What the heck… Why did they make up a fake #4???
@APScholar18 @Gatortristan Actually, my AP teacher said that there was a lot of controversy over question 4 since the guidelines said that the period before 1492 would be tested only 5%, but by calculating it, they tested about 8-9% of the exam. Also, many are disappointed that those who did get the Native Americans question had an “unequal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.” So, in truth, yes. Collegeboard is not publishing that question for now.
Sorry I take that back. pre-1492 was not even supposed to be part of the curriculum!
exactly they’re kind of breaking the rules of standardized testing: validity. If the push test measures our ability of knowledge from 1492-present day, testing our knowledge and problem solving skills on pre-1492 is breaking test validity and its mean lol.
Not complaining about the rest of the test though. I thought it was pretty easy
Do any of you remember the question about “aborigine” ?
@ChemFire085 they can’t think that by not publishing it and replacing it with some random thing that it’ll just go away, right? I think they’re going to curve anything pre 1492 very generously…
@sloppychair I don’t remember anything like that on Form O
Guys the APUSH curriculum starts at 1491, not 1492.
What do you guys think that the cutoff for a 5 will be? I saw 129 on another post. How does College Board even decide where the cutoff is? Is it like SATs?
@lolalollipop but still the 4th short answer was way before that
I’m sorry, but it seems like the College Board is simply trying to cover up the fact that their exam was not valid. Think about it… imagine how bad it would look for them to publicize an exam with no validity. Keep in mind that there’s already a good amount of controversy surrounding the curriculum, and the CB has received enough fire about that
@bookwoof Yeah but that stuff is still part of the curriculum. I agree that it was kind of ridiculous to make that a short answer question but it was still fair game.
@lolalollipop where does it say this?
Literally the first key concept on the curriculum is “Before the arrival of Europeans, native
populations in North America developed a wide variety of social,
political, and economic structures based in part on interactions
with the environment and each other.”
So basically yeah it was super obnoxious of them to make that a short answer but it’s not like they made a mistake or anything.
It’s basically impossible for them to change it because they did technically include it in the curriculum and they can’t punish those who actually knew it
I think it was only a disadvantage for schools that made their APUSH classes a 2 year class and have kids start learning Sophomore year instead of Junior year like mine. But then again I don’t know of any other school that does this so…
@Ngzk07 I’ve never heard of any one/school doing that! Does your school do that?
I have; it’s not common, but certain schools do it.