<p>Why is it that we can defy the College Board's rules (at our own risk) about discussing multiple choice on the SAT Is and IIs, but can't discuss the AP multiple choice?</p>
<p>Not that I would if we could, and I don't for the SATs but why the difference in rules?</p>
<p>Just wondering :)</p>
<p>Well, I haven’t done either, but I’m going to take a guess and say it’s because AP multiple choice questions can be used again, while SAT multiple choice questions simply aren’t recycled. Maybe people feel that the CB cares more about AP MC questions for this reason?</p>
<p>Yeah Im pretty sure they recycle questions. Too lazy to come up w/ new ones I guess? Either way the rule is pretty ■■■■■■■■. I could see a rule about posting questions on a forum or something, but I’ve heard the question are recycled w/ a 3-5 yr gap before they are used again, so it’s highly unlikely that someone will get the answer when people only really want to talk about them during the 24 hours after you take the exam. Paranoid if you ask me!</p>
<p>^the weird thing is that complete SAT tests are recycled whereas with ap tests typically only a few questions are recycled.</p>
<p>The AP questions are so damned uninteresting, heaven forbid that they might put something even mildly creative on there that would be worth leaking. </p>
<p>Complete SATs are very rarely recycled. But then again, I’d suspect that since the questions on there are a fair bit more creative than the AP stuff that recycling would have more adverse effects.</p>
<p>guys…i read this on the CB website…and it basically sums up what everybody here said</p>
<p>During grade-setting sessions (there is one for each AP Exam) composite scores are translated into AP grades by setting boundaries for each grade based on a statistical technique called equating.</p>
<p>Equating relates an AP Exam from one year to an AP Exam from another year so that performance on the two exams can be compared. This is accomplished by looking at how well AP students performed on a set of multiple-choice questions that is common to both exams. These particular multiple-choice questions cover the curriculum content and represent a broad range of difficulty; they can therefore provide information about the ability level of the current group of students and indicate the current exam’s level of difficulty. This same set of questions may show up on next year’s AP Exam and the one after that too. That’s why you aren’t supposed to talk about or share the multiple-choice questions from the AP Exam with anyone; it’s all because of equating!</p>
<p>i found this pretty interesting as well…</p>
<p>The AP Program periodically conducts college grade comparability studies in all AP subjects. These studies compare the performance of AP students with that of college students in the courses for which successful AP students will receive credit. In general, the AP composite score cutpoints are set so that the lowest composite score for an AP grade of 5 is equivalent to the average score for college students earning grades of A. Similarly, the lowest composite scores for AP grades of 4, 3, and 2 are equivalent to the average scores for students with college grades of B, C, and D, respectively.</p>
<p>I took the exact same reading section once during an SAT 1 exam. The very first Critical Reading section I had for SAT’s Junior year was the same as my very last Critical Reading Section senior year. It might have been the experimental though.</p>
<p>Interesting, I suppose that makes sense…thanks guys!</p>
<p>Hey, guys. I know this is TOTALLY breaking the rules but remember on the multiple choice section there was a question that involved taking a derivative?</p>