31.6%. 2: 22.8%. 1: 10.3%. These may shift slightly as late exams are scored.</p>
<p>Students found the AP Latin translation tasks difficult. 22% earned 0 of 15 pts on Vergil, but somewhat better scores translating Caesar.</p>
<p>The AP Latin analysis essay on Caesar/Dido (Q3) & the Caesar short answers (Q5) separated strong from weak students: <a href=“http://t.co/kTyO3o1E2Q[/url]”>http://t.co/kTyO3o1E2Q</a></p>
<p>2 AP Latin students came, saw, conquered, earning perfect scores, every point possible, 100 out of 100, on the exam.</p>
<p>We have posted on the online AP Latin Teacher Community info about the way the standards for AP Latin scores of 1,2,3,4,5 were set.</p>
<p>All of the Language Results (for standard groups):</p>
<p>Chinese: 5: 27.0%. 4: 20.0%. 3: 30.5%. 2: 10.2%. 1: 12.3%. <—slight shift down in scores with a slight decrease in 5s and slight increase in everything else (1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s).</p>
<p>French: 5: 14.1%. 4: 25.1%. 3: 35.5%. 2: 20.1%. 1: 5.2%. <— Slightly higher 5s, solid scores throughout. There was 1 perfect score.</p>
<p>German: 5: 11.7%. 4: 25.0%. 3: 34.9%. 2: 20.5%. 1: 7.9%. <— Slightly lower 5s, 4s, and 1s, and slightly higher 3s and 2s.</p>
<p>Italian: 5: 10.1%. 4: 21.6%. 3: 33.9%. 2: 27.4%. 1: 7%. <— Large increase in 2s, slight decreases everywhere else. Despite this, about 30% of students earned a perfect score on task #1. There were two people earning perfect scores on this exam. (So many perfect scores this year…)</p>
<p>Japanese: 5: 18.9%. 4: 11.3%. 3: 30.1%. 2: 11.8%. 1: 27.9%. <— slightly larger 1s and slightly lower 2s and 3s</p>
<p>Spanish: 5: 13.6%. 4: 21.5%. 3: 21.2%. 2: 21.0%. 1: 22.7%.</p>
<p>Stop raging, you haven’t even got your scores back yet. July 5 is near.</p>
<p>When I took my apush exam some people didn’t even know how to do FRQs and DBQs… Might relate to the released statistics.</p>
<p>I can only hope the biology scoring distribution was a result of people not knowing what the new test would be like i.e. leaving questions blank, not knowing how to do chi-square, running out of time, etc.</p>
<p>I know time is a big issue on the biology exam, mainly because people are more used to memorizing than thinking. Because most (if not all) of the questions required you to think, you would spend more time than if you can just spit out a fact.</p>
<p>As for some of the other exams, so many perfect scores this year. I applaud them all.</p>
<p>I felt that last year’s AP Biology exam (the last 26/100 MC questions on labs) was College Board’s way of introducing some of the “thinking” based questions before they even changed the AP exam. Despite not studying the labs in-depth but getting to use biological reasoning to get through to the answer. I actually like the “thinking” more, but it just isn’t as fun to show off the AP test and how many random terms and processes you know (or had to BS) :D</p>
<p>what was the distribution for Bio?</p>
<p>Calc BC was a breeze, although I made a stupid mistake by leaving out an important detail in the first FRQ. I got a two on that one at the most. Ever other FRQ was easy for me. Thank goodness for the high percentage of 5’s!</p>
<p>At those who took Calculus BC:
Did your teachers go over polars and parametrics?</p>
<p>My class did. It was a whole unit (along with vectors). We spent about 2-3 weeks on it. We were all dreading it from pre-cal, but after a while the stuff was pretty easy. It was basically formula recall on the AP exam too. On the other hand, I think I was the only one in my class who remembered how to integrate polars on the AP exam, haha. </p>
<p>This is one of those topics that people need to remember from pre-cal, hence why people should never skip and remember as much as they can from pre-cal, as it’s supposed to prepare you for calculus (hence pre-cal, duh). </p>
<p>I will not lie though, integrating polars took a while to get a hold of when I first did it.</p>
<p>This might sound petty, but I did the Calculus BC FRQs in pencil. I recall that the proctor read that I could write in pencil or pen. Did I make a huge mistake by writing in pencil?</p>
<p>Are you serious York00, or are you ■■■■■■■■? Didn’t your teacher drill into your head on day 1 never to use a pencil on the AP tests ever! I know mine did. Here are the test day directions for FRQs. [imgur:</a> the simple image sharer](<a href=“http://imgur.com/fKoAEmY]imgur:”>Imgur: The magic of the Internet)</p>
<p>Believe it or not, on the AP Calculus AB/BC, AP Biology, and AP Physics B/C exams (and I think AP Chemistry as well), you are allowed to write in blue or black pen or a pencil for section II, so long as the writting is dark enough to see (at least for this year).</p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying. I looked at the Calculus BC page of collegeboard.org and read the 2011 commentary on the cal bc frqs, and it said you could write in blue or black ink or pencil.</p>
<p>Since people did so terrible on the FRQ’s in APUSH, do you think there is a more generous curve?</p>
<p>Maybe, but highly doubtful.</p>
<p>Also, this statistic scares me. How harsh are these APUSH graders? As in, how the hell do roughly 1 in 2 kids get a 0 or 1 out of 9 on these FRQ’s? I know people are more intelligent than this. I included tons of outside facts and a unifying thesis but I’m starting to doubt my 3.5 page DBQ essay and my 2 page frq essays.</p>