<p>my teacher said they would change the difficulty of the test if it wasnt the 'bell shape' curve that they wanted.
like if last year there were too many 5's and meaning it was too easy, this year's would be a bit harder. They just gonna adjust and get the bell shape curve.</p>
<p>72 for a 5?? thats pretty high.. i thought it was 60-something to get a 5..</p>
<p>if you get the wrong answer on say part a, and you use that info for part b, c, d, and e, will you get partial credit?</p>
<p>on the first free response where they said the price of input increased, i thought it said the input increased (supply). i guess i didn'tso i answered the rest of the questions using what i found due to a increase in the supply.</p>
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<p>bluehunny, u get full credit for the other parts, but no credit for part a</p>
<p>I found it pretty difficult, I probably got around a 3. Some of the stuff covered in the free response I hadn't ever seen before. </p>
<p>But let's save further discussion for 48 hours from now-- I've gotten fairly paranoid about Collegeboard grade cancellation.</p>
<p>i got probably 1/4 of a 1. i dont even think i made a one.
and they say it's not possible to get below a 1.
well it will be after i get my score.</p>
<p>infact, i might get a negative score. i skipped half the mc, and i probably got half of the questions i answered wrong.</p>
<p>oh well THIS DOESNT COUNT FOR ME and it's my last ap. IM FREEEEEEEEEE</p>
<p>I think I did really good. I found it easy, but that might be because my macro teacher has gotten awards from college board for having such high pass rates. There is a definite pattern to the FRQ questions if you looked at the ones from previous years.</p>
<p>yeah cant wait to discuss the fr officially on saturday i guess lol.....dammit i need to know the correct scale for a five.....according to PR its 65 ish but my teacher who knows a grader on the AP says its around 70 i just want to know collegeboards scale. in the scheme of things 5 points change in the scale is the diff for me between a 5 and a 4. When i get my grade report it truly is a toss up because after i finished the exam i kinda remembered some things i SHOULD HAVE PUT i hate that. One question: if we didn't properly label grpahs i.e. put the wrong label on the axis......as in not the correct terminology.....is that like an entire point off??? and if we didnt label something but it didnt ask us too and we put it in the explanation do we get full credit?? two things that were nagging me on the FR.</p>
<p>i think i got a .5 raw score.</p>
<p>Its funny because my school doesn't offer micro, you have to take it online or at a local CC.</p>
<p>jakroo, I think that if you label the axis with appropriate names (not necessarily verbatim from a textbook), then you'll be fine. And if you didn't label something that they didn't ask you to label, but you explained it, I'm sure you'll be fine.</p>
<p>are u guys saying its hard (the MC) because your teachers didnt cover the topic? or was the question itself hard in the way it was presented?</p>
<p>my teacher definitely covered everything.. there were only like 1 or 2 questions that i went like whaaaa?</p>
<p>I'm really glad to see some people don't think it was <em>puts on valley girl accent</em> "like totoally easy!"</p>
<p>I'm praying I got a three, so I didn't waste $74... :(</p>
<p>paungle thanks for the explanation i would go into detail but we have to wait 48 hrs.....i talked to my friends about it but some people on here are a little too uptipght but i understand.....saturday it is.</p>
<p>Are you all talking about the same exam that i took? Macro was so easy; the FR was trickier than the practice ones i had taken, but i still got it all rite. should've self studied for micro...</p>
<p>oh, btw. did anyone else get many strings of B's????</p>
<p>okay, fyi: grading scale: 70 raw score = 5,
I thought most of the MC was pretty easy, but 2 parts of the free responses I was unsure about... i wish you all luck!!</p>
<p>idamayer, where did you find the info for your grading scale?</p>
<p>...my economics teacher... or if you buy a study book
45 = 3
55 = 4
70 = 5</p>
<p>yah, the reason why I was asking is because the study books vary: PR says it's 65. So I was wondering if perhaps you had a source from the college board, like the scale from a released test or something. Does anyone have anything from the college board?</p>