<p>I didnt study a minute but Ill be ****ed if I dont get a 5 since history is naturally my thing.. didnt study for Euro last year and got a 5 and i thought that was much harder.. hopefully this stupid DBQ didnt kill me</p>
<p>It seems a lot of people thought the exam was pretty easy and expect a 5. I suspect that the curve is seriously inflated this year, and a lot of people are going to get a surprise in July.</p>
<p>MC: Not too bad. Left 2 blank, probably missed about 10.
DBQ: The question was phrased confusingly and I had to read it about 5 times to really understand it. Had 3 body paragraphs - middle-class women, lower-class women, and female slaves (prompt said to address race & class, so that was my attempt). Overall good, I hope I phrased everything correctly and had enough examples as I had trouble saying what I wanted to say.
FRQ: #3 pretty much nailed the race relations part, didn't know much about econ but I remembered NOTHING about Westward Expansion in relation to the Civil War so I picked the former and sort of BSd my way through it.</p>
<h1>5 I started writing about HOW the Civil Rights movement challenged the status quo until I reread the prompt and noticed how it said to analyze their critiques and I was all like "OH ****!!!" and started to actually, yknow, address the prompt :-D. I think I nailed that part but I'm not sure if I expressed clearly the Intellectuals' critique of society.</h1>
<p>At first I thought the MC would save my ass but now I'm not so sure. I really didn't study very well and I've BSd my way to an A in APUSH all year because my teacher curves every test and I can remember details on a chapter-by-chapter basis but I have trouble remembering everything all at once. I remembered really general things but had trouble thinking of specific events as examples.</p>
<p>Overall - hopefully a 4? Probably not a 5. MY APUSH Teacher has high expectations for me so it would sort of suck if I got a 3. </p>
<p>This one went a lot better than Lang & Comp though. We'll find out for sure in July...</p>
<p>I think I did well on this test considering that I skipped school yesterday and studied for 15 hours STRAIGHT (with the occasional breaks), but anyway</p>
<p>I thought the Multiple Choice wasn't too bad, and as aforementioned by someone in this thread, you could at LEAST eliminate three of the choices on each of the question so it came down to a matter of choosing between the best one out of two. I don't know, I hope all of mine went the correct way!</p>
<p>I thought the Free Response was rather easy, contrary to what most other people seem to say. I mean, the DBQ was rather DEMANDING because it asked for several things, but I thought that was helpful because it narrowed down the evidence that I need to use in order to effectively answer the question.</p>
<p>I'm really hoping for a 8 or 9 on one of the essays (DBQ hopefully!) and at least 7's on the other ones in order to pull off a 5!</p>
<p>How RARE is it that people get 8s or 9s on the essays anyway? It seems that even the people hoping for 5s on the entire test only expect 5s on their essays! Anyway, tell me what you guys think.</p>
<p>By the way, I also chose 1, 3, and 5...and my friends and I also had a debate after the exam on whether #5 TRULY limited you to the "1950's." What I believe was IN FACT stated was that "There was a status quo of conformity and consensus in the 1950's." And it asked about how TWO of the groups CHALLENGED the status quo! So I really think that there's a possibility that you could have written about the 1960's but you should at least have MENTIONED the "superficial conformity" of the 1950's (i thought it was superficial anyway)...
Anyway...</p>
<p>HOPE EVERYONE ON CC gets 4s or 5s!!!
GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>Manu- that's incorrect. The prompt specifically asked you to refer to the 1950's and events from that time period. I mentioned a few things from the 1960's but said that the 50s events were the FOUNDATION of this.</p>
<p>yeah thats what I wrote too. I found out that what they were looking for was like teenagers rebelling and listening to music like elvis. DUMB. it should have just been about the 1960's.</p>
<p>jesus christ, i made the same mistake by introducing the 1960 hippies and their protest. After rereading the section of 1950, the history book widely support for comformity of the youth. So does that mean we all are screwed if we took the opposite approach. Seriously, i think they meant the 1960s. However the civil rights marches did start during the 1950s-so you could have talked about martin l. king and "brown v board of ed."</p>
<p>Getting an 8 or a 9 on an essay is quite rare. A 6 is a nice, solid score, and 7 is very good. Anything beyond that is truly exceptional. This, according to my AP US history teacher (who always grades them), is the typical method... You can still get a 5 on the overall test without getting straight 9's on the essays. I guarantee you that my essays and DBQ last year weren't 9 material, and I ended up getting a 5.</p>
<p>The first two essays weren't too bad. I wanted to scream when I saw that the DBQ was about women, the one thing I couldn't do, but it wasn't actually too bad, just long. I chose #2 and I think I did decently, though not too well.</p>
<p>I completely BSed #5 though. I started writing about the counterculture, which I later found out occured during the 70s, and crap about the youth disliking the cold war. All in all it was very vague and I didn't even think to discuss comformity itself. Probably the worst thing I did was to forget rock and roll music. Jeeze.</p>
<p>So when you guys say you did well on MC, what exactly do you mean?</p>
<p>I was pretty certain about half my answers, the rest I eliminated down to 2 or 3 choices and random guessed from there. Only 2 or 3 questions I left blank because I had no clue. Is that considered good?</p>
<p>yes i also put that he wanted approval from the people....but some people are saying treaty of versailles</p>
<p>I said that the Freedom Summer was in 1954. And I said the counterculture was a major influence of the 1950's. You can't get much worse than what I wrote. </p>
<p>My history teacher this week was like, "Well, and an opposite approach is that instead of spending 20 bucks on a prep book, you should paperclip a 20 dollar bill to the essays and see how far that gets you." Darn, I should've tried it! :-)</p>
<p>I bought the Kaplan AP (and the SAT II), Princeton Review, and REA in addition to borrowing Sparknotes from a friend and reading coursenotes.org. Studying for this test was my life! I blew off 8 full weekends and all of Spring Break to cuddle up with my books and good ol' United States history. </p>
<p>And now I don't care if I ever know about another president or economic trend in my life. </p>
<p>I'm consoling myself with the promise that I'm going to completely own the SAT II. Besides, I was never a history person in the first place. Science is my thing. (Not math though, I have zero ability in math, much to the chagrin of my PhD engineering parents.) I'm going to take the AP Bio test next year and avenge my terrible score in APUSH. <em>plots</em> Muahaahaha!</p>
<p>I think I did well. I didn't leave any blank and I know for a fact I missed two. The rest were probably due to careless errors, but not many I went back and checked.</p>
<p><~~~ talked about elvis n his hips....& brown
<~~~ espa</p>
<p>I'm hoping I gopt at least 70% of the MC right. My essays were decent I suppose (5-7) range.</p>
<p>this is way random, but does anyone know what the DBQ was in 2002?
my brother took APUSH then, but not the exam, so i was wondering what he would have had</p>
<p>anyways, elvis's gyrating hips were involved for me too</p>
<p>my class got as far as the compromise of 1877... lalalalalalala... im i aming for a 3 though cause i studied my bolongna off... luckily the DBQ and the first set of essays were before that time period, and the second set included something WAY easy... lalalalala....</p>
<p>whoa! thats not far as at all!! did you not do any chapters over the summer?</p>
<p>Crap, I didn't include that much outside info on the DBQ although I did use a lot of the documents. Hope it balances out somehow....</p>
<p>our teacher had cancer for the 1st qtr and was only there mom-thurs.... on FRIs he had treatment.... the 2nd qtr it progrssed and we were treated with sub after sub.... by the 3rd qtr we retained a 24yo straight from college teacher who had taeched ESE... so, you do the math... we went from the civil war to the end of reconstruction in about uh.. 9 weeks... so, uh... yeah... lol, i really want a 3 though, that would be like gold... even if it is low by CC standards</p>