<p>The people at my school in California were not required to take the test, but I know that some schools here do require you to.</p>
<p>@dyno, i’m hoping the ppl who were forced to take it didn’t care much about studying for it can help us with the curve
do Americans have to pay for the exam? How much?</p>
<p>for the one about the complex ion was the reactant chlorine gas or hydrochloric acid?</p>
<p>just google the two reactants and you will get the answer in the form of a wiki page.</p>
<p>Free response was brutal.</p>
<p>@roobear, the exam was either $80 or $90 at my school. I’m not sure if it varies.</p>
<p>Those FRQ’s were HORRIBLE. My mind has officially been slaughtered… I think i answered like 20% of the FRQ correctly</p>
<p>Dyno:</p>
<p>It does vary because in some states, the county pays for part or all of your exam.</p>
<p>Thank you guys. I feel a lot better about the FRQs now, knowing that the majority of people on collegeboard had trouble with it. Nearly everyone at my school was freaking out about the FRQ afterwards.</p>
<p>Yeah…I hope they’re lenient because they blindsided everyone with this. It wasn’t even that the questions were hard, they were just extremely specific and a lot more lab oriented. I know A LOT about chemistry, but the very few things that I failed to learn were 100% of the FRQs.</p>
<p>Ok, so I’ve been slacking the whole year, not doing homework (our teacher doesn’t really check them), just taking notes and not really paying attention, but I studied a lot for this. (I’m a good student. I just suck at chemistry. Yesterday I did one practice exam by myself and one with a friend and both times I felt like I didn’t know anything!!! Like I was going to get a 1…</p>
<p>Then the multiple choice came and I feel oddly confident about them- I feel like I got a really good score. I thought, 'Maybe I’m not as bad as I think."</p>
<p>Then the free response came.</p>
<p>All hopes for a 3 are now shattered.</p>
<p>it seems like we were all hit hard with the free response. the bad thing about it though is that they took off guessing pentaly so we have no clue how they r gonna grade it or how much the curve is gonna be…hopefully I manage to receive a 4 with my half answered FR and the semi-alright MCs.</p>
<p>@dyno0919: I have a similar opinion. I took the entire 2008 mock AP test in class, and I scored a solid 5. Just to make sure, I read an entire prep book and skimmed another before going in. I felt that I had a solid understanding of all the concepts on the test yet I was completely surprised by the FRQs. The MCs were about the usual difficulty in my opinion, but the FRQs were just… different from past years. I had to do a lot of thinking on how to apply some concepts and I couldn’t piece some things together.</p>
<p>The elimination of the guessing penalty shouldn’t make that much of a difference. Remember that it was only .25 pts per wrong answer. If you got every question wrong, that would only have been -18.75 pts. It might make the curve 5 or 6 points higher, but it won’t be horrible.</p>
<p>What’s everyone so upset about on the FRQs…? </p>
<p>I had issues with timing, but I didn’t have any trouble with the material on the FRQs. The stupid titration got a little nasty when you were adding all 3 beakers but everything else seemed pretty darn straightforward to me.</p>
<p>I mean, like, what topics specifically did you guys NOT cover? I felt well prepared, just by the class, no textbook or review. Then again my teacher is great. We did several released FRQs with every unit so we were darn familiar with the format and style.</p>
<p>But again, thanks to slow work, I didn’t answer like 1.5 FRQs total, whereas I’ve had time to finished when taking mock exams. Should kill my score sufficiently.</p>
<p>My teacher is gone half the time for chili cook offs and she spent most of the year covering thermodynamics and kinetics. She went over electrochemistry for about a day and started introducing a new topic last Friday. She barely covered everything else for more than just a few days. Given, I was unable to study as much as I would have liked to on my own, but yeah, I found it really difficult without having a sufficient teacher.</p>
<p>She had a habit of drowning us with FRQs and multiple choice (90% of the time being FRQs) over concepts she never covered though (she often tested us /before/ she taught the lesson or taught half the concepts on the tests), so I am used to the format. I refuse to get my hopes up though because I would rather not be thoroughly disappointed.</p>
<p>Whewww, thank goodnesss. I thought my friends and I were the only ones who thought the free response was killer. I finished the test and literally started yelling b/c wth was that??? I mean, parts of it weren’t that bad, but others -__- I blanked out on how to form a complex and the second half of part 1, and when I went back I ran out of time to finish it :(</p>
<p>The FRQs were much harder than I expected, nothing like the exams from previous years. Question one… probably killed my score.</p>
<p>I agree they were hard, but not that much harder than some of the older free response.</p>
<p>Also, if it were easy it wouldn’t be AP…</p>
<p>The MCQ were pretty easy, the FRQ’s were pretty difficult but not too bad. I am pretty sure I lost myself 7-10% off my score because for some stupid reason I thought we had 40 min for equation writing and only 30 min in did I figure out i have to do the last 2 as well in the remaining 10 minutes.</p>