<p>for some reason there is pretty much no macro talk at all on this board.. its all micro micro micro.. i dont know why -___-</p>
<p>well i finished my exam this morning already!
and umm i dont know whether we can discuss about anything yet
so i will just talk about the difficulty</p>
<p>the multiple choice there were some DEAD EASY questions.. like giveaways.. however around the 40's and 50's some question were a bit more challenging..
whenever i wasnt 100% sure about knowing the correct answer, i would mark a tiny spot with my pencil next to the number.. so at the end i counted around like 10-15 questions where i wasnt sure if i was correct. the other questions i was like 90% sure i got them right.. unless it was some silly mistake.</p>
<p>the free response was very easy as well.. we kinda did the same one in class before actually -_-.. so i am pretty confident about the free response. </p>
<p>btwwww when can we discuss about the free response??? and when do the answers come out?</p>
<p>I bombed MC I think, well probably got around a 60% and probably got around 60% of the points on the FR.. lol.. hopefully its a 4-5..</p>
<p>I am dieing right now, I have to go back to school for micro and I stayed up all night studying .. Macro owned me because I can hardly stay awake or think..</p>
<p>Great.. another test to slug through too.. Sigh.. I want to sleepzors :(</p>
<p>Hey... quick question... I know that the 1st FR was longer than the other two and we were supposed to use half of the time on it, but is it worth half of the FR points? Or are all the questions weighted the same in the end?</p>
<p>arghhhhhh!!
on the first free response, i miss reread the part about the oil. when the said the price of oil increased, i read that the oil increased. i answered the rest the questions following this.</p>
<p>Wow. Macro was hard. I didnt think the MC was too terrible, but it was definitely challenging. The FR was awful. It was nothing like other problems I had done and I think it completely dominated me. I am thinking I got a 2, maybe a 3 if I am incredibly lucky.</p>
<p>Macro's MC I found harder than some practice and prior exams. The FRQ's I think I did really well on. I think I got a 4, but maybe that elusive 5.</p>
<p>I don't think I missed more than 5 on the MC, and I feel pretty confident about the first FRQ, but I don't know about the last two. </p>
<p>I have a quick question about my graphs though: what do you think the graders will do if my graph illustrates the point, but doesn't adhere to the standard form. For instance, on the loanable funds graph, I drew the demand for investment curve regularly, but to show the change from increased savings, I drew the supply of loanable of funds curve vertically, and just shifted it to the right.</p>
<p>And for the money market graph, I drew normal supply and demand curves, and just illlustrated that the increase in income would shift the demand curve to the left (which would cause the rise in the nominal interest rate). </p>
<p>Also, on the MC, I can't remember for the life of me what the question was, but I skipped it initially and then came back to answer it. I'm pretty sure my answer was right, but I can't check because I don't remember the question. So does anyone know either 1) what question 54 was? or 2) if the correct answer was 'E' (that's what I put)?</p>
<p>I left 1 blank. Does anyone know what the score range is for a 5? I think I saw on another post somewhere it was like 65-90, but could someone doublecheck me on that?</p>
<p>micro was soo easy.. totally 4'5'd it no prob..</p>
<p>macro praying for a 4 at this point..</p>
<p>And I am totally flighty right now from being up all night I literally have no idea wahts going on or what I'm even here and why my fingers are moving and talking to me like this and getting redundant to him?! Barrons was teh rape last night.. cracked it up at 2 am and didn't stop till 7:30 when I left for my skewl.. Anyone else up in eazy fosheazyi!? wow kshcya</p>
<p>I definitely agree that macro was much harder than micro. I think I did really well on micro multiple choice but I really have no idea about macro.</p>
<p>finally some macro talk :)
hmm its surprising we have a different range of people with difficulty here</p>
<p>i think if u went to the collegeboard.com and look at their past 2 years of free response, and u look at the grading guideline, that would help tremendously.
in fact the question 1, i saw it in one of the past 4 free responses</p>
<p>lets say that i missed 15 questions and got about 85% of the free response right.. what would i get?</p>
<p>According to PR, a 72% is a 5 on the macro, so 72% of 90 is about 65 points.</p>
<p>So if you got an 85% on the multiple choice, you got 51 out of 60 correct, which means you would have earned 49 points. </p>
<p>Then, because FRQs constitute 1/3 of tour score, they are worth 30 points total. However, on each test there are usually only about 28/29 points offered, so you have to multiply the number of points you earn by 1.03/1.07 and then add that to your score on the MC (49) to get your composite score. </p>
<p>65=49+1.03x</p>
<p>x= ~15.5 pts you'd have to earn on the FRQs</p>
<p>You'd have to earn 15.5 out of 28 (the number fluctuates each test) to get a 5, assuming, of course, that the PR number is correct. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any scale from the collegeboard itself?</p>
<p>Does the scale change based on how people did on the test or is it pre-determined? Like, do they want the same general percentage getting each grade each year?</p>