<p>Well, just got back from the APAH exam.</p>
<p>How did everyone think they did?</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice was quite easy, the essay questions were manageable. Two of the 10 min. essays I struggled on and I just realized I got one of the paintings/artists wrong for one of the 30 min. essays.</p>
<p>Overall, I think I did pretty well and I think I got a 5. (I hope I get a 5)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I got a 4, hopefully a 5?</p>
<p>Well, multiple choice was easy indeed, some questions threw me off, though. I realize now I got one essay wrong, but the rest were properly identified and what not. The first essay caught me off-guard, though!</p>
<p>I took AP art history last year, and I remember the following</p>
<ul>
<li><p>There were some odd multiple choice questions - I guessed in 15</p></li>
<li><p>Long essays - 1 wrote GREAT other so so </p></li>
<li><p>short essays - I struggled with 2, others were fine</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I got a 5, so that means that there is room for mistake for a 5 
Good luck !</p>
<p>I feel confident regarding the two essays and almost all of the multiple choice – there were only a few questions that I couldn’t totally recall the information.</p>
<p>The short answers, however… my goodness, I regret THE TWO and I know I’m talking about the same ones that you are. Dang trains.</p>
<p>How long on average was everyone’s long 30. min essay and short 10 min. essays?</p>
<p>I wrote a page for each 10 min. except for the two that I struggled on (I wrote half a page) and I wrote a page and half for each 30. min essay. </p>
<p>I think the graders don’t care about length but rather the information.</p>
<p>@penguin, your scenario seems very similar to mine, I hope the outcome is the same as well.</p>
<p>And I agree **** trains.</p>
<p>I wrote about two and a half pages per 30 minute essay, like to the bottom of the question’s page and the entire front and back of the next. I finished the first one in twenty minutes and spent forever trying to figure out works for the second, though I think they went over all right. I looked up my pre-1700 work after the test in order to confirm that it really was from pre-1700 and it WAS. A good moment. I’m happy with those essays. I made strong arguments and I knew about all my four works.</p>
<p>I spent fifteen minutes on the very first short answer, because I knew a lot about the guy. I spent a little less than ten on 4 and 7 (the ones I couldn’t identify), and another fifteen on 8, because my class discussed the work in-depth. The first and last (3,8) were about a page and a half each, the rest around two or three short four-sentence paragraphs. I hope there’s a good curve to the short answers.</p>
<p>On the second I, too, took a while to find works, it was crazy! I ended up choosing this <a href=“http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ao/web-large/DT1217.jpg[/url]”>http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ao/web-large/DT1217.jpg</a> as pre-1700, how crazy of me… </p>
<h1>7 was hard to name the guy, I had completely forgotten. I wrote it really squinted so maybe they’ll let it slide lol? Anyways, the train one I nailed because I had just reviewed it last night, haha! :-)</h1>
<p>I had to use the Seated Couple, too, lol.</p>
<p>I had no idea what I was doing with the train one but I made a pretty fair guess so I expect some credit. I also realized that I got the last 10-minute wrong (sort of on track but I named the wrong war). Hopefully everything else was good enough for full credit.
My 30-minute essays were eh… both topics were REALLY obscure. MC was easier than what I found in the Barron’s book so I expect something like an 85/115 on that… hopefully enough for a 5! </p>
<p>Does anyone know how the cutoffs are for the APAH exam in terms of what % out of 100 gets you a 5, 4, 3, etc?</p>
<p>The prep book I have (from before the scoring change; so from 2010) says 67% is a 5 and 50% is a 4 (going off of the full 200 points max).</p>
<p>so I completely effed up that one where we had to guess the artist. I said Monet… ugh </p>
<p>I chose Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and the Merode altar piece for one of the big ones, and the seated scribe from Egyptian and I can’t even remember what I chose for the second one on the first big one. I could not think of ANYTHING for that from post 1700</p>
<p>I thought the MC was easy, especially the first image based ones, I reviewed all of those the night before. I also did the two big essay pretty well, and the only artwork I knew that was outside the european tradition worked for the first essay (which was a weird question, but whatever)</p>
<p>Also the artwork we had to attribute an artist to NO ONE knew in my class… it really was a obscure.</p>
<p>On one of the long free responses, I built half of my essay on the wrong material–said something was ivory when it was not…so stupid…and then I wove a long story to go with it. Think I can get any credit for that or should I expect a big 0 for that half of the essay. If other half is perfect, could I be lucky enough to get a 5 out of 9? </p>
<p>Thought MC was fine, short essays good, but HATED HATED both the long ones. Could have answered any long essays College Board has asked in the last 15 years but those two killed me.</p>
<p>Can I ask you guys what you used for long FRQs or is that going against CB? I used Duchamp’s Fountain and Aztec jewelry (I forget which now) for first, and then I chose David’s Oath of the Horatii to show spheres of influence and Seated Couple for second.</p>
<p>@bigman, I have the same question as you because I think I went to vague on Duchamp.</p>
<p>EddieAP, I also used Duchamp’s Fountain for the first essay, as well as Kimio’s Symptom (modern Japan). I discussed Fountain’s intended pure objecthood and challenge to the modern West. Kimio’s Symptom tied in with early Japanese spirituality involving nature. I don’t think this goes against College Board rules as long as we never blatantly Speak About The Questions.</p>
<p>I had Duchamp’s fountain written down but at the last moment I changed it to something that I can’t remember since the significance of that piece wasn’t necessarily about the material but about how the artist chose to give the piece significance by picking it…I cannot for the life of me remember what I put instead. but for the nonwestern one I put that seated scribe statue from Egypt and how it was made out of wood because the person wasn’t as important.</p>
<p>I thought that ancient Egyptian works didn’t count as non-Western? And the Seated Scribe is painted limestone, not wood.</p>
<p>well then I just completely blew up that essay. Ugh. My teacher has told us that for this year Egyptian still counts as non western. We didn’t study anything else from outside of western art besides two night sessions of Japanese that didn’t really teach me anything.</p>
<p>So halemcck, sounds like we are in the same boat. Do you think we can hope for any credit on the one half since we misidentified the material? Anybody have any thoughts so I can move on from this test to the next one.</p>
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