<p>I just thought it would be interesting to see how people all over the country
did on the APUSH exam, so I checked the grade distribution thing on <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com</a>. But they didn't have the 2007 Grade distribution.
Do you guys know anything about it?</p>
<p>its almost identical every single year.</p>
<p>i wrote about the wrong things in one essay and still got a 5 and talking to my friends i don't think it was too hard this year.</p>
<p>i think the curve is designed to ensure similair percentages year by year</p>
<p>^
Yup .</p>
<p>they aren't necessarily going to tailor to degree of each curve to ensure that the score percentages are similar... rather, they set curves so as to make up for the discrepancies in difficulty between tests of two different years. they do this by making common to each test specific multiple-choice questions so as to see how students taking the exams in one year compare to students who have taken the exam in past years. essentially, they're trying to figure out which set of students was "smarter." ;] so if, say, this year's calc ab students perform better on the selected multiple-choice questions than did the students of last year, but this year's calc-taking students performed worse in terms of answers right/wrong, then the curve for this year's students would actually be more favorable.</p>