AP Euro: Is this the right GRADING scale?

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<p>I found this grading scale on an old CC thread. Is it accurate?
AP</a> Pass - AP Euro Calculator</p>

<p>According to it, with 60/80 MC questions right, 4 MC questions wrong, and a 6 on all 3 essays, the score is a 5. That seems almost too easy. Is it at all correct?</p>

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<p>~60% is a 5</p>

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<p>Here is the scale from the just released 2009 exam:</p>

<p>115 - 180 = 5
94 - 114 = 4
63 - 93 = 3
51 - 62 = 2
0 - 50 = 1</p>

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<p>Thanks dark night! Did you take the AP Euro exam? This scale makes getting a 5 seem a lot less impossible than I thought.</p>

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<p>^Yes. The scale is very generous. Aim for 2/3 right and you will score a 5. I strongly recommend Crash Course and the Princeton Review as the best combination. Crash Course is a very strong book with a number of excellent features. PR is very solid on the Cold War and post-Cold War periods.</p>

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<p>I am using the Princeton Review as the main book and “5 Steps to a 5” as a supplement book. I also have a book of 500 REA questions. </p>

<p>How high do you need to get on the essays? At minimum I should get a 7/8 on the DBQ and a 6/7 on the thematics. Will that get me a 5?</p>

<p>Is the AP Euro scale much more lenient than the APUSH or APWH ones?</p>

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<p>Woah, 60+ on MC and 6’s on all three essays guaranteed you a 5? That’s so lenient.</p>

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<p>^That actually sounds like a hard curve. Crash Course makes the APUSH test seem very easy to get a 5 point-wise. I wouldn’t expect Euro to be too different.</p>

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<p>Is it true that one just about any AP exam you can get about 60% of the composite score and still get a 5?</p>

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<p>^that for many, but not all, AP exams.</p>

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Thanks for the advice!</p>

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<p>have you guys been taking practice tests graded to AP standards? our class average for the multiple choice section of practice tests was around probably around 60% and the class had a 94% pass rate</p>

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<p>^During the week before the exam, our teacher gives practice tests that we grade using AP standards. Our class average is probably around ~40%, mainly because we have block scheduling. </p>

<p>Like dark knight said earlier, PR + Crash Course almost guarantees you a 5, given that you do well on the essays. I listened to Dark Knight’s advice and used PR. Like he said, it has a very good review on post-WWII. I also think that it reviewed the renaissance, and the unification of Germany and Italy pretty well. I also used “5 Steps to a 5”. The book’s very concise, and is decent if you want a fast review. It leaves out some details here and there, but overall it’s a good source.</p>