<p>THAT DBQ was unpredictable.</p>
<p>deceptively easy-seeming...at first sight that is, which made you falsely relaxed, but actually it was a very untraditional, awkward perspective on the topic</p>
<p>you werent allowed to discuss that DBQ with your teacher...</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>My younger brother took the test today. Looks like you guys had it much easier than the French-Indian War DBQ I had to do last year.</p>
<p>no it wasn't...
just unexpected. (my teacher was actually just about 10 years off)</p>
<p>I love that time period. I liked it.</p>
<p>well than ur teacher simply got lucky without using any logic.</p>
<p>I have a quick question.</p>
<p>On essays, if you mentioned information that is not correct, how does that count towards your score? Do they take points OFF?</p>
<p>actually there was logic involved.
she had given 5 topics...one of which was similar to the dbq question...
a lot of the others were similar to the predictions listed in these forums (gilded age,progressivism etc)</p>
<p>sourapplezz : i'm not at all sure..I'm hoping they grade it whollistically....</p>
<p>I always thought that what they did was just ignore any wrong info, and give you points on each correct information you provided.</p>
<p>I could be wrong though.</p>
<p>bump...I would love that question answered...</p>
<p>How was it hard at all? Even if it wasn't predictable, it was an easy prompt--it listed the things you needed to touch on and gave you the documents spelling out what happened. All you need to do was put the documents in their respective category. Also, who doesn't know about the event/time period. Its pretty important and they pound it into your head since elementary school.
It was a joke</p>
<p>Sour Applezz... I'm pretty sure they just give you points for correct info, and ignore the wrong. Atleast thats the way it is with Bio and the SAT I for that matter.</p>
<p>Seriously, the DBQ was a piece of cake. </p>
<p>I think I could've written it in 8th grade and still managed a pretty decent score.</p>
<p>"Sour Applezz... I'm pretty sure they just give you points for correct info, and ignore the wrong. Atleast thats the way it is with Bio and the SAT I for that matter."</p>
<p>You don't get points taken "off," per se, but if the wrong information you provide detracts from your essay, it will keep you from getting some of the higher scores. Minor errors will still allow you to get an 8 or a 9, while errors that slightly detracts from the essay can still get 6's or 7's. Major errors will probably drop you into the 4's or 5's...</p>
<p>Concerning an essay, not the dbq, which had asked for "to what extent..." what if you only went as far as describing one extent aka the blah blah did cause blah blah in the U.S. but didn't go any further</p>
<p>Phew.</p>
<p>I just had the year wrong on one of the acts I mentioned. (off by like 50 years <em>cries</em>) but it was linked to the same idea, no way could it have distracted the reader from the point I was making.</p>
<p><em>prays and tries to forget USH and fills head with cellular respiration for upcoming AP Bio</em></p>
<p>my teacher predicted it on the dot....</p>
<p>but yeah, it was deceptive..upon first reading it, i was like sweet this is easy, but then as i started brainstorming, i started to run out of things i coul duse, and i found it somehwat difficult to apply the events of the time to the prompt.</p>
<p>same here...when they gave the time period to write about i was screwed i remembered the most basic stuff but for some reason the years were escaping me</p>