<p>For the AP U.S. History Exam, you barely need to get 70% of the MC right to put yourself on pace for a 5. For the SAT U.S. History Exam, you need to get over 90% of the questions right to get an 800.</p>
<p>Obviously, the curves vary a bit from year to year, but those are the averages. Does the level of difficulty differ between the two tests to reflect the higher expectations for the SAT version?</p>
<p>Possibly. Your question is a bit hard to answer to be honest.</p>
<p>I haven't heard of many people who have gotten 5s on the AP who did badly on the SAT II if that helps you.</p>
<p>In other words: Why the hell we need to be so much more accurate for a good score on the SAT?</p>
<p>It's a test assessing your achievement in mastering USH while the AP is testing to see whether you're qualified for credit in USH in a comparable college course.</p>
<p>The intents are completely different and fit the scoring.</p>
<p>well lol there are only 5 scores on the ap test and the score range on sat could be anywhere from 200-800</p>
<p>go for amsco</p>
<p>in addition, i think the FR's this year on APUSH were tricky, that and if you self studied for the exam and didn't know how to do a dbq, that makes life harder too....</p>
<p>getting 90+% on APUSH MC (which is an 800 on the SAT) puts you on pace for a 5 even if you only get 30-40 percent on the free response section.</p>