<p>Yes, this test was really easy compared to some of the other practice tests i took to prepare. I really believe that on the mc i only really felt iffy about 4-5 of them and the frq’s was cake compared to old ones from previous years.</p>
<p>This was really easy. The multiple choice was a gift from God. Except there were several which I never ever remembered learning and just kinda guessed. But that was less than 10 so I think I’m good for a 5?! </p>
<p>but I’m just wondering… They gave us SO much time for the FRQ’s and so many pages… However, I didn’t think the questions they asked necessarily called for that much time or space at all. All I did was directly answer their questions (which were mostly vocab, I felt) without any fluff and my essays were like 1-2 pages long. I know longer essays = higher scores but I’m just worried I didn’t write enough. </p>
<p>And for the question about legislative oversight… was the answer just regulatory agencies as a part of bureaucracy? I also said congressional committees allocate the amount of funding that the agencies receive, which increases power congress yields over bureaucracy. Correct? It was total BS…</p>
<p>Dreamer, from the sounds of it, unless you had some huge, pervasive error throughout the entire exam that you were unaware of, you probably got a five.</p>
<p>Assuming you got, in the worst case scenario, 50/60 on the multiple choice, then if the curve is 75% correct for a five, which is usually the higher end, harder curves for AP Gov, then you would have only needed to get 68% of the points on the FRQs. In other words, you could have missed an entire part of each FRQ and maybe a little bit more.</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it. I think you’re in the five range, and pretty comfortably.</p>
<p>Wait, are you supposed to write essays? I just answered the questions directly, and it only took about a page to 1.5 for each question…</p>
<p>No lol.</p>
<p>Identify is 1-2 sentences (mostly one)</p>
<p>Describe is 2-3 sentences (mostly 2)</p>
<p>Explain is 3-4 sentences (4 if you know a relevant example)</p>
<p>I didn’t give any particular examples…is that bad? They were all general questions…</p>
<p>When it asked, say, explain how interest groups influence elections, I just said “They give money to candidates they support” Is that sufficient?</p>
<p>Garfield, I basically said that too. Not much room to elaborate there</p>
<p>However, I’m pretty annoyed that I double guessed myself on a relatively easy question (approval ratings INCREASE after initial war)</p>
<p>^picordy gosh dangit got that one wrong. That was one I guessed on and I think i had decreases… 
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<p>I didn’t know what an issue network was but I assumed it was like an iron triangle, right? I talked about PACs and lobbying but not much after that.</p>
<p>What is a method that the executive branch has on “checking” court decisions? I said senatorial courtesy eventually effects court decisions in the executive branch’s favor but I don’t think that’s what they were looking for.</p>
<p>I want a 5 on this test SO bad.</p>
<p>^^ i said that the bureaucracy (executive branch) can take a long time to implement the judicial decisions or not implement them at all.</p>
<p>Dreamer: I realized the answer they were looking for, was the power of Clemency as chief magistrate, to lower sentences and punishment. Unfortunately i said that as the executive branch he has the role of deciding how to execute the court decisions, and doesn’t have to do much if he disagrees with the ruling (Andrew Jackson)</p>
<p>i said being able to grant pardons & reprieves</p>
<p>MC’s were easy. FRQ’s were pretty hard, for me at least. Most of my answers were kind of vague. I also completely forgot the 24th amendment, iron triangle, and the bureaucracy (we had JUST learned about it a few days before the exam) even though I looked at it right before the test. :(</p>
<p>Well, my teacher didn’t really do a great job preparing us for the FRQs at all, but the MC was pretty much what we’ve done in class. It wasn’t bad at all. I think I probably got a 3 or 4, but my college only takes 5s on this for credit, and it would take some godly miracle for me to actually get that score from what I turned in… Oh well!</p>
<p>for the question about executive checks on court decisions, could you say that a check is court nominations? a president with a sympathetic senate could pick justices who are sympathetic to his policies and therefore would have an impact on the decisions. Am i wring here?</p>
<p>That is certainly a check. It’s a pretty direct check.</p>
<p>I put that the executive branch could delay the enforcement of the court’s decision, as was the case after Brown v. Board of Ed. There’s no one answer though.</p>
<p>^Yaaaay! That’s what I put. </p>
<p>I’m extremely mad that they didn’t test me on a single court case. After I went through all the work to memorize them all. What a waste of my life.</p>
<p>i agree dreamer. I spent so much time memorizing the selective incorporation cases. better safe than sorry i guess.</p>
<p>Alright guys so I have my final coming up and he said it would the 2012 ap exam, and we had taken a practice one a couple of weeks ago I got 35 of them right, I currently have a 66, is there any hope for me? I need to know the material on this exam! PLEASE and THANK YOU!!</p>