AP Physics 1 curve 2016?

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I just took the AP Physics 1 exam yesterday, and did horribly
I looked the percentage cutoffs last year and the score stats - and they showed that the average score was about a 2.25
I heard that they change the curve due to previous year’s results …
Are the percentage cutoffs this year going to be less harsh this year due to last year’s generally bad scores?

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Hopefully they change it heavily because this is actually a HUGE increase in difficulty compared to Physics B and it’s a bit unfair for the sudden change and some teachers weren’t able to catch the drift… Besides, Physics AP cutoff a seem to vary quite often so there’s a very good chance they’re going to lower the standards. I too miserably failed to the point where I wish I was pretending to get a bad score…

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hopefully… because I’m probably gonna get at most a 3 with last year’s curve

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I just took the exam tuesday as well and the curve depends on how bad your state does all together. For example of everyone does bad then the curve will be higher. If people do better then the curve will be less. I actually heard that the curve this year was that you need a 75 and above as your raw score to get a 5, which last years was you need a 64 and above for a 5. Although as i said it depends on how your state does as a whole.

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I heard the curves depend on previous years’ scores?
last year the curve was a 71% and above for a 5 - which resulted in only 4% of students getting a 5 last year

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Lmao i see all these kids dreading about how hard that test was. Tbh that was some ez af garb garb that i got done with with 30 minutes to spare on mc and 50 minutes to spare on frq. Y’all need to stop freaking out cuz literally the whole test was kinematics and a little bit of torque. It was simple concepts and algebra and im sorry if youre too dab to understand 1st grade level science lol

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@easyap maybe for you, but physics 1 is arguably conceptually difficult and its really condescending to bash on people who struggled with that test.

also, maybe your form was kinematics and torque, but my form felt like it was 90% springs/waves/SHO.

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@angie69860 do you know anything about how this is determined if someone takes the exam outside of the USA? Like, where I am, I was the only one taking this exam…