<p>neftali45 probably means that they understood those two concepts…as did I. Good thing I took AP Stat last year!</p>
<p>Trevor tweeted the distribution first.</p>
<p>I’m still confused. I feel as though neftali45 is implying that there is some sort of funny there…</p>
<p>neftali45, does this have to do with statistical significance?</p>
<p>^Yeah I thinking the same thing!</p>
<p>Looks like the poor Calc AB results from last year were no fluke: one third of this year’s test takers got a 1.</p>
<p>hope they finish getting the rest of the score distributions out soon (got Psych, Calc, & Euro…still need English Lit & Spanish Lang!)</p>
<p>@fingewton, it’s most likely the result of senioritis. Remember, Calc AB is taken mostly by seniors and, because it is the lesser flavor, is more likely to be taken by students who don’t necessarily want/need it other than needing some form of math senior year. Calc BC doesn’t have the same distribution, despite covering more material and thus being more difficult, because:
A) it’s pool of students are more self-selective.
B) To elaborate more on A, people who take BC are more likely to be pursuing math, science, engineering or other such fields that require heavy mathematics and they are more motivated to prepare for/pass the test because they want to reach higher level classes faster. Students in Calc AB are less likely to be part of this group and more likely to blow of their exam because they don’t need that calc credit.</p>
<p>Conclusion, senioritis is a ***** and skews certain AP tests.</p>
<p>“In AP Chemistry, fewer 1s, fewer 5s, more 2s. AP Chem scores, 2011: 16.2% = 5; 18.5% = 4; 19.6% = 3; 14.8% = 2; 30.9% = 1. May shift a bit.”</p>
<p>My heart just sank a little.</p>
<p>@rococo SAME.
How do you think you did? I thought I got at least a 4, but now I’m not so sure.</p>
<p>im most scared for chem now… hopefully got a 4</p>
<p>less 5’s in both chem and calc :/</p>
<p>Not that it matters for me (well, I definitely need a 4 or 5 in calc BC, but chem is useless) but my chem teacher put his expectations in me getting a 5 and calc is more about personal pride.</p>
<p>Still hoping for at least a 4 in Chem. The only thing that makes me happy is that I think I did the best on Q3.</p>
<p>@ivybound1 I’ve never been more scared to hear a test score. I’m thinking it’s most likely that I’ll get a 4. I’m trying to prepare myself for the worst. For this test, I studied the hardest I’ve ever studied, but now I think it was a waste. Some of those FRs were just brutal. Plus, I made some really stupid mistakes. It just sounds like the graders were very unforgiving this year in spite of tougher questions.
@Jalmoreno, my teacher expected me to get a 5 as well. To make it worse, he’s going to personally e-mail us our scores. It’s an awful feeling disappointing someone who put so much faith in you. :(</p>
<p>How did more than a half of calc AB students score 0 on question 5 if you could score one point by just separating the variables?</p>
<p>gatorboy, i think i did best on q3 too but do you think there are fewer 5’s because the cutoff for a 5 was higher or just because fewer people hit the previous cutoff (which is usually around 100 i think) </p>
<p>do you think the cutoff was over 110? (out of 150)</p>
<p>Thats ridiculous. How can the curve be over 110? This year, I’d imagine that it would be unlikely for that number of people to make that score, especially taking in the difficulty of the exam.</p>
<p>I though the cut off was ~80 b4 the free-for-all MC section change. Maybe it’s ~90 now.</p>
<p>well the posted ones (on the collegeboard site) are 100/150 and 110/160 (the ones corrected after the mc scoring change)</p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>idk, im scared, i imagine worst case scenarios when im scared =[</p>
<p>@jalmoreno: interesting theory, except that, up until a few years ago, the percent scoring 1 on calc AB was typically 20-25%, and before 2000 was in the 15-20% range. Senioritis is not a new phenomenon. I think more unqualified people are taking calculus, and/or more people are taking it purely for transcript purposes. I think it is mostly the former.</p>
<p>Out of boredom, I compiled the score distributions into an spreadsheet and sorted them by the percentage of 5s. (All the languages include native speakers.)</p>
<p>[Here</a> you go.](<a href=“http://i.imgur.com/J7owh.png]Here”>http://i.imgur.com/J7owh.png)</p>
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