<p>What do you guys think it's going to be like this year? I thought on average, the exam was harder than previous years (tough MC, harder/more obscure DBQ than last year, difficult FRQs), so I'm hoping the curve will be more generous.</p>
<p>I Really hope it will be, although I thought the MC wasn’t to bad (easier than the princeton review questions though). You’re right about the DBQ = what??? But i’m pretty sure I pwned the FRQ’s.</p>
<p>FRQ: Id did 4 and 5, Pretty straightforward but I think I got a little off topic on 4</p>
<p>Yes the DBQ was pretty hard, I did good on one FRQ (4) and ended up almost completely BSing my other one (7).</p>
<p>Could someone clarify?
Is it right to say, no matter how hard the test is, one should get 114+ to get a 5 (AP pass)?</p>
<p>^Not really, the 2009 Test was the only one we know of where the curve was that lenient for a 5. On older exams, it’s been a 121-180 for a 5.</p>
<p>ohhhhhhhhhhh. What do you think of today’s exam? Hard, average or easy?</p>
<p>The M.C. was DEFINITELY more difficult this year than previous year.</p>
<p>I’ve taken many M.C. tests ranging from 1992 to 1999, and I think a 2004 one as well. I’ve consistently scored 60+/80… let’s just say for this one, I will be lucky if I get over a 50/80. :-(</p>
<p>That’s why I hope for a very nice curve. Because I completely rocked the essays and DBQ (Especially number 7), but I feel I messed up on the M.C.</p>
<p>what was the curves for 5,4,3,2, and 1 last year?</p>
<p>I thought the DBQ was hard. Although, I’m surprised. I was skeptical of the crash course at first, so I studied other stuff also, but it does seem like a lot of questions are recycled, and the crash course was pretty accurate.</p>
<p>I hope the curve will be very generous this year because the multiple choice and the DBQ were hard. But, like always, I managed to get through the DBQ and I’m pretty sure I got a 9. But idk about that multiple choice…</p>
<p>I disagree on the DBQ. I thought it was reallllly easy. Anyone who has even taken a general history course (not even AP) or has studied the subject in question even a little tiny bit would’ve had background knowledge. The MC was by far harder than anything else on the test, and even that wasn’t bad.</p>
<p>^Do you think my groupings for the DBQ were ok? They were Democratic Party, Social Democrat/Nazis, Writers/Novelists and Women. I thought they were good yesterday, but now I feel like they don’t really answer the question. I talked about their views on the instabilities of the Republic in question.</p>
<p>The reason it was instable was due to a lack of unity and more specifically due to everybody wanting reforms (reform from within and reform by overthrowing). I can’t wait to talk more about this after the 48 hours are up, but I think you’re ok especially since you went with greater than the required number of groupings and seemed to cohesively answer the question. Seriously, I lucked out big time because the DBQ hit the topic I have been studying since I was little, rather than some random King Charles in the 1500s.</p>
<p>^Thanks, I’m a bit relieved now. 
You’ve been studying this topic since you were little? I was familiar with it as well, but it was still pretty obscure to others.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’ll explain why I’ve studied it since I was little when the 48 hours are up. But for me, the DBQ was the easiest part of the exam (that and the Section C Essay.) Essentially it made me relieved I spent my time preparing more for my other three AP exams because I was able to navigate thru this one pretty well and hopefully get the 4 I need for credit at UMich.</p>
<p>For the DBQ I used social, political, and economic. Do you think I could get the core point for grouping with these?</p>
<p>sure, if you had at least 2 documents in each grouping, discussed the majority of the documents, didn’t misinterpret more than one, had an EXPLICIT thesis, and discussed bias or POV in at least 3 documents. There is no one right answer to DBQs that’s why I like them (that is if you don’t misinterpret the douments).</p>
<p>You don’t need to know outside info to get a 9 on your DBQ. That’s only one of the many points on the expanded core (there are 5 and they only count 3). You can write a DBQ without having studied a thing about the topic and still get a 9. I did that on my mock test which was or final exam AKA the real test for 1999 :/). That is, if you don’t msinterpret the documents. That’s why I think even though the DBQ was really obscure for me (of course I know what “the topic it was over” is but what I meant by hard is that I didn’t study details about it but I was still able to squeeze out some outside info) I’m pretty sure I got a 9. And that is why I LOVE DBQs and hate FRQs 
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<p>Indeed, though I used a chronological grouping. I felt that made my essay more organized.</p>