I took the APUSH exam last week, and I just realized I wrote ONE thing out of the time period in one of the Free response questions. It wasn’t too far past the time period, only 8 years and I wrote it as the effect of another event. Will my essay score drop much from that?</p>
<p>no more than one point if that</p>
<p>if it doesn’t detract from your essay, it’s a nonissue</p>
<p>okay, well i dont think it detracts from my essay. its a really small part of my first body paragraph that I kinda jus threw in for more outside info.</p>
<p>Wow, wait. If we went out of time period, we can’t get more than a point? Because I questioned my final paragraph on both FRQs. One of them probably was outside of the time, but all of the rest of the essay was inside the date range. I was just thinking they would just disregard it as being non-responsive.</p>
<p>EDIT: Note: I did have a substantial amount of information within the time periods in my responses. The out-of-time-period information were just stabs in the dark at the end of the responses.</p>
<p>Yeah, I did too; I put the Kansas-Nebraska Act.</p>
<p>During the test I knew it was 1854 as well and I even wrote 1854 on my paper; but I thought the DISPUTES over the Nebraska Territory were within the time period >.></p>
<p>I feel like they grade for how much valid information you included that corresponds with the time period, and all other information is disregarded…Hopefully that’s the case, because that’s the standard I was writing toward.</p>
<p>@ReaLife… i really hope so too, because I think I actually got some other things out of the time period too. dang!</p>
<p>sorry when i said one point i meant you couldn’t get more than one point taken off unless the out of the time period part was the focus of your essay. then it would be a whole other story</p>
<p>I included the Kansas-Nebraska Act in my essay as well and realized it after the fact. I don’t think it will be that big of an issue.</p>
<p>I did that prompt as well, and my first body paragraph was all background… I talked about a bunch of stuff from the early national period, even pre-Constitution. I sort of wondered whether or not to do it, but I kind of felt like it was necessary to explain the later debate over sectionalism, if that makes sense. I dunno, I’m not too worried.
as for the conclusion, my teacher has told our class that AP readers love it when you tie things to the “big picture”. I think if the way you wrote it in works, then, well, it works… you know?</p>
<p>It depends on how you discuss the out of time period stuff. For example, if you briefly mentioned something that happened earlier or later and still related it to the actual prompt, then you’re probably fine and will hardly be marked down, if at all. But if that was one of the main points of your FRQ, that might be a problem.</p>
<p>As soon as I read the dates it gave I knew everyone in my class would still include Bleeding Kansas… The head of the AP board recently posted on twitter that only 53% got above a three on that FRQ, largely because of poor chronology.
Source:
<a href=“https://twitter.com/#!/ap_trevor[/url]”>https://twitter.com/#!/ap_trevor</a></p>
<p>Actually only 47% got above a two!
Now this worries me… I knew I could’ve answered the other question as well but I didn’t want to because it “seemed too easy.”</p>
<p>I know I went out of the time period on the DBQ because I mentioned the Teapot Dome Scandal … ■■■. What’s going to happen now? </p>
<p>At least I didn’t go out of the time period on the FRQs …</p>
<p>I guess you A"PUSH"ed that one too long XD</p>