<p>Does anyone know when they will release the FRQ rubric? Just want to calculate my score “officially”</p>
<p>I thought the FRQ 4 was the hardest. MC seemed pretty straightforward, and some were so easy that I forgot I was taking an AP exam. I haven’t studied at all this year, and my class was a joke, but I was able to answer most off of Civics and APUSH. I’ll be happy if I get a 3 considering I put no time into this class (3 other APs that I considered more important)</p>
<p>I took the class, but anyone who’s bothered to learn how the U.S. government operates should have had no problem with the test. This year’s (compared to practice exams I skimmed through) seemed extremely easy–they excluded a good chunk of (IMO) more interesting material, though. The MC felt quite repetitive, and the FRQ were annoyingly boring.</p>
<p>Yeah, FRQ was definitely easier. Makes me wonder how harsh the curve will be…However, we have to make sure we did a good job explaining. And I believe the rubrics are released sometime after scores are released.</p>
<p>I thought they were released after the 48-hour period along with the FRQ questions.</p>
<p>From reading past FRQs and scoring guidelines, AP Government generally doesn’t give impossible questions. The difficulty comes in making sure you include a certain key word that the graders are looking for…</p>
<p>And ugh, multiple choice. I love when I can’t read the timer and being sick for 3 weeks while my class covered the election process… I didn’t even know what a superdelegate was.</p>
<p>Also, um, we spent a good 6 weeks talking about interest groups… was there even ONE question about interest groups on MC?! I can’t remember.</p>
<p>^yes I remember a question about interest groups</p>
<p>DSG3002, Omg me too. I got like -8 on all my practice exams. But on this actual exam I was iffy on like 15 of them. . .overconfidence is so bad.</p>
<p>Alright, MC wasn’t too bad, I was iffy for maybe 10-15, probably got less wrong though. And for FRQ, I tried my best and explained it clearly while providing examples.</p>
<p>FRQ#1 Provided explanation, definition, and examples.
FRQ#2 I think this was the polls one, again, fairly easy, I couldn’t draw examples but I talked about hypothetical situations.
FRQ#3 Kinda hard, I BSed on the super-delegate question and probably got the one about changing strategies from primaries to general election wrong
FRQ#4 It was ok, provided some examples and just explained the power. </p>
<p>For the FRQs I might have made some inaccurate statements so Idk how much that will hurt, but most of the inaccurate statements were close so they might just take it. And I guess that if your reasoning is solid then it should be fine.</p>
<p>Why provide examples when they don’t ask for them… Just a waste of time.</p>
<p>@staller, when you end up just sitting around for an hour, you should probably include a bunch of examples (their rubrics are pretty particular and tricky so more is always better). They sometimes expect examples when not specifically stated (it says at the very beginning to give examples when applicable and details as well). </p>
<p>So, since there’s an abudance of time…better be safe than sorry with examples.</p>