<p>Loved the M.C. I only ended up omitting 2 qs, and overall I felt pretty good about the ones I guessed on. The essays, on the other hand, killed my hopes of getting a 5. I spent way too long on #2, which I think will get a high score. #4 was just ok. I don’t think I included as much as I should have. And the DBQ- awful. I was basically trying to cram as many sources in as possible before the clock ran out. It was only 1.5 pages, but my handwriting is minuscule.</p>
<p>coolblues— our DBQ and question #4 were very very similar…but OMG I made a mistake and called that factory the “twistwaist” factory LOL >.< whoopssss.</p>
<p>AND HELP, how many points off is it if you forget to list the examples in your thesis???</p>
<p>MC was easy.
DBQ was easy-- talked about church being the center of everything–especially higher learning–talked about harvard being established.
talked about the role of women and men
but i kind of bsed the economy part
talked about how town hall meetings led to democracy
connected anne hutchinson and nathaniel’s hawthorne’s scarlett letter
among other things</p>
<p>frq #3- sectionalism, representation, john brown, bleeding kansas, republican election blah blah blah</p>
<p>frq #4-- OMG i was like uhhhh! i didnt really know the names of women…so i named dropped only 3…and i only remembered the name of one women organization, loll. but i knew a lot about the progressive era as a whole</p>
<p>For the DBQ, you could NOT use Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. Though it was written ABOUT the Puritans in the 1600s, it was actually written IN the 1800s–a whole two centuries past the time frame provided by the question. IF the question was asking about transcendentalists and enlightenment in the 19th century, you could have used Scarlet Letter…but not if it was referring to colonial times.</p>
<p>Possible DBQ outside information that I can think of:
Social:
- Simple pleasures
- Beer/Wine
- Campfires
- Town meetings
- Women were housekeepers and child-rearers / disparity between men and women
- Puritans were highly communal–they participated in many village activities
Economic: - Subsistence farming and frugality
- Puritans established colony on religious terms - (not a charter colony)
- Fishing and timber
Political: - No religious tolerance
- Roger Williams–shunned and kicked out of colony on religious terms (dissent)
- Biblical literalism
- Early forms of representation/democracy
- Town meetings determined laws/path of government
- Everyone participated in town meetings
- Reference to map document–town halls were centers of Puritan settlements</p>
<p>Is there anything wrong?</p>
<p>An important thing to talk about how Puritans came to New England as families and not just single men like in the Chesapeake Bay Colony. How the strong unity w/ the church + families lead to towns being established, democratic towns to be more correct. In addition to that you probably should of talked about specialization for economic reasons. Towns allowed certain ppl to be preachers, teachers, farmers, and merchants (establishment of being a trading colony).</p>
<p>wahkimoocow: i guess great minds think alike lol
also i don’t think it matters that you didn’t put the examples in your thesis; a thesis is supposed to only give a general idea of what you are going to cover. i know that i didn’t. So for reform i put something like women helped instituted social reform, without including prohibition or anything like that.</p>
<p>It seemed like most of those were mentioned, at least indirectly, in the actual documents. I thought that the lack of religious tolerance was pretty hammered in a few of them.</p>
<p>Do those things still count as outside information since they were not directly stated?</p>
<p>yes i think that they do, especially if you expand on it. anything that is not directly stated is considered outside info. Like even though Roger Williams was the author of one of the documents, saying that he was banished from the colony and went on to form Rhode Island, I believe, is still outside info.</p>
<p>ooh lol. well in my DBQ it was just a quick reference to the book (i think i wrote: “those who fell outside of the strict puritan societal ideals were often exiled or shunned such as the events in the Scarlett Letter or Anne Hutchinson” <----eww it was better worded but then i went on to continue talking about Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams)…but whoops! most of the paragraph revolved around anne hutchinson and others being exiled and founding other colonies due to blah blah blah puritans :)</p>
<p>@JFetrov-- I bsed the economy part yet we included the same points…so i hope you’re right.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacer really pushed us this year, because of the fact that only under 10 people passed the exam. I felt good about it skipped at least 10 MC, I know I got the 1st MC wrong because it was about The Scarlett Letter and i chose the answer talking about the Civil War. The DBQ was OK, I didn’t really remember the Puritans, so I just tried to get my info from the documents, I talked about: education, city upon a hill, and families, forgot about agrarian. I did FRQs 3/5. In 3, I talked about: Compromise of 1850/Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Wilmot Proviso. In 5 I chose suburbanization and Sun Belt, I talked about what caused this which is increase in cars/highways, as resulted cause white flight, poverty, domesticity.</p>
<p>From what I just posted, what would be an estimate of my score???</p>
<p>Regarding the idea that the curve might be worse this year:</p>
<p>You guys do realize that people posting on a forum like this are probably the smarter end of the group, right? Anyone who would think of coming here to post is a person that probably studied, is very dedicated, and probably deserves a 4-5, which is why most people here thought it was easy.</p>
<p>So to gauge how hard it really was, shouldn’t we be asking our peers if they thought it was easy/hard? Those that are not as dedicated as to get on a forum like this?</p>
<p>Right?
- 2 cents</p>
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<p>Yeah, but I seriously doubt itll be 106.</p>
<p>What is it usually?</p>
<p>I’m not sure what it usually is, but I doubt that it’ll fluctuate by THAT much. Maybe give or take a few points, but not much more than that…</p>
<p>But 106 is unusually low.</p>
<p>I definitely self studied for this exam (my teacher was less than helpful) with AMSCO and I felt pretty comfortable. I had a big grin on my face when I saw that the DBQ was on Puritans, because my english teacher drilled us on Puritan society while reading The Scarlet Letter, and the frq on women, because my teacher actually reviewed that the week before.</p>
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<p>Then what is it usually?</p>
<p>I’d say 106 is just about right. That’s only a little higher than 66% and is usually the amount of points that one gets to earn a 5. Either, the Collegeboard wants a certain percentage of students to get 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, or 5s. That means every year, though the AP exam doesn’t necessarily change in expected difficulty, it actually turns out to be completely different if Cb doesn’t “get what they want.”</p>
<p>my teacher is giving us an AP multiple choice exam tomorrow in class. is it possible for teachers to get any multiple choice test, or could they only get the released exams like '01 and '06</p>