So I was doing a little bit of research trying to determine how the threshold scores are going to compare for this year’s exam versus last year’s. I took AP biology last year which redesigned its exam in 2013 like APUSH. The 2008 AP Bio scoring worksheet (the old version) says that students need 95/150 points to earn a 5. A teacher by the name of Mr. Chinn posted some data about the first ever redesigned exam in 2013. He reported that students had to get 78/99 raw points in order to get a 5. So the old test only required a 63% while the new version requires 79%. I have a feeling that APUSH is going to have a very similar shift in threshold scores 
@jupiterskyking what was #55 about again?
@1golfer1 It’s actually a little less than 5 MC per DBQ point. 6.43/1/31 = 4.91
Best case scenario for me
51/55 MC: 66.81
5/12 SA: 15
7/7 DBQ: 45
3/6 FRQ: 13.5
140.31/180=77.95% (Good chance for 5 maybe a 4)
What I probably got I already said. (126/180 ish. Maybe a 5 probably a 4)
Worst case scenario for me
45/55= 58.95
3/12 SA= 9
5/7 DBQ =32.15
2/6 FRQ=9
109.1/180 (about 61% maybe a 4, maybe a 3)
For Adams and Rush SAQ, I said that Adams thought it was a revolution “in the minds” that culminated in the war while Rush saw the war as the first step in the revolution in forms of government. My example for Adams was Enlightenment ideals (mentioned John Locke, Rousseau, and Thomas Paine). My example for Rush was the revolution of 1800, which I said showed that the post-war revolution had been successful (it was a bad example… i probably should have done constitutional convention instead).
@schakrab i disagree with the Great Migration people supporting Garvey because in the Great Migration they were in-migrating to cities around the nation. They were all about moving around internally, not leaving the country.
@Morse15 I said West Virginia at first but then I changed my answer to South Carolina because I figured that there were more slaveowners in SC and that they were the first to secede
@16elir and others:
The following passage should help resolve some misconceptions. It’s from Wikipedia, but it’s still accurate.
“The [re]colonization [of Africa] effort resulted from a mixture of motives. Free blacks, freedmen, and their descendants, encountered widespread discrimination in the United States of the early 19th century. Whites generally perceived them as a burden on society and a threat to white workers because they undercut wages.”
I thought we weren’t allowed to discuss the SAQ and FRQ until it got released on the CB site.
What question are you guys even talking about?
And here is the thing about the MC. You really don’t have to know that much history. I didn’t study at all for this test (Probably why I did bad on the Short Answers but I’m referring to the MC)
Most of the MC you can determine the answer based on what is in the Doc itself. You need some outside history knowledge but cramming every term that you covered isn’t going to help. And it wasn’t at all subjective most of the answers were obvious.
@XoXdreamerXoX You’re supposed to wait. I’ve avoided discussing specific questions / answers, but doing so opens up the possibility of having scores cancelled.
@1golfer1 I’ve been seeing a lot of people discussing specific question content a lot, so that’s why I was asking.
@sophianise you didn’t pay attention to the time period… it regarded the environment from like the 1960’s… tr was all the way in the beginning of the century. You could’ve used EPA and Rachel Carson and Silent Spring. You will get major points taken off for the misuse of the time period.
@RHSclassof16 The way the SAQs are graded are 3 points per little part. Like part 1a will be worth anywhere from 1-3 points if you have something down on the paper. I think what the graders do is pick 2 out of the 4 SAQs and make the thing out of 18 points (3 points max per little part). Also, LEQ is graded on a scale of 1-6, and DBQ is graded from a scale of 1-7.
@Kitsyxoxo Yeah I got form O.
Best case scenario for me
40/55 MC: 72.72
5/12 SA: 15
7/7 DBQ: 35
6/6 FRQ: 27
159.72/180=88.7% Def. a 5 but i think i clculated that wrong lol
Does anyone know how much each point on the SA / DBQ/ LAQ is?
@michelle426 do they pick the best two out of four?
@canunot I think they pick two randomly (because you know, CB doesn’t giving a flying crepe about what we do). But there still is a possibility that they might use all four (basically all 12 parts) and make it out of 36.
@Gatortristan Look at my comment on the grading scales. That seems to be the general scale for grading, but I don’t know how many points.
@michelle426 The SAQs are graded with either 0 or 1 point per each part (1a, 1b, etc), giving 3 points per question.
@sleepingpush In the redesign, my teacher told us that each little part will be worth 3 points each.