<p>So, the exam is finally over. What did everyone think of it?</p>
<p>Remember: No discussion of any multiple choice questions, and no discussion of any free response questions until Wednesday.</p>
<p>i dont think ive ever made up so much bs my entire life</p>
<p>Much more difficult than US, a couple FRQs were tricky</p>
<p>FRQ was easy enough. multiple choice wasn't that bad at all; had to leave 2 blank, but otherwise, it was nice enough. US gov multiple choice was a lot harder. All that last minute cramming in the chatroom last night really helped :P</p>
<p>you thought us was harder? are you serious?!</p>
<p>dude US was not hard at all IMO. comparative essays... some of it was the worst BS i've ever written. i have no idea if it was right or not haha.</p>
<p>i will admit on the MC sextions for both i had trouble on a few on each where i could get it down to two and i am hoping my guessing skills were right-on.</p>
<p>the multiple choice was okay, the frq was total crap, it wrote so much bs</p>
<p>US could not have been harder....comparative FRQ and MC both sucked, with FRQ really ****ty and MC being moderately bad</p>
<p>comp was much easier than expected, that said, it wasn't easy by any means.</p>
<p>us was harder than expected the wording of the mc tripped me up, practice tests were so much more straight forward</p>
<p>How many pages, approximately, do you think you guys filled up for the FR? It was around 11-12 for me.</p>
<p>if you guys want to share your <em>thoughts</em> on either exam, join the chatroom i started</p>
<p>USGOVPOL
and COMPGOVPOL</p>
<p>yeah i filled up maybe 11-12 pages as well.</p>
<p>i basically started studying last night round 5pm...haha i dont recommend it.</p>
<p>luckily, alot of what was on the test was knowledge i already had through other classes i take like MUN, Sociology, International Business, etc. and just plain watching the news. </p>
<p>I thought the MC was fairly easy. when i say easy, i don't mean that i got 100% right but i think i did well enough to get a 5 on the AP curve for the MC portion. but a good 1/4 of the questions i definitely was torn between two possible answers. im hoping i did well though because im a decent guesser....</p>
<p>for the FRQs....i thought it was pretty easy and straight forward. one of the country questions was kind of...random and difficult. my main issue i think was i sometimes felt like i had to bs some examples but i think i did alright.</p>
<p>hopefully a 4 or 5 :]</p>
<p>btw. anyone who wants to take this test next year. ETHEL WOOD. this and a general knowledge of world politics is all you need. i only got through half of ethel wood (i still hadnt covered mexico, iran, or nigeria) and i feel good about this test. a text book is completely unnecessary i would say.</p>
<p>comp gov's MC had some horribly ambiguous questions. i'll stop at there. </p>
<p>FRQs were pretty fun actually, although i felt the distribution of times they had reccommended for each essay question seemed a little off.</p>
<p>Personally, I thought the MC was pretty hard and the FRQs were easy. There were a couple I might have BSed some, but I felt like almost all of my examples were correct.</p>
<p>The MC was surprisingly hard. A lot of questions were very ambiguous, and I found that I had to guess on about a third of the questions. I could usually eliminate about 2-3 of the answer choices, though. If anyone remembers, the ambiguity of the MC section can be summed up in the word "federalism." Tell me if you know what I'm talking about.</p>
<p>The FR was pretty okay, but I had never seen two of the terms they wanted us to define. I correctly guessed the definition for one, and my examples were adequate. My definition for the second one was incorrect, but my example was adequate. I'll hopefully get points for this.</p>
<p>The conceptual analysis question was easy enough, and I kind of saw it coming. Some parts of the country-context questions were easy while others were random and difficult. I can't say I didn't expect that, though.</p>
<p>Overall, the test was more difficult than I thought it would be, and the curve better be good.</p>
<p>Overall I thought the test was extremely easy. I self studied this course with Ethel Woods' book. I started about 2 weeks ago reading about half a chapter a night until this weekend. On Saturday I just did about an hour of general review and then Sunday I spent about a good 6-7 hours re-reading the entire book, highlighting key points, and taking the final practice test in the back. </p>
<p>MC did have some ambiguous questions although some of the answers came down to 50/50 for me. I answered all the questions and probably only missed 10 at most. </p>
<p>For the FRQ's, I felt that they were equally as simple. In the first 5 questions, I answered 4 of the 5. One of the questions I had never even encountered the word before so I just skipped it. After I finished the rest of the FRQ and came back to it, I thought about it for 5 minutes and then just decided to leave it blank because I was lazy. The conceptual analysis was really easy since I had specifically studied that section the night before and during my classes the day of the test. Some of the country-context questions were easy, but others I actually had to think about for a couple of minutes before putting my answer down.</p>
<p>In the end, I'm extremely confident that I got a 5. I probably got about 90% of the test correct. For potential self studiers next year, take Comp Gov and read Ethel Woods! It's literally all you need.</p>
<p>i dunno
MC seemed easy for me
FR wasnt too bad either</p>
<p>if you guys want to talk about how you thought it was, hit me up
sn: moonflowgenesis
for aim
if there's a chatroom or something already, let me know :)</p>
<p>One word: butthurt. The MC was a tricky bastard and some parts of the FRQ made me vomit more BS than I think I ever have on an AP. I'm so glad that's over. </p>
<p>I did read Ethel Woods, which was poorly written, as far as I could tell. Perhaps I should've allotted more time to reading the whole damn thing. Bleh.</p>
<p>i did ethyl woods too
it wasnt that bad....</p>
<p>Does anyone have a sample scoring formula for comparative? That's the sheet that says (# right - # wrong) x 1/4 x 1.00023, and so forth</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>