<p>hey guys im going to take the ap english language and composition exam and was wondering is there a penalty for skipped questions and wrong questions and also how many mutiple choice should i do to get a 4 or 5. thanks guys would appreciate the help</p>
<p>That's the scoring guide, roughly. You'd need a total of 112 points to get a 5 or a total of 95 to get a 4. With this in mind, say you get a multiple choice score of 30. That would mean your adjusted multiple choice score is a 40.5. You would need a free response score of 71.5 or higher to get the 5. That means you'd need to get a total of 24 from your three free responses (7, 9, 9 or 8, 8, 8). If you wanted a 4, then that wouldn't be too hard even with the 40.5 MC score. You would need a 54.5 free response score. You'd need a total of 18 on your three essays (6, 6, 6 or 6, 7, 5, etc).</p>
<p>Just do practices for the multiple choice. Don't worry much about it. Especially don't worry about the free response; if you're teacher is a hard grader, and you're pulling high 70s, low-80s then you should do fine.</p>
<p>I'm taking the test this May as well. I asked for a website in my thread and here it is. Make sure you study the literary terms and rhetorical modes and if you haven't read it in class, then make sure you read the Elements of Style by Strunk & White. That book will help you with the AP exam and the SAT/ACT English/grammar portions if you haven't taken either already.</p>
<p>hey thanks so much, um i heard thta if you score 35 questions out of 50 in the multiple chice and score a 6 on each essay you get 4. i have a question in the multiple choice if you skip questions do you get points taken off. i would appreciate the help thanks</p>
<p>If you skip questions, you don't lose any points. I'm pretty sure that there isn't a requirement for your free response score that should compliment your multiple choice score to get a 5. I'm certain that all the APs are solely graded based on your point total, no hidden requirements or anything.</p>
<p>AP exams DO penalize you for a wrong answer on the multiple choice section. On questions with five choices (the most common forrm), the penalty for a wrong answer is one-quarter point. There is no deduction for a blank.
You can get all the details from the horse's mouth at the College Board web site. Exam scoring stuff is as <a href="http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/about_exams/1994.html%5B/url%5D">http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/about_exams/1994.html</a></p>