<p>Nom:
if you took the test today, u'd realize that there were total of 80 free response points, not 90. (5 questions- 10 points, 2 questions- 15 points).</p>
<p>I took the test today but failed to remember the number of free response questions. My numbers were pilfered from another thread.</p>
<p>"70 Multiple Choice worth 1.286 points each.
6 Free Response worth 15 points each.
180 Total Points</p>
<p>75% = 5
60% = 4"</p>
<p>um im pretty sure >50% is a 5. At least that's what our teacher told us and he knows the exam pretty well. I think you need 75% for the C exam, though.</p>
<p>I don't know guys why everybody has so much trouble with physics. If you take calculus, you should have no trouble with physics. You're only re-hashing formulas given to you in class. The thing that separates physics from other math classes I guess is that you have to identify the variables in the equations and know when to apply which equation. It's funny, cause I was terrible in Chemistry and Bio (3 on AP chem, 740 SATII; 3 on AP Bio, 770 SATII but the percentile wasnt in high 90s) and got Bs-B+s in the class. I got 800 on the physics SATII and nailed the class (A+ average). I thought this physics AP was exceptionally easy. There must be something in the water though. We have a kid on the US Olympics physics team (ranked 7th in Harvard-MIT invitational) who said he got all but 1 or 2 multiple choice wrong and another kid who ranked 17th in the nation in the Harvard-MIT math invitational. Last year, 8 of the 9 students who took AP physics got 5s and the other got a 3. Here's the funny thing, our school has one of the lowest passing percentage rates on regents exams in New York state.</p>
<p>mc was a little harder than i thought. same with frq.</p>
<p>but overall it was fine i guess.</p>
<p>60-65% = 5
50% = 4
30-35% = 3</p>
<p>im PRETTY sure.</p>
<p>Yeah I think Physics C is easier than Physics B because there are less topics involved and Calculus helps you understand the topic better, but I didn't know what I was on this B exam without calculus. I wish I knew it. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>For some reason I really suck at physics. Maybe its the lack of practice</p>
<p>But I'm doing great in BC and multivariate, sure I got a 5</p>
<p>I'm hoping for a 4 in Physics B..</p>
<p>OK, so what does this come out to?</p>
<p>I skipped zero, and was unsure of about 8, meaning i probably got around 10 wrong in MC.
I kinda blew the water FR (probably 3~4 out of 15 points) and probably got 9/15 on the lab thing. The rest, I'm sure I got all right or less than 1~3 points missed. </p>
<p>Is this enough for a 5?</p>
<p>My revised equation gives you a 69.729%, probably enough for a mid-to-high 4.</p>
<p>A 69% is a comfortable 5 actually per my teacher, who's been teaching it 20-odd years and says the average raw % for a 5 is about 55-62 every yr...</p>
<p>I would love to believe that, but my teacher has claimed otherwise. There's no point in arguing.</p>
<p>Wow. . .that test was very rough for both parts. I wasn't really in a test taking mood so I made careless errors and went too slowly in the beginning, but I'm sure if I was in a test taking mood, I would still have trouble with it.</p>
<p>Like others, my AP Chemistry and AP Biology classes were second nature to me last year. Furthermore, I found the AP tests relatively easy and I got 5s. And while I did very well in my AP Physics B class this year, I had to exert myself to keep up. And this test pretty much pwned me, so yeah. I'd blame the math, since I'm really a qualitative science type of guy, but I found the math to be easy, so I'm not sure what it is.</p>
<p>Oh well. If aznballerlee's curve is right, I still should be fine. . .I hope.</p>
<p>my teacher went to AP conference, and the consensus of the teachers was that 65%+ would be a five.</p>
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<p>Not true. In 1993, the cutoff for a 5 was 124/180, or 68.9%. In 2004, the cutoff for a 5 was 118/180, or 65.6%.</p>
<p>Anyone have the site with past curves?</p>
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That's all well and good, but my teacher is bigger than your teacher.</p>
<p>they said from last year's test, they would raise the curve.</p>
<p>so screw what i put before. </p>
<p>62%-67% = 5</p>
<p>Wow. A test like that and they raise the curve? That sound you hear is AP students' money in colleges' pockets.</p>