<p>hmm i used Wuthering Heights. I wasnt a fan of that question</p>
<p>our 5 AP's are done here too:: bio/calc bc/stats/eng lit/gov. She said she was well prepared for them all, but doesn't think she'll get a 5 on any of them. She has passed all previous 5 AP's no problem, so I suspect she knows her abilities...but since USNA is pretty strict about only validating with '5's....I think the only value she and many of you others have in all these tests right now is to keep your minds mentally sharp for testing, pressure, thinking through things and competition.</p>
<p>Tomorrow she goes rock climbing in a gym with church friends to unwind from the tests...hope you all do something crazy ( and safe) once all is said and done!</p>
<p>I think they have to accept both interpretations of the word "country". I thought of countryside, so I used The Crucible. I thought Night Hawk was an allusion to death but who knows.</p>
<p>i made up some stuff about how it was an allegory for the downfall of man</p>
<p>Do you [all] have to pay for your AP exams? Here they make us take the exam and they make us pay $82 per exam. There is no longer such thing as just taking the AP class for the challenge.</p>
<p>Yeah, so there goes gas money and food money. :/</p>
<p>"but since USNA is pretty strict about only validating with '5's...."</p>
<p>Hmmm...a quick check of the facts:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usna.edu//AcDean/candidateinfo/validation.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.usna.edu//AcDean/candidateinfo/validation.pdf</a> </p>
<p>Tests administered for Calculus 1 ("AB" AP>=4 validates), Calculus 2 ("BC" AP>=4 validates) </p>
<p>French, Spanish and German also validate with 3's, 4's and 5's.</p>
<p>Would the AB subscore on the calculus bc test count for calc 1?</p>
<p>The state used to pay for exams if we had a good score on the state assessment, but of course they stopped that the year that I could have gotten three exams paid for... We had to pay $82/exam as well.</p>
<p>nighthawk I said it was a metaphor of the authors love of the sky and how it is like the last bastion of purity....IDKKKKKk</p>
<p>i thougth the english literature test was pretty therapeutic. I didn't appreciate the Oscar Wilde play analyzation one tho.</p>
<p>...I wonder if collegeboard monitors the threads on here, cuz we're not supposed to ever talk about the test haha...</p>
<p>lol JL2010 that is an AWESOME word!! BASTION!!! I'm not entirely sure what it means, but it MUST have gotten you some points</p>
<p>hahah thats what im banking on.....it just came to me and I started laughing during the test</p>
<p>AP Psyc seemed easy
AP US well the DBQ was gay lets just say that</p>
<p>Next year im looking forward to the AP Physics B, AP French Lang, AP Lang</p>
<p>wow, so many interpretations, i guess great minds dont think alike. I did the universality of nature and disregard for the actions of man. lol</p>
<p>on the pay subject...yup, we forked over for 5 more AP's the 82$ apiece..school only helps if you are truly financially needy. When Child #1 was taking his AP's and hubby was out of work for 11 months that year....we did get some help then. I'm quite grateful we don't need the help since then.</p>
<p>Was the DBQ flirting with the other essays? I could see where it would be okay if it was together with the multiple choice, but I agree that it's totally abhorrent for essays to flirt with one another.</p>
<p>Come on. Use proper english. The essay was not "gay". It was easy, hard, etc. The usage of "gay" in that context is entirely inappropriate and wholly degrading to particular members of our society. I assume you're an adult, act like one.</p>
<p>OpusLives your absolutely correct.</p>
<p>I merely was still heated over how badly prepared we were for it. Our teacher had gone to this seminar, where he strongly believed they were hinting towards an imigration DBQ or FRQ. So the whole rest of the year, thats all we focused on, was that specifically. So when the DBQ came around, we had no idea what was going on, and were running around with our heads cut off.</p>
<p>Thats all i meant by saying that, and looking back, it was foolish, i was just carried away</p>
<p>I must agree, the DBQ was pathetic. Out of 400 years or so of history, that was the topic they chose!!!! I thought it would maybe be about one of the Great Awakenings or I don't know, just about anything other than about women's changing roles in society!!!! I did the best I could with it, explaining how women were seen as virtuous "republican mothers" and that they represented the ideals of the revolutionary gov't...</p>
<p>How did you guys BS the test???</p>
<p>yeah that essay really ****ed me off....i did it last so i was really fed up with the whole test by then. I bsed a lot of it...I said that like intelligence wasn't really "fashionable" and that women were supposed to be "stupid"...yada yada yada</p>
<p>Last years US Hist. DBQ was on women's role in the american revolution. It seems strange that they would go with "women's role in the ___" twice in a row. Although, no one I've met ever said the AP tests make sense.</p>