<p>I liked the DBQ and FRQs. The multiple choice was hard. I must have skipped like 6 or 8.</p>
<p>I think I skipped 10 mcs. Not entirely sure, 'cause I didn't want to know.</p>
<p>The DBQ wasn't as bad as it could have been. I just hated the way they structured it because it made it impossible to write a concise thesis. I don't think I included enough outside info, but eh...FRs sucked, though. I wrote 2 and 5 because I just stared at 3 and 4 and went "Abuh?" 2 involved a lot of what I call "educated creative writing," and 5 I started drawing blanks on halfway through.</p>
<p>The only reason Multiple Choice might have been tricky is that I always seemed to narrow the questions down to two possible answers and I then I couldn't choose. </p>
<p>The DBQ was manageable, but I hated the essays because the time periods they gave us were difficult to write about given the specific topics.</p>
<p>I just checked up the score conversions and it seems really lenient. 114-180 is a 5. So basically, if you receive 60/80, 7 on the DBQ and an average of 4 or 5 on the essays, you'd have around a 120.....which is a 5..Does this seem right? It seems like you could do really poorly on the essays and still manage a 5</p>
<p>Composite score = multiple choice (minus one fourth for wrong answers) * 1.125 + DBQ (out of 9) * 4.500 + 2.75 (essay one) + 2.75 (essay 2)</p>
<p>Before the Exam, our teacher gave us the 2001 practice test from the AP people. It was a lot more about specific details and proved to me to be very easy. I went through the whole thing in only 40 minutes. The actual test for this year was much harder. All though i do think i got a good amount right, There was a lot where i could only eliminate down to two or three and guess. I don't think I only missed 11 this time as compared to the 2001 ap test. Did anyone think this also, that the test are getting harder.</p>
<p>I left 9 blank, was unsure about 25.. which means I will probably get ~15 wrong, and meaning 24 incorrect problems in all. HAhahahaHAHaAHa, I'm HORRIBLE with history. My DBQ forgot to use the two terms "Republican Motherhood" and "??" even though I knew what they meant, and my FRQs were only 1 page each. Although, I do write small.. Christ, is a 97 or 102 composite a 4?</p>
<p>Edit: Wait, according to that formula above, if I get 56/9/15 & also get all 5s, my composite will be 109.</p>
<p>2001 curve:
5: 114-180
4: 92-113
3: 74-91
2: 42-73
1: 0-41</p>
<p>jclay, i'm right with you. it seems that this year the ap was a lot more focused on the social aspects rather than the political/military aspects of ush. i took the same test as you did and it turned out pretty the same.</p>
<p>j/w, now that the frqs are posted. did anybody do #5 and cite a lot things outside of teh 1950s? i just realized that i cited a lot of the critiques from the 60s and 70s like i cited the SDS and free speech for youth and then the black power/panther movement for civil rights activists... does the question imply that the critics (or the main critics at least) have to be within in the 1950s era or can do you think citing your examples from outside of the 50s era would be okay too since they were a reaction and a result of teh conformity of the 50s? </p>
<p>haha sorry about the long post, but this has sorta worried me for a while.</p>
<p>Yeah, it was "cult of domesticity." My FRQs were a page and half long and I wrote pretty small and my DBQ was two pages and a half long. I skipped around 8. Hope that still gets me a 5.</p>
<p>My essays were 2.5 pages, 2.25 pages (#3) and 2 pages (#4). They weren't particularly well written, but information-wise they covered everything. I was using a Viagra pen though to write them so my blood wasn't in my hands...But a Viagra pen automatically means a 5 :)</p>
<p>mine was like 3.5 pages, 2.5 pages and 2 pages.</p>
<p>i thought i had enough time, and i love to think about something twice, so the first twenty i almost skipped ten, then there were some questions really hard around 40s, so i went to eighty and did it backwards, and i amost skipped ten in the first easy twenty questions, i feel so aotrwu5 92t4892w4, gosh</p>
<p>DBQ is the worst one ever!!
i and my class spent like a month predicting DBQs, almost covered up all important topic, and also we guess the DBQ probably will be on reconstruction cuz since long time ago, it didnot come out.</p>
<p>but we only left out the one on the test! so unpredictable</p>
<p>Where are the FRQs posted?</p>
<p>Yeah, what outside information did you draw upon for the DBQ? I guess it was right when people assumed it would be on the period before the Civil War, but it was ridiculous and far more abstract. I spent about thirty minutes trying to understand the question and decide how I could use all of the evidence...Luckily, we just finished the Progressive Era a little while ago in history, so I was able to write my essay on #4 in about fifteen minutes, using a large amount of evidence.Yeah, what outside information did you draw upon for the DBQ? I guess it was right when people assumed it would be on the period before the Civil War, but it was ridiculous and far more abstract. I spent about thirty minutes trying to understand the question and decide how I could use all of the evidence...Luckily, we just finished the Progressive Era a little while ago in history, so I was able to write my essay on #4 in about fifteen minutes, using a large amount of evidence.</p>
<p>kitinari007,</p>
<p>I interpreted FRQ #5 the same way you did. I hope it's fine because if not, my AP score is going to be horrible... =(</p>
<p>Heh, one of the reasons I didn't do #5 was because I didn't know enough about Civil Rights and student protest in the 1950s. All I knew was Brown v. The Board of Education occured in that period.</p>
<p>Here is the link to the FRQ: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/history_us/samp.html?ushist%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/history_us/samp.html?ushist</a></p>
<p>NishtDawg/ i totally agree with u.....
for a LOT of mc i had to choose b/w two choices..... lol
i guess on them... and like 10 of em i left blank.....
gosh.... the DBQ and FR were totally off from what our class had been predicting.... and DBQ was totally confusing... cuz i knew those two terms.. but dont kno what started or something... it asked for like 4 different parts!!!! haha and FR... one of em i talked about reconstruction stuff for Q 3 and other one mostly about 60s for Q5 ....but hopefully i can get 3/4 lol</p>
<p>what were your spins (thesis) on the DBQ?</p>
<p>It seems like the general consensus here is that the mc this year was easier. I actually thought it was a bit harder than the 2001 test. Any opinions? Yeah the DBQ was confusing if you weren't familiar with the terms.</p>
<p>I said that for the middle/upper class the cult of domesticity ruled with traditional roles/values. With early industrialization and urbanization, women began to work in factories as wage earners to supplment their husband's salary. By earning wages, the women's rights movement really got underway (ie Sececa Falls 1848) because women saw that they were capable of doing what men could. For slaves, women suffered sexual abuse as well as being denied to do their duty as a mother (Which some consider the worst punishment) by being separated from their family.</p>