DBQ: 9/9- I had four groups (women were militarily involved, women’s political activism, women’s urge for equality, and the threat equality posed to male politicians). I had three missing documents and about six POVs and a thesis about half a page long.
CCOT: 6-9/9- I did not read the prompt (oops). I had areas of analysis: Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Trade, and Trans Saharan trade. For Silk Riads, I spoke about paper money and the Golden Ages (Mongols and Tang-Song/Muslim Empires). For Indian Ocean trade I talked about Zheng He and Swahili trade cities, especially Kilwa. For Trans Sahara, I talked about salt and gold, Ibn Buttata, the Kingdom of Ghana and its king’s pligrimmage to Mecca, and Timbuktu. My context was cultural diffusion, especially Islam (to Indonesia, West Africa, and Mongol conversion).
Comparison: 5-9/9- I also did not read the prompt. I chose the American and the Haitian Revolution. My areas were causes, proceeding and the outcome. I had five direct comparisons and a fair amount of evidence. I related the outcome by saying America’s revolution was not true to Enlightenment ideals because it maintained slavery. I talked about the leadership, and (hopefully) connected them to the origin. I really tried to analyze the changes and show a bunch of differences and similarities.
All of my esaays were four pages long. I put my heart into the essays and am very hopeful for a 5.
**PAY ATTENTION TO THE PROMPTS OR YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Good luck to everyone.
the ccot and c/c were cancer -_-. I had to cross out an entire page for the ccot and write bs so i got a 3-4, and i did what @univbound101 did for the c/c although i changed it at last minute but am still confident about it (7-8 on it)cause ive done the same thing in class
Like @univbound101 said pay attention to prompts or you will fail this.
One word on the prompt WILL change the entire essay
I’m amazed by the fact that most people said the MC was extremely easy. I thought that it wasn’t too bad, but I definitely thought that it was harder than the 2015 test, which I got a 63/70 on. I’m going to guess that I got a 55-60/70. Most people in my class said the MC was very hard, so I really don’t know how well people will do nationally.
I feel like I did really well on the DBQ, and I made sure to POV in seven documents (I think?) as well as asking for two additional documents to potentially try and earn expanded core points. My DBQ was five pages long.
I think I probably got seven on both the CCOT and C/C essays, because I satisfied all of the requirements for core points, although I don’t think that I did many things to earn expanded core points. Both of these essays were about three and a half pages long.
@sona7662 Please don’t see me as rude, but I don’t think you grouped the documents correctly. The point is to not group documents based on the country of the women’s rights movements, but to group it based on how womens roles in politics correlated in Latin America.
@univbound101 Dear God… I basically used the same writing that style that you did for the DBQ and the Comp. I also think I got anywhere from 60-67 on the MC. Let’s both hope that the curve will forgive us for not reading the prompt for the Comp. I think you read the prompt for the CCOT correctly though. Any additional information outside the prompt is seen as historical context for CCOT so we should be fine for that. But that comp however I wouldn’t expect a score above a four if you don’t explicitly state information regarding the prompt of the question. But I, like you, also hope I at least got a five on Comp but probably got a 4 at best case.
@TP2000 The multie choice was extremely straight forward. If you studied and prepped, you shouldn’t have too mcuh diffuculty with the questions. It was easier than all of the practice tests I had taken. My teacher said that in the past years CollegeBoard has been trending towards broader questions, however, the scale will be harsher.
@univbound101 Like I said, I didn’t think it was that hard, I’m just surprised that everyone on this board is saying it is extremely easy when my whole class came out saying it was hard. I understand that this is CC and that there is a greater concentration of people who will really study and try to well on standardized tests, but some people on here are predicting that they got as high as 67/70, which is achieved by such a low number of people a year.
Thinking about it, my score will be probably right around 60/70, which is perfectly fine with me.
Warning to everyone not the speak about specific tests questions (especially for you guys that basically summarized your whole essay here). It would be disastrous if college board found this forum and somehow found out who you were and cancelled your score.
@Shreyas0718 Just wondering how college board will know specific names. But just to be sure, I didn’t talk about my specific answers or essays here. I’m only confirming or deferring to what others are saying on this board. But just to be safe I’ll delete some of my past posts that might be borderline illegal on this forum. Also, the rule that you can’t discuss the test after you took it is complete BS. /
And WTF??? is about not being able to delete posts uuugh.
Hey guys I was just wondering how easy it was to get around a 3-4 score on the compare and contrast and changes and continuity because I didn’t really read the prompt and I for my thesis and the rest of the essay I didn’t really write specifically on the exact topic.
@Shreyas0718 I remember twitter and social media basically blowing up about "classified’ test material regarding the PSAT last year . There were so many memes and jokes based on the English portions and math portions of the test and many specifically discussed answers and specific questions. I don’t see all those people getting punished so I think your right in regards to how the College Board has better things to do. But I’ll just make sure i don’t talk about anything specific just in case.
I’m pretty sad I basically bombed the C/C, maaybe did alright on the CCOT, and probably ok for the DBQ. And I have a 98.5% in the class so I expected a lot out of myself. Guess I set my standards too high. Any tips on feeling better post-exam?
Curve is the only hard part this year at least for me.
My strong suit has always been MC, so I was hoping that it would be hard so I could get a curve advantage, but no. I could probably have gotten the same score without two months of studying. I also didn’t really understand the CCOT, which I hope I can make possibly a 3-5 on, I just threw in random facts. The C&C was easy for everyone in my class(es), but I didn’t know that much about the American/French revolutions… so I most likely got a 2-4 if anything on that.
DBQ was the only decent one, but not sure if my groupings were correct. I also did poorly on POVs, did the same one for like 4-5 of them (Some feminists making speeches on TV would exaggerate to make themselves look good crap)
BTW what do you guys think of my groupings…
DBQ:
Men hostility towards women’s role in politics
Women becoming more politically active (TRASH)
Socialism/communism appealing to women because equality
CCOT
Cont: Same goods traded, same routes used, same cultural diffusion
Changes: Islam influence, Mongol unify
C&C
Both- Because of overtaxing, influence by enlightenment
America fight for independence (against outside), French fight for social reform (internal)
AP pass isn’t always accurate. My teacher says 56/70 and 5/9 on all the essays should be the minimum for a 5.
Speaking of misreading, I almost did that on the CCOT. I started writing about Islam and realized it about a page in…
@alxanderhamilton
Hey, don’t worry about it too much. You already have a great grade in the class and I don’t think the AP Exam score goes towards your final grade. I know it definitely doesn’t for my school. Don’t stress over it too much. I’m like you and I have high expectations for myself but for this one I had to kind of let that go a bit.
What’s the absolute worse that could happen? You don’t get the AP credit…not that bad really. It doesn’t affect your final grade! You’ll still have that beautiful A+ in an AP course. That’s just how I see it but everyone’s different.
I am in the same position as you about the multiple choice.
If I get an 8 on the DBQ, 6 on the CCOT, 4 on the CC, and 69/70 on MC, can I get a 5?
Also, my teacher gives us zeros on all essays like nothing, but you guys are saying you did horribly and didn’t even get the prompt right but are thinking you got 3s? Are college board graders that lenient?
Any tips on feeling better post-exam?