<p>Does anyone have information about the curving for this exam?? Thanks!</p>
<p>No, but all I can say is...good luck!!!</p>
<p>This test will be a joke.</p>
<p>Thank the lord for perfect pitch :P Haha</p>
<p>Good luck, though</p>
<p>We took a practice test and you needed 73 out of 180 for a 3 I think.</p>
<p>argh i'm so nervous...i'm tone deaf! i really regret taking this class this year...the only test i have ever aimed for a 3 on, and will actually be relieved if i get it.</p>
<p>What do you do in this class?</p>
<p>i'm freakin out!</p>
<p>i self studied, but i really don't know what's the most important stuff. Should I look at cadences, motives, sequences, small forms... AAAAHHHH</p>
<p>my voice leading and part writing is solid, and I'll be fine on all the dictation and sight singing stuff, but the MC is going to be a disaster as of right now.</p>
<p>haha..im taking this tomorrow...im going to get the first negative score in collegeboard history</p>
<p>i have the jokiest teacher and we've done nothing all year. i guess most of it i could figure out if i tried hard enough but i do not care nearlyyy enough to do that</p>
<p>i am sooo rick rolling the ap graders. maybe i'll get a nice nap in as well.</p>
<p>its not that bad, just do a lot of FRQ online and definately go over intervals for both the MC and FRQ</p>
<p>We haven't done anything either... and while I have perfect pitch, perfect pitch doesn't help one immediately identify chords and chord qualities...</p>
<p>But does anyone know what it takes to get a 5?</p>
<p>My son took the test last year and got a 5,he self-studied for it. Here's what he wrote in a similar thread,hope it helps:
I took it this year and got a 5 on both parts.</p>
<p>The singing isn't really stupid; it's more of a practical demonstration of your skill and knowledge. You don't need to be a good singer to do well, as long as your rhythm, pitch, and intervals are right. You can even transpose the music if your range isn't high/low enough.</p>
<p>The listening parts are easy enough if you can focus on the music. Sometimes you won't get definite answers, so you just have to put down an educated guess. Do the ones that are the easiest first so that you can get easy points.</p>
<p>I actually thought the written theory part was more difficult. There's a lot of chord progression analysis that you have to do, which I think is more difficult than the listening.</p>
<p>The aural section is easy enough if you have a good ear. Do all the note dictation first, then the chords. As for the dictation, there's nothing you can really do except learn to recognize intervals and their qualities (major, minor, diminished, augmented).</p>
<p>The hardest part for me was the composition and the voice leading. Just study that heavily and check as many times as you can.</p>
<p>Elbart, I remember the Indian song with the sitar on the background; it was my favorite piece of the test. I hate the opera and vocal pieces. And there weren't any jazz songs! Once time on a practice test I actually knew the jazz piece that was played, so I could do it without listening to the track.</p>
<p>Exam was pretty easy, with the exception of things like aerola modal sequence? hemiola? etc.. NEVER even heard of those terms before</p>
<p>^hah, i at least knew what a hemiola was...unfortunately i didn't know much else, and i think i completely failed. i cannot sing/hear anything to save my life.</p>
<p>so uh yeah, guess i just earned my first 1 ever on an ap exam...</p>